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1996; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10371399608727610

1469-9338

Sandra Wilson, Tessa Morris‐Suzuki, David Crean, Rosemary Gray Trott, Penny A Herbert, Freda Freiberg, Gaynor Macdonald, Peter Eckersall, Stacey Steele, Annette Marfording, Liane Degville, Hélène Bowen Raddeker, Mark Hudson,

Japanese History and Culture

Rikki Kersten, Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 289 + xiv. Fujii Takeshi, Yanagita Kunio: Keisei Saimin no Gaku, Nagoya Daigaku: Shuppankai, 1995. Darrell William Davis, Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 304 + viii. Acknowledgments, selected bibliography, filmography, plates, index. Murray Elliott, Occupational Hazards: a doctor in Japan and elsewhere. Australians in Asia No. 14., Centre for the Study of Australia Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1995, pp. 119 + xii. Glossary, abbreviations, preface, bibliography. Karl F. Friday, Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992, pp. 256 + xv. Acknowledgments, contents, list of figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. James Fujii, Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 287 + xvii. Preface, bibliography, index. Joy Hendry, Understanding Japanese Society, 2nd Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 240 + xiv. Preface, plates, additional readings accompanying chapters, index. Marilyn Ivy, Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 270 + xi. Contents, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. Stanley H. Jones, Jr, (ed. & trans.) Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth‐Century Japanese Puppet Theatre, Translations from the Asian classics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 286 + xiv. Introduction, notes, bibliography. Kayano, Shigeru, Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir, translation by Kyōko Seldon and Lili Selden, Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Illustrations, foreword by Mikiso Hane, translator's note, maps, diagrams, epilogue, glossary. Heinrich Menkhaus (ed.), Das Japanische im japanischen Recht (The Japanese Element in Japanese law), Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp‐Franz‐von‐Siebold — Stiftung, Band 5. iudicium Verlag, 1994, pp. 575 + xvi. Preface, abbreviations, appendix. Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade: Cartels In Japan's Basic Materials Industries, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996, pp. 220. Acronyms, Index. Tonomura Hitomi, Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin‐ho, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992, pp. 285 + xiv. Acknowledgments, contents, tables, preface, introduction, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Kawamura Minato, ’Daitōa Minzokugaku’ no Kyojitsu, Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1996, pp. 250.