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BOOKS RECEIVED Sarah Allan. The Way ofWater and Sprouts ofVirtue. State University of New York, 1997. Erik Baark. Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890. Greenwood Press, 1997. Tani E. Barlow, ed. Formations of Colonial Modernity in EastAsia. Duke, 1997. Daniel H. Bays, ed. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, 1996. Gregor Benton, ed. and trans. An Oppositionistfor Life: Memoirs ofthe Chinese Revolutionary Zheng Chaolin. Humanities Press International, 1997. Stephen J. Blank and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, eds. Imperial Decline: Russia's Changing Role in Asia. Duke, 1997· Irene Bloom and Joshua A. Fogel, eds. Meeting ofMinds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought. Columbia, 1997Francesca Bray. Technology and Gender: Fabrics ofPower in Late Imperial China. California, 1997. Judith M. Brown and Rosemary Foot, eds. Hong Kong's Transitions, 18421997 . St. Martin's Press, 1997. Melissa J. Brown, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996. Monte R. Bullard. The Soldier and the Citizen: The Role ofthe Military in Taiwan's Development. M. E. Sharpe, 1997· Zong-qi Cai. The Matrix ofLyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllable Poetry. Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, 1996. Carolle J. Carter. Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists, 1944-1947. University of Kentucky, 1997. Steven D. Carter. Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shötetsu. Columbia, 1997. Michel Cartier, Danielle Elisseeff, and Jacqueline Nivard, eds. Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie 1996. EHESS, 1996. Ming K. Chan and Gerard A. Postiglione, eds. The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignity. M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Hungdah Chiù, ed. Chinese Yearbook ofInternational law and Affairs, Volume ¡4 (1995-1996). Chinese Society of International Law, 1996. Thomas J. Christensen. Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958. Princeton, 1996. Craig Clunas. Art in China. Oxford, 1997· Craig Clunas. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. Duke, 1996. Paul A. Cohen. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Columbia, 1997. Nicole Constable. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories ofFilipina Worfcers. Cornell, 1997. Ian G. Cook, Marcus A. Doel, and Rex Li, eds. Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia. Ashgate Publishing , 1996. J. I. Crump, trans. Chan-kuo Ts'e. Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, 1996. Zhiyuan Cui. Di er ci sixiangJiefang yu zhiáu chuangxin. Oxford, 1997. Fred Dallmayr. Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter. State University of New York, 1996. John W. Dardess. A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. California, 1997. Kirk A. Denton, ed. Modern Chinese literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945. Stanford, 1996. Jingping Ding. China's Domestic Economy in Regional Context. CSIS, 1995. Arif Dirlik, Paul Healy, and Nick Knight, eds. Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought. Humanities Press International, 1997. Bert Edström, ed. Japan's Foreign and Security Policies in Transition. The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 1996. Mark Elvin. Another History: Essays on Chinafrom a European Perspective. Wild Peony, 1996. J. A. English-Lueck. Chinese Intellectuals on the World Frontier: Blazing the Black Path. Bergin & Garvey, 1997. Jicai Feng. Ten Years ofMadness: Oral Histories ofChina's Cultural Revolution . China Books and Periodicals, 1996. Books Received 607 Taciana Fisac Badell. El otro sexo del dragón: Mujeres, literatura y sociedad en China. Narcea, 1997. Bernhard Führer. Chinas erste Poetik: Das Shipin (Kriterion Poetiken) des ZhongHong. Projekt Verlag, 1995. lianping Gao. The ExpressiveAct in Chinese Art: From Calligraphy to Painting. Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1996. Alice Goldstein and Wang Feng, eds. China: The Many Facets ofDemographic Change. Westview, 1996. Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashi Tsering. The Strugglefor Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Gerrit W. Gong, ed. Remembering and Forgetting: The Legacy ofWar and Peace in East Asia. CSIS, 1996. Christiane Hammer and Bernhard Führer, eds. Chinesisches Selbstverständnis und kulturelle Identität: "Wenhua Zhonguo" [Chinese Seif-Image and Cultural Identity: "Wenhua Zhongguo"]. Projekt Verlag, 1996. Carolyn Han. Talesfrom Within the Clouds: Nakhi Stories ofChina. Hawaii, 1997. Ionathan R. Herman...

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