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Volume 53 - Issue 2 - May 1994

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward. By David Bachman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii, 262 pp. $42.50.

The Partition of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar Mongols for Empire in Central Asia, 1619–1758. A Study in Power Politics. By Fred W. Bergholz. American University Studies, Series IX, History, Vol. 109. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. vi, 522 pp. $79.95.

The Market Mechanism and Economic Reforms in China. By William A. Byrd. Armonk, N.Y.: Studies on Contemporary China. M. E. Sharpe, 1991. 268 pp. $45.00.

The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. By Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. xviii, 332 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).

Chinese Arms Transfers: Purpose, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order. By R. Bates Gill. Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger Publishers, 1992. xiv, 248 pp. $45.00.

Shanghai 1927–1937: Municipal Power, Locality and Modernization. By Christian Henriot. Translated by Noël Castelino. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 288 pp. $42.00.

Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince: Huang Tsung-hsi's Ming-i tai-fang lu. By Huang Tsung-hsi. Translated and edited, with an introduction, by William Theodore de Bary. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 340 pp. $47.50.

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Standford: Standford University Press, 1993. ix, 327 pp. $42.50.

The Inner Opium War. By James M. Polachek. Cambridge: The Council on Asian Studies/Harvard University, 1992. viii, 400 pp. $30.00.

The Political Economy of Chinese Development. By Mark Selden. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. xiii, 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. By Susan L. Shirk. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. x, 399 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Bulls in the China Shop and Other Sino-American Encounters. By Randall E. Stross. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. 330 pp. $25.00 (cloth); reprinted, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992, $14.95 (paper).

Hong Kong in Chinese History, Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913. By Jung-fang Tsai. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiii, 375 pp. $45.00.

Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China. Edited by Jonathan Unger. Contemporary China Papers: Australian National University. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. 292 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine: A Chinese View from the Eighteenth Century [The I-hsüeh Yüan Liu Lun]. Translated by Paul U. Unschuld. Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications, 1990. 416 pp. $59.95.

From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920–1927. By Hans J. van de Ven. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1991. 374 pp.

The Canon of Supreme Mystery. By Yang Hsiung. Translation with commentary of the T'ai hsiian ching by Michael Nylan. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xiv, 680 pp. $74.50.

To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York. By Renqiu Yu. Asian American History and Culture Series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xi, 253 pp. $39.50.

Book Reviews—Japan

Conversations with Shōtetsu. Translated by Robert H. Brower, with introduction and notes by Steven D. Carter. Ann Arbor: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 7, 1992. x, 223 pp. $35.00.

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