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/B>Hok-lam Chan, From Tribal Chieftain to Sinitic Emperor: Leadership Contests and Succession Crises in the Jurchen-Jin State, 1115-1234

Paul Rakita Goldin, Changing Frontier Policy in the Northern Wei and Liao Dynasties

Amalendu Misra, Savarkar and the Discourse on Islam in Pre-Independent India

Denis Sinor, The Mongols in the West

Benjamin E. Wallacker, Studies in Medieval Chinese Siegecraft: The Siege of Fengtian, A.D. 783



Reviews of Books

Alekseyav, V. M.: Pis'ma k Eduardu Shavannu I Polyu Pellio. Compiled, translated and annotated by Izol'da Emiliyevna Tsiperovich. Arkhiv Rossiyskogo Vostokovedeniya I. By John R. Krueger

Auch, Eva-Maria and Stig Förster (eds.): "Barbaren" und "Weiße Teufel": Kulturkonflikte und Imperialismus in Asien vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. By Denis Sinor

Brooks, E. Bruce and A. Taeko Brooks (translators and commentators): The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors. By Benjamin E. Wallacker

Cheek, Timothy: Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia. By Guangqiu Xu

Chenciner, Robert: Daghestan: Tradition and Survival. By Yusuf Dzafarov

Chin, Christine B.N.: In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project. By Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Crossette, Timothy: The Great Hill Stations of Asia. By Amalendù Misra

Elvin, Mark and Liu Ts'ui-jung (eds.): Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. By Ruth I. Meserve

Fernandes, Leela: Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills. By Douglas M. Peers

Ghai, Yash: Hong Kong's New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law. By Benjamin E. Wallacker

Goffmann, Daniel: Britons in the Ottoman Empire. By Colin Paul Mitchell

Hintze, Andrea, The Mughal Empire and Its Decline: An Interpretation of the Sources of Social Power. By Richard Foltz

Hurst, G. Cameron, III: Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery. By Richard W. Howell

Inouye, Charles Shiro: The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. By Andra Alvis

Klimburg-Salter, Deborah and Eva Allinger (eds.): The Inner Asian Style, 12th-14th Centuries. Papers Presented at a Panel of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995. By György Kara

Layton, Thomas N.: The Voyage of the 'Frolic': New England Merchants and the
Opium Trade. By Benjamin E. Wallacker

Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya: Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance. By Christine B.N. Chin

Lingle, Christopher: The Rise and Decline of the Asian Century. By Sue Ellen M. Charlton

Lipman, Jonathan N.: Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. By Christopher P. Atwood

Low, D.A.: Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929-1942. By Douglas M. Peers

Lutz, Jesse G. and Roland Ray Lutz: Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900, with the Autobiographies of Eight Hakka Christians, and Commentary. By Andrew Kipnis

Macauley, Melissa: Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. By Benjamin E. Wallacker

Makay, Alex (ed.): Pilgrimage in Tibet. By Agnes Birtalan

Najita, Tetsuo (ed.): Tokugawa Political Writings. By Mark Ravina

Oddie, Geoffrey A. (ed.) Religious Traditions in South Asia: Interaction and Change. By Amalendu Misra

Perkins, George W.: The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period. By Mikael Adolphson

Roddy, Stephen J.: Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China. By Nancy Park

Schaller, George B.: Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe. By Ruth I. Meserve

Togan, Isenbike: Flexibility and Limitations in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate and Chinggis Khan. By Denis Sinor

Tsutsui, William M.: Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth Century Japan. By Lynton K. Caldwell

Wade, Bonnie C.: Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. By Lewis Rowell

Walthall, Anne: The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration. By Robert Eskildsen

Zhu, Fang: Gun Barrel Politics: Party-Army Relations in Mao's China. By Guangqiu Xu