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Volume 40 - Issue 1 - November 1980

Book Reviews—China

Tao-chia ta tz'u-tien [The Great Dictionary of Taoist Religion]. By Li Shu-Huan. Chü-liu t'u-shu kung-ssu, 1979. vii, 700 pp. No price.

Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and Intellectual Change in the 1630s. By Willard J. Peterson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. 196 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes. $22.50.

Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life, 1926–1938. By Ida Pruitt. Introduction by Margery Wolf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. ix, 129 pp. $8.95.

The United States and China in the Twentieth Century. By Michael Schaller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. vii, 199 pp. Map, Illustrations, Selected Additional Readings, Index. $9.95.

From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. Edited by Jonathan D. Spence and John E. WillsJr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. xxiv, 413 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25.00.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. Edited by Melvyn Goldstein. Kathmandu, Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1975. Bibliotheca Himalayica, series II, vol. 9. 1234 pp. 140 Nepalese rupees (approx. $12.00).

Ot kochevogo obraza zhizni k osedlosti (na opyte MNR) [From a nomadic mode of life to a sedentary one, the experience of the Mongolian People's Republic] By V. V. Graivoronskii. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 178 pp. Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index of Names. 1 ruble 90 kopeks.

Tibetan Buddhism in Western Perspective: Collected Articles of Herbert V. Guenther. Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1977. xi, 261 pp. Index. $4.95 (paper).

Proceedings of the Csoma de Körös Memorial Symposium. Edited by Louis Ligeti. Mátrafúred, Hungary, September 24–30, 1976. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, Vol. 23), 1978. 586 pp. $51.00.

How Mongolia is Really Ruled: A Political History of the Mongolian People's Republic, 1900–1978. By Robert Rupen. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press (Publication #212), 1979. xi, 225 pp. Tables, Notes Index. $7.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Tōa kenkyūjo to Watakushi: Senchū chishikijin no shōgen [Tōa kenkyūjo and me: Testimonial of a wartime intellectual]. By Tsuge Hideomi. Tokyo: Keisō shobō, 1979. 7, 271 pp. Appendixes, Photographs, Organization Charts, Publication Lists. Y2,700.

Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi Gen'ichirō. By James L. Huffman. Honolulu: The University of Press of Hawaii, 1980. xii, 271 pp. Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $15.00.

The Human Comedy of Heian Japan: A Study of the Secular Stories in the Twelfth-Century Collection of Tales, Konjaku Monogatarishū. By Hiroko Kobayashi. Tokyo: The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1979. East Asia Cultural Studies, No. 19. xv, 359 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. No price.

Kabuki Encyclopedia: An English-Language Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten. By Samuel L. Leiter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979. xxxix, 572 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Selected Guide to Main Entries, Index. $39.95.

The Waves at Genji's Door: Japan Through Its Cinema. By Joan Mellen. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976. xxvii, 463 pp. $7.95 (paper).

The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951. By Philip R. Piccigallo. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1979. xv, 292 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00.

Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions: An Introduction. By J. Thomas Rimer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. 313 pp. Appendix I: Taketori Monogatari, Appendix II: A Brief Bibliography for Further Reading, Index. $15.00.

The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868. By Conrad Totman. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. xxiv, 588 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Character List, Bibliographical Essay, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America. Edited by Hyung-chan Kim. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, Inc., 1977. xii, 268 pp. Index. $24.75 (cloth); $6.50 (paper).

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Volume 40 - Issue 1 - November 1980

Book Reviews—China

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Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea