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Timothy Brook: ‘Praying for power’: Buddhism and the formation of gentry society in Late-Ming China. (Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series, Vol. 38.) xvii, 403 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1993. $40.
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William H. NienhauserJr. (ed.): Ssu-ma Ch'ien, The Grand Scribe's records. Vol. I: The basic annals of pre-Han China. Vol. VII: The memoirs of pre-Han China. Transl. by Tsai-fa Cheng, Zongli Lu, William H. Nienhauser Jr. and Robert Reynolds, xliv, 251 pp., 3 maps; xxxii, 396 pp., 3 maps. Bloomington and Indianopolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. $34.95, $39.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 596-598
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Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey: The assembly of listeners: Jains in society. xiii, 328 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £32.50, $54.50. - Marcus Banks: Organizing Jainism in India and England. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology.) xviii, 264 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. £35.
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Thomas A. Wilson: Genealogy of the Way: the construction of and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, xiv, 378 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. $49.50.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 598-599
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Kai-Wing Chow: The rise of Confucian ritualism in late imperial China: ethics, classics, and lineage discourse. x, 344 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. $45.
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Sabine Dabringhaus: Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752–1835). (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 69.) 296 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. DM 124.
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Donald S. LopezJr. (ed.): Buddhism in practice, xvi, 608 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. $59.50, £47.50 (paper $19.95, £14.95).
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H. W. Wagenaar (comp.) and S. S. Parikh (ed.): Allied Chambers transliterated Hindi-Hindi-English dictionary. xxii, 1149 pp. New Delhi: Allied Chambers (India) Ltd., 1993. £22.50.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 396-397
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Linda Cooke Johnson (ed.): Cities of Jiangnan in late imperial China. (SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies.) xiii, 310 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $19.95.
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Laurie Zivetz: Private enterprise and the state in modern Nepal. xii, 248 pp. Madras, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1992. £10.95.
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Stevan Harrell: Cultural encounters on China's ethnic frontiers, vii, 379 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. $35.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 599-601
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James Manor (ed.): Nehru to the nineties: the changing office of prime minister in India. x, 261 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1994. £35 (paper £12.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 398-399
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Kenneth Dean: Taoist ritual and popular cults of southeast China. xiv, 209 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. £24.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 189-190
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Martin W. Huang: Literati and self-re/presentation: autobiographical sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel. xii, 237 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. (Distributed by Cambridge University Press. £27.50.)
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Bina Agarwal: A field of one's own: gender and land rights in South Asia. (South Asian Studies, 58.) xxi, 572 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £24.95, $34.95.
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Alan Hunter and Kim-Kwong Chan: Protestantism in contemporary China. (Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion.) xix, 291 pp. Cambridge, etc.Cambridge University Press, 1993. £35, $64.95.
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Henry Y. H. Zhao and John Cayley (ed.): Under-sky underground (Chinese Writing Today, 1.) 247 pp. London: Wellsweep Press, 1994. £7.95, $14.95.
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Søren Clausen and Stig Thøgersen: The making of a Chinese city: history and historiography in Harbin. (Studies in Modern China.) xvi, 236 pp. London and Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995, $22.50.
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Stephen P. Huyler: Painted prayers: women's art in village India. 204 pp. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. £40.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 400-401
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Boudewijn Walraven: Songs of the shaman: the ritual chants of the Korean mudang. x, 307 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1994. £45.
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