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Barbara Daly Metcalf: Perfecting women: Maulana Ashraf ‘AH Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar. A partial translation with commentary. xv, 436 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1991. £19.
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T.F. Earle and John Villiers (ed.): Albuquerque: Caesar of the East. Selected texts by Afonso de Albuquerque and his son. xii, 308 pp., 19 plates, 5 maps. Warminster: Aris and Phillips. 1990. - John Correia-Afonso (ed.): Intrepid itinerant: Manuel Godinho and his journey from India to Portugal in 1663. xi, 253 pp., 22 plates, 3 maps. Bombay: Oxford University Press. 1990
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Jonathan Spencer: A Sinhala village in a time of trouble: politics and change in rural Sri Lanka. (Oxford University South Asian Studies.) xv, 285 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1990. £15.
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Jan Bremen and Sudipto Mundle (ed.): Rural transformation in Asia. xxv, 532 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press,1991. £15.
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Safang Secen: Erdeni-yin tobci (‘ Precious summary ’): a Mongolian chronicle of 1662. i: The Urga text transcribed and edited by M. Gō, I. de Rachewiltz. J. R. Krueger, and B. Ulaan. n: Word-index to the Urga text prepared by I. de Rachelwitz andJ. P. Krueger. Krueger.(Faculty of Asian Studies Monographs: N.S., nos. 15, 18.) xxiii, 270 pp.; x, 259 pp. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1990,1991.
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Erberto Lo Bue and Franco Ricca: Gyantse revisited. (Pubblicazioni del CESMEO.) xiii, 569 pp. Firenze: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1990.
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Edward L. Shaughnessy: Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vessels. xix, 333 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford.: University of California Press, 1991. [pub.1992]. $55.
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Ann Paludan: The Chinese Spirit Road: the classical tradition of stone tomb statuary, xiv, 290 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. £25, $45.
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Alan K.L. Chan: Two visions of the Way: a study of the Wang Pi and Ho-shang Kung commentaries on the Lao-tzu.(SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xii, 314 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1991. $57.50 (paper $18.95).
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Thomas Lawton ed.: New perspectives on Chu culture during the Eastern Zhou period. xvi, 211 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. $39.95 (paper $19.95).
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Michael S. Duke (ed.): Worlds of modern Chinese fiction: short stories and novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Hong Kong. xiii, 344 pp. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe Inc., 1991: $45 (paper $16.95).
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Rolf A. Stein: The world in miniature: container gardens and dwellings in Far Eastern religious thought. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. xxvi, 399 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. $39.50.
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Penny Kane: Famine in China 1959–61: demographic and social implications. x, 164 pp. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1988. £29.50.
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Christopher Howe and Kenneth R. Walker: The foundations of the Chinese planned economy: a documentary survey, 1953–1965. xiii, 370 pp. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press, 1989. £18.50.
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Frank Dikötter: The discourse of race in modern China. xiv, 251 pp., 5 plates. London: Hurst & Co., 1992. £18.50.
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Bill Brugger and David Kelly: Chinese Marxism in the post-Mao era. xii, 223 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. $32.50.
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Peter H. Lee (ed.): Modern Korean literature: an anthology. xxii, 442 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. $40 (paper $18.95).
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Dennis L. Mcnamara: The colonial origins of Korean enterprise, 1910–1945. xiv, 208 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £27.50, $44.50.
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Victoria Scord: Stories of tears and laughter: short fiction of medieval Japan. vi, 222 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. £19.95.
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Eyal Ben-Ari: hanging Japanese suburbia: a study of two present day localities. (Japanese Studies.) xvii, 328 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International. £45.
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