Abstract: | Books reviewed: Ian Phimister, Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matabeleland Dagfinn Gatu, Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945 Marc Blecher, Sources of Chinese Economic Growth 1978–1996 Louise Fortmann, Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India Frank Dikötter, Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949–1968 Ben Fine, The World Bank: Structure and Policies Jonathan Pincus, Economic Transition in Vietnam: Trade and Aid in the Demise of Centrally Planned Economy Vivek Chibber, An Agrarian History of South Asia, The New Cambridge History of India, IV, 4 |