Book reviews

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General

Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn. The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in cooperation with the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, 1990. Pp. xviii, 461. Preface, map, bibliography, index. US$19.95, paper; US$50.00, cloth.

China and Inner Asia

Bill Brugger and David Kelly. Chinese Marxism in the Post–Mao Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 223. Bibliography, index. US$32.50, hard.

Robert E. Buswell JNR. The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajra–sama dhi–sutra a Buddhist Apocryphon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 315. Contents, preface, glossary, works cited, index, illustrations, tables, abbreviations. $39.50, cloth.

Joseph Y.S. Cheng, editor. China: Modernization in the 1980s. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1989. Pp. 682. Contents, preface, index.

G.H. Choa. "Heal The Sick” Was Their Motto: The Protestant Medical Missionaries, in China. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1990. Pp. 255. Contents, preface, acknowledgements, preface, notes, bibliography, index. US$20.00, hardcover.

George L. Hicks. Hong Kong Countdown. Hong Kong: Writers’ and Publishers’ Cooperative, 1989. Pp. xiv, 136. Bibliography, chronology. US$12.50, paper. Distributed by the Cellar Book Shop, 18090 Wyoming, Detroit, Michigan 48221.

Kevin Rafferty. City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future. London: Viking, 1989. Pp. ix, 518. Sources, map, plates, index. £15.95, hardcover.

Nancy E. Levine. The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity and Population on the Tibetan Border. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Kam Louie. Between Fact and Fiction: Essays on Post–Mao Chinese Literature and Society. Sydney: Wild Peony Press, 1989. Pp. 149. Foreword, preface, notes, bibliography. $22.95, paper.

Colin Mackerras. Western Images of China. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 337. Preface, plates, bibliography, index. $19.95, paper.

D.E. Mungello. Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. 408. Introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. US$17.00, paper.

Patricia Neils, editor. United States Attitudes and Policies Toward China: the Impact of American Missionaries. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1990. Pp. 289. Contents, introduction, conclusion, biographical notes, information on contributors. US$39.95, cloth.

Kamal Sheel. Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. 265. Contents, tables, preface, references, index. $35.00, cloth.

Helen F. Siu. Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xxiv, 378. Prologue, introduction, maps, plates, notes, references, glossary, index. Hardcover, US$37.50.

Japan and Northeast Asia

Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray, editors. Pearl Harbor Re–examined, Prologue to the Pacific War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 200. Contents, acknowledgements, chronology, introduction, suggested readings, index. $22.00, cloth.

Norman Jacobs. The Korean Road to Modernization and Development. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. x, 355. Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. US$24.95, cloth.

T.J. Pempel, editor. Uncommon Democracies: The One Party Dominant Regimes. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 371. Contents, preface, contributors, introduction, conclusion, index. US$49.95, cloth; US$17.95, paper.

Masaya Shiraishi. Japanese Relations with Vietnam: 1951–1987. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1990. Pp. 164. Contents, acknowledgements, introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography, tables, charts. US$12.00, paper.

Hak–Kyu Sohn. Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea. London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. v, 287. Contents, tables, acknowledgements, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $35.00, cloth.

Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer, editors. Constructs for Understanding Japan. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1989. Pp. xv, 396. Figures, tables, index.

Peter Tasker. Inside Japan: Wealth, Work and Power in the New Japanese Empire. London: Penguin Books, 1989. Pp. 376. Contents, acknowledgements, prologue, epilogue, index. Paper, $14.99.

South Asia

Ramachandra Guha. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 214. Preface, glossary, abbreviations, map, bibliography, index.

Salim Lakha. Capitalism and Class in Colonial India: The Case of Ahmedabad. Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publications Series 3. New Delhi: Sterling, 1988. Rs. 125.

Owen M. Lynch, editor. Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. 312. Contents, preface, contributors, glossary, bibliography, index. US$40.00, hard.

Hugh Owen. The Indian Nationalist Movement, c. 1912–1922: Leadership, Organisation and Philosophy: The Writings of Hugh Owen. Asian Studies Association of Australia South Asian Publication Series No. 6. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1990. Pp.262. $25.00.

Margaret Trawick. Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 299. Prologue, figures, plates, transliteration, epilogue, bibliography, index.

Southeast Asia

Benjamin A. Batson and Shimizu Hajime. "The Tragedy of Wanit”: A Japanese Account of Wartime Thai Politics. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Special Publication Series no. 1. Singapore: The National University of Singapore, 1990. Pp. xi, 148. Contents, preface, photographs, works cited, index. S$20.00 plus postage, paper; S$35.00 plus postage, hardcover.

Daniel Benoit, Patrice Levang, Marc Pain and Olivier Sevin. Transmigration and Spontaneous Migrations in Indonesia: Propinsi Lampung. Bondy and Jakarta: ORSTOM–Departemen Transmigrasi, 1989. Pp. 443. Contents, foreword, plates, glossary, maps, bibliography. US$30.00 outside Indonesia, paper.

Nick Devas, editor. Financing Local Government in Indonesia. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (Swallow Press), 1989. Monographs in International Studies, South East Asian Series No. 84. Pp. xiii, 344. Contents, acknowledgments, figures, maps, tables, appendices, glossary, bibliography. US$14.00, paper.

Jane Drakard. A Malay Frontier: Unity and Duality in a Sumatran Kingdom. Ithaca, New York: SEAP, Cornell University, 1990. Pp. ix, 205. Preface, abbreviations, genealogies, maps, bibliography, index. US$15.00, paper.

Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton and Benjamin White with Brian Fegan and Lim Teck Ghee, editors. Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 341. Preface, introduction, maps, tables, index. US$35.00, cloth.

Sumet Jumsai. Naga: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific. Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 183. Illustrations.

J. Kathirithamby–Wells and John Villiers, editors. The Southeast Asian Port and Polity: Rise and Demise. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 265. Preface, abbreviations, glossary, maps, illustrations, index. US$28.00, cloth; US$22.00, paper.

J. Thomas Lindblad. Between Dayak and Dutch: The Economic History of Southeast Kalimantan 1880–1942. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1988. Pp. x, 282. Contents, preface, introduction, conclusion, appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Dfl 30, paper.

Paul M. Monk. Truth and Power: Robert S. Hardie and Land Reform Debates in the Philippines, 1950–1987. Clayton, Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1990. Paper 20. Pp. 168. Paper.

Robert C. Rice, editor. Indonesian Economic Development: Approaches, Technology, Small–Scale Textiles, Urban Infrastructure and NGOs. Winter Lecture Series for 1988. Clayton, Victoria: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1990. Pp. iv, 105. Paper, $12.00.

James R. Rush. Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 255. Acknowledgments, abbreviations, glossary, bibliography, index.

William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang and Gnia Yee Yang. Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 221. Tables, illustrations, chronology, appendix, notes, references, index. US$39.95, cloth; US$15.95, paper.

Southeast Asian Affairs 1990. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. Pp. x, 395. Foreword, contents, introduction, map. US$37.00, cloth.

Leo Suryadinata. Military Ascendancy and Political Culture: A Study of Indonesia's Golkar. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 85. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, 1989. Pp. xiii, 223. Contents, illustrations, preface, introduction, appendices, glossary, select bibliography, index. US$11.50, paper.

Mya Than and J.L.H. Tan, editors. Myanmar Dilemmas and Options: The Challenge of Economic Transition in the 1990s. Singapore: ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. Pp. x, 288. Contents, preface, contributors, tables, notes, bibliographies. US$23.70, soft cover; US$30.00, hard cover.

Ken Tregonning. Home Port Singapore: An Australian Historian's Experience 1953–1967. Australians in Asia Series No. 4. Brisbane: Centre for the Study of Australia–Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1990. Pp. 78. Editor's note, preface. $6.00, paper.

Translating Southeast Asia. Translation series, Translation of Contemporary Japanese Scholarship on Southeast Asia, volume 1. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1990. Pp. 188. Paper.

Kenji Tsuchiya. Democracy and Leadership: The Rise of the Taman Siswa Movement in Indonesia. Translation of Indonesia Minzoku Shugi Kenkyu (A Study of Indonesian Nationalism) by Peter Hawkes. Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University, University of Hawaii Press, 1987.

Richard Ulack and Gyula Pauer. Atlas of Southeast Asia. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. Pp. xvii, 171. Preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. 70 maps, 66 diagrams, 50 colour photographs. $150.00, cloth.

James F. Warren. At the Edge of Southeast Asian History. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. Pp. xvii, 210. Illustrations, notes, glossary, index. Distributed by the Cellar Bookshop, 18090 Wyoming, Detroit, Mich. 48221, USA. Paper, US$11.25.

West Asia

Georges Sabagh, editor. The Modern Economic and Social History of the Middle East in its World Context. Tenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida biennial conference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 161. Contents, index. $75.00, cloth.