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• General Haleh Afshar, editor. Women and Politics in the Third World. University of York, UK, Women and Politics Monograph Series. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xii, 210 pp. Introduction, index. £40.00, hardcover; £12.99, paper. Alison Broinowski. The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv, 293 pp. Foreword, preface, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. A$39.95, hardcover. Garry Rodan, editor. Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xvi, 338 pp. Preface, acknowledgments, index. A$29.95, paper. Michael Yahuda. The International Politics of the Asia‐Pacific, 1945–1995. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. ix, 298 pp. Preface, index. US$19.95, paper. • Northeast Asia Beatrice M. Bodart‐Bailey and Derek Massarella, editors. The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. Kent, Great Britain: Japan Library, 1995. xi, 204 pp. References, bibliography, index. Npg, hardcover. Adrian Buzo, Bronwen Dalton, John Kimberley and Colleen Wood. Unlocking Australia's Language Potential: Profiles of Languages in Australia: Korean. The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 1995. xiii, 34 pp. Foreword, tables, recommendations, references. A$16.00, paper. Frank Gibney, editor. Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 327 pp. US$59.95, hardcover; US$19.95, paper. Merle Goldman. Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. xv, 426 pp. A$29.95, hardcover. Germaine A. Hoston. The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. xii, 628 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. US$85.00/£62.50, hardcover; US$24.95/£19.95, paper. Reginald Yin‐Wang Kwok and Alvin Y. So, editors. The Hong Kong‐Guangdong Link: Partnership in Flux. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. xiii, 294 pp. Tables, maps, figures, references, index. US$79.95, hardcover. Kenzaburo Oë. A Personal Matter. (Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.) London: Picador, 1995. 165 pp. A$ 16.95, paper. This translation first published by Grove Press, 1969. Originally published in Japanese as Kojinteki Na Taiken. Tokyo: Shinchosa, 1964. Lachlan Strahan. Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi, 374 pp. List of illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. A$90.00, hardcover; A$34.95, paper. Odoric Y.K. Wou. Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. 477 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. US$49.50, hardcover. Jianying ZHA. China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers are Transforming a Culture. New York: The New York Press, 1995. x, 210 pp. Table of Contents. US$20.00, paper. • South Asia Paul Alexander. Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society. Asian Studies Association of Australia South Asian Publications Series No. 9. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1995 (second revised and enlarged edition). xiii, 306 pp. Preface and Preface to new edition, epilogue, tables, maps, figures, references, index. A$30.00, hardcover. Zeba Zubair. From Mutiny to Mountbatten: A Biographical Sketch of and Writings by Altaf Husain, Former Editor of Dawn. London: Kegan Paul, 1996. xii, 119 pp. Preface, plates, acknowledgments. £35.00, hardcover. • Southeast Asia Clara Brakel‐Papenhuyzen. Classical Javanese Dance: The Surakarta Tradition and its Terminology. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. xi, 252 pp. Preface, text illustrations, photographs, appendix, bibliography, index. NLG60, paper. Philip J. Eldridge. Non‐Government Organisations and Democratic Participation in Indonesia. Southeast Asian Social Science Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxii, 260 pp. Preface, plates, abbreviations and acronyms, glossary, note on spelling. US$55.00, hardcover. Bruce Grant. Indonesia. 3rd edition. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. xii, 248 pp. Preface, glossary, bibliography, index. A$24.95, paper. R. Howitt, J. Connell and P. Hirsch, editors. Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples: Case Studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. 321pp. A$34.95, paper. Greg Lockhart and Monique Lockhart (trans.). The Light of the Capital‐Three Modern Vietnamese Classics. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996. 218 pp. Introduction by Greg Lockhart. US$12.95, paper. Peter W. Martin, Conrad Ozog and Gloria Poedjosoedarmo, editors. Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No. 100. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1996. xvi, 373 pp. 8 maps, 12 figures. US$26.00, paper. Mpu Prapañca. Deśawarnana (Nagara‐krtagama). Translated by Stuart Robson. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐en Volkenkunde, 169. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. viii, 158 pp. NLG40, paper.