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Volume XXXIX, Number 4 August 1980

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VOL. XXXIX, No. 4 AUGUST 1980

CONTENTS

689 Abstracts

691 Editor's Note

Articles 693 The Impact of Railroads on the Malayan Economy, 1874-1941 AMARJIT KAUR

711 Sino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921—1937 TIM WRIGHT

729 Rantau Pariaman: The World of Minangkabau Coastal Merchants in TSUYOSHI KATO the Nineteenth Century

753 The Political Significance of Religious Wealth in Burmese History: VICTOR B. LIEBERMAN Some Further Thoughts

Review Article

771 Plus Ca Change. .. ROY A. MILLER

Book Reviews

Asia General 783 D. B. MILLER (ed.), Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reactions to SAMUEL L. POPKIN Change in Asia

785 COHEN, GUTKIND, AND BRAZIER (eds.), Peasants and Proletarians: LYNDA SHAFFER The Struggles of Third World Workers

787 LEVTZlON(ed.), Conversion to Islam RICHARD M. EATON

China 789 MASPERO (Kierman, trans.), China in Antiquity JEFFREY K. RIEGEL

792 WU, Passage to Power: K'ang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661-1722 LYNN STRUVE

Articles in the JournalofAsian Studies represent neither the views of the Association for Asian Studies nor those of the Editors. The Editor is responsible for the final selection of the content of the Journal and reserves the right to reject any material deemed inappropriate for publication. Responsibility for opinions expressed and for the accuracy of facts published in articles rests solely with the individual authors. COPYRIGHT © 1980 BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, INC. All Rights Reserved Requests for permission to reprint should be directed to the Secretariat. Thejournal is indexed in the Social Sciences & Humanities Index and Book Review Index and abstracted in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. It is also available on film through University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.

795 TONG AND Li, The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen DIANA LARY

797 COHEN, The Chinese Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, JAMES C. THOMSON, JR. George E. Sokolsky, and American—East Asian Relations

8oo TERRILL (ed.), The China Difference: A Portrait of Life Today inside the MICHAEL SCHALLER Country of One Billion

8o I WONG, Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China WILLIAM L. PARISH

802 LI , Law Without Lawyers: A Comparative View of Law in China and the R. RANDLE EDWARDS United States

803 NORMAN, A Concise Manchu-English Lexicon GIOVANNI STARY

805 WILHELM, Heaven, Earth and Man in the Book of Changes KIDDER SMITH SHCHUTSKH (MacDonald, Hasegawa, and Wilhelm, trans.), Researches on the I Ching

808 ENDACOTT (Birch, ed.), Hong Kong Eclipse CHARLES W. HAYFORD LETHBRIDGE, Hong Kong: Stability and Change: A Collection of Essays RABUSHKA, Hong Kong: A Study in Economic Freedom

810 BAKER, Chinese Family and Kinship LUNG-SHENG SUNG

812 CHESNEAUX et al. (Auster and Davis, trans.), China: The People's DOROTHY J. SOLINGER Republic, 1949-1979 SELDEN AND EGGLESTON (eds.), The People's Republic of China: A Documentary History of Revolutionary Change

Japan 814 STEENSTRUP, HopShigetoki (1198-1261) and His Role in the History MARTIN COLLCUTT of Political and Ethical Ideas in Japan

817 KIRKUP (trans.; Davis, ed.), Modern Japanese Poetry JAMES O'BRIEN

819 WALKER, The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the WILLIAM E. NAFF Ideal of Individualism

821 TAKAYA(ed. and trans.), Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology ERICJ. GANGLOFF

823 ALLINSON, Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and TERRY MACDOUGALL Social Change

826 COLE, Work, Mobility, and Participation: A Comparative Study of ROBERT EVANS, JR. American and Japanese Industry

828 OZAWA, Multinationalism, Japanese Style: The Political Economy of THOMAS LIFSON Outward Dependency

829 JAINI, TheJaina Path ofPurification KENDALLW. FOLKERT

831 GUPTA, HOENS, AND GOUDRIAAN, Hindu Tantrism AGEHANANDA BHARATI

833 MAINI, Studies in Punjabi Poetry SURJIT DULAI

834 WELCH, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World IRENE A. BIERMAN

835 DISNEY, Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest ASHIN DAS GUPTA

India in the Early Seventeenth Century

837 JORDENS, DayanandaSarasvati: His Life and Ideas KENNETH w. JONES

839 LEWIS, E. M. Forster's Passages to India MARY LAGO

840 VATUK (ed.)» American Studies in the Anthropology of India E. VALENTINE DANIEL

843 FREEMAN, Untouchable: An Indian Life History OWEN M. LYNCH

844 FREED AND FREED, Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a HAROLD A. GOULD

Village in North India. Volume 1: Social Organization

846 MELLOR (ed.), India: A Rising Middle Power MARCUS FRANDA

848 RUDOLPH AND RUDOLPH (eds.). Coordination in Complex Settings DAVID A. BALDWIN

850 BLAIR, Voting, Caste, Community, Society: Explorations in Aggregate WILLIAM L. RICHTER Data Analysis in India and Bangladesh 851 DERRETT, The Death of a Marriage Law: Epitaph for the Rishis HAROLD LEWIS LEVY

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854 NAIR, In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture after the MICHELLE B. MCALPIN Green Revolution

855 MENCHER, Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: DAVID LUDDEN Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects

856 WIESNER, Nepalese Temple Architecture: Its Characteristics and Its RONALD M. BERNIER Relations to Indian Development

858 ROBERTS(ed.), Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and PATRICK PEEBLES Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929-1950

861 FERNANDO AND KEARNEY (eds.), Modern Sri Lanka: R. S. PERINBANAYAGAM A Society in Transition

Southeast Asia

862 NUNN et al., Southeast Asian Periodicals: An International Union List WILLIAM R. ROFF MOON, Periodicals for Southeast Asian Studies: A Union Catalogue of Holdings in Britain and Selected European Libraries JOHNSON, Index to Southeast Asiajournals, 1960-1974: A Guide to Articles, Book Reviews, and Composite Works COTTER, Vietnam: A Guide to Reference Sources CHEN, The Economic Conditions of East and Southeast Asia: A Bibliography of English-Language Materials, 1965—1977

865 HlLL(ed.), South-East Asia: A Systematic Geography W. DONALD MCTAGGART

866 WONG, ASEAN Economies in Perspective: A Comparative Study of E. L. WHEELWRIGHT Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand

868 SCHLEGEL, Tiruray Subsistence: From Shifting Cultivation to ROY F. ELLEN

Plow Agriculture DAVID R. STURTEVANT 869 ECHAOz (Hart, trans.), Sketches of the Island of Negros JEREMY H. KEMP 871 ENGEL, Code and Custom in a Thai Provincial Court: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Systems of Just ice 872 TROCKI, Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development ofjohor CHRISTOPHER S. GRAY and Singapore, 1784-1885 ANDAYA, Perak: The Abode of Grace: A Study of an Eighteenth Century Malay State

876 SUFFIAN, LEE, AND TRINDADE (eds.), The Constitution of Malaysia: A. J. HARDING Its Development, 1957-1977

878 KUO AND WONG (eds.), The Contemporary Family in Singapore: LENORE MANDERSON Structure and Change

880 GOLOMB, Brokers of Morality: Thai Ethnic Adaptation in a Rural JUDITH A. NAGATA Malaysian Setting

883 ABEYESEKERE, One Hand Clapping: Indonesian Nationalists WILLIAM H. FREDERICK and the Dutch INGELSON, Perhimpunan Indonesia and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement, 1923-1928 INGELSON, Road to Exile: The Indonesian Nationalist Movement, 1927-1934

887 BEEBY, Assessment of Indonesian Education: A Guide in Planning SUE NICHTERLEIN

888 HART (ed.), Philippine Studies: History, Sociology, Mass Media, JEAN GROSSHOLTZ and Bibliography LENT (ed.). Malaysian Studies: Present Knowledge and Research Trends

890 CONSTANTINO (Meszaros, ed.), Neocolonial Identity and Counter- BENEDICT J. KERKVLIET Consciousness: Essays on Cultural Decolonization

891 WILSON, Social Engineering in Singapore: Educational Policies and Social LENORE MANDERSON Change, 1819-1972

894 Annual Index

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Editorial Staff. Editor: ROBERT A. KAPP, University of Washington. Associate Editor: DANIEL S. LEV, University of Washington. Manuscript Editor: SHARON BRYAN. Editorial Assistant: FLOLINE BRADLEY. Assistant Editors: Japan: GAIL BERNSTEIN, University of Arizona; MASAO MIYOSHI, University of California, Berkeley. South Asia: KAREN LEONARD, University of California, Irvine; CARLO COPPOLA, Oakland University. Southeast Asia: DONALD K. SWEARER, Swarthmore College. Korea: C. KENNETH QUINONES, Trinity College. Book Review Editors: Japan: BYRON K. MARSHALL, University of Minnesota. South Asia: FRANK F. CONLON, University of Washington. Southeast Asia: CLIVE S. KESSLER, Barnard College, Columbia University. Korea: C. KENNETH QUINONES, Trinity College.

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