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Volume 39 - Issue 3 - October 1976

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Derk Bodde: Festivals in classical China: New Year and other annual observances during the Han dynasty, 206 b.c.-a.d. 220. xvii, 439 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press [and] the Chinese University of Hong Kong, [1975]. £10.20.

Michael Loewe: Crisis and conflict in Han China, 104 b.c. to a.d. 9.340 pp., front., plate. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1974. £6.50.

Timoteus Pokora (tr.): Hsin-lun (New treatise) and other writings by Huan T'an (43 s.c.–28 a.d.). (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, No. 20.) 1, 414 pp. + 2 errata sheets. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975. $5.

Paul A. Cohen: Between tradition and modernity: Wang T'ao and reform in late Ch'ing China. (Harvard East Asian Series, 77.) x, 357 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. $16, £8.

Chu-Tsing Li: A thousand peaks and myriad ravines: Chinese paintings in the Charles A. Drenowatz collection. (Artibus Asiae, Supplementum xxx.) 2 vols.: [i], xi, 319 pp.; [vi] pp., 109 plates, 2 maps. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1974. Sw. fr. 156.

Ping-Ti Ho: The cradle of the East: an inquiry into the indigenous origins of techniques and ideas of Neolithic and early historic China, 5000–1000 b.c. xxi, 440 pp., 2 plates. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; New York, London: University of Chicago Press, 1975. $20, £12.

Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner (ed.): The Chinese city between two worlds. (Studies in Chinese Society.) xv, 458 pp., 3 maps [on endpapers]. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £11.)

Colin Mackerras: The Chinese theatre in modern times, from 1840 to the present day. (Chinese History and Society.) 256 pp. London: Thames and Hudson, [1975]. £6.75.

Calvin L. French: Shiba Kōkan: artist, innovator, and pioneer in the Westernization of Japan. (Studies of tke East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xxi, 200 pp. New York, Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1974. $27.50. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press. £12.50.)

Mark R. Peattie: Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's confrontation with the West. xix, 430 pp., 4 plates. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 1975. $16.50, £8.70.

Richard J. Smethurst: A social basis for prewar Japanese militarism: the army and the rural community, xxi, 202 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, [c1974]. $14. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £9.80.)

Carmen Blacker: The catalpa bow: a study of shamanistic practices in Japan. 376 pp., 16 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1975. £8.75.

Võ Phan Thanh: Ca-dao: Vietnamese popular songs. (Études Orientates, No. 5.) [iv], 133 pp. [Bruxelles]: Thanh-Long, 1975.

Thomas Amis Lyman: Dictionary of Mong Njua, a Miao (Meo) language of Southeast Asia. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 123.) 403 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1974.

William Robert Geddes: Migrants of the mountains: the cultural ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. xviii, 274 pp., front., 16 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. £8.50.

Jeremias Van Vliet: The short history of the kings of Siam. Translated by Leonard Andaya from a transcription by Miriam J. Verkuijl-van den Berg. Edited by David K. Wyatt. [i], iv, 97 pp. Bangkok: Siam Society, 1975.

Roger Labatut: Le parler d'un groupe de Peuls nomades: les WoDaaBe Hoorewaalde Dageeja BiBBe Bii Siroma. (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, 6.) 318 pp. Paris: [Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France], 1973.

Graham Connah: The archaeology of Benin: excavations and other researches in and around Benin City, Nigeria, xviii, 266 pp., front., 48 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £14.

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