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Volume 51 - Issue 3 - August 1992

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Chung-kuo chin-tai t'ieh-lu shih-ye kuan-li ti yen-chiu [Railroads in modern China: political aspects of railroad administration, 1876–1937]. By Chang Jui-Te. Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Monograph series No. 63, 1991. $13.00 (cloth); $11.00 (paper).

Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners In Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920's. By Nicholas R. Clifford. Hanover, N. H., and London: Middlebury College Press; published by University of New England Press, 1991. xvi, 359 pp. $45.00.

State and Society in Early Medieval China. Edited by Albert E. Dien. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1990. Distributed in the U.S. by Stanford University Press, viii, 414 pp. $39.50.

The Chosen One: Succession and Adoption in the Court of Ming Shizong. By Carney T. Fisher. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. x, 230 pp.

Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the History of the Astronomical Clock: The Tower, Statue and Armillary Sphere Constructed by Empress Wu. By Antonino Forte. Roma: Istituto Italiana per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente; Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1988. xiv, 333 pp.

Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic. By Dru C. Gladney. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 149, 1991. $38.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism. By Peter N. Gregory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xii, 368 pp.

A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947. By Lai Tse-Han, Ramon H. Myers, and Wei Wou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. x, 273 pp. $32.50.

The Making of a Sino-Marxist World View: Perceptions and Interpretations of World History in the People's Republic of China. By Dorothea A. L. Martin. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xii, 138 pp. $42.50.

China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. By R. J. Rummel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991. xv, 333 pp. $32.95.

Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. By Richard J. Smith. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991. xiii, 434 pp. $49.50.

Molding the Medium: the Chinese Communist Party and the Liberation Daily. By Patricia Stranahan. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. ix, 205 pp. $39.95.

Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai. By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991, ix, 428 pp. $45.00.

Book Reviews—Japan

Politics and Literature in Shanghai: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–36. By Wang-Chi Wong. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1991. 254 pp. $59.95.

Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan in the 1969–1971 International Monetary Crisis. By Robert C. Angel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xxvi, 333 pp. $37.50.

Postwar Industrial Policy in Japan: An Annotated Bibliography. By Karl Boger. Metuchen, N.J., 1988. ix, 208 pp.

Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712). By John S. Brownlee. Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991. xvii, 158 pp. $35.00.

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