Book reviews

Sarah Allan, The Heir and the Sage: Dynastic Legend in Early China, Asian Library Series no. 24, Chinese Materials Centre, San Francisco, 1981. xiv, 146pp, charts, bibliography, index. Price: n.p.g.

Bill Brugger, China: Liberation and Transformation, 1942–62, Croom Helm, London, 1981. 288pp, introduction, bibliography, index. Paper: $12.95.

Bill Brugger, China: Radicalism to Revisionism, 1962–1979, Croom Helm, London, 1981. 275 pp, introduction, bibliography, index. Paper: $10.95.

Sherman Cochran, Andrew Hsieh & Janis Cochran (trans. & eds.), One Day in China: May 21, 1936, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1983. xxvi, 290 pp, introduction, notes, appendices, bibliopraphy, index. Cloth: $37.50.

Edmund S.K. Fung, The Military Dimension of the Chinese Revolution, Australian National U.P., Canberra, 1980. x, 349 pp, tables, maps, plates, glossary, bibliography. Cloth: $22.50.

Ray Huang, 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1981. xiii, 278 pp, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Paper: n.p.g.

Lynda Shaffer, Mao and the Workers: The Hunan Labor Movement, 1920–1923, M.E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk and London, 1982, 251 pp, maps, introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$30.00.

Douglas Lancashire (trans. & ed.), Chinese Essays on Religion and Faith, Chinese Materials Center, San Francisco, 1981. xi, 293 pp, introduction, appendices, bibliography. Cloth: US$20.50, paper: US$14.50.

Thomas Huber, The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan, Stanford U.P., Stanford, California, 1981. 260 pp, introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth: n.p.g.

John M. Maki (trans. and ed.), Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1980. 413 pp, preface, appendix, bibliography, index. Price: n.p.g.

Takafusa Nakamura, Economic Growth in Prewar Japan, translated by Robert A. Feldman, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1983. 326 pp, preface, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth: $66.50, paper: n.p.g.

Franz von Benda–Beckmann, Property in Social Continuity: Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationships through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra, KITLV Verhandelingen no. 86, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1979. xviii, 455 pp, plates, maps, introduction, notes, bibliography. Paper:n.p.g.

J.H.M.C. Boelaars, Head–Hunters About Themselves: An Ethnographic Report from Irian Jaya, Indonesia, KITLV Verhandelingen no. 92, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1981. xvi, 297 pp, maps, illustrations, foreword, introduction, notes, appendices. Paper: Df1.90.

Ed. C. de Jesus, The Tobacco Monopoly in the Philippines: Bureaucratic Enterprise and Social Change, 1766–1880, Ateneo de Manila U.P., Quezon City, 1980. 222 pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$25, Paper: US$18.

Dipak Mazumdar, The Urban Labour Market and Income Distribution: A Study of Malaysia, Oxford U.P., New York, 1981, xvi, 375 pp, figures, tables, index. Paper: $14.95.

Tan Tat Wai, Income Distribution and Determination in West Malaysia, Oxford U.P., Kuala Lumpur, 1982, xvi, 364 pp, figures, tables, charts, introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth: $47.95, paper: $31.95.

R.H.W. Reece, The Name of Brooke; The End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak, Oxford U.P., Kuala Lumpur, 1982. xxi, 331 pp, appendix, bibliography, plates, index. Cloth: $39.95.

B.J. Terwiel, A History of Modern Thailand, 1767–1942, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, 1983. xiii, 379 pp, maps, tables, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: $29.95, paper: $17.95.

The Vietnam Forum: A Review of Vietnamese Culture. No. 1 (Winter–Spring 1983), Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, New Haven. Editor: Huynh Sanh Thong. Subscription: US$10 two issues, from Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, Box 13A, New Haven, Conn. 06520, USA.

David K. Wyatt S Alexander Woodside (eds.), Moral Order and the Question of Change: Essays on Southeast Asian Thought, Southeast Asian Studies Monograph no. 24, Yale University, New Haven, 1982. 413 pp, introduction, notes, appendix. Paper: US$16.

Lenore Manderson, Women, Politics and Change. The Kuam Ibu UMNO, Malaysia, 1945–1972. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford U.P., 1980. xvii, 294 pp. Acknowledgements, tables, maps, glossary, appendices, list of persons interviewed, bibliography, index. Paper: M$25.00, cloth: M$40.00.

Loh Kok Wah, The Politics of Chinese Unity in Malaysia: Reform and Conflict in the Malaysian Chinese Association 1971–73, Occasional Paper No. 70, ISEAS, Singapore 1982. 99 pp, introduction, appendices, tables. Paper: n.p.g.

Albert Feuerwerk (ed.), Chinese Social and Economic History from the Song to 1900: Report of the American Delegation to a Sino–American Symposium. Beijing, 26 October–1 November 1980, Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 45, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1982. 182 pp, appendices. Paper: US $8.00.

Lao She, Ma and Son (tr. Jean M. James), Chinese Materials Center Inc, San Francisco, 1980, 268 pp, Cloth: US $21.80.

Orlan Lee, Bureaucratic Despotism and Reactionary Revolution: The Wittfogel Theory and the Chinese Revolution, China Problems Series No. 1, Chinese Materials Center, Hong Kong, 1982. 85 pp, tables, index. Paper: US $15.

Westerly, Contemporary China Issue (Bruce Bennett & Peter Cowan eds.), September 1981, 128 pp, $3.00.