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Volume 54 - Issue 3 - August 1995

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

An American Missionary in China: John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations. By Yu-ming Shaw. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1992. xv, 381 pp. $30.00.

Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Translated with annotations and an introduction by Richard E. Strassberg. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1994. xvii, 580 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paperback).

Book Reviews—Japan

Edo And Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era. Edited by James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. xxv, 483 pp. $42.50.

Governing the Japanese Economy. By Kyoko Sheridan. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. ix, 331 pp. $34.95.

The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850–1990: Continuity and Discontinuity. By Seiichiro Yonekura. Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. London: The Macmillan Press and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. xxix, 327 pp. $65.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Paekche of Korea and the Origin of Yamato Japan. By Wontaek Hong. Seoul: Kudara International, 1994.

The Shadow of Arms. By Hwang Suk-Young. Translated by Chun Kyung-Ja, with a foreword by Paik Nak-Chung. Cornell East Asia Series, Cornell University East Asia Program, 1994. 512 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought. By Michael C. Kalton, with Oaksook C. Kim, et al. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xxxv, 217 pp. $44.50; 14.95.

The Korean Economy at a Crossroad, Development Prospects, Liberalization, and South-North Economic Integration. Edited by Sung Yeung Kwack. Westport, Connecticut: Praegers Publishers, 1994. 272 pp. $59.95.

Korean Folk-tales. By James Riordan. Oxford Myths and Legends. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 133 pp. $10.95 (paper).

The North and South Korean Political Systems: a Comparative Analysis. By Sung Chul Yang. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, and Seoul: Seoul Press, 1994. 983 pp., appendices, index. Hardcover, $64.95 or 49,500 Won.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Exploring Indian Railways. By Bill Aitken. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xii, 279 pp. Rs. 350. $24.00 (cloth).

The Fearful State: Power, People, and Internal War in South Asia. By S. Mahmud Ali. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993. 266 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

South Asia After the Cold War: International Perspectives. Edited by Kanti P. Bajpai and Stephen P. Cohen. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. xv, 264 pp. $58.00.

Money, Energy, and Welfare: The State and the Household in India's Rural Electrification Policy. By Sarmila Bose. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiv, 201 pp. $22.00 (cloth).

Auspicious Wisdom: The Texts and Traditions of Śrī Vidyā Śākta Tantrism in South India. By Douglas Renfrew Brooks. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. xx, 301 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. By Richard M. Eaton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvii, 359 pp. $50.00.

The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942–1945. By Peter Ward Fay. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. ix, 573 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757–1857. Edited by Michael H. Fisher. Oxford in India Readings. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 313 pp. $23.00 (cloth).

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Volume 54 - Issue 3 - August 1995

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia