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... with a wink, gesturing to the cameras that await them. The women pose for multiple gazes, knowing that what they donned that morning might be seen thousands of miles away, captured by foreign and Japanese photographers and posted on Web sites or eventually published in magazines and glossy coffee table books...

...Julia F. Andrews The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China . By Ellen Johnston Laing . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 1988 . x, 194 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...André Wink Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1839 . By Dirk H. A. Kolff . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xvi, 217 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 758 THE JOURNAL...

...Andre Wink Unbroken Landscape: Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500 . By Frank Perlin . Aldershot, Hampshire : Variorum, Ashgate Publishing , 1994 . xiv, 315 pp $89.95 (cloth). Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India...

...André Wink University of Peradeniya History of Sri Lanka . Vol. 5 (c. 1500 to c. 1800). Edited by K. M. de Silva . Sri Lanka : Peradeniya , 1995 . xxi, 614 pp. 3 maps. 10 illustrations. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 495...

...André Wink A History of India . By Burton Stein . Oxford : Blackwell Publishers , 1998 . xvi, 432 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 558 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on China perhaps ought to have been omitted...

...Robin W. Winks The Modern History of Ceylon . By E. F. C. Ludowyk . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1966 . x, 308 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Maps, Illustrations, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 525 aspects of modern...

...Robin W. Winks Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594–1612 . By Tikiri Abeyasinghe . Colombo : Lake House Investments Ltd. , 1966 . xi, 247 pp. Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, n.p. 892 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ture...

...Richard M. Eaton Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World . Volume I: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th-11th Centuries . By André Wink . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1991 . viii, 396 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 272...

... of such consummate scholarship and intellectual distinction as this, the second volume of Andre Wink's monumental Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-lslamic World. Self-contained in relation to the previous volume, this four hundred-page text covers the seminal period of Ghaznavid and Ghurid probing into northwestern...

...Stewart Gordon Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics Under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya . By Andre Wink . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . xviii, 417 pp. Glossary, Maps, Diagrams, Key to Selections of Papers from the Records at the East...

...John R. W. Smail Malaysia: Selected Historical Readings . Compiled by John Bastin and Robin W. Winks . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1966 . xvi, 484 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index, $12.20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 178 JOURNAL...

... on the Islamic encounter with the lands bordering the Indian Ocean especially South Asia between the seventh and eighteenth centuries. Covering the seventh to eleventh centuries, the present volume is the first of five projected volumes on the subject. Andre Wink opens by asserting that "the idea...

... of missionaries, intent on revealing the "sordid degradation" of China in need of salvation. The second is the prurient interest of the "nudge-nudge wink-wink school," which has always associated China with "exotic" sex. Neither approach gives an accurate picture of prostitution: one gives a far more ghastly...

... and revenue rights, is among the most lucid analyses of polity to be found in the historiography of precolonial India. Moreover, Gordon's insistence on the centrality of political intermediaries derived from his own research as well as from Andre Wink's important monograph, Land and Sovereignty: Agrarian...

... St. John's University The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China. By ELLEN J O H N S T O N LAING. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 1988. x, 194 pp. $55.00. The Winking Owl consists of nine topical chapters on Chinese art between 1949 and 1976. The book, not planned...

... Universities Field Staff International Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics Under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya. By ANDRE WINK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii, 417 pp. Glossary, Maps, Diagrams, Key to Selections of Papers from the Records at the East-India...

...: Selected Historical Readings. COM- PILED BY JOHN BASTIN AND ROBIN W. WINKS. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1966. xvi, 484 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index, f 12.20. This book comes before us a large and handsome volume, well-produced, well-edited in a technical sense, its endpapers one of those...

.... By STANLEY WOLPERT. (Volume 12 in a series on the Modern Nations in Historical Perspective, edited by Robin W. Winks.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, Inc., 1965. x, 178. Reading List, Maps, Index. $4.95. A History of India. Vol. II. By PERCIVAL SPEAR. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1965. 284 pp...

.... The second is the prurient interest of the "nudge-nudge wink-wink school," which has always associated China with "exotic" sex. Neither approach gives an accurate picture of prostitution: one gives a far more ghastly impression than was universal; the other paints a picture of luscious, oversexed "naturals...