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Beatrice Forbes Manz: The rise and rule of Tamerlane, xi, 227 pp. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50.
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James D. Tracy (ed.): The rise of merchant empires: long-distance trade in the early modern world 1350–1750. xiii, 442 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £35, $44.50
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Hanna Havnevik: Tibetan Buddhist nuns: history, cultural norms and social reality. (Institutt for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning. Serie B: Skrifter, LXXIX.) 251 pp. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, [1990]. (Distributed by OxfordUniversity Press. £25.)
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Kwang-Chih Chang: The archaeology of ancient China. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, xxv, 450 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £45, $60 (paper £14.95, $19.95). - K. C. Chang (ed.): Studies of Shang archaeology: selected papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization, xiv, 325 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [1986]. £28.50.
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Arthur F. Wright: Studies in Chinese Buddhism. Edited by Robert M. Somers. xii, 204 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. $30 (paper $20).
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Antonino Forte: Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the history of the astronomical clock: the tower, statue and armillary sphere constructed by Empress Wu. (Serie Orientale Roma, Vol. LIX. Publications de l’EFEO, Vol. CXLV.) xiii, 333 pp. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente; Paris: Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris: 1988.
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Laurence Picken (ed.) and others: Music from the Tang Court, Fasc. 4, Fasc. 5. xiv, 136 pp., xiv, 130 pp. Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 1990. £40 ($69.50), £45 ($79.50).
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Burton Watson (tr.): The Tso chuan: selections from China’s oldest narrative history. (Translations from the Oriental Classics.) [xxi], 232 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. $37.50.
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Yoav Ariel: K‘ung-ts‘ung-tzu: the K‘ung family Masters’ anthology: a study and translation of chapters 1–10, 12–14. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) 220 pp. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. $39.50.
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Anne Birrell: Popular songs and ballads of Han China, xvi, 226 pp. London, Sydney and Wellington: Unwin Hyman, 1988. £20.
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Audrey Spiro: Contemplating the Ancients: aesthetic and social Issues in early Chinese portraiture, xv, 259 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California Press, 1990. $35.
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Ronald G. Knapp: China’s vernacular architecture: house form and culture, xi, 195 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. $38.
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Pamela Kyle Crossley: Orphan warriors: three Manchu generations at the end of the Qing world. xvi, 305 pp. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. $37.50.
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Fei Hsiao-Tung: Rural development in China: prospect and retrospect. xii, 240 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. £19.95, $28.75 (paper £8.75, $12.50).
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Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter: China's peasants; the anthropology of a revolution. [xv], 358 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £30, $49.50 (paper £10.95, $14.95).
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Andrew J. Nathan: China's crisis: dilemmas of reform and prospects for democracy. (Studies of the East Asian Institute.) x, 242 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. $28.50.
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G. H. Choa: ‘Heal the Sick’ was their motto: the Protestant medical missionaries in China. xxiii, 255 pp., 9 plates. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1990. US$20.
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Helen F. Siu (ed.) Furrows. Peasants, intellectuals and the state: stories and histories from modern China. xiii, 341 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. $39.50 (paper $12.95).
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Werner Meissner: Philosophy and politics in China: the controversy over dialectical materialism in the 1930s. Transl. from the German by Richard Mann. viii, 230 pp. London: Hurst & Co. 1990. £27.50.
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Roger R. Thompson (ed. and tr.) Mao Zedong: report from Xunwu. [xi], 278 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1990. $27.50.
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