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Volume 52 - February 1993

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972. By Harry Harding. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992. xvi, 458 pp.

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. By Arif Dirlik. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: The University of California Press, 1991 x, 326 pp. $39.95.

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.

Les bibliothèques en Chine au temps des manuscrits (jusqu'au Xe siècle) [Libraries in China in the age of manuscripts (up to the tenth century)]. By Jean-Pierre Drège. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient; Publications de l'École Française d'Éxtrême-Orient, Volume CLXI, 1991. 322 pp.

Creating Chinese Identity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850–1980. By Emily Honig. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. xv, 174 pp. $22.50.

The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China's Crisis. By W. J. F. Jenner. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1992. xiii, 255 pp. £18.95.

China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945. Edited by James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine. N. Y. Armonk, and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. 333 pp. $39.95.

Scholar Gardens of China: A Study and Analysis of the Spatial Design of the Chinese Private Garden. By R. Stewart Johnston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xix, 331 pp. $125.00.

China in the Tokugawa World. By Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. xi, 137 pp. $24.95.

Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979–1989. By Daniel Kelliher. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. 264 pp. $30.00.

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.

Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting. Edited by Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong. New York and Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press, 1991. xxii, 589 pp. $75.00.

Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978–1990. By Nicholas R. Lardy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 197 pp. $44.95.

Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-century Carpenter's Manual Lu Ban jing. By Klaas Ruitenbeek. Leiden, New York, and Köln: E. J. Brill, Sinica Leidensia vol. XXIII, 1993. xvi, 520 pp. Gld. 210; U.S.$120.00.

Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography. By Wendy Larson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. 208 pp. $34.95.

Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. By Morris Rossabi. Tokyo, New York, and London: Kodansha International, 1992. xvii, 220 pp. $22.00.

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.

Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China. By Steven Van Zoeren. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 333 pp. $39.50.

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia