Reviews.

Norman Eder Poisoned Prosperity: Development, Modernization, and the Environment in South Korea Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 192 pp. ISBN 1–56324–687–2. James F. Larsson and Heung‐soo Park Global Television and the Politics of the Seoul Olympics Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. 281 pp. £11.50. ISBN 0–8133–1694–4. Bates Gill and Taeho Kim China's Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A quest for ‘superb and secret weapons’ Oxford: Oxford University Press, for Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Research Report No. 11, 1995. ISBN 0–19–829196–5. Malcolm Warner The Management of Human Resources in Chinese Industry London: Macmillan, 1995. 217 pp. ISBN 0–333–60524–1. Robin Porter Industrial Reformers in Republican China Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 176 pp. ISBN 1–56324–393–8. Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff (eds) Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East. Armonk, NY: ME. Sharpe, 1995. 356 pp. ISBN 1–56324–547–7. Rosemary Foot The Practice of Power. US Relations with China since 1949 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 291 pp. £30. ISBN 0–19–827878–0. Wolf Mendl Japan's Asia Policy: Regional Security and Global Interests London: Routledge, 1995. 228 pp. £40. ISBN 0415–096–480. Howard R. Simpson Tiger in the Barbed Wire: an American in Vietnam, 1952–1991 New York: Kodansha America, 1994. £12.99. ISBN 1–56836–025–8. Timothy N. Castle At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: US Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government, 1955–1975 New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. ISBN 0–231–07977‐X. Mark Selden China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 294 pp. No price given. ISBN 1–56324–554‐X (hardback), ISBN 1–56324–555–8 (paperback). Hidemi Suganani On the Causes of War Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. ix + 235 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–19–827338‐X. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]