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Volume 52 - Issue 4 - November 1993

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

China: From Revolution to Reform. By Sheng Hua, Xuejun Zhang, and Xiaopeng Luo. New York: The Macmillan Press, 1993. ix, 244 pp.

Chūgoku nōson no rekishi to keizai: nōson henkaku no kiroku: [Historical perspectives on Chinese rural economy]. By Ishida Hiroshi. Osaka: Kansai Daigaku Shuppansha, 1991. 658 pp. ¥9,600.

Roads Not Taken: The Struggle of Opposition Parties in Twentieth-Century China. Edited by Roger B. Jeans. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992. x, 385 pp.

Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music. By Andrew F. Jones. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, East Asia Program, 1992. viii, 180 pp. $9.50.

Ch'ing mo ti hsia-ts'eng she-hui ch'i-meng yun-tung [Lower class enlightenment in the late Ch'ing period, 1901–1911]. By Li Hsiao-T'i. Nankang: Academia Sinica, 1992. 237 pp. $14.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper).

Philosophy and Politics in China: The Controversy over Dialectical Materialism in the 1930s. By Werner Meissner. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. vi, 230 pp. $37.50.

Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece. By Lisa Raphals. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. 304 pp. $39.95.

Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng. By Jerome Silbergeld; with Gong Jisui. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1993. 264 pp. $50.00.

Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese. Edited by Priscilla Wegars. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. 430 pp.

Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China. By Gordon White. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xiii, 286 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West. By Zhang Longxi. Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. xix, 238 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Deterrence and Strategic Culture: Chinese-American Confrontations, 1949–1958. By Shu Guang Zhang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 302 pp. $37.95.

China in the International System. By Zhang Yongjin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 262 pp. $59.95. - The Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat. By Edmund S. K. Fung. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1991. 311 pp. $53.00.

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan in the Posthegemonic World. Edited by Tsuneo Akaha and Frank Langdon. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993. viii, 293 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Welfare Policy and Politics in Japan: Beyond the Developmental State. By Stephen J. Anderson. New York: Paragon House, 1993. $46.95.

Foreign Competition in Japan: Human Resource Strategies. By Robert J. Ballon. London: Routledge, 1992. xvii, 174 pp. $49.95.

Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan. By Mary C. Brinton. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. xvii, 299 pp. $30.00.

Inside Japan's Defense. Technology, Economics and Strategy. By Michael W. Chinworth. Washington: Brassey's (U.S.), 1992. xxi, 243 pp. $26.00.

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