Ian Nish

The sound of the whistle: railroads and the state in Meiji Japan. By Steven J. Ericson. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 168. Subseries on the History of Japanese Business and Industry.) pp. xvii, 506, 11 figs, 5 maps, illustrations. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, distrib. by Harvard University Press, 1996. £26.50.

The literature of travel in the Japanese rediscovery of China, 1862–1945 . By Joshua A. Fogel. pp. xvii, 417, illus., 3 maps. Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press, 1996. £40.00.

Sir Harry Parkes: British representative in Japan 1865–83 . By Gordon Daniels. (Meiji Japan Series, 2.) pp. xi, 239, front., 1 other illus., 5 maps. Folkestone, Japan Library, 1996. £40.00.

Saigō Takamori: the man behind the myth . By Charles L. Yates. pp. xii, 239. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1995. £45.00.

The way of the heavenly sword. The Japanese army in the 1920s . By Leonard Humphreys. pp. xi, 252, 4 pi. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995. £27.50.

The autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi. From peasant to entrepreneur . Translated with an introduction and notes by Teruko Craig, pp. xxiii, 192, front. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1994.

Japan's Orient. Rendering pasts into history . By Stefan Tanaka. pp. xi, 305, 8 figs. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1993.

Otherness of Japan: historical and caltural influences on Japanese studies in ten countries. Edited by Harumi Befu and Josef Kreiner. (Monographien hrsg. von Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung, Band 1, 1992.) pp. 342. Munich, iudicium verlag, 1992. DM 58

Sowing the seeds of change. Chinese students, Japanese teachers. 1895–1905 . By Paula Harrell. pp. xii, 289, 12 pl. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1992. US

39.50.