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• General “Asian Cinema” section in Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media, v. 2, no. 1 (1988/89) HANNS J. BUCHHOLZ. Law of the Sea Zones in the Pacific Ocean. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1987. Pp. xii, 116. List of figures, introduction, bibliography. S$26.00/US$15.00, paper. BENJAMIN HIGGINS. The Road Less Travelled: A Development Economist's Quest. Canberra: National Centre for Developmental Studies, Australian National University, 1989. Pp. x, 204. Preface, bibliography, index of names. $20.00, paper. ANDREW MACK and PAUL KEAL, editors. Security and Arms Control in the North Pacific. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988. Pp. xii, 324. Contributors, preface, acronyms and abbreviations, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper. VICTOR H. MAIR. Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and its Indian Genesis. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 278. Bibliography, index. Cloth. CLAUDINE SALMON. Literary Migrations. Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17–20th centuries). Beijing: International Culture Publishing Corporation, 1987. Pp. 11, vi, 661. 43 plates. KIRPAL SINGH, editor. The Writer's Sense of the Past. Essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian Literature. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 233. Introduction, editor's note. S$28/US$18.00, paper. • China and Inner Asia JOHN P. BURNS, editor. The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System: A Documentary Study of Party Control of Leadership Selection. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989. Pp. xii, 166. Cloth. KENNETH G. LIEBERTHAL and BRUCE J. DICKSON. A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China, 1949–1986. Revised and Expanded Edition. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989. Pp. vi, 339. Introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth. LOWELL DITTMER. China's Continuous Revolution: The Post–Liberation Epoch 1949–1961. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 320. Abbreviations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. JACQUES GERNET. China and the Christian Impact: A conflict of Cultures. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985. Pp. 310. Introduction, sources, notes, select bibliography, index. $89.00, cloth; $37.00, paper. RUTH HAYHOE. China's Universities and the Open Door. New York: M.E. Sharpe. Pp. xiii, 249. Introduction, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$37.50, cloth. JUNG YING TSAO. Chinese Paintings of the Middle Qing Dynasty. Berkeley: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1987. JAMES T. MYERS, JURGEN DOMES, and MILTON D. YEH, editors. Chinese Politics: Documents and Analysis. Vol. Two: Ninth Party Congress (1969) to the Death of Mao (1976). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 451. General introduction, index. US$59.95, cloth. JOHN E. WILLS JR. Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang–hsi. Harvard East Asian Monographs 113. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 303. Appendices, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth. • Japan and Northeast Asia AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS. Japanese Agricultural Policies: A Time of Change. Policy Monograph No. 3. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. RONALD J. HREBENAR. The Japanese Party System: From One–Party Rule to Coalition Government. London: Westview Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 330. Foreword, preface, appendix, bibliography, notes on author and contributors, index. Paper. R. RUBINGER, editor. An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. JOHN WELFIELD. An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System; A Study in the Interaction of Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: The Athlone Press, 1988. Pp. 513. Tables, notes, bibliography. £40.00, cloth. INOUE YASUSHI. Wind and Waves: A Novel by Yasushi Inoue. Translated by James T. Araki. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 202. Introduction. • South Asia E.F.C. LUDOWYK. Those Long Afternoons: Childhood in Colonial Ceylon. Edited by H.A.I. Goonetileke with a “Memoir” by Percy Colin Thome. Colombo: Lake House Bookshop, 1989. Pp. xix, 96. Rs. 175, paper. • Southeast Asia ANAT ARBHABHIRAMA, DHIRA PHANTUMVANTT, JOHN ELKINGTON, and PHAITOON INGKASUWAN. Thailand Natural Resources Profile. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xxxi, 431. S$60.00, cloth. J. BECKER and A. FEINSTEIN, editors. Karawitan, Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music. Volume 3. Ann Arbor: Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1988. MANUEL ALBANO CAOILI. The Origins of Metropolitan Manila: A Political and Social Analysis. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1988. Pp. xix, 280. Preface, foreword, bibliography, glossary, tables, maps and index. US$14.75, paper. Distributed outside the Philippines by the Cellar Bookshop, Detroit. PETER DENNIS. Troubled Days of Peace: Mountbatten and Southeast Asia Command, 1945–46. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 270. Illustrations, introduction, notes, bibliography and index. $108.00, cloth. MICHAEL DOVE, editor. The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies From Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 289. Introduction, contributors, index. US$32.00, cloth. GRANT EVANS. Agrarian. Change in Communist Laos. Occasional Paper No. 85. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1988. Pp. 89. S$14.00/US$7.00, paper. GEOFFREY C. GUNN. Political Struggles in Laos (1930–1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence. Bangkok: Duang Kamol, 1988. Pp. xii, 325. 330 baht. G.J. KNAAP, editor. In deze halve gevangenis: dagboek van mr dr L.F. Jansen, Batavia/Djakarta, 1942–1945. Franeker: van Wijnen, 1988. Pp. iv, 447. Photographs, maps, index. JOHAN NIEUHOF. Voyages and Travels to the East Indies 1653–1670, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988 Pp. xiv, 145, 326. Plates. S$125.00. IMOGEN PILCH. Prospects for the Neutralisation of Kampuchea. Research Paper No. 43. Brisbane: Centre for the Study of Australian–Asian Relations, Griffith University, December, 1988. Pp. 92. RAJAKRISHNAN RAMASAMY. Sojourners to Citizens: Sri Lankan Tamils in Malaysia 1885–1965. 1988. Pp. vii, 251. Tables, maps, introduction, appendices, bibliographies, index. Paper. Distributed by Arenabuku, Kuala Lumpur. ANN SWIFT. The Road to Madiun the Indonesian Communist Uprising of 1949. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Modern Indonesia Project, 1989. Pp. xii, 116. Preface, introduction, appendices, bibliography, name index. US$9.00, paper. FELISA A. SYJUCO. The Kempei Tai in the Philippines: 1941–1945. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1988. Pp. ix, 140. Preface, appendices, notes, bibliography. US$9.50, paper. Distributed outside the Philippines by the Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. TAN SOOI BENG. The Phor Tor Festival in Penang: Deities, Ghosts and Chinese Ethnicity. Working Paper 51. Clayton, Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1988. Pp. 45. Introduction, illustrations, references, glossary, appendix. $5.00, paper. ROBERT H. TAYLOR. The State in Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Pp. 395. Preface, acknowledgements, glossary, abbreviations, bibliography, index. US$32.00, cloth. B.J. TERWIEL. Through Travellers’ Eyes: An Approach to Early Nineteenth–Century Thai History. Bangkok: Duang Kamol, 1989. Pp. xi, 288. Preface, acknowledgements, maps, tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index of geographical names, general index. 490 bht, cloth; 390 bht, paper. NELL VAN DE GRAAFF. We Survived: A Mother's Story of Japanese Captivity. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989. Pp. 135. COLIN WILD and PETER CAREY, editors. Born in Fire: the Indonesian Struggle for Independence, an Anthology. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press in cooperation with BBC Publications, 1988. Pp. xxvii, 215. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, glossary. US$26.95, cloth; $12.97, paper. DIANA WONG. Peasants in the Making: Malaysia's Green Revolution. Singapore 1987: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. vii, 238. S$34.40, paper; S$47.50, cloth. • West Asia JOHN DAVIS. Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution. London: Tauris, 1987. Pp. xii, 297. Foreword, introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth. H. ISLAMOGLU–INAN, Editor. The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 481. $144.00, cloth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
