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CHRISTIAN HENRIOT: Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai: a social history, 1849–1949. xviii, 467 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. £52.50.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 117-119
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DAVID SMITH: Hinduism and Modernity. (Religion in the Modern World.) xii, 250 pp. Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. £15.99.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 254-256
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NICOLA DI COSMO: Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. ix, 369 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £47.50.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 417-419
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BROOK ZIPORYN: The Penumbra unbound: the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) ix, 186 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. $22.95.
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ENAMUL HAQUE: Studies in Bengal Art Series: No. 4, Chandraketugarh: A Treasure-House of Bengal Terracottas. 416 pp., 678 plates. Dhaka: The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 2001. US $50.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 256-258
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THOMAS A. WILSON (ed.): On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 217.) xiv, 424 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. £29.95.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 419-421
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ALICE TISDALE HOBART: Oil for the lamps of China. xix, 432 pp. Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2003. $14.95. CARL CROW: 400 million customers. xvii, 318 pp. Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2003. $14.95.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 121-122
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HUGH B. URBAN: Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal. xi, 187 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £35. HUGH B. URBAN: The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal. xvii, 286 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £45.
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BERNARD FAURE (ed.): Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. (Routledge Curzon Studies in Asian Religion.) ix, 320 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. JOHN R. MCRAE: Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. xx, 204 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 421-423
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FA-TI FAN: British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. xii, 238 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. £32.95.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 423-424
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SVEN BRETFELD: Das Singhalesische Nationalepos von König Dutthaga¯mani¯ Abhaya: Textkritische Bearbeitung und Übersetzung der Kapitel VII.3–VIII.3 der Rasava¯hini¯ des Vedeha Thera und Vergleich mit den Paralleltexten Sahassavatthuppakarana und Saddharma¯lanka¯raya. (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie.) cxxviii, 276 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2001. €96.12.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 260-262
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PIERRE FRANÇOIS SOUYRI (trans. Käthe Roth): The world turned upside down: medieval Japanese society. (Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture.) xxiv, 280 pp. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2001. $34.50.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 122-124
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CHAN E. PARK: Voices from the straw mat: toward an ethnography of Korean story telling. (Hawai‘i Studies on Korea.) xii, 338 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. $44.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 124-126
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REBECCA E. KARL and PETER ZARROW (eds): Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs.) x, 273 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 425-426
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TOM EVERETT-HEATH (ed.): Central Asia: Aspects of Transition. ix, 290 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £21.99.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 262-264
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KEITH FOULCHER and TONY DAY (ed.): Clearing a space: postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Institut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde no. 202.) viii, 381 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002. €30.
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TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI: The Buddhist Forum, Volume VI. ix, 269 pp. Tring: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2001.
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- 16 July 2004, p. 266
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RICHARD E. STRASSBERG (ed. and trans.): A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. xxii, 314 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002.
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GRAYSON LLOYD and SHANNON SMITH (ed.): Indonesia today: challenges of history. (Indonesia Assessment Series, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) xxii, 359 pp. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and Lanham MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
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JAMES H. COLE: Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages. 2 vols. xxxii, 1427 pp. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. £189.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 427-429
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