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CHINA LOWELL DITTMER. Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, revised edition. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. US$68.95, hardcover; US$24.95, paper. HARRIET EVANS. Women and Sexuality in China: female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949. New York: Continuum, 1997. 270 pp. US$49.50, hardcover. TONY GALLAGHER. In Their Own Words: profiles of Today's Chinese Students. San Francisco: China Books, 1998. 214 pp. A$24.95, paper. JAPAN, KOREA JOHN PRICE. Japan Works: power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations. Ithaca and London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 1997. 315 pp. US$45.00, hardcover; US$17.95, paper. SOUTH ASIA JEFFREY J. KRIPAL. Kali's Child: the Mystical and the Erotic in the Life of Ramakrishna. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edition, 1998. 386 pp. $US19.00, paper. D. A. LOW and HOWARD BRASTED (eds). Freedom, Trauma, Continuities: Northern India and Independence. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. ix, 237 pp. Rs 350, hardcover; Rs 195, paper. MARTHA ALTER CHEN (ed). Widows in India: social Neglect and Public Action. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications, 1998. 456 pp. £29.00, paper. SOUTHEAST ASIA C. F. YONG. The Origins of Malayan Communism. Singapore: South Seas Society, 1997. xvi, 312 pp. Preface, tables, plates, abbreviations, introduction, index. No price given, paper. DAMIEN KINGSBURY. The Politics of Indonesia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 286 pp. 1 map. A$29.95, paper. R. WILLIAM LIDDLE. Leadership and Culture in Indonesian Politics. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, for the Asian Studies Association of Australia (Southeast Asia Publication Series no. 29), 1996. 314 pp. A$35.00, paper. NICHOLAS TARLING. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 504 pp. Preface, abbreviations, maps, personalia, notes, bibliography, index. A$80.00, hardcover. GENERAL ASIA DAVID MARTIN JONES. Political Development in Pacific Asia. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 235 pp. US$57.95, hardcover; US$26.95, paper. JAMES J. FOX (ed). The Poetic Power of Place: comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. vi, 204 pp. Maps, references, index. A$30.00 (surface mail) or A$38.00 (air mail), paper.