Book Reviews.

Books reviewed in this article: China Ni Zhen. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the Genesis of China's Fifth Generation. Chunhou Zhang and C. Edwin Vaughan. Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader: social and Historical Perspectives. Susan Blum and Lionel Jensen. (eds). China off Center: mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. Jie Tang and Anthony Ward. The Changing Face of Chinese Management. Frank Dikötter. Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895–1949. Japan And Korea Yukie Ohta (trans). A Rainbow in the Desert: an Anthology of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Children's Literature. Bob Johnstone. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age. Andrew C. Ross. A Vision Betrayed: the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542–1742. South, West & Central Asia Prema Clarke. Teaching and Learning: the Culture of Pedagogy. Robert Deliege. The Untouchables of India. Bina Gupta (ed). The Empirical and the Transcendental: a Fusion of Horizons. Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta. New Reproductive Technologies, Women's Health and Autonomy: freedom or Dependency? Pradeep Barua. The Army Officer Corps and Military Modernisation in Later Colonial India. Southeast Asia Kees Van Dijk. A Country in Despair. Indonesia between 1997 and 2000. Cheah Boon Kheng. Malaysia: the Making of a Nation. Robert L. Winzeler (ed). Indigenous Peoples and the State: politics, Land, and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. Andrea Whittaker. (ed). Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia. Jan Breman and Gunawan Wiradi. Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java: case Study of Socio-economic Dynamics in Two Villages towards the End of the Twentieth Century. William Case. Politics in Southeast Asia: democracy or Less. Andrew McWilliam. Paths of Origin, Gates of Life: a Study of Place and Precedence in Southwest Timor. Patricia M. Pelly. Postcolonial Vietnam: new Histories of the National Past. Sally Ann Ness. Where Asia Smiles: an Ethnography of Philippine Tourism. General Asia John Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]