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Volume 7 - 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).

Reconsidering Tu Fu. Literary greatness and cultural context. By Eva Shan Chou, (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. xi, 237. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1995. £35.00.

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.

Beyond the Great Wall: urban form and transformation on the Chinese frontiers. By Piper Rae Gaubatz. pp. xvii, 378, 38 photos, 10 figs., 31 maps. Stanford etc., Stanford University Press, 1996. £40.00.

Ink plum: the making of a Chinese scholar-painting. By Maggie Bickford. pp. xx, 295, 40 pi., 51 figs. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996. £60.00.

Marriage, kinship and power in northern China. By Jennifer Holmgren. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 516.) pp. x, 314, front. Aldershot, Hampshire, Variorum, 1995., £52.50

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).

Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to postmodern. Edited by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, with an introduction by Gavan McCormack. pp. viii, 296, 6 figs. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996. £35.00.

The arts of China to ad 900. By William Watson. (Pelican History of Art.) pp. x, 277, 96 col., 300 bl. and wh. illus., map. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995. £50.00

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.

Sir Harry Parkes: British representative in Japan 1865–83. By Gordon Daniels. (Meiji Japan Series, 2.) pp. xi, 239, front., 1 other illus., 5 maps. Folkestone, Japan Library, 1996. £40.00.

Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan. By T. Fujitani. (Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 6.) pp. xiv, 305, 25 figs., 2 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1996.

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.

Korean adoption and inheritance. Case studies in the creation of a classic Confucian society. By Mark A. Peterson. (Cornell East Asia Series, 80.) pp. xii, 267, map. Ithaca, NY, East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1996. US $25.00 (cloth), US $15.00 (paperback).

Japanese loyalism reconstrued. Yamagata Daini's Ryūshi Shinron OF 1759. By Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp. xiii, 232, front. Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press, 1995. US $38.00.

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