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Johannes Kalter (ed.): The arts and crafts of the Swat Valley: living traditions in the Hindu Kush. 180 pp. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1991. £19.95. - Jaya Jaitly (ed.): Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Photographed by Kamal Sahai. 299 pp. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.; Middleton, NJ.: Grantha Corporation, 1990. £29.95.
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Gisèle Krauskopff: Maitres et possédés: les rites et I'ordre social chez les Tharu (Népal). 273 pp. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1989. Fr. 215.
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William Bright: Language variation in South Asia. xiv, 169 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. £28.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 161-162
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Sreemati Chakrabarti: China and the Naxalites. viii, 185 pp. London: Sangam Books; New Delhi, Radiant Publishers: 1990. £17.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 162-163
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Shirin Akiner (ed.): Cultural change and continuity in Central Asia. xi, 377 pp. London: Kegan Paul International; Central Asia Research Forum, 1991. £55.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 163-165
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Urgunge Onon (ed. and tr.): The history and the life of Chinggis Khan (The Secret History of the Mongols). xix, 183 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990. Guilders 95.
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Roberte Hamayon: La chasse à l'âme: esquisse d'une théorie du chamanisme sibérien. 880 pp., 8 plates. Nanterre: Société d'ethnologie, 1990.
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Edwin G. Pulleyblank: Lexicon of reconstructed pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin. vii, 488 pp., errata slip. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. (Distributed by UCL Press, London, £45).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 167-168
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Erhard Rosner: Die Heilkunst des Pien Lu: Arzt und Krankheit in bildhaften Ausdrücken der chinesischen Sprache. (Münchner Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 55.) 216 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. DM 60.
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey (ed. and tr.): Chu Hsi’s Family rituals: A twelfth-century manual for the performance of cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xxxi, 234 pp. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1991. $39.50.
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Kiyohiko Munakata: Sacred mountains in Chinese art. vii, 200 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991. $39.95.
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C. Y. Shen Fu [and] Jan Stuart (tr.): Challenging the past: the paintings of Chang Dai-chien. 328 pp. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art [and] University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1991. $70 (paper $35).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 171-172
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Craig Clunas: Superfluous things: material culture and social status in early modern China, ix, 219 pp. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. £35.
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Robert Joe Cutter: The brush and the spur: Chinese culture and the cockfight. xiv, 255 pp., foldout plate. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1989. US$28.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 173-174
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Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema (ed. and tr.): Wang Shifu: The moon and the zither: the story of the Western Wing. With a study of its woodblock illustrations by Yao Dajuin. xiii, 503 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1991. $34.95.
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Lee H. Yearley: Mencius and Aquinas: theories of virtue and conceptions of courage. (Towards a Comparative Philosophy of Religions.) xiv, 280 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. $49.50 (paper $16.95).
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Graham Parkes (ed.): Nietzsche and Asian thought, xii, 253 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. £21.95, $31.75.
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Yeh Wen-Hsin: The alienated academy: culture and politics in Republican China, 1919–1937. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 148.) xv, 449 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, Council on East Asian Studies, 1990.
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Yue-Man Yeung and Hu-Wei Hu (ed.): China’s coastal cities: catalysts for modernization, xv, 390 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $38.
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Yun-Wing Sung: The China-Hong Kong connection: the key to China's open-door policy. Trade and Development series, xiv, 183 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £30.
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