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Volume 45 - Issue 1 - November 1985

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Philosophy of Mind in Sixth-Century China: Paramārtha's “Evolution of Consciousness.” By Diana Y. Paul. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. vi, 266 pp. Introduction, Translation, Appendixes, Abbreviations, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Character List, Index. $30.

China and Charles Darwin. By James Reeve Pusey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xi, 544 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25.

Sino-Russian Relations: A Short History. By Rosemary K. I. Quested. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. 194 pp. Map, Bibliographical Guide, Appendixes, Index $20 (cloth); $795 (paper).

Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666–1687. By John E. Wills Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1984. (East Asian Monographs 113.) xii, 303 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20.

Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. By Margery Wolf. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii, 285 pp. Tables, Notes, Index. $21.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan. By Penelope Francks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. xiii, 322 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Glossary, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $30.

Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life. By Shidzue Ishimoto, with an Introduction and Afterword by Barbara Molony. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. xxix, 373 pp. Photographs. $35 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy. Edited and translated by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. x, 288 pp. Illustrations, Note on the Puppets, Bibliography. $27.50 (cloth); $12.50 (paper).

The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. By William R. LaFleur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xvi, 204 pp. Notes, Japanese Names and Terms, Bibliography, Index. $25 (cloth); $9.95 (paper).

Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan. By Robert C. Marshall. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 1984. xiii, 178 pp. Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography. $7 (paper).

Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji Monogatari Ekotoba. By Miyeko Murase. New York: John Weatherhill, 1984. xi, 353 pp. Reference Material, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Indexes, Color Plates. $65.

The Japanese Police System Today: An American Perspective. By L. Craig Parker Jr. New York: Kodansha International, 1984. 220 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $19.95.

Tanrokubon: Rare Books of Seventeenth-Century Japan. By Kogorō Yoshida. Translated and adapted by Mark A. Harbison. New York: Kodansha International, 1984. 228 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $60.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal. By Lynn Bennett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. 352 pp. $30.

Vital Rates in India, 1961–1981. By P. N. Mari Bhat, Samuel Preston, and Tim Dyson. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1984. (Report no. 24, Committee on Population and Demography.) xvi, 173 pp. Tables, Figures, Glossary, References. $16.50.

The Assamese. By Audrey Cantlie. London: Curzon Press, 1984. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Centre of South Asian Studies: London Studies on South Asia, no. 3.) xiii, 322 pp. References, Index. $27.

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Volume 45 - Issue 1 - November 1985

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia