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Volume 46 - Issue 3 - August 1987

Book Reviews—Japan

Hateruma: Socio-religious Aspects of a South-Ryukyuan Island Culture. By C. Ouwehand. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. xiv, 324 pp. Figures, Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Notes, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index of Words in the Hateruma Vernacular. $70.00.

The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth Through the Eighteenth Centuries. By David Pollack. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xvi, 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $32.50.

The Ainu Language. By Kirsten Refsing. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1986. xx, 331 pp. Diagrams, Maps, Danish Summary, Index. N.p.

My Life Between Japan and America. By Edwin O. Reischauer. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. xiv, 369 pp. Illustrations, Index. $22.50.

Public Finance in Japan. Edited by Tokue Shibata. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. xiv, 195 pp. Tables, Figures, Notes, Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. ¥3,000. (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)

The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki. By Tadashi Suzuki. Translated by J. Thomas Rimer. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1986. x, 158 pp. Illustrations, “A Play: Clytemnestra.” $9.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. Edited by WM. Theodore de Bary and JaHyun Kim Haboush. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xvi, 551 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index, Selected Bibliography. $40.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sarbadhināyak: Life Story of Satis Chandra Samanta, First Sarbadhināyak Tamralipta Jātiya Sarkār. English and Bengali text. Anonymous. Tamluk, India: Tamralipta Swādhinata Sangrām Itihas Committee, 1982. xiv, 244 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Errata. Rs. 80.

Gandhi and Non-violence. By William Borman. Albany: State University of New York, 1986. xvi, 287 pp. Index, Bibliography. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Peasant Resettlement in Sri Lanka. By Michael De Vroey and N. Shanmugaratnam. Louvain-la Neuve: Tricontinental Centre, 1984. vii, 118 pp. Bibliography. N.p.

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan. By Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xiii, 310 pp. Maps, Bibliography. N.p.

Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement. Edited by Barbara R. Joshi. London: Zed Books, 1986. ix, 166 pp. Tables, Photographs, Bibliography. £18.95 (cloth); £6.95 (paper).

Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880–1980. By Meera Kosambi. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1986. 204 pp. Tables, Figures, Plates, Appendix, Notes, References. SEK 110.

Marvelous Encounters: Folk Romance in Urdu and Hindi. By Frances W. Pritchett. Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Co., 1985. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index, xiii, 220 pp. $15.00.

Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875–1927. By Rajat Kanta Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984. 398 pp. Sources, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press.)

Vallabhācārya on the Love Games of Kṛṣṇa. By James D. Redington. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. xi, 492 pp. Rs. 140.

An Introduction to the Sacred Language of the Sikhs. By Christopher Shackle. London: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1983. vi, 207 pp. N.p.

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Volume 46 - Issue 3 - August 1987

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia