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Volume 83 - Issue 1 - February 2020

Reviews: South Asia

M.A. Dhaky (ed. Snehal Shah): Footprints of Viśvakarmā: Studies in Indian Sculpture and Architecture. xvi, 456 pp. New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2018. £75. ISBN 978 93 5311 050 5.

Klaus T. Schmidt with Stefan Zimmer (ed.): Nachgelassene Schriften. 1. Ein westtocharisches Ordinationsritual. 2. Eine dritte tocharische Sprache: Lolanisch. (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie 24.) x, 275 pp. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2018. ISBN 978 3 944 31253 8.

Reviews: Central Asia

Martin Gaenszle (ed.): Ritual Speech in the Himalayas. Oral Texts and Their Contexts. (Harvard Oriental Series 93.) 222 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. £36.95. ISBN 978 0 674 23790 2.

Roland Bielmeier Comparative Dictionary of the Tibetan Dialects (CDTD) – Volume 2: Verbs. (De Gruyter Mouton, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation.) vi, 1104 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. ISBN 978 3 11 045169 6.

Reviews: Southeast Asia

William Pruitt, Yumi Ousaka and Sunao Kasamatsu: The Catalogue of Manuscripts in the U Pho Thi Library, Thaton, Myanmar. xv, 411 pp. Bristol: The Pali Text Society, 2019. ISBN 8 0 86013 524 1.

Reviews: East Asia

Nathan W. Hill: The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese. xiv, 373 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 107 14648 8.

Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler: The Sinitic Languages: A Contribution to Sinological Linguistics. (Collectanea Serica. New Series.) xiii, 322 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978 0 367 18620 3.

Constance A. Cook and Zhao Lu: Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching. xiv, 195 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. $78. ISBN 978 0 190 64845 9.

Anne Birrell: Shamanism in Early China. (McGuinness China Monographs.) xv, 242 pp. Cambridge: McGuinness China Monographs, 2018. ISBN 978 0 9547559 4 2.

Xiaofei Tian: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms. (Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series.) xiv, 454 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. £35.95. ISBN 978 0 674 97703 7.

Lynn A. Struve: The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World. x, 319 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 824 87525 1.

Wilt L. Idema: Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology. (Cambria Sinophone World Series.) x, 341 pp. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 60497 954 1.

Roderich Ptak: China und Asiens maritime Achse im Mittelalter: Konzepte, Wahrnehmungen, offene Fragen. (Das mittelalterliche Jahrtausend.) 61 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. $17.99. ISBN 978 3 11 06295 9.

Xiaorong Li: The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The Fragrant and Bedazzling Movement (1600–1930). (Cambria Sinophone World Series.) x, 331 pp. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. 2019. ISBN 978 160497952 7.

Fan Pan Li Chen (ed. and trans.): Marionette Plays from Northern China. x, 333 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 4384 6483 1.

Mark Bender, Aku Wuwu (translators) and Jjivot Zopqu (transcriber): The Nuosu Book of Origins. A Creation Epic from Southwest China. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) xviii, 173 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. £19.50. ISBN 978 0 295 74569 5.

David Crockett Graham (ed. Hartmut Walravens): More Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.) 329 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag / Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 2018. ISBN 978 3 447 11001 3.

Robert Culp: The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.) xv, 371 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £50. ISBN 978 0 231 18416 8.

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