Dragons,lions and gibbering demons

China: A New History, by John King Fairbank. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA and London, 1992. xvii ± 519 pp., photos, maps. £19.95, $27.95. ISBN 0–674–11670–4. The Lion and the Dragon: The Story of the first British Embassy to the Court of the Emperor Qianlong in Peking 1792–94, by Aubrey Singer. Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1992. xv ± 192 pp., illus, maps. £18.99. ISBN 0–7126–5444–5.

Britain's Encounter with Revolutionary China, 1949–54, by James Tuck‐Hong Tang. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke and London; St Martin's Press, New York, 1992. xiii+ 264 pp., £45. ISBN 0–333–54896–5.     

China's road to modernization

One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform, by Ezra E. Vogel. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, 1989. x+510 pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–674–63910–3.

The Long March to the Fourth of June, by Li Xiao Jun, translated by E. J. Griffiths. Duckworth, London, 1989. xx+185 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–7156–2332‐X.

China's Foreign Trade Reforms: Impact on Growth and Stability, by John C. Hsu. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xii+221 pp. £30.00 ($49.50). ISBN 0–521–37197‐X.

The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones, by George T. Crane. An East Gate Book. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, 1990. x+205 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–514–1.

Chinese Intellectual Life Post‐Mao: Education, Ideology, Literature and the Arts, edited by Birthe Arendrup. Copenhagen papers in East and Southeast Asian Studies, 1:88. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1988. 106 pp. ISBN 87–7289–063–0.

China: The Land and the People (revised edition), by D. C. Money. Evans Brothers Ltd, London, 1990. xii+179 pp., colour illus., maps. £14.50 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0–237–51164–9 and 0–237–51118–5.     

Short notices

Sourcebook of Korean Civilisation; Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century, edited by Peter H. Lee. Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. xxiv + 750 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–231–07912–5.

War and Revolution in Japan, edited by Ian Neary. Sandgate Folkstone, Kent: The Japan Library. 1993. x+ 179 pp. £12.99. ISBN 1–873410–08–5.

Crises and Commitments: The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1965, by Peter Edwards with Gregory Pemberton. Allen & Unwin in Association with the Australian War Memorial, North Sydney, NSW, 1992. xix + 515 pp., illus. £35. ISBN 1–86373–184–9.

Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, edited by Delmar Brown. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Oakleigh, Victoria, 1993. Maps, figures and tables, xiii + 602 pp. £70.

Australia's Business Challenge: South‐East Asia in the 1990s, East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Austrade, Canberra, ACT, 1992. xlix + 328 pp. ISBN 0–644–25852–7.     

Britain and the Korean war after 50 years: The slow emergence of an intelligence dimension

Anthony Farrar‐Hockley, The British Part in the Korean War. Volume I: A Distant Obligation (London: HMSO, 1990). Pp.xxii + 512, illus., bibliog., index. ISBN 0–11–630953–9.

Volume II: An Honourable Discharge (London: HMSO, 1995). Pp.xx + 534, illus., bibliog., index. £90. ISBN 0–11–630–958‐X.

Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993; distributed in UK by Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp.xvi + 393. £15.95, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–8047–2521–7.

Peter Lowe, Containing the Cold War in Asia: British policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1945–1953 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997). Pp.xii + 288, bibliog., index. £45. ISBN 0–7190–2508–7.

H. J. Yasamee and K. A. Hamilton (ed.), Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series II Volume IV: The Korean War, June 1950–June 1951 (London: HMSO, 1991). Pp.liv + 460, index. £47. ISBN 0–11–591695–4.     

Short notices

Eastern Asia: An Introductory History, edited by Colin Mackerras. Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd., Melbourne, 1992. xiv + 639 pp., illus., tables, maps. Aus $18.99. ISBN 0–582–87005–4.

Asia Pacific: A view of its role in the New World Order, by M.S. Dobbs‐Higginson. Longman Asia Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993. xxviii + 422 pp., maps. £25.00. ISBN 962–000105–2

Korea Briefing 1993: Festival of Korea, edited by Donald N. Clark. Westview Press, Boulder CO, San Francisco and Oxford, in cooperation with The Asia Society, 1993. x + 249 pp. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8770–1.

Southeast Asian Affairs 1992, edited by Daljit Singh. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1992. x + 364 pp. S$ 26.00. ISSN 0377–5437.     

Australian counterfactuals

The Secret History of the Convict Colony: Alexandro Malaspina's report on the British Settlement of New South Wales, by Robert J. King. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. xii + 179 pp. £25. ISBN 0–04–610020–2.

Taming the Great South Land: a history of the conquest of nature in Australia, by William J. Lines. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991. xx + 337 pp. £30. ISBN 1–86373–017–6.

Governing Savages, by Andrew Markus. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. x + 214 pp., illus. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–442150–8. Sydney, by Jan Morris. Viking, London, 1992. 246 pp. £16.99. ISBN 0–670–82745–2.

Australia's Immigrants 1788–1988 (2nd edition), by Geoffrey Sherington. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. x + 199 pp., illus. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–442204–0.     

China and the world: The challenge of ‘opening up’

Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s, by Jack Gray. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, 1990. Ixix + 456 pp. £35.00 hardback, £11.95 paperback. ISBN0–19–913076–0 and 0–19–821576–2.

The Pride that was China, by Michael Loewe. Sidgwick & Jackson, London; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990. xxiii + 312 pp., illus., maps. £20.00. ISBN 0–283–99648‐X.

Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution, by Helen F. Siu. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989. £30.00; $45.00. xxvi+378 pp. ISBN0–300–04465–8.

Asian Frontier Nationalism: Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate, by James Cotton. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989. vi+181 pp. £35.00. ISBN0–7190–2585–0.

China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy, by Andrew J. Nathan. Columbia University Press, New York, 1990. xi+242 pp. ISBN 0–231–07284–8.

The Spirit of Chinese Foreign Policy: A Psychocultural View, by Chih‐yu Shih. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1990. xi+231 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–333–51155–7.

Worlds Apart: Recent Chinese Writing and Its Audiences, edited by Howard Goldblatt. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, 1990. x+253 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–502–8.

Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II, edited by Jennifer Cushman and Wang Gungwu. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1988. xi+344pp. ISBN 962–209–207–1.

Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to the Present, edited by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1989. xvii+309 pp., illus. $25.00. ISBN 0–520–06256–6.     

The lessons of Pearl Harbor

Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Pacific War 1942–1945, by Arthur J. Marder, Mark Jacobsen, and John Horsfield. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1990. xxx + 621 pp., illus., maps, figs. £40. ISBN0–19–820150–8.

Target: Pearl Harbor, by Michael Slackman. University of Hawaii Press (with Arizona Memorial Museum Association), Honolulu, 1990. xii+356 pp., illus., maps. 519.95. ISBN 0–8248–1123–2.

Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War, edited by Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. xix + 200 pp., illus. £20.90. ISBN 0–8248–1235–2.     

Reviews

Opening Rounds: Lessons of Military History, 1918–1988, by Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. Andre Deutsch, London, 1988. xiii+188 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–233–98009–1.

The Blunted Sword: The Erosion of Military Power in Modern World Politics, by Evan Luard. I. B. Tauris, London, 1988. v+196 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–068–3.

Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (Revised second edition), edited by Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint and John Pritchard. Viking, London, 1989. xxviii+1,315 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–670–80311–1.

Codebreaker in the Far East, by Alan Stripp. Frank Cass, London, 1989. xiv+204 pp., illus. £18. ISBN 0–7146–3363–1.

The Pacific: Peace, Security and the Nuclear Issue, edited by Ranginui Walker and William Sutherland. Zed Books, New Jersey; UN University, Tokyo; 1988. xiii+243 pp. £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–86232–815–2.

China eyes Japan, by Allen S. Whiting. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1989. xi+228 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–520–06511–5.

Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions, edited by Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein. M. E. Sharpe, New York, 1989. xi+216 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87332–427–7.

China's Regional Development, edited by David S. G. Goodman, (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xvi+204 pp. £32.50 hardback. ISBN 0–415–03510–4.

China's Science Policy in the 80s, (Studies on East Asia), by Tony Saich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988. iv+188 pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–7190–2986–4.

The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System, edited by John P. Burns. M. E. Sharpe Inc., New York and London, 1989. xlii+166 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–543–5.

The Thought of Mao Tse‐tung, by Stuart Schram. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. x+242 pp. £27.50 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–521–32549–8 and 0–521–31062–8.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (Harvard Contemporary China Series: 6), edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu. The Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, Harvard, 1989. xxiii+561 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–67 4–7967 3‐X.

Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism, edited by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xii+384 pp. $45.00. hardback, $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0–87332–515‐X and 0–87332–546‐X.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China, edited by Timothy Brook. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xi+204 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–542–7.

The New China: Comparative Economic Development in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hongkong, by Alvin Rabushka. Westview Press, Boulder and London, 1987. xii+254 pp. £28. ISBN 0–8133–0519–5.

Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service, edited by John S. Service. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979. xxvi+346 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0–520–06656–1.

Information China: The Comprehensive and Authoritative Reference Source of New China, (3 volumes), organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, compiled and translated by the China Social Sciences Publishing House. Edited for Pergamon Press by C. V. James. (Oxford, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto: Pergamon Press, 1989). 1,621 pp., 1,250 photographs, line drawings and tables; 52 full colour plates; 23 maps. £450. ($795.00). ISBN 0–08–034764–9.

New China's Population, by China's Financial and Economic Publishing House. (New York and London: Macmillan, 1988). xxiv+232pp., tables, charts. £64. ISBN 0–02–905471–0.

China: Facts and Figures Annual, Volume 12, 1989, edited by Charles E. Greer (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1989). xxiii+510 pp. $91.00. ISBN0–87569–112–9.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1989. xiv+828 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22356–3.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 6: The Twentieth Century, edited by Peter Duus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1988. xx+866 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22357–1.

Children of the Sun: The Japanese and the Outside World, by Michio Kitahara. Paul Norbury Publications, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, 1989. 160 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–904404–68–4.

The Sun also Sets: Why Japan will not be Number One, by Bill Emmott. Simon and Schuster, London, 1989. xii+275 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–671–69696–3.

Japan: The Blighted Blossom, by Roy Thomas. I. B. Tauris, London, 1989. xii+299 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–125–6.

A History of Japanese Economic Thought, by Tessa Morris‐Suzuki. Routledge, London and New York; with the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford, 1989. vii+213 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–01264–3.

The Japanese Business Community and the National Trade Policy, 1920–1942, by William Miles Fletcher III. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1989. x+226 pp. £34.95 ($37.45). ISBN 0–8078–1847‐X.

Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France, by Robert R. Locke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+328 pp. £30. ISBN 0–521–34102–7.

Democracy in Japan (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies), edited by Takeshi Ishida and Ellis S. Krauss. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1989. x+354 pp. $39.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8229–3608–9 and 0–8229–5414–1.

A History of Singapore, 1819–1988 (Second Edition), by C. M. Turnbull. Oxford University Press, Singapore, Oxford and New York, 1989. xiv+388 pp. 16 plates, 8 maps. £30. ISBN 0–19–588911–8.

Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, by Alice H. Amsden. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1989. xvi+379 pp. £25. ISBN 0–19–505852–6.

Korea: A Religious History, by James Huntley Grayson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. xii+319 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–19–826186–1.

Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea, by Hak‐Kyu Sohn. Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xii+287 pp. £35. ISBN 0–415–03550–3.

Australian Public Policy and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, by Francis Castles. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. xii+184 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–324021–6.

The Politics of Development in Australia, edited by Brian Head. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989. xv+274 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–861880–2.

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939–42, by David Day. Angus and Robertson, Sydney and London, 1988. x+388 pp. Illus. £14.95, AS39.95. ISBN 0–207–15328–0.

India and South East Asia: Indian Perceptions and Policies, by Mohammed Ayoob. Routledge, London, 1989. xi+105 pp. £25. ISBN 0–415–03894–4.

Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Introductory History (Expanded Edition) by Milton Osborne. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Wellington, London and Boston, 1989. viii+263 pp., illus., maps. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–352238–6.

Crisis and Response: The Challenge to South‐South Economic Cooperation, edited by Noordin Sopiee, B. A. Hamzah and Leong Choon Heng. Kegan Paul International, London, 1989. xxvii+450 pp. £45. ISBN 0–7103–0370‐X.

Women's Asia, by Yayori Matsui. Zed Books Ltd., London and New Jersey, 1989. viii+172 pp. £26.95 ($49.95) hardback, £7.95 ($12.50) paperback. ISBN 0–86232–826–8 and 0–86232–827–6.

Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues, edited by Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J. C. Ma, and Allen Noble. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989. ix+412 pp. $44.00. ISBN 0–8248–1151–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1990 (updated and revised edition), (London: Europa Publications, 1990), xxi+1,054 pp., maps. £105.00. ISBN 0–946653–53–4.     

Reviews

Joseph Fewsmith Dilemmas of Reform in China. Political Conflict and Economic Debate Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 289 pp. £44.00. ISBN 1–56324–327‐X.

Tani E. Barlow Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. 307 pp. £15.95. ISBN 0–8223–1389–8.

William A. Joseph (ed.) China Briefing, 1994 Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994. 234pp. £10.50. ISBN 0–8133–2057–7.

Y.Y. Kueh and Robert F. Ash (eds) Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture. The Impact of the Post‐Mao Reforms Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xii + 405 pp. £45.00. ISBN 019–828753–4.

X.L. Ding (Ding Xueliang) The Decline of Communism in China: Legitimacy Crisis, 1977–1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 230 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–521–45138–8.

Minxin Pei From Reform to Revolution. The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1994. 253pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–674–32563‐X.

Julia F. Andrews Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949–1979 Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1994. xv + 568 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0–520–07981–7.

E. Wayne Nafziger, Learning From the Japanese: Japan's Pre‐war Development and the Third World, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. xv + 221pp. ISBN 1–56324–485–3, paperback 1–56324–486–1.

Richard J. Samuels ’Rich Nation Strong Army'; National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. 455 pp. £38.50. ISBN 0–8014–2705–3.

Alan Burnett The Western Pacific: Challenge of Sustainable Growth London: Earthscan, 1993. 276 pp. £15.95. ISBN 1–85383–1581

Tom Wells The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. 706 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–5200–8367–9.

Ross Garnaut, Peter Drysdale and John Kunkel (eds) Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Relations Sydney: Harper Educational, 1994. 433 pp. ISBN 0–06–312140–9.

Atu Emberson‐Bain Labour and Gold in Fiji Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 270 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–521–36372–1.     

Japan and its impact on South‐east Asia

J.E. Dreifort, Myopic Grandeur: The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy in the Far East, 1919–45 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992). Pp.xiv + 334. £31.50. ISBN 0–87338–441–5.

R.J. Aldrich, The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–42 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993). Pp.xxiii + 416. £25.00. ISBN 0–19–588612–7.

A. Gilchrist, Malaya, 1941: The Fall of a Fighting Empire (London: Robert Hale, 1992). Pp.185. Price unstated. ISBN 0–7090–4684–7.

P. Elphick and M. Smith, Odd Man Out: The Story of the Singapore Traitor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993). Pp.xv + 265. £17.99. ISBN 0–340–58762–8.

P. Bates, Japan and the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946–52 (London: Brassey's, 1993). Pp.xviii + 270. £29.95. ISBN 1–85753–000–4.     

Short notices

Japan among the Powers 1890–1990, by Sydney Giffard. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994. xxi + 218 pp. Map, glossary. £19.95. ISBN 0–300–05847–0.

Modern Japan: A Concise Survey, by Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke and London, 1993. xii + 242 pp. Maps, tables and figures. £40 hardback, £13.99 paperback. ISBN 0–33354–339–4, 0–33354–340–8.

Shattered World: Adaption and Survival among Vietnam's Highland Peoples during the Vietnam War, by Gerald Cannon Hickey. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA, 1993. Distributed in the UK and Europe by Academic and University Publishers Group, London, xxxiv + 297 pp. Illus. $34.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8122–3172–4 and ISBN 0–8122–1417‐X.

Shanghai 1927–1937: Municipal Power, Locality and Modernization, by Christian Henriot, translated by Noel Castenino. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1993. xiv + 288 pp. £37.50/$42.00. ISBN 0–520–07096–8.

Trade, Industrial Restructuring and Development in Hong Kong, by Yin‐Ping Ho. Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1992. xviii + 297 pp. Tables. £50. ISBN 0–333–49882–8.

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA, 1993. Distributed in the UK and Europe by Academic and University Publishers Group, London, viii + 355 pp. £37.95. ISBN 0–8122–3111–2.     

Silent energy

New Art from China: Part I: Silent Energy; Part II: China Avant‐Garde. An Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 27 June‐24 October 1993.     

Reviews

Japan's International Relations, by Takashi Inoguchi. Pinter Publishers, London, 1991. xii + 190 pp. £10.95 paperback, £39.50 hardback. ISBN 0–86187–095–6, 0–86187–076‐X.

NIPPON: New Superpower, Japan since 1945, by William Horsley and Roger Buckley. BBC Books, London, 1990. x + 278 pp., 24 pp. plates. £15. ISBN 0–563–20875–9.

Korea Briefing, 1990, edited by Chong‐Sik Lee. Westview, Boulder, CO, 1991. viii + 175 pp. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8010–3.

Britain and the Korean War, by Callum MacDonald. Blackwell, Oxford, 1990. viii + 112 pp. £17.50 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–631–16769–2, 0–631–16771–4.

The Future of South Korean‐U.S. Security Relations, edited by William J. Taylor Jr., Young Koo Cha, John Q. Blodgett, and Michael Mazarr. Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1989. £22.50. ISBN 0–8133–7889–3.

The Cambodian Crisis and U.S. Policy Dilemmas, by Robert G. Sutter. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1991. vi + 135 pp. £15.50, paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8047–2.

Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo‐American Search for Order in Asia: 1912–1954, by William O. Walker III. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1991. xvi + 345 pp. $43.95. ISBN 0–8078–1970.

Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972–1990, by David Shambaugh. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1991. 326 pp. £25, $35. ISBN 0–691–07864–5.

Building Sino‐American Relations: An Analysis for the 1990s, edited by William T. Tow. Paragon House, New York, 1991. vii + 327 pp. $18.95 paperback. ISBN 0–88702–061–5.

Molding the Medium: The Chinese Communist Party and the Liberation Daily, by Patricia Stranahan. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1991. x + 189 pp. $39.95 ISBN 0–87332–662–8.

The Privatization of China: The Great Reversal, by William Hinton. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1990; Earthscan Publications, London, 1991.191 pp. £7.95 paperback. ISBN 1–85383–098–4.

Rural Reform and Peasant Income in China, by Zhu Ling. Macmillan, Houndmills and London, 1991. xiv + 204 pp. £35 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0–333–49743–0, 0–333–49744–9.

China's Defence Modernisation and Military Leadership, by Ngok Lee. Australian National University Press, Sydney, 1989. xxi + 395 pp. ISBN 0–08–033046–0.

Taiwan: China's Last Frontier, by Simon Long. Macmillan, Houndmills and London, 1991. xix + 264 pp. £40 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0–333–51292–8, 0–333–51293–6.

Party‐Military Relations in the PRC and Taiwan: Paradoxes of Control, by Cheng Hsiao‐shih. Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia, Boulder, CO, 1990. xiv + 178 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0–8133–7738–2.

Modern Taiwan in the 1990s, edited by Garry Klintworth. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 75. Australian National University, Canberra, 1991. 216 pp. A$15. ISBN 07315–11689.

Shanghai, by Harriet Sergeant. Jonathan Cape, London, 1991. xi + 371 pp., 16 pp. plates, maps. £16.99. ISBN 0–224–02816–2.

An Illustrated History of Hong Kong, by Nigel Cameron. Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1991. 362 pp., maps, illus. £25. ISBN 0–19–584997–3.

Hong Kong 1977: dans la gueule du Dragon rouge, by Jules Nadeau with Mathieu‐Robert Sauvé and Judith Bélanger. Editions Québec/Amérique, Montreal, 1990. 306 pp., maps, illus. Can$26.95. ISBN 2–89037–513–7.

Australia in the International Economy in the Twentieth Century, by Barrie Dyster and David Meredith. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xvi + 362 pp. £39.50 hardback, £15.00 paperback. ISBN 0–521–33496–9, 0–521–33689–9.

Art and Identity in Oceania, edited by F. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. viii + 315 pp., illus. £37. ISBN 0–8248–1304–0.

The Pacific, by Simon Winchester. Hutchinson, London, 1991. xi + 501 pp. £19.99. ISBN 0–09–173485–1.     

Palestine,Israel and Egypt: New scholarship on the Middle Eastern conflicts

A. Ilan, The Origins of the Arab‐Israeli Arms Race (London: Macmillan 1996). Pp.287. ISBN £36. 0–333–63240–0.

Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandier (eds.), Middle Eastern Security: Prospects for an Arms Control Regime, a BESA study in Mideast Security (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass 1995). Pp.199. £25/$19.50 (cloth); £16/$19.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4644‐X and 4168–5.

Saul Zadka, Blood in Zion. How the Jewish Guerillas drove the British out of Palestine (London: Brassey's 1995). Pp.227, biblio., index. £19.95. ISBN 1–85753–136–1.

Joseph Heller, The Stern Gang. Ideology, Politics and Terror 1940–1949 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass 1995). Pp.358. £37.50/$47.50 (cloth); £18/$25 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–4106–5.

W. Scott Lucas, Britain and Suez. The Lion's Last Roar (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1996). Pp.139, biblio., index. £35. ISBN 0–7190–4579–7.

Ram Ginat, The Soviet Union and Egypt 1945–1955 (London: Frank Cass 1993). Pp.269. £35/$45. ISBN 0–7146–3486–7.     

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.     

Are China and Japan rivals in Latin America? A rivalry perception analysis

Abstract

This article investigates whether the People’s Republic of China and Japan perceive each other as rivals in Latin America (LA; both the Chinese and Japanese governments tend to refer to the region as Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but for the purposes of this article we focus mainly on LA), and what impact such a perception might have on their foreign policy decision-making. We take LA as a case study because China’s and Japan’s recent (re-)engagement there began almost simultaneously in the early 2000s, and has developed against the background of domestic leadership transitions, growing demands for energy and markets, as well as international political agendas in which LA might play a key role. Developing the work of Thompson [(1995). Principal rivalries. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39 (2), 195–223; (2001). Identifying rivals and rivalries in world politics. International Studies Quarterly, 45(4), 557–586] and Vasquez [(1993). The War Puzzle. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press; (1996). Distinguishing rivals that go to war from those that do not: Aa quantitative comparative case study of the two paths to war. International Studies Quarterly, 40 (4), 531–558] on rivalry, in combination with perception theory [Jervis, R. (1976). Perception and misperception in international politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press], the article suggests three indicators by which to measure the extent to which China and Japan might perceive each other as rivals. Drawing on content analysis of a range of Chinese- and Japanese-language official writing, news reports, and academic analysis, the article argues that, despite some media representation of China and Japan as competitors for resources and power in LA, in fact mutual perceptions concerning rivalry have not affected LA policy decisions of these two countries.     

Hong Kong between East and West

The Hong Kong Basic Law: Blueprint for ‘Stability and Prosperity’ under Chinese Sovereignty, edited by Ming K. Chan and David J. Clark. (Hong Kong Becoming China Series) M. E. Sharpe, New York, 1991. xv + 311 pp. $45. ISBN 0–87332–835–3.

The China‐Hong Kong Connection: The Key to China's Open‐Door Policy, by Yun‐Wing Sung. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. xiv + 183 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–521–38245–9.

The Making of Hong Kong Society: Three Studies of Class Formation in Early Hong Kong, by W. K. Chan. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. viii + 251 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–19–827320–7.