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Volume 84 - October 2021

Reviews: East Asia

Thomas Jülch: The Zhengzheng lun by Xuanyi: A Buddhist Apologetic Scripture of Tang China. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series.) lxx, 274 pp. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2019.

Ksenia Chizhova: Kinship Novels in Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. (Premodern East Asia: New Horizons.) xii, 272 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 18789 0.

Li Qiancheng and Robert E. Hegel (trans.): Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. Master of Silent Whistle Studio. xxxvii, 278 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. £30. ISBN 978 0 29574772 9.

Reviews: South Asia

Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie Shokoohy: Bayana: The Sources of Mughal Architecture. xi, 737 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 4744 6072 9.

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Oludamini Ogunnaike: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions. (Africana Religions.) x, 470 pp. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 0 271 08690 3.

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Hans T. Bakker: The Alkhan. A Hunnic People in South Asia. (Companion to Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia. Sources for Their Origin and History.) xiv, 128 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 978 94 93194 00 7.

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Robert Ford Campany: The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020, 260 pp. ISBN 978 0 674 24780 2.

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Reviews: East Asia

Hwisang Cho: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea. (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.) xiii, 276 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. ISBN 978 0 295 74782 8.

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Dániel Balogh (ed.): Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. xxx, 438 pp. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2020. ISBN 978 94 93194 01 4.

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Jonathan A. Silk (editor-in-chief); Richard Bowring, Vincent Eltschinger and Michael Radich (eds): Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II: Lives. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xlvi, 1307 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €410. ISBN 978 90 04 29937 5.

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Martin Bemmann and Sun Hua (eds), Lothar Ledderose (series editor): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 4. Wofoyuan Section D. xii, 612 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; and Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2018. £185. ISBN 978 3 447 11006 8.

Mårten Söderblom Saarela: The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe. (Encounters with Asia.) x, 301 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. £58. ISBN 978 0 8122 5207 1.

Moritz Huber: Lives of Sogdians in Medieval China. (Asiatische Forschungen 160.) xvi, 350 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. €78. ISBN 978 3 447 11380 9.

Nanny Kim: Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700–1850. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xxv, 621 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 41509 6.

Edward Mcdonald: Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions. xx, 275 pp. (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series.) New York: Springer, 2020. ISBN 978 981 13 7595 8.

Yasuhiko Nagano (長野泰彦): 嘉戎語文法研究 (A Reference Grammar of the rGyalrong Language – Bhola Dialect). xxviii, 508 pp. Tokyo: 汲古書院 (Kyuko Shoin), 2018. ISBN 978 4 7629 1227 6.

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