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Nelson Mandela is free Higher than Hope: the authorised biography of Nelson Mandela. Fatima Meer, London: Hamish Hamilton. 1990. 288pp. £15.99hb Pre‐Tiananmen perspectives Reforming the Revolution? China in transition. Edited by Robert Benewick and Paul Wingrove, London: Macmillan. 1988. 264pp. £30.00hb/£8.99pb Transforming China's Economy in the Eighties. Edited by Stephen Feuchtwang, Athar Hussain and Thierry Pairault, London: Zed. 1988. Vol 1: 256pp. £29.95hb/£9.95pb. Vol 2: 256pp. £27.95hb China's Regional Development. Edited by David S Goodman, London: Routledge for the Institute of International Affairs. 1989. 208pp. £35.00hb China at Forty: mid‐life crisis. Edited by David S Goodman and Gerald Segal, Oxford: Clarendon. 1989. 178pp. £9.95pb The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism. Mark Selden, New York: M E Sharpe. 1989. 224pp. S15.95pb One Step Ahead in China: Guandong under reform. Ezra F Vogel, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1989. 244pp. £23.95hb Gender, development and modernity Woman's Role in Economic Development. Ester Boserup, London: Earthscan. 1989. 283pp. £6.95pb Staying Alive: women, ecology and development. Vandana Shiva, London: Zed. 1988. 224pp. £29.95pb/£8.95pb Women's Asia. Yayori Matsui, Translated from the Japanese by Mizuko Matsuda, London: Zed. 1989. 172pp. £26.95hb/£7.95pb Structures of Patriarchy: the state, the community and the household. Edited by Bina Agarwal, London: Zed. 1988. 254pp. £28.95hb/£8.95pb We Were Making History: women and the Telangana Uprising. Edited by Stree Shakti Sanghatana, London: Zed. 1989. 290pp. £29.95hb/£8.95pb Natural Rebels: a social history of enslaved black women in Barbados. Hilary McD Beckles, London: Zed. 1989. 197pp. £29.95hb/£8.95pb You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American women writing in exile. Edited by Alicia Partnoy, London: Virago. 1988. 258pp. £6.50pb Plotting Women: gender and representation in Mexico. Jean Franco, London: Verso. 1989. 235pp. £19.95hb Peru and the informal economy The Other Path: the invisible revolution in the Third World. Hernando de Soto, London: I B Tauris. 1989. 271pp. £14.95hb

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