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Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan . By Takashi Fujitani. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996. xiv, 305 pp. $40.00.

Digging into the past is only part of the historian's efforts to normalize the field. The second part of the volume, by three Western scholars, offers a critical assessment of the existing literature, research agenda, lines of inquiry, and emergent interpretive themes. Rather than advancing a uniform view over these issues, these chapters clearly register the upheaval a much-transformed field is going through and argue for a more historical and comparative approach to CCP foreign relations than has heretofore prevailed. More collaborative efforts are certainly needed between Chinese and Western scholars to unearth as well as to understand the past, a basis for comprehending the present and predicting the future. Beyond that, there is a need for political scientists and historians to intersect, to borrow from one another, and even to merge so that they can better understand China's foreign policy.