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Volume 61 - Issue 1 - February 2002

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Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

The Life of Buddhism. Edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Jason A. Carbine. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. x, 230 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Reiko Ohnuma
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26 March 2010, pp. 196-198
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The Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security, and Foreign Policy. Edited by Shalendra D. Sharma. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000. ix, 396 pp. $20.00 (cloth).
Richard W.X. Hu
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26 March 2010, pp. 198-200
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Japan and Singapore in the World Economy: Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore, 1870–1965. By Hiroshi Shimizu and Hitoshi Hirakawa. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxvii, 279 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
Michael Lewis
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26 March 2010, pp. 200-202
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A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa 1686: The Odyssey of Ok-Khun Chamnan. By Michael Smithies. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 1999. viii, 126 pp. $12.95 (paper).
Constance M. Wilson
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26 March 2010, pp. 202-203
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A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. Edited by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong and Stephen H. Sumida. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2001. v, 345 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
Gregory Choy
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26 March 2010, pp. 203-205
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In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture. By Geremie R. Barme. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xii, 512 pp. $22.50.
Arif Dirlik
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26 March 2010, pp. 205-207
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Temples of the Empress of Heaven. By Joseph Bosco and Puay-peng Ho. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii, 80 pp. $12.95 (cloth). - Tianhou Temple: Ritual and Architecture. By Puay-peng Ho and Joseph Bosco. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. $15.00 (CD-ROM).
Vivian-Lee Nyitray
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26 March 2010, pp. 207-209
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China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy. By Anita Chan. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 250 pp. $58.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Dorothy J. Solinger
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26 March 2010, pp. 209-211
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China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Edited by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffrey. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xii, 338 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Jeanne L. Shea
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26 March 2010, pp. 211-213
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Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900–1945. Edited by Sherman Cochran. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program. 268 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper).
Kristin Stapleton
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26 March 2010, pp. 213-214
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Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857–1927. By Ryan Dunch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xxi, 293 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
Daniel H. Bays
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26 March 2010, pp. 215-216
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The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian. By Xingjian Gao. Translated by Gilbert C. F. Fong. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1999, distributed by University of Michigan Press, xlii, 312 pp. $18.00 (paper).
Deirdre Sabina Knight
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26 March 2010, pp. 216-218
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Contemporary Developments and Issues in China's Economic Transition. Edited by Charles Harvie. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000. xxiv, 294 pp. $75 (cloth).
Marc Blecher
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26 March 2010, pp. 218-220
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Explaining Chinese Democratization. By Shaohua Hu. Westport, Conn, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2000. x, 194 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
John A. Rapp
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26 March 2010, pp. 220-221
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Chinese Business Groups: The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations during Economic Development. By Lisa A. Keister. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 220 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Yizheng Shi
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26 March 2010, pp. 221-223
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Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. By Xiaobo Lü. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 368 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Nancy Park
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26 March 2010, pp. 223-224
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Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978–1998. By James Mulvenon. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 283 pp. $27.95 (paper); $69.95 (cloth).
Richard A. Bitzinger
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26 March 2010, pp. 224-226
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Education, Culture, and Identity in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe, and Yongling Lu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. vi, 478 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Jessie G. Lutz
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26 March 2010, pp. 226-227
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From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. By Shelley Rigger. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2001. vii, 232 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
J. Bruce Jacobs
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26 March 2010, pp. 227-230
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The Modern Chinese State. Edited by David Shambaugh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii, 244 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Patricia M. Thornton
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26 March 2010, pp. 230-231
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Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

The Life of Buddhism. Edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Jason A. Carbine. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. x, 230 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security, and Foreign Policy. Edited by Shalendra D. Sharma. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000. ix, 396 pp. $20.00 (cloth).

Japan and Singapore in the World Economy: Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore, 1870–1965. By Hiroshi Shimizu and Hitoshi Hirakawa. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxvii, 279 pp. $95.00 (cloth).

A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa 1686: The Odyssey of Ok-Khun Chamnan. By Michael Smithies. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 1999. viii, 126 pp. $12.95 (paper).

A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. Edited by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong and Stephen H. Sumida. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2001. v, 345 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—China

In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture. By Geremie R. Barme. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xii, 512 pp. $22.50.

Temples of the Empress of Heaven. By Joseph Bosco and Puay-peng Ho. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii, 80 pp. $12.95 (cloth). - Tianhou Temple: Ritual and Architecture. By Puay-peng Ho and Joseph Bosco. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. $15.00 (CD-ROM).

China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy. By Anita Chan. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 250 pp. $58.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Edited by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffrey. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xii, 338 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900–1945. Edited by Sherman Cochran. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program. 268 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper).

Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857–1927. By Ryan Dunch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xxi, 293 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian. By Xingjian Gao. Translated by Gilbert C. F. Fong. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1999, distributed by University of Michigan Press, xlii, 312 pp. $18.00 (paper).

Contemporary Developments and Issues in China's Economic Transition. Edited by Charles Harvie. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000. xxiv, 294 pp. $75 (cloth).

Explaining Chinese Democratization. By Shaohua Hu. Westport, Conn, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2000. x, 194 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Chinese Business Groups: The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations during Economic Development. By Lisa A. Keister. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 220 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. By Xiaobo Lü. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 368 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978–1998. By James Mulvenon. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 283 pp. $27.95 (paper); $69.95 (cloth).

Education, Culture, and Identity in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe, and Yongling Lu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. vi, 478 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. By Shelley Rigger. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2001. vii, 232 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Modern Chinese State. Edited by David Shambaugh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii, 244 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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