What the Japanese are saying
T.H. Barrett, 10 March 1994
Central Asia in World History
by S.A.M. Adshead.
Macmillan, 291 pp., £42.50, February 1993,0 333 57827 9 Show More
by S.A.M. Adshead.
Macmillan, 291 pp., £42.50, February 1993,
Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History
by Stefan Tanaka.
California, 331 pp., £30, July 1993,0 520 07731 8 Show More
by Stefan Tanaka.
California, 331 pp., £30, July 1993,
“... study very different from Central Asia in World History suggests that we ignore it at our peril. Stefan Tanaka’s book is a revision of a doctoral dissertation, and it shows. Instead of enjoying a dizzying overview of vast tracts of Asian history, we find ourselves stumbling wearily through what at first sight seems rather unpromising terrain. ... ”
