Book reviews

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Northeast Asia Michael R. Dutton. Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to “the People”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. iv, 391 pp. List of figures, author's note, glossary, selected bibliography, index. A$75.00, hardcover. Hamaguchi eshun, editor. Nihongata Moderu to wa nanika: Kokusaika Jidai ni Okeru Meritto to Demiritto (What is the Japanese Model: Its Merits and Demerits in Terms of Japan's Inter–nationalisation). Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyujo; Tokyo: Shin–yo sha, 1993. iii, 449 pp. Introduction, contents, notes and references for each contribution. J¥5665 (about A$81) from Shiny oshoo. Michael A. Fuller. The Road to East Slope: The Development of Su Shi's Poetic Voice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii, 383 pp. Abbreviations, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, title index, subject index. US$45.00, hardcover. Akira Iriye. China and Japan in the Global Setting. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1992. 142 pp. Notes, index. US$22.50, hardcover. Jane Kate Leonard and John R. Watt, editors. To Achieve Security and Wealth: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644–1911. New York: Cornell East Asia Series, East Asian Program, Cornell University, 1992. xii, 619 pp. Figures, maps, tables, glossary. US$10.00, paper. Michele Marra. The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. x, 222 pp. Contents, acknowledgements, introduction, figures, epilogue, abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. US$35.00, hardcover; US$14.95, paper. Jeffrey P. Mass. Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xvii, 211 pp. US$29.50, hardcover. Leith Morton, editor. Seven Stories of Modern Japan. University of Sydney East Asia Series No. 5. Sydney: Wild Peony Pty Ltd, 1991. 88 pp. A$19.95, paper. Edward Seidensticker. Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1990. xiv, 362 pp. Contents, preface, maps, notes, index. US$24.95, paper. Paul J. Smith. Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074–1224. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. Harvard–Yenching Institute Monograph Series No. 32. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. xiii, 489 pp. Appendices, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, glossary, tables, maps, index. US$32.00, hardcover. South Asia S. Mahmud Ali. The Fearful State––Power, People and Internal War in South Asia. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993. 272 pp. Glossary, index, maps. US$49.95, hardcover; US$22.50, paper. Lina M. Fruzzetti. The Gift of a Virgin. Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv, 178 pp. Preface, symbols used, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Rs.55.00, paper. Kenneth W. Jones. Socio–Religious Reform Movements in British India. (The New Cambridge History of India). Cambridge, New York, etc.: Cambridge University Press, xiii, 255 pp. Preface, notes, maps, glossary, bibliographical essay, index. £24.95, hardcover. Thomas R. Metcalf. Modern India: An Interpretive Anthology. New Delhi: Sterling, 1990. 429 pp. Contents, index. Rs.350, hardcover. Sheldon I. Pollock, translator. The Ramayana of Valmiki. An Epic of Ancient India, Volume Three, Aranyakanda. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. xviii, 394 pp. US$67.50, hardcover. Geoffrey Samuel. Civilized Shamans. Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1993. x, 725 pp. Contents, preface, introduction, conclusion, epilogue, appendix, notes, guide to Tibetan spelling, references, index. £51.50/Euro.$79.25, hardcover. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, editor. Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India. Delhi: Oxford University Press for The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 1990. 276 pp. Maps, tables, index. £13.50, hardcover. Willem Van Schendel. Three Deltas: Accumulation and Poverty in Rural Burma, Bengal and South India. Indo–Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives–No. 8. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. 344 pp. Glossary, tables, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, indexes. Rs.295, hardcover. Southeast Asia Richard J. Aldrich, editor. British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War 1945–51. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 347 pp. Notes on contributors, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. £50.00, hardcover. Frederik Barth. Balinese Worlds. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 370 pp. Contents, acknowledgements, references, index. A$39.95, paper. David J. Stuart–Fox. Bibliography of Bali: Publications from 1920 to 1990. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1992. vii, 708 pp. Introduction, abbreviations, author index, corporate author index, subject index. US$47.00, hardcover. Patricia Lim Pui Huen. Singapore, Malaysian and Brunei Newspapers: An International Union List. Singapore: ISEAS, 1992. 169 pp. Introduction, references, index. S$38.00, paper. Aung San suu Kyi. Freedom From Fear and Other Writings. Foreword by Vaclav Havel, edited with an introduction by Michael Aris. London: Penguin Books, 1991. 338 pp. Illustrations, index. £6.99, paper. Josef Silverstein, editor. The Political Legacy of Aung San. Revised edition, with an Introductory Essay. Southeast Asia Program Series No. 11. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1993. 161 pp. US$14.00, paper. Aye Kyaw. The Voice of Young Burma. Southeast Asia Program Series No. 12. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1993. 92 pp. US$10.00, paper. Susan Bolyard Millar. Bugis Weddings: Rituals of Social Location in Modern Indonesia. Monograph 29, Monograph Series, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. Berkeley: University of California, 1989. xx, 236 pp. Maps, tables, figures. US$17.50, paper. Gareth Porter. Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism. Politics and International Relations of Southeast Asia Series. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993. xvii, 227 pp. Foreword by George McT. Kahin. Preface, abbreviations, maps, glossary, index. US$32.95, hardcover.