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Volume 60 - Issue 1 - February 2001

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Book Reviews—China

The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368–1644): An Annotated Translation of the Treatises on Military Affairs Chapter 89 and Chapter 90, Supplemented by the Treatises on Military Affairs of the Draft of the Ming Dynastic History, A Documentation of Ming-Qing Historiography and the Decline and Fall of the Ming Empire. By Liew Foon Ming. Hamburg: OAG, 1998. Part I: Mingshi bingzhi yizhu yu kaozheng, juan 89–90. v, 461 pp. Part II: Locations and Years of Establishment of the Weisuo-Garrisons and Aboriginal Commissions in the Ming Empire Proper and in Border Regions, iv, 407 pp.
Thomas G. Nimick
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26 March 2010, pp. 173-175
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Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. By Jonathan N. Lipman. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 1998. xxxvi, 266 pp. $22.50 (paper).
Dru C. Gladney
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26 March 2010, pp. 175-177
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Dangerous Tunes: The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China since 1949. By Barbara Mittler. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997. iii, 516 pp. DM 148,00.
Sue Tuohy
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26 March 2010, pp. 177-179
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Social and Political Development in Post-Reform China. By Ka-Ho Mok. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 2000. xvii, 232 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Børge Bakken
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26 March 2010, pp. 179-180
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The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. By Kenneth Pomeranz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 382 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Andre Gunder Frank
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26 March 2010, pp. 180-182
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Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. Edited by David Shambaugh. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. xi, 177 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
William T. Pendley
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26 March 2010, pp. 182-184
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Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy: A Societal Analysis. By Alvin Y. So. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiii, 309 pp. $45.00.
Richard Baum
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26 March 2010, pp. 184-186
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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. By Matthew H. Sommer. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 413 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Katherine Carlitz
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26 March 2010, pp. 186-187
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Strike Hard! Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979–1985. By Harold M. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 1999. x, 253 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paper).
Teemu Ruskola
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26 March 2010, pp. 188-189
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Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900–1921. By Michael Tsin. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. 276 pp. $45.00.
Edward Rhoads
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26 March 2010, pp. 189-191
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The Life and Career of Hung Ch'eng-ch'ou (1593–1665): Public Service in a Time of Dynastic Change. By Chen-Main Wang. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, 1999. xiv, 322 pp. $36.00.
Kenneth Hammond
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26 March 2010, pp. 191-192
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Chinese History, A Manual, Revised and Enlarged. By Endymion Wilkinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2000. xxiv, 1181 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
Joseph McDermott
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26 March 2010, pp. 192-194
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The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China. Edited by Xiaoneng Yang. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 584 pp. $80.00 (cloth), $24.99 (paper).
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
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26 March 2010, pp. 194-200
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Children of the Cultural Revolution: Family Life and Political Behavior in Mao's China. By Xiaowei Zang. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. xiv, 133 pp. $55.00.
Guo Jian
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26 March 2010, pp. 200-201
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Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History, and State Building. By Zhou Yongming. Lanham Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 xii, 195 pp.
Alan Baumler
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26 March 2010, pp. 201-203
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Book Reviews—Japan

Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodōjin. By Stephen Addiss. Translation of and commentary on Chinese poems by Jonathan Chaves. With an essay by J. Thomas Rimer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiv, 173 pp. $27.50.
Christine Guth
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26 March 2010, pp. 203-204
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The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 259 pp. $45.00.
Timothy S. George
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26 March 2010, pp. 204-206
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The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan. By W. G. Beasley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xviii, 299 pp. $18.95.
Gary P. Leupp
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26 March 2010, pp. 206-207
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The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets: Myth versus Reality. By Dick Beason and Jason James. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvi, 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth).
Frances Rosenbluth
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26 March 2010, pp. 208-209
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Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan. By Ray Christensen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. vii, 228 pp. $27.95 (paper).
T. J. Pempel
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26 March 2010, pp. 209-210
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Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. By Jonathan N. Lipman. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 1998. xxxvi, 266 pp. $22.50 (paper).

Dangerous Tunes: The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China since 1949. By Barbara Mittler. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997. iii, 516 pp. DM 148,00.

Social and Political Development in Post-Reform China. By Ka-Ho Mok. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 2000. xvii, 232 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. By Kenneth Pomeranz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 382 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. Edited by David Shambaugh. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. xi, 177 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).

Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy: A Societal Analysis. By Alvin Y. So. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiii, 309 pp. $45.00.

Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. By Matthew H. Sommer. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 413 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Strike Hard! Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979–1985. By Harold M. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 1999. x, 253 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paper).

Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900–1921. By Michael Tsin. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. 276 pp. $45.00.

The Life and Career of Hung Ch'eng-ch'ou (1593–1665): Public Service in a Time of Dynastic Change. By Chen-Main Wang. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, 1999. xiv, 322 pp. $36.00.

Chinese History, A Manual, Revised and Enlarged. By Endymion Wilkinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2000. xxiv, 1181 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).

The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China. Edited by Xiaoneng Yang. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 584 pp. $80.00 (cloth), $24.99 (paper).

Children of the Cultural Revolution: Family Life and Political Behavior in Mao's China. By Xiaowei Zang. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. xiv, 133 pp. $55.00.

Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History, and State Building. By Zhou Yongming. Lanham Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 xii, 195 pp.

Book Reviews—Japan

Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodōjin. By Stephen Addiss. Translation of and commentary on Chinese poems by Jonathan Chaves. With an essay by J. Thomas Rimer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiv, 173 pp. $27.50.

The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 259 pp. $45.00.

The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan. By W. G. Beasley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xviii, 299 pp. $18.95.

The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets: Myth versus Reality. By Dick Beason and Jason James. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvi, 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth).

Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan. By Ray Christensen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. vii, 228 pp. $27.95 (paper).

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