Book Reviews—Asia General
By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. Edited by Richard Schechner and Willa Appel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Rethinking the Pacific. By Gerald Segal. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. xi, 400 pp. $64.00.
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Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental Alternative? Edited by Hung-Chao Tai. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute Press, 1989. 233 pp. $22.95.
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The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350–1730. Edited by James D. Tracy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xviii, 442 pp. $44.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 656-657
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Asian Perspectives on Human Rights. Edited by Claude E. WelchJr., and Virginia A. Leary. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990. 310 pp. $39.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 658-659
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
Slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China. By John S. Aird. Washington, D.C.: The American Enterprise Institute Press, 1990. vii, 196 pp. $16.95.
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The Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre. By Michael S. Duke. Layton, Utah: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990. x, 160 pp. $7.95 (paper). - China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen. By Lee Feigon. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990. xiii, 270 pp. $19.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 660-662
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On the Road in Twelfth Century China: The Travel Diaries of Fan Chengda (1126–1193). By James M. Hargett. Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989. xii, 343 pp. DM 68 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 662-663
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The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke 1253–1255. Translated by Peter Jackson, with David Morgan. London: Hakluyt Society Second Series #173, The Hakluyt Society, 1990. xvi, 312 pp. £25.00.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 663-664
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Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. By Philip A. Kuhn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. 299 pp. $29.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 664-667
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Chinese Nationalism in the late Qing Dynasty: Zhang Binglin as an Anti-Manchu Propagandist. By Kauko Laitinen. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series #57), 1990. 209 pp. - Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang Binglin and Confucianism. By Shimada Kenji; translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 169 pp.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 667-668
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Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance. By Vivien Ng. Norman, London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. $25.00.
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Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change. By Kevin J. O'Brien. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii, 263 pp. $42.50.
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Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora. By Lynn Pan. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. xvii, 408 pp. $22.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 671-672
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Qingdai tudi kaiken shi [A history of land reclamation in the Qing period]. By Peng Yuxin. Beijing: Nongye chubanshe, 1990. 285 pp. RMB 6.85 (paper).
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Legacies of Childhood: Growing up Chinese in a Time of Crisis, 1890–1920. By Jon L. Saari. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1990. xx, 379 pp. $26.00.
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Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era. Edited by George S. Semsel, Xia Hong, and Hou Jianping. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. xxii, 222 pp. $39.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 675-676
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Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State—Stories and Histories from Modern China. Edited by Helen F. Siu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii, 341 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 676-677
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The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought. By Rolf A. Stein; translated by Phyllis Brooks. Foreword by Edward H. Schafer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990. xix, 393 pp. $39.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 678-679
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Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s. By Frederick Teiwes. Armonk, N.Y., London: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991. xvi, 326 pp. $45.00.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 679-680
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