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Volume 44 - Issue 2 - February 1985

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Stubborn Weeds: Popular and Controversial Chinese Literature After the Cultural Revolution. Edited by Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 292 pp. Glossary and Name List. Contributing Translators. $22.50.

Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Edited by Victor H. Mair. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. xvii, 171 pp. Bibliographic Appendix, Index. $10 (paper).

Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation. Edited by Helen F. Siu and Zelda Stern. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 231 pp. Appendix. $17.95.

China's Cultural Heritage: The Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644–1912. By Richard J. Smith. Boulder, Colo., and London: Westview and Francis Pinter, 1983. xiv, 321 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $27.50 (cloth); $11.95 (paper).

The World of K'ung Shang-jen: A Man of Letters in Early Ch'ing China. By Richard E. Strassberg. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xxiv, 456 pp. Illustrations, Map, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary-Index. $28.

The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field. Edited by Anne F. Thurston and Burton Pasternak. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983. xv, 161 pp. $22.50.

Mainland China, Taiwan, and U.S. Policy. Edited by Hung-mao Tien. Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983. xvii, 270 pp. Appendixes, Notes on the Contributors. N.p.

The Relationship Between Scholars and Rulers in Imperial China: A Comparison Between China and the West. By Kai-fu Tsao. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984. xi, 247 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Urban Life in Contemporary China. By Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xi, 408 pp. $30.

Sun I-hsien hsien-sheng chuan [Biography of Mr. Sun Yat-sen]. 2 vols. By Wu Hsiang-hsiang. Taipei: Yuan-tung t'u-shu kung-ssu, 1982. NT$ 1,100 (cloth); NT$ 1,000 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Aspects of Meiji Modernization: The Japan Helpers and the Helped. Edited by Clark L. Beck and Ardath W. Burks. New Brunswick: Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey, 1983. viii, 55 pp. $4.95 (paper).

History in the Service of the Japanese Nation. Edited by John S. Brownlee. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto–York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1983. 188 pp. N.p.

Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community. By W. Mark Fruin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. x, 358 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Index. $30.

Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town. By James L. McClain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982. xii, 209 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20.

Religion and Nothingness. By Keiji Nishitani. Translated by Jan Van Bragt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xlix, 318 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index. $28.50 (cloth); $8.95 (paper).

On The Art Of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises Of Zeami. Translated by J. Thomas Rimer and Yamazaki Masakazu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xlx, 298 pp. Illustrations, Glossaries, Selected Bibliography in Western Languages, Index. $35 (cloth); $15 (paper).

Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor. By John J. Stephan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. xii, 228 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index, Maps. $16.95.

State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. By Ronald P. Toby. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xxviii, 309 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Archives and Manuscript Collections Consulted, Bibliography, Index. $30.

The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942. By H. P. Willmott. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983. xvii, 596 pp. Maps, Source Notes, Bibliography, General Index, Index of Ships. $24.95.

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

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