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Volume 7 - Issue 2 - July 1997

Book Review

Teachers of the inner chambers. Women and culture in seventeenth-century China. By Dorothy Ko. pp. xvi, 395, illus., map. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1994. £30.00 (cloth), £11.95 (paperback).

H. B. Morse: Customs Commissioner and historian of China. By John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith. pp. xiv, 314, front., 8 pl., map. Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. US $39.95.

Down to earth: the territorial bond in South China. Edited by David Faure and Helen F. Siu. pp. xii, 286, 10 pl., 4 figs., 8 maps. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995. £35.00 (cloth), £12.95 (paperback).

An anthology of Chinese literature: beginnings to 1911. Edited and translated by Stephen Owen. pp. xlviii, 1212. New York and London, W. W. Norton, 1996. £25.00.

In search of the supernatural: the written record. Translated by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and J. I. Crump, Jr. pp. xxxvi, 283, iDus. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1996. £35.00.

Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits et imprimées chinois de la Bibliothèque Vaticane. By Paul Pelliot, revised and edited by Takata Tokio. (Italian School of East Asian Studies Reference Series, I.) pp. xv, 113. Kyoto, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Scuola di Studi sull’Asia Orientale, 1995.

Chinese archives: an introductory guide. By Ye Wa and Joseph W. Esherick. (China Research Monographs, 45.) pp. viii, 355. Berkeley, Calif., Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996. US$23.50.

The Bretschneider albums: 19th-century paintings of life in China. By K. Y. Solonin, consultant, Frances wood, general editor, Vitaly Naumkin. pp. 170, 130 col. pl. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1995. £65.00.

Warrior rule in Japan. Edited by Marius B. Jansen. pp. xviii, 280. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1995. £40.00 (cloth), £14.95 (paperback).

Male colors: the construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. By Gary P. Leupp. pp. viii, 310, 32 figs. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1995. US$35,000, £28.00.

Jomon of Japan: the world's oldest pottery. By Douglas Moore Kenrick. pp. xviii, 144, 16 col. illus., 163 bl. and wh. illus., 1 fig., 4 maps. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1995 £85.00.

The literature of travel in the Japanese rediscovery of China, 1862–1945. By Joshua A. Fogel. pp. xvii, 417, illus., 3 maps. Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press, 1996. £40.00.

Beyond the ivory tower. The Autobiography of Sir Cyril Philips, pp. xii, 292, 12 pl., 3 maps. London and New York, The Radcliffe Press, 1995.

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