JOURNAL OF ASIAN HISTORY
XXXV,2(2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Yukiko Kawahara: Silk Culture and Silk Reeling in Western Japan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries 121
Eugene Y Park: Military Examination Graduates in Sixteenth-Century Korea: Political Upheaval, Social Change and Security Crisis 1
Tariq Rahman: The Learning of Pashto in North India and Pakistan: An Historical Account 158
Jian Zhao: Historical Development of the Xia and its Relationship with Other Social groups in the Pre-Qin Period  

 

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Reviews of Books

Abe Ryuchi: The Weawing of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. By Paul B. Watt 106
Baabar (Bat Erdene Batbayar): Twentieth Century Mongolia. Edited by C. Kaplonski. By Stéphane Grivelet 201
Bernhardt, Kathryn: Women and Property in China, 960-1949. By Benjamin E. Wallacker 94
Blussé, Leonard and Femme Gastra (eds.): On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History. By Michael W Charney 92
Chen, Leslie H. Dingyan: Chen Jionming and the Federalist Movement. By Thomas D. Curran 101
Cooke, Bill (ed.): Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History. By Ruth I. 190
Florida, Nancy K.: Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts. vol. 2, Manuscripts of the Mangkunagaran Palace. By D. M. Roskies 188
Gedalecia, David: The Philosophy of Wu Ch'eng. A Neo-Confucian of the Yüan Dynasty. By Michael C. Brose 97
Goodman, Grant K. :Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853. By Reinier H. Hesselink 206
Haboush, JaHyun Kim and Martina Deuchler (eds.): Culture and State in Late Choson Korea. By Thomas D. Curran 109
Lan, Hua R. and Vanessa L. Fong (eds.): Women in Republican China. A Sourcebook. By Thomas D. Curran 103
Nish, Ian and Yoichi Kibata (eds.): The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations. Volume L The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930. By Louis G. Perez 203
Reed, Bradly W : Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasýy. By Benjamin E. Wallacker 192
Sandag, Shagdarün, and Harry H. Kendall: Poisoned Arrows:The Stalin-Choibalsan Mongolian Massacres, 1921-1941. By Christopher P.Atwood 199
Sarra, Edith: Fictions of Feminity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs. By Thomas Lamarre 208
Shin Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson (eds.): Colonial Modernity in Korea. By Thomas D.Curran 112
Sommer, Matthew H.: Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China. By Benjamin E. Wallacker 194
Turner, Karin G., James V Feinerman, and R. Kent Guy (eds.): The Limits of Rule of Law in China. By Benjamin E. Wallacker 197
Wang Tay-sheng: Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: the Reception of Western Law. By Benjamin E. Wallacker  

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