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Volume 52 - Issue 2 - May 1993

Book Reviews—Japan

Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan. By Gary Leupp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xiii, 237 pp. $29.95.

Off Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States. By Masao Miyoshi. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. 289 pp.

Enterprise Unions in Japan. By Hirosuke Kawanishi; Translated by Ross E. Mouer. London: Kegan Paul International, 1992. xxvi, 467 pp. $89.50.

The Japanese Monarchy, 1931–1991: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the “Symbol Emperor System.” By Nakamura Masanori. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. xiv, 202 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper).

Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan. Edited by James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiv, 275 pp. $39.50.

Book Reviews—Korea

North Korea in Transition. Edited by Chong-Sik Lee and Se-Hee Yoo. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1991. xv, 155 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Sikh Diaspora: Migration and the Experience Beyond Punjab. Edited by N. Gerald Barrier and Verne A. Dusenbery. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1989. x, 352 pp. $30.00.

Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872–1969. By John W. Cell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xv, 332 pp. $47.95.

Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism: A Study in Indian Nationalism, 1928–1940. By Bidyut Chakrabarty. London: I. B. Tauris and Co., Ltd. xii, 240 pp. $54.50.

Food Insecurity and the Social Environment. By Boudhayan Chattopadhyay, in collaboration with cressida research team. Food Systems and the Human Environment in Eastern India, Volume 1. Calcultta: K. P. Bagchi and Company, 1991. xii, 418 pp. $70.00.

Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. vii, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

A Critical Edition of the Mālatīmādhava. By Michael Coulson. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. lxii, 280 pp. Rs. 225.

Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives. By Lindsey Harlan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 26 photos, xiv, 260 pp. $35.00.

A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna. By Hirakawa Akira. Edited and translated by Paul Groner. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. xviii, 402 pp. $35.00.

Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories. Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon. Translated by M. U. Memon, Faruq Hassan, C. M. Naim, and others. Toronto: tsar Publications, 1992. vii, 264 pp. $15.95.

Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling. By Margaret A. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xi, 388 pp.

Priesthood in Ancient India: A Study of the Maitravāruṇa Priest. By Christopher Z. Minkowski. Vienna: Sammlung De Nobili, 1992. 272 pp.

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Book Reviews—Japan

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