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Volume 45 - August 1986

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937–1949. By Lloyd E. Eastman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984. ix, 311 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Character List, Index. $32.50.

Book Reviews—Asia General

The Symbolism of the Stūpa. By Adrian Snodgrass. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1985. N.p.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought. By Roger T. Ames. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. xvii, 277 pp. Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25.

The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China: The Rise of Sino-Western Mercantile Capitalism. By Yen-p'ing Hao. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xv, 394 pp. Maps, Tables, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $37.50.

The Chinese Mosaic: The Peoples and Provinces of China. By Leo J. Moser. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. xv, 272 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Index. $32.50.

China's One-Child Family Policy. Edited by Elisabeth Croll, Delia Davin, and Penny Kane. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xvi, 237 pp. Notes and References, Tables, Figures, Notes on the Contributors, Index. $27.50.

Family and Property in Sung China: Yüan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life. Translated, with annotations and an introduction by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. x, 367 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $37.50.

Chinese Democracy. By Andrew J. Nathan. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985. xiii, 313 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Index. $22.95.

A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. By Charles O. Hucker. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii, 676 pp. Introduction, User's Guide, Index to Suggested English Renderings, Chinese Index, Pinyin to Wade-Giles Conversion Table. $49.50.

Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: Omen of the World. By Stephen Owen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. vii, 303 pp. Notes, Index. $27.50.

Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918–1937. By Chang-tai Hung. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1985. xiv, 275 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $21.

Ding Ling's Fiction: Ideology and Narrative in Modern Chinese Literature. By Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. xii, 196 pp. Notes, Works Cited, Chronological List of Ding Ling's Fiction, Index. N.p.

The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007–1072). By Ronald C. Egan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions). 269 pp. Appendix. N.p.

P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-feng Soviet. By Fernando Galbiati. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. 373 pp. Bibliography, Index. $45.

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawski. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. xvii, 449 pp. Glossary-Index. $40.

Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of Lü Kun and Other Scholar-Officials. By Joanna F. Handlin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xiii, 256 pp. Preface, Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50.

Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890–1930. By Joseph Fewsmith. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. xii, 275 pp. Map, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $25.

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