Book reviews

Abstract

• General

Harry Irwin. Communicating with Asia; Understanding People and Customs. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996. xii, 185 pp. A$24.95, paper.

Patrick Kilby, editor. Australia's Aid Program: Mixed Messages and Conflicting Agendas. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute and Community Aid Abroad, 1996. xxi, 316 pp. Preface, conventions, authors, tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. A$39.95, paper.

• Northeast Asia

AMPO‐Japan Asia Quarterly Review, editor. Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement. An East Gate Book. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xxii, 210 pp. Foreword, index. US$54.95, hardcover; US$17.95, paper.

Adrian Buzo and Gi‐Hyun Shin. Learning Korean: New Directions 1 and 2. Hawthorn: National Korean Studies Centre, 1994. A$25.00, paper.

Craig Calhoun. Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 333 pp. Preface, introduction, glossary, notes, select bibliography, index. US$37.50, hardcover.

Christina Kelly Gilmartin. Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii, 303 pp. Acknowledgments, note on romanisation, maps, photographs, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. US$40.00, hardcover; US$15.00, paper.

Hosea Hirata. The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburō : Modernism in Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xxv, 260 pp. Preface, bibliography, index. £33.50, hardcover.

Percy R. Luney, Jr. and Kazuyuki Takahashi, editors. Japanese Constitutional Law. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1993. xv, 340 pp. Introduction, appendix, contributors, index. ¥7,400, hardcover.

Marvin Marcus. Paragons of the Ordinary: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. ix, 358 pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. US$45.00, hardcover.

Munesuke Mita. Social Psychology of Modern Japan. Translated by Stephen Suloway. London and New York: Kegan Paul International Ltd., 1992. xx, 536 pp. Preface, translator's preface, tables, figures, index. Npg, hardback.

Alan Rix. Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge‐Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. xii, 224 pp. Preface, abbreviations, bibliography, index. £45.00, hardcover.

Joseph K.S. Yick. Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP‐GMD Struggle for Beiping‐Tianjin 1945–1949. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xxv, 233 pp. Contents, maps, abbreviations, introduction, notes, bibliography. £20.50, paper.

• South Asia

Harry Aveling. The Laughing Swamis: Australian Sannyasin Disciples of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Osho Rajneesh. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994. 220 pp. Bibliography. A$19.95, paper.

Sandy Gordon and Stephen Henningham, editors. India Looks East: An Emerging Power and its Asia‐Pacific Neighbours. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. III. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995. 280 pp. Abstract, tables, figures, acronyms, abbreviations, contributors, bibliography. A$24.00, paper.

Andrew J. Major. Return to Empire: Punjab Under the Sikhs and the British in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. xii, 249 pp. List of abbreviations, bibliography, index. A$30.00, hardcover.

David West Rudner. Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994. xxi, 341pp. £40.00, hardcover.

• Southeast Asia

John D. Leary. Violence and the Dream People: The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960. Monographs in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series No. 95. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. xiii, 238 pp. Glossary and abbreviations, preface, appendices, bibliography, index, maps, plates, illustrations. US$22.00, paper.

Anthony Milner. Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxi, 328 pp. Preface, bibliography, index. A$75.00, hardcover.

Klaus Wenk. Thai Literature, An Introduction. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1995. 121 pp. Bibliography, index. A$35.00, paper.