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TheJournalof AsianStudies

Volume 55 • Number 4 • November 1996

C O N T E N T S

In This Issue 827

Articles

Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of theQing Period in Chinese History EVELYN S. RAWSKI 829

"Sultan among Hindu Kings": Dress, Titles, and the Islamicization ofHindu Culture at Vijayanagara PHILLIP B. WAGONER 851

The Myth of the "Three Shan Brothers" and the Ava Period inBurmese History MICHAEL AUNG-THWIN 881

How to jibunshi: Making and Marketing Self-histories of Showa amongthe Masses in Postwar Japan GERALD FIGAL 902

Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na'ou's Urban ShanghaiLandscape SHU-MEI SHIH 934

Communications to the Editor 957

Book Reviews

Asia General

COHEN (ed.), Pacific Passage: The Study of American-East Relations on the Eve of theTwenty-First Century DAVIS B. BOBROW 959

DlSSANAYAKE (ed.), Narratives of Agency: Self-Making in China, India,

and Japan ALAN ROLAND 960

EICKELMAN and PISCATORI, Muslim Politics BAHMAN BAKTIARI 962

GOODBY, IVANOV, and SHIMOTAMAI (eds.), "Northern Territories" and Beyond:

Russian, Japanese, and American Perspectives LUDWIG w. ADAMEC 963H O O P E R (ed.), Remembering the Institute of Pacific Relations: The Memoirs of

William L. Holland LAWRENCE T. WOODS 965

H U N T , Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History ReaderCLAUDE A. BUSS 966

K O T K I N and W O L F F (eds.), Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the RussianFar East IAN NISH 967



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LASATER, The New Pacific Community STEPHEN P. GIBERT 968

LASSERRE and S C H U T T E , Strategies for Asia Pacific LUCIAN W. PYE 970

Q U E E N and K I N G (eds.), Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movementin Asia ROGER R. JACKSON 971

ROHWER, Asia Rising: Why America Will Prosper as Asia's Economies BoomCLYDE V. PRESTOWITZJR. 973

W I M B U S H and VALANTASIS (eds.), Asceticism DAVID N. L O R E N Z E N 975

China and Inner Asia

DUDBRIDGE, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: A Reading ofTai Fu's "Kuang-i chi" RUSSELL KIRKLAND 977

DuRRANT, The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings ofSima QianPAULA VARSANO 978

FAURE and SlU (eds.), Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South ChinaCAROLYN L. CARTIER 979

H Y M E S and S C H I R O K A U E R (eds.), Ordering the World: Approaches to State and

Society in Sung Dynasty China WILLARD j . PETERSON 981

I V A N H O E , Confucian Moral Self Cultivation BRYAN w. VAN NORDEN 983

J U L L I E N , La propension des choses: Pour une histoire de I'efficacite en ChineHAUN SAUSSY 984

J U L L I E N ; LLOYD (trans.), The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacyin China HAUN SAUSSY 984

Liu, Zhongguo gudai xing wenhua [Sexual Culture in Ancient China]QIATO GUO 987

LlU, Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937 WENDY LARSON 989

R E I D (ed.), Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the ChineseHONG LIU 990

W O L F , Sexual Attraction and Childhood Association: A Chinese Brief for EdwardWestermarck C. MICHELE THOMPSON 993

Y A N and G A O ; K W O K (ed. and trans.), Turbulent Decade: A History of theCultural Revolution R. KEITH SCHOPPA 994

Z H A N G , Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950—1953BRUCE J. ESPOSITO 996

Japan

B A X T E R , The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa PrefectureM. WILLIAM STEELE 997

BEASLEY, Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in Americaand Europe MARK D. ERICSON 999

F R A N S M A N , Japan's Computer and Communications Industry: The Evolution ofIndustrial Giants and Global Competitiveness DICK BEASON 1000



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K A , Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency,1895-1945 JOSHUA A. FOGEL 1002

KIM, MURAMATSU, PEMPEL, and YAMAMURA (eds.), The Japanese Civil

Service and Economic Development—Catalysts of Change ULRIKE SCHAEDE 1003

M I W A , Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan LEONARD H. LYNN 1004

M O R R I S - S U Z U K I , The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenthto the Twenty-First Century EDWARD E. PRATT 1006

M O S K , Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour MarketsMOTOHIRO MORISHIMA 1007

MUNROE et al., Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the SkyMIMI HALL YIENGPRUKSAWAN 1009

R I M E R (ed.), A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868-1926MARIYASEVELA 1013

S U Z U K I , Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity VAN C. GESSEL 1014

Korea

E D E R , Poisoned Prosperity: Development, Modernization, and the Environment in

South Korea JAMES M. WEST 1016

FIELDS, Enterprise and the State in Korea DENNIS MCNAMARA 1017

K A N G , Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of Korean-American Family

CHUNGHEE SARAH SOH 1019

L A R S O N , The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea YONG S. LEE 1020

W E L L S , South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of DissidenceTAEHWAN HAN 1022

South Asia

AGARWAL, The Social Role of the Gtta: How and Why CYNTHIA ANN HUMES 1024

A R A C H C H I G E - D O N , Patterns of Community Structure in Colombo, Sri Lanka: An

Investigation of Contemporary Urban Life in South Asia JEANNE MARECEK 1025

BAILEY, The Witch-Hunt; or, The Triumph of Morality SUSAN S. WADLEY 1026

BANSAT-BOUDON, Poetique du theatre indien: Lectures du NatyasastraROBERT A. HUECKSTEDT 1027

BUTALIA and MENON (eds.), In Other Words: New Writing by Indian WomenCARLA PETIEVICH 1030

CHATTERJI, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947JOHN BROOMFIELD 1032

DE SILVA and W R I G G I N S , / R. J'ayewardene of Sri Lanka. Vol. 2. From 1956 to

his Retirement PATRICK PEEBLES 1033

DEVI, /; Does Not Die: A Romance FIRDAUS AZIM 1035

ELIADE, Bengal Nights: A Novel FIRDAUS AZIM 1035

ELIZARENKOVA; DONIGER (ed.), Language and Style of the Vedic RsisLAURIE L. PATTON 1037



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HEATHCOTE, The Military in British India: The Development of British LandForces in South Asia, 1600-1941 DEWITT C. ELLINWOOD 1038

MALLICK, Development Policy of a Communist Government: West Bengal Since 1911LEELA FERNANDES 1041

MALLICK, Indian Communism: Opposition, Collaboration and Institutionalization

LEELA FERNANDES 1041

M E H T A , Sanskrit Play Production in Ancient India ROBERT A. HUECKSTEDT 1027

MENEZES, Fidelity and Honour: The Indian Army from the Seventeenth to the

Twenty-first Century DEWITT C. ELLINWOOD 1038

M I N E R , Sitar and Sand in the 18th and 19th Centuries JOAN L. ERDMAN 1043

N A Y A R , Poetry as Theology: The Srtvaisnava Stotra in the Age of RamanujaPATRICIA Y. MUMME 1044

O M I S S I , The Sepoy and the Raj, The Indian Army, 1860-1940DEWITT C. ELLINWOOD 1038

R A Y , The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South AsiaR.BARRY LEWIS 1045

R U D N E R , Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai ChettiarsFRANK F. CONLON 1046

S C H O M E R , E R D M A N , L O D R I C K , and R U D O L P H (eds.), The Idea ofRajasthan:Explorations in Regional Identity. Vol. 1. Constructions and Vol. 2. Institutions

LINDSEY HARLAN 1048

S R I N I V A S A N , Regulating Reproduction in India's Population: Efforts, Results, andRecommendations MARCIA j . FROST 1052

STEVENS, Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and EnvironmentalChange in the Highest Himalaya NIGEL J. R. ALLAN 1049

T I N G E Y , Auspicious Music in a Changing Society: The Damai Musicians of NepalKAY NORTON 1051

V I S A R I A , VlSARlA, and J A I N , Contraceptive Use and Fertility in India: A CaseStudy of Gujarat MARCIA j . FROST 1052

V I S V A N A T H A N , The Christians of Kerala: History, Belief and Ritual amongthe Yakoba MARGARET MEIBOHM 1054

WAGONER, Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of theRayavacakmu GENE H. ROGHAIR 1055

Southeast Asia

B R E R E T O N , Thai Tellings ofPhra Malai: Texts and Rituals Concerning a PopularBuddhist Saint ELLISON BANKS FINDLY 1057

C H R I S T I E , A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism, andSeparatism MARK BERGER 1058

CLEARY and WONG, Economic Development and Diversification in BruneiDarussalam KIRSTIN DOW 1060

D U R R E N B E R G E R , State and Power Culture in Thailand N A N C Y E B E R H A R D T 1061



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K I E R N A N , The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the

Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 DAVID CHANDLER 1063

K L O K K E and SCHEURLEER (eds.), Ancient Indonesian Sculpture NORA TAYLOR 1065

LEE, Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia JAMES CHIN 1067

LEIFER, Dictionary of Modern Politics of South-East Asia DAVID B. H. D E N O O N 1068

M C A N D R E W , Urban Usurpation: From Friar Estates to Industrial Estates in aPhilippine Hinterland L. SHELTON WOODS 1069

M E T Z N E R , More Than a Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam

EDWIN E. MOISE 1070

M U R R A Y and P E R E R A , Singapore: The Global City State JAMES CHIN 1071

N A S , Issues in Urban Development: Case Studies from Indonesia JAMES L. COBBAN 1072

PRAPANCA; ROBSON (trans.), Desawarnana (Nagarakrtagama)IAN CALDWELL 1074

RAFAEL, Discrepant Histories: Trans local Essays on Filipino CulturesALFRED W. MCCOY 1075

R E N A R D , The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the GoldenTriangle E. PAUL DURRENBERGER 1078

R O D G E R S (ed. and trans.), Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and

Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia CHARLES A. COPPEL 1079

SAVADA, Laos: A Country Study MARTIN STUART-FOX 1081

SCHEFOLD (ed.), Minahasa Past and Present: Tradition and Transition in an OuterIsland Region of Indonesia HAROLD BEYER BROCK 1082

SEARS (ed.), Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths. Essay in Honor of JohnR. W. Smail WILLIAM H. FREDERICK 1084

STOLE R, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and theColonial Order of Things WILLIAM D. WILDER 1086

SUMMERS and W I L D E R (eds.), Gender and the Sexes in the Indonesian ArchipelagoDAVID BALDWIN 1088

S U R Y A D I N A T A , Indonesia's Foreign Policy Under Suharto: Aspiring to InternationalLeadership MICHAEL MALLEY 1090

S U W A N N A T H A T - P I A N , Thailand's Durable Premier: Phibun Through ThreeDecades, 1932-1957 ARLENE BECKER NEHER 1091

TAYLOR and W H I T M O R E (eds.), Essays Into Vietnamese PastsC. MICHELE THOMPSON 1093

T H O M P S O N , The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transitionin the Philippines ALFRED w. MCCOY 1095

T R E M E W A N , The Political Economy of Social Control in SingaporeDAVID MARTIN JONES 1097

VAN P R A A G H , Thailand's Struggle for Democracy: The Life and Times ofM. R.Seni Pramoj E. BRUCE REYNOLDS 1099



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W I E N E R , Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in BaliCAROL WARREN 1100

W I N T E R S , Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian StateDWIGHT Y. KING 1101

Video Review

A H M E D , hiving Islam: From Samarkand to StornowayFREDERICK MATHEWSON DENNY 1104

PURCELL (prod.); A H M E D (narrator), Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslimin Today's World FREDERICK MATHEWSON DENNY 1104

Other Books Received 1108

Obituaries

JACKSON BAILEY (1925-1996) 1112

BENJAMIN A. BATSON (1942-1996) A. J. S. REID and CRAIGJ. REYNOLDS 1113

GORDON B. TURNER (1915-1996) JEAN TURNER and FAMILY 1114

A. RONALD WALTON (1943 -1996) s. ROBERT RAMSEY 1114

PHILIP B. YAMPOLSKY (1920-1996) NED WALSH 1116

Annual Volume Contents 1117

Contributors 1128



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