E-Government

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THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY Wring, Dominic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Press, 2005, 262 pages. Reviewed by Dr. Paul Baines     

BOOK REVIEW

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THE SPIN DOCTOR'S DIARY. Lance Price. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005, 393 pages. Reviewed by Dr. Dominic Wring.     

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THE CLINTON WARS. Sidney Blumenthal. London: Viking Press, 2003, 822 pages. £25.00. Reviewed by Jerry Palmer.

THE ILLUSION OFPUBLIC OPINION: FACT AND ARTIFACT IN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION POLLS. George F. Bishop. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004, 248 pages. Reviewed by Lawrence Hamer.     

From Marketing Warfare to Warfare Marketing

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THE PARADOXES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, 2nd Edition. Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 416 pp. Reviewed by Lawrence O. Hamer.     

Book Reviews

Arran Gare: NIHILISM, INC.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability. Como, New South Wales, Australia: Eco‐Logical Press, 1996.

David Harvey: Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

David Macauley, editor: Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996.

Daniel M. Herman and John T. O'Connor: Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1996.

Harold Crooks: Giants of Garbage: The Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control. Toronto: Lorimer, 1993

Sudhir Chella Rajan: The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Garrett Hardin: Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.     

Book Reviews

Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000, 252 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reviewed by Daniel J.B. Mitchell Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, edited by Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001, 268 pp., $42.95. Reviewed by Daniel H. Weinberg Red Tape and Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 cloth. Reviewed by Thomas Bier Waste Trading among Rich Nations, by Kate O'Neill. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000, 310 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman Markets for Clean Air, by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan‐Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $40.00. Reviewed by Lee S. Friedman The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, by David G. Victor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 178 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Falkner Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict, Stephen Van Evera, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 270 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by Erik Gartzke Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, by T. V. Paul. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2000, 227 pp., $22.95. Reviewed by Leonard S. Spector The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, by David S. Landes, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 650 pp., $11.87 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. The End of the Nation‐state: The Rise of the Regional Economies, by Kenichi Ohmae, New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1995, 214 pp., $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000, 386 pp., $18.95 paper. Reviewed by Eugene B. McGregor, Jr.     

Singapore scrutinized

Malays in Singapore: Culture, Economy, and Ideology, by Tania Lee. Oxford University Press, Singapore and Oxford, 1989. xvii+206pp. £19.50 hardback. ISBN 0–19–588914–2.

Singapore: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew, by R. S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy. Westview Press, Boulder and Oxford, 1990. xi + 217 pp. £22.00 hardback. ISBN0–8133–0407–5.

The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization: Nation State and International Capital, by Garry Rodan. Macmillan, Houndsmill and London, 1989. xvii+266 pp. £38.00 hardback. ISBN 0–333–47079–6.

State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society, by Janet W. Salaff. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1988. xv + 301 pp. £41.25 hardback. ISBN 0–8014–2140–3.

Management of Success: The Moulding of Modern Singapore, edited by Kernial Singh Sandhu and Paul Wheatley. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1989. xxv +1,134 pp. $59.50 paperback. ISBN981–3035–42–0.

No Man is an Island: A Study of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, by James Minchin. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, London and Boston, 1986. xv+375 pp. £16.95. ISBN0–86861–906‐X.

Policy Options for the Singapore Economy, by Lim Chong Yah and Associates. McGraw‐Hill, Singapore and New York, 1988. xv + 499 pp. £24.95. ISBN 0–07–099133–2.     

Reviews and notes

Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post‐Industrial Socialism by Andre Gorz, Boston: South End Press, 1982, $7.50, 152 pp.

Robert Lekachman. Greed Is Not Enough. (New York: Pantheon, 1982).

Debunking is not Enough

Frank Ackerman, Reaganomics: Rhetoric vs. Reality. (Boston: South End, 1982).

Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. The New Class War. (New York: Pantheon, 1982).

Power and the Intellectuals

Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims (New York, Oxford University Press, 1981)

Regis Debray, Teachers, Writers, Celebrities (London, New Left Books, 1981)

Alvin Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals and The Rise of the New Class (New York, Seabury Press, 1979 (Note — Oxford University Press has picked up the imprint and published this work in paperback in 1982)

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan, The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why, and Where of Employment Decline (London and New York: Methuen, 1982).     

Reviews

Uncivil society: ‘race’ and murder in Nazi Germany Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: The Working Class and the ‘National Community’, ed. Jane Caplan, introd. Ursula Vogel, trans. John Broadwin. Oxford and Providence, Rl: Berg, 1993. xxviii+434pp. Notes. Append. Bibl. Ind. £50.00.

David F. Crew (ed.), Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945. London and New York: Routledge, 1994 (Rewriting Histories series). xi+316pp. Notes. £11.99.

It's the real thing Steven T. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context. Volume 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death in the Modern Age. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+702pp. Bibl. Ind. Notes. £40.00.

True adventures of court Jews Eli M. Rosenbaum with William Hoffer, Betrayal. The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover‐Up. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. xx+522pp. Ind. $25.95.

Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace. Jews and the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x+266pp. Ind. $22.00.

Columbus and the legacy of 1492 Zia Sardar, Ashis Nandy and Merryl Wyn Davies, Barbaric Others. A Manifesto on Western Racism, London: Pluto Press, 1993. 95pp. Bibl. £7.95.

Dutch ambivalence Allison Blakely, Blacks in the Dutch World. The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. xx+327pp. Notes. Ind. Maps. Illus. £32.50.

Agile Italian evasions Daniel Carpi, Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1994 (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series, 17). x+341 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00/$59.95.

What colour are Jews? Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa. Charlottes‐ville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994. xii+203pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. $45.00.

Surveying European racism John Wrench and John Solomos (eds.), Racism and Migration in Western Europe, Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg, 1993. x+293pp. Bibl. Ind. £34.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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NO PLACE FOR AMATEURS: HOW POLITICAL CONSULTANTS ARE RESHAPING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. Johnson, Dennis W. New York: Routledge, 2001, 304 pp. Reviewed by Lawrence Homer DePaul University

eGOV: eBUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR GOVERNMENT. Holmes, Douglas. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001, 305 pp. Reviewed by Lawrence Hamer     

The crisis of European socialism: Searching for a (really) big idea

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism. Edited by Robin Blackburn. London: Verso, 1991. Pp. xvi + 327. £39.95 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–360 320–1 and 540–9. (Henceforth, Fall).

Social Democracy in Transition: Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Edited by L. Karvonen and J. Sundberg. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991. Pp. ix + 321. £35 (hardback) ISBN 1–85521–1114. (Henceforth, Transition).

The Left Unraveled: Social Democracy and the New Left Challenge in Britain and West Germany. By Thomas A. Koelble. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 162. $34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0–8223–1108–9. (Henceforth, Unraveled).

The Crisis of Socialism in Europe. Edited by Christiane Lemke and Gary Marks. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 253. £37.95 (hardback); £12.50 (paperback) ISBN 0–8223–1180–1 and 1197–6. (Henceforth, Crisis).

Socialist Parties in Europe. By José Maravall et al. Barcelona: ICPS (Institut de Ciències Politiques i Socials), 1991. Pp. 222. NP, ISBN 84–7794–172–6.(Henceforth, Parties).

A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe. By Stephen Padgett and William E. Paterson. London and New York: Longman, 1991. Pp. xii 4 + 290. £24 (hardback); £9.99 (paperback) ISBN 0–582–49173–8 and 49174–6. (Henceforth, History).

Is Socialism Doomed? The Meaning of Mitterrand. By Daniel Singer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 295. £19.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–195–04925 x. (Henceforth, Doomed).

Moscow and the Global Left in the Gorbachev Era. Edited by Joan Barth URBAN. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 204. $32.95 (hardback); $14.25 (paperback). ISBN 0–8014–2726–6 and 8008–6. (Henceforth, Moscow).     

Review essay

The road to the racial millenium: German medical science from 1870 to 1945

Paul Hoedeman, Hitler or Hippocrates:Medical Experiments and Euthanasia in the Third Reich. Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1991. 260pp. £12.95.

Michael H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 426pp. $35.75.

Kolloquien des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte. Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1988. 110pp. DM 24.

Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik in der NS‐Zeit, ed. Norbert Frei. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1 991. Shriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte: Sondernummer. 331 pp. DM 68.

Benno Müller‐Hill, Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies and Others: Germany 1933–1945. Oxford University Press, 1988. 208pp. £15.

Robert Proctor, Racial Hygiene. Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. 414pp. £25.25.

Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 641pp. £55.

Sheila Faith Weiss, Race, Hygiene and National Efficiency. The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. 245pp. $54.     

Fianna Fail's Troubled Anniversary

De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917–73. By John Bowman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.369. £17.50.

The Age of de Valera. By Joseph Lee and Gearoid O'Tuathaigh. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1982. Pp.216. £4.95.

De Valera's Finest Hour 1932–59. by T. Ryle Dwyer. Cork: Mercier Press, 1982. Pp.205. £4.50.

Sean Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland 1945–66. By Paul Bew and Henry Patterson. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1982. Pp.224. IR£15.00.     

The rationalization of democracy: Liberal,elitist, and corporatist conceptions of democracy∗

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1984).

On Bureaucratic Discourse: A Radical Feminist Analysis of the Role of Public Administration in Late Capitalism

Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities . . . or the End of the Social and Other Essays, trans, by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and John Johnston (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 123 pp.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 159 pp.

Omar Cabezas, Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista, translated by Kathleen Weaver with a foreword by Carlos Fuentes and an afterword by Walter LaFeber (Crown Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1985), pp. 233.     

Reviews & notes

Pierre Rosanvallon L'âge de l'autogestion (Paris, 1976, Editions du Seuil).

Daniel Zwerdling, Democracy at Work: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation and Self‐Management Experiments in the United States and Europe (Washington, D.C.: Daniel Zwerdling, 1978). Distributed by Association for Self‐Management, c/o 1414 Spring Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 ($5.50 for individuals/$10.50 for institutions).

Benjamin I. Page, Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections: Rational Man and Electoral Democracy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 336 pp. $17.50).

Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974)

Giovanni Arrighi, “International Corporations, Labor Aristocracies and Economic Development in Tropical Africa,” in Arrighi and Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (New York: Monthly Review, 1973).

Henry Landsberger, “The Labor Elite: Is it Revolutionary?,” in Lipset and Solari (eds.), Elites in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Jürgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 239. $5.95 paper).

Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 252. $4.95 paper).

Leszek Kolakowski's long‐awaited survey of Marxism [Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, 3 volumes, translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla, Oxford University Press, 1978].     

From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland

Gary Ruchwarger, People in Power: Forging a Grassroots Democracy In Nicaragua (South Hadley, MA: Bergin &; Garvey, 1987).

Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York and London: Methuen, 1987).

Paul Buhle, Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left (London: Verso, 1987).

Paul Buhle, editor, Popular Culture in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).

Eric Lichten, Class, Power And Austerity: The New York City Fiscal CRISIS (South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1986).

John Saville, 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Jon Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Roy Bhaskar, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (London: Verso, 1986).

Ellen Frankel Paul et al. eds., Marxism and Liberalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).

Peter Manicas, A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (New York: Blackwell, 1987).     

BOOK REVIEW

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GLOBAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING: A WORLDWIDE ANALYSIS OF CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR PRACTICES. Fritz Plasser with Gunda Plasser. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002, 424 pp. Reviewed by Sebastian Cody     

Merit,measurement, medical murder and modernity

Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance. ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany c. 1900–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii+382pp. Notes. Bibl. Mus. £14.95 pbk.

Götz Aly, Peter Chroust and Christian Pross, Cleansing the Fatherland. Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene, trans, from the German by Belinda Cooper. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xvi+296pp. Notes. Illus. £14.00 pbk.

Stefan Kühl, The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American Racism and German National Socialism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+166pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £14.95.

N. J. Mackintosh (ed.), Cyril Burt. Fraud or Framed?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii+156pp. Notes. Ind. £19.99. Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind. Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x+448pp. £45.00.     

The Permeability of Urban Cultures

Stephen Dovers (ed.): Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Tim Flannery: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of Australasian Lands and People . Chatswood, NSW: Reed Books, 1994. Distributed in the USA by George Braziller Inc., New York.

Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia , New York: Henry Holt, 1991.     

Hong Kong as a financial centre in the twenty‐first century

The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories, edited by Murray Bail. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xii + 413 pp. £12.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 0–571–14763–1 and 0–571–15083–7.

The Book of Sei, by David Brooks. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 142 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–571–15145–0.

Oscar and Luanda, by Peter Carey. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 512 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–14812–3.

Captivity Captive, by Rodney Hall. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. vii + 214 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–15093–4.

The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia, edited by Peter Pierce. Oxford University Press, Melbourne and Oxford, 1988. xvi + 344 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–19–554592–3.

Pacific Prelude. A Journey to Samoa and Australasia, 1929. Margery Perham. Edited and with an Introduction by A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene. Peter Owen, London, 1988. 272 pp. 4 pp. plates. £18.95. ISBN 0–7206–0683–7.

Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology, by John Terrell. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. xvi + 299 pp. £12.50. ISBN 0–521–36956–8.

Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, by Lynne Withey. Hutchinson, London, Melbourne, Auckland and Johannesburg, 1987. 512 pp., illus. £16.95. ISBN 0–09–173602–1.

Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea. The State and the Green Revolution, by Larry L. Burmeister. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xiii + 200 pp. $29.50. ISBN 0–8133–7400–6.

U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, by Edward A. Olsen. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvii + 115 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–8133–0593–4.

The Foreign Relations of North Korea. New Perspectives, edited by Jae Kyu Park, Byung Chul Koh and Tae‐Hwan Kwak. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvi + 491 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0–8133–0569–1.

Korea: The Unknown War, by Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings. Viking, London, 1988. 224 pp. Photographs. £14.95. ISBN 0–670–81903–4.

Korea: Enduring Division? (A Keesing's Special Report), edited by D. S. Lewis. Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1988. x + 173 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–582–02627‐X.

A Short History of Modern Korea, by David Rees. Ham Publishing, Isle of Man, 1988. ix + 196 pp. £10.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 1–871235–05–7 and 1–871235–00–6.

The Koreans: Contemporary Politics and Society, by Donald Stone Macdonald. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and London, 1988. xv + 309 pp., 25 figures and tables, 3 appendices (including glossary), bibliography and index. £25.50. ISBN 0–8133–0515–2.

The Kwangju Uprising, edited by Donald Clark. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. vi + 101 pp. £11.75. ISBN 0–8133–7523–1.

Financing East Asia's Success: Comparative Financial Development in Eight Asian Countries, by Michael T. Skully and George J. Viksnins. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1987. xiii + 242 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0–333–42655‐X.

The Financial Samurai: The Emerging Power of Japanese Money, by Aaron Viner. Kogan Page, London, 1988. 233 pp. £12.95. ISBN 1–85091–614–4.

The Political Economy of Japan, Volume 2: The Changing International Context, edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Daniel I. Okimoto. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xxii + 568 pp. $37.50 hardback, $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8047–1380–4 and 0–8047–1381–2.

The Japanese through American Eyes, by Sheila K. Johnson. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xiv + 192 pp. $22.50. ISBN 0–8047–1449–5.

China Under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform, by David Wen‐Wei Chang. Macmillan, London, 1988. xxiii + 304 pp. £33. ISBN 0–333–45129–5.

A Critical Biography of Deng Xiaoping: Vol. 1. 1904–1959; Vol. 2. 1960–1977, by Han Shanbi. East West and Culture Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 1988. Vol. 1, 362 pp., illus.; Vol. 2, 368 pp. Chronology. HK$40 each volume.

Hu Yaobang: A Chinese biography, by Yang Zhongmei. Translated by William A. Wycoff, edited by Timothy Cheek. With a foreword by Rudolf G. Wagner. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, New York, 1988. $29.95 pp. xxvi + 208. ISBN 0–87332–457–9.

Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550–1949, by Lloyd E. Eastman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. 267 pp. Notes, maps, tables, photographs. £22.50. ISBN 0–19–505269–2.

The House of Confucius, by Kong Demao and Ke Lan. Translated by Rosemary Roberts. Edited and with an introduction by Frances Wood. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1988. ix + 180 pp., 12 pp. photos. £14.95. ISBN 0–340–41279–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1989 (updated and revised edition). Europa Publications, London. xxi + 1,048 pp., maps. £85. ISBN 0–946653–45–3.