Book reviews

Wang Gungwu, CHINA AND THE WORLD SINCE 1949: the impact of independence, modernity and revolution, the Making of the 20th Century Series, London and Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1977. xxii, 190 pp., introd., chronological table, notes, select bibliog., index, map. Cloth $17.50, paperback $8.75.Peter Wilenski, The delivery of health services in the People's Republic of China, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1977. 59 pp., photographs, references. Paperback $4.95.Ronald F. Price, Marx and education in Russia and China, London, Croom Helm, 1977. 376 pp., tables, bibliog., index, £stg. 9.95.Bonnie S. McDougall, ed. and trans., Path in Dreams: Selected Prose and Poetry of Ho Ch'i-fang, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1976, Asian and Pacific Writing 7. $9.10.Roy Hofheinz Jr, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Harvard East Asian Series 90, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977, 355 pp. $22.50. (Supplied by ANZ Book Co. Pty Ltd.)Julia Ching, Confucianism and Christianity: A Comparative Study, Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, in co-operation with the Institute of Oriental Religions, Sophia University, Tokyo, 1977. xxvi, 234 pp., foreword, introd., notes, tables, bibliog., index. Price: US$12.50, ¥2,800. (Australian Distributors: Book Wise (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney).Leslie R. Marchant, The Harrowing of Hell in China: A Synoptic Study of the Role of Christian Evangelists in the Opening of Hunan Province, University of Western Australia Centre for East Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 3, 1977. 46 pp. n.p.g.J.D. Pearson, ed., A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to the Far East, compiled by N. Matthews and M.D. Wainwright, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977. xiv, 182 pp., index. Cloth $42.00.Judith M. Brown, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics, 1928-1934S Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977. xix, 141 pp., tables, appendices, bibliog., index. £stg 15.50.Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters, History of European reactions to Indian art, Oxford University Press, 1977. xix, 351 pp., illus. $30.00.Abul Khair Muhammad Farooque, Roads and Communications in Mughal India, Delhi, Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1977. xxvii, 248 pp., illustrations, maps. n.p.g.Maxime Rodinson, Islam and Capitalism, trans. by Brian Pearce, Penguin Books, U.K., 1977. xviii, 306 pp., foreword, notes, references, index. Paperback $3.25, (Supplied by Penguin Books Australia Limited)Ingrid Palmer, The New Rice in Asia: Conclusions from Four Country Studies, Geneva, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (U.N.R.I.S.D.), 1976. vii, 146 pp. $2.50.Wayne Raymond and K. Mulliner, eds., Southeast Asia, An Emerging Center of World Influence? : Economic and Resource Considerations, Papers in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No. 42, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Center for International Studies Southeast Asia Program, 1977. vii, 136 pp., preface, tables, figs., appendices. Paperback, n.p.g.Dennis Shoesmith, ed., The Politics of Sugar: Studies of the Sugar Industry in the Philippines, People Monograph No. 1, Asian Bureau Australia, 1977. 68 pp., map, tables, illus., select bibliog. Paperback, n.p.g.Nancy Lim and Stephen FitzGerald, Malaysian Place-Names: Chinese-Malay, Monographs on Far Eastern History 7, Department of Far Eastern History, the Australian National University, Canberra, 1977. 1-2, 375 pp., guide and sources. $9.00.P.L. Burns and C.D. Cowan, eds., Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan Journals, 1874-1876, Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1975. xxxiv, 347 pp., pref., plates, maps and sketches, appendices, bibliog. Cloth $33.00.W.M.F. Mansvelt and P. Creutzberg, eds., Changing Economy in Indonesia: A Selection of Statistical Source Material from the 19th Century up to 1940, Volume 2: Public Finance 1816-1939, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. 94 pp. n.p.g.W.M.F. Mansvelt, and P. Creutzberg, eds., Changing Economy in Indonesia: A Selection of Statistical Source Material from the early 19th Century up to 1940, Volume 3: Expenditure on Fixed Assets, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Under the auspices of the Royal Tropical Inst., Amsterdam and a grant from the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research, The Hague. 95 pp., pref., introd., tables, graphs, bibliog. Paperback. Df1.28.50.Georges Condominas, We Have Eaten the Forest: The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, trans. Adrienne Foulke, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, London, 1977. xxii, 423 pp., introd., preface, bibliog., glossary, indexes, photographs, maps, drawings, chart. Cloth $37.50. (Supplied by Penguin Books Aust.)Nguyen Khac Vien, Vietnam: patrie retrouvée, Paris, Editions Sociales, 1977. 187 pp., map. n.p.g.A. Klokke-Coster, A.H. Klokke and M. Saha, De Slimme en de Domme: Ngadju-Dajakse Volksverhalen, Verhandelingen van net Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No. 79, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. ix, 121 pp., illustrations. n.p.g.G.W.J. Drewes, Directions for Travellers on the Mystic Path, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No. 81, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1977. viii, 256 pp., introd., appendix, bibliog., index. Paperback Df1.55.Kenneth Orr, ed. Appetite for education in contemporary Asia, Development Studies Centre, Monograph No. 10, Australian National University, Canberra, 1977. v, 165 pp., introd., refs., tables. $6.00.Japanese serials in the National Library of Australia, Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1977. 189 pp., in English and Japanese, introd., abbreviations. Paperback $9.50.Joyce C. Lebra, Japanese-Trained Armies in Southeast Asia: Independence and Volunteer forces in World War TT, Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books, 1977. iv, 226 pp., plates, appendices, bibliography, index. HK$16.50.T.J. Pempel, ed., Policymaking in Contemporary Japan, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1977. vii, 345 pp., tables, index, bibliography. US$17.50.Murakami Hyoe and Edward G. Seidensticker, eds., Guides to Japanese Culture, Tokyo, Japan Culture Institute (Nihon Bunka Kenkyujo), 1977. x, 211 pp., maps. $14.75.Chung Chong-wa, ed., Modern Far Eastern Stories, Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1978. 356 pp. Paperback, n.p.g.