Book reviews

Lucy M. Cohen, Chinese in the Post–Civil War South: A People Without a History, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1984. xviii, 211 pp. Preface, appendix. Cloth: US$22.50.

Cathie May, Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns, 1870–1920, Studies in North Queensland History No. 6, History Department, James Cook University, Townsville, 1984. vii, 433 pp. Foreword, appendices, graphs, maps, photographs, notes. Paper: $10.

Barbara E. Ward, Through Other Eyes: Essays in Understanding Conscious Models, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1985. xvi, 280 pp. Foreword, introduction. Cloth: US$21.50.

Arnfinn Jorgensen–Dahl, Regional Organization and Order in South–East Asia, Macmillan, London, 1982. xvii, 278 pp. Preface, introduction, notes and references, index. Cloth: US$49.

China: Long–term Development Issues and Options, A World Bank Country Economic Report, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1985. xii, 183 pp. Preface, tables, figures, maps. Paper: $33.50 Cloth: $67.50

Joseph Fewsmith, Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organisations and Politics in Shanghai 1890–1930, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1985. xii, 275 pp. Acknowledgments, index, bibliography. Cloth: US$25.00.

C.P. FitzGerald, Why China? Recollections of China, 1923–1950, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1985. xii, 250 pp. Note on pinyin spelling, introduction, index. Cloth: $26.50.

Harold R. Isaacs, Re–encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule, M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1985. xii, 192 pp. Preface, notes, romanizations. Cloth: US$19.95.

Edmund S.K. Fung and Colin Mackerras, From Fear to Friendship: Australia's Policies Towards the People's Republic of China, 1966–1982, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1985. 351 pp. Acknowledgements, introduction, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: $45.

Thomas B. Gold, State and Society in the Taiwan Economic Miracle, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., New York, 1986. xiv, 162 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$29.

Carol Lee Hamrin and Timothy Cheek, eds., China's Establishment Intellectuals, M.E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk, New York, 1986. xix, 263 pp. Foreword, introduction, index. Cloth: US$35. Paper: US$14.95.

Nicholas R. Lardy, Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. xiii, 285 pp. Tables, figures, maps, preface, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth: $74.

Mabel Lee and Zhang Wu–ai, Putonghua: A Practical Course in Spoken Chinese, Wild Peony, Sydney, 1984. iii, 101 pp. Paper: $11.90.

A.D. Syrokomla–Stefanowska and Mabel Lee, Basic Chinese Grammar and Sentence Patterns, Wild Peony, Sydney, 1986. 99 pp. Paper: A$15.

Jane Kate Leonard, Wei Yuan and China's Rediscovery of the Maritime World, Harvard East Asian Monographs, Harvard University Press, Cambridge & London, 1984. xviii, 276 pp. Acknowledgements, foreword, introduction, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, cloth: n.p.g.

Donald Munro, ed., Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values, Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies No. 52, The University of Michigan Centre for Chinese Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985. x, 339 pp. Acknowledgement, introduction, index. Paper: US$12.50 Cloth: US$25.

Dwight Perkins and Shahid Yusuf, Rural Development in China, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1984. x, 235 pp. Preface, introduction, appendices, references, index. Paper: $28. Cloth: $56.

David Pong, Edmund S.K. Fung, eds., Ideal and Reality: Social and Political Change in Modern China, 1860–1949, University Press of America, Lanham, 1985. 386 pp. Foreword, preface, suggested readings and index. Cloth: n.p.g.

W. Allyn Rickett, Guanzi: Political, Economic and Philosophical Essays from Early China, vol. 1, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985. 484 pp. Preface, introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$65.

Gilbert Rozman, ed., Soviet Studies of Premodern China: Assessments of Recent Scholarship, Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies No. 50, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1984. ix, 247 pp. Notes, appendices, index. Cloth: n.p.g.

Naiyong Yu, Studies on the Phonological System of Old Chinese, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1985. vi, 354 pp. Paper: US$24.50.

Sidney Devere Brown and Akiko Hirota, trans., The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Vol. 3: 1874–1877, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo 1986. xlix, 549 pp. Translator's foreword, translator's introduction, glossary, select bibliography, index. Cloth: n.p.g.

Roy Hofheinz, Jr and Kent E. Calder, The East Asia Edge, Basic Books, New York, 1982. 296 pp. Index. Cloth: n.p.g.

Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Itō Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Salonji Kimmochi, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1986. viii, 232 pp. Preface, notes, index. Cloth: n.p.g.

Sueo Sekiguchi, ed., ASEAN–Japan Relations: Investment, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1983. viii, 274 pp. Foreword, references, bibliography. Paper: $44.

Shunsuke Tsurumi, An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931–1945, KPI, London, 1986. vii, 136 pp. Preface, references, index. Cloth: $69.

M.J. Akbar, India: The Siege Within. Challenges to a Nation's Unity, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, reprint, 1985. 325 pp. Index. Paper: US$5.95.

Robin Jeffrey, What's Happening to India? Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, Mrs Gandhi's Death and the Test for Federalism, Macmillan, Houndmills, 1986. xvii, 249 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth: $39.95 Paper: $19.95.

Carl Bridge, Holding India to the Empire. The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution, Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publications Series No. 1, Sterling, New Delhi, 1986. xii, 220 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloths $18.50, Rs. 125.

Edmund Leach, S.N. Mukherjee and John Ward, eds., Feudalism: Comparative Studies, The Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Sydney, 1985. 246 pp.

David Ludden, Peasant History in South India, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1985. xix, 310 pp. Maps, figures, tables, preface, introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$45.

T.C.H. Raper, ed., Catalogue of the Pali Printed Books in the India Office Library, The British Library, London, 1983. 79 pp. Preface. Cloth: £12.

Rosemary Seton, The Indian ‘Mutiny’ 1857–58. A Guide to Source Material in the India Office Library and Records, British Library, London, 1986. xvi, 99 pp. Plates, index, bibliography. Cloth: £12.95.

David D. Shulman, The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1986. xvi, 447 pp. Figures, acknowledgements, abbreviations, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. Clothi $US57.

Sharon A. Carstens, ed., Cultural Identity in Northern Peninsular Malaysia, Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 63, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1986. x, 91 pp. Preface, map, introduction. Papers US$9.

Robert L. Winzeler, Ethnic Relations in Kelantan. A Study of the Chinese and Thai as Ethnic Minorities in a Malay State, East Asian Social Science Monographs, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1985. xiii, 135 pp. Preface, acknowledgements, tables, maps, plates, note, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$55.

Henri Chambert–Loir, Ceritera Asal Bangsa Jin Dan Dewa–Dewa, Ecole Francaise d'Extrême Orient, Angkasa, Bandung, 1985. 177 pp. Introduction, bibliography. Paper: n.p.g.

Glen Chandler, Market Trade in Rural Java, Monash Paper on Southeast Asia No. 11, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1984. xii, 198 pp. Preface, acknowledgements, figures, tables, plates, glossary, select bibliography, appendices. Paper: n.p.g.

H.J. de Graff and Th. G. Th. Pigeaud, Chinese Muslims in Java in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 12, Monash University, 1984. xiii, 221 pp. Introduction, preface, appendix, notes. Paper: $6.

Mark Durie, A Grammar of Acehnese on the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal–, Land– en Volkenkunde No. 112, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 1985. xiv, 278 pp. Preface, conventions, introduction, bibliography. Paper: Dfl. 35, —.

Robert Hefner, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985. xi, 290 pp. Tables, preface, introduction, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$41.40.

Bob Hering (ed.), The Van der Most Report: A P.I.D. View of Soekarno's P.N.I., Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 18, Southeast Asian Studies Committee, James Cook University, 1982. viii, 62 pp. Preface, notes, appendix. Paper: n.p.g.

Bob Hering, The PKI–Baroe, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 20, Southeast Asian Studies Committee, James Cook University, n.d., 43 pp. Paper: n.p.g.

Bob Hering, Ch. O. Van der Plas and the P.N.I. Leadership. An Analysis and Source Book, James Cook University of North Queensland, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph No. 20, 1985. 254 pp. Paper: n.p.g.

Mohammad Hatta, Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Education), (transl. Mavis S. Rose), Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 35, Monash University, Clayton, 1985. xi, 30 pp. Foreword. Paper: n.p.g.

Russell Jones, Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham. An Edition of an Anonymous Malay Text with Translation and Notes, Monograph Series No. 27, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Berkeley, University of California, 1985. ix, 332 pp. Cloth: US$27.25. Paper: US$14.50.

Sartono Kartodirdjo, Modern Indonesia: Tradition and Transformation, Gadjah Mada University Press, Yogyakarta, 1984. xii, 299 pp. Index. Price: n.p.g.

J. Kats, Wayang Poerwa: een vorm van Javaans Toneel, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal–, Land– en Volkenkunde, Leiden, 1984. 446 pp. Foreword, biography, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth: Dfl.185.

The Main Characters of the Wayang Poerwa, (Thirty seven colour plates with a Summary of the Pandawa Cycle by J.J. Ras and an Iconographic Table), KITLV, Leiden, 1985. 24 pp. Text. Paper: Dfl.20.

Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael, The Dalang Behind the Wayang. The Role of the Surakarta and the Yogyakarta Dalang in Indonesian–Javanese Society, KITLV, Leiden 1985. 242 pp. Paper: Dfl.30.

Koentjaraningrat, Javanese Culture, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1985. xv, 550 pp. Preface, orthography, tables, figures, maps, introduction, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$75.

Frank Lewins and Judith Ly, The First Wave: The Settlement of Australia's First Vietnamese Refugees, George Allen and Unwin, Australia, 1985. 111 pp. Preface, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Paper: $11.95. Cloth: $24.95.

John N. Miksic, Archaeological Research on the ‘Forbidden Hill’ of Singapore: Excavations at Fort Canning, 1984, National Museum, Singapore, 1985. xii, 143 pp. including 8 pp. colour plates and numerous illustrations, tables and maps. Paper: n.p.g.

P.J.M. Nas, ed., The Indonesian City: Studies in Urban Development and Planning, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 1986. 328 pp. Introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper: Dfl.135.

Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin, The Republican Revolt: A Study of the Acehnese Rebellion, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1985. xiii, 359 pp. Preface, introduction, glossary, bibliography. Paper: n.p.g.

C. Skinner, ed., The Battle for Junk Ceylon, Bibliotheca Indonesica No. 25, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 1985. viii, 325 pp. Paper: Dfl.35.

Charles Smith, The Burmese Communist Party in the 1980s, Issues in Southeast Asian Security, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1984. ix, 126 pp. Foreword. Paper US$13.

Ramesh Thakur, Peacekeeping in Vietnam: Canada, India, Poland and the International Commission, University of Alberta Press, Alberta, 1984. xv, 375 pp. Tables, figures, map, acknowledgements, preface, appendices. Cloth: $30.

F. Tichelman, ed., Socialisme in Indonesie. De Indische Sociaal–Democratische Vereeniging 1897–1917, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 1985. xxiii, 706 pp. Foreword, preface, wordlist, notes, bibliography, index. Paper: n.p.g.