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Volume 14 - September 1955

Book Reviews

Soviet Policy in the Far East 1944–1951. By Max Beloff. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. vi, 278. Appendix and Index. $4.00.

A Linguistic Study of the Shih Ming (Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XI). By Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1954. xi, 146. Notes, index, bibliography.

Hsien-tai kuo-min chi-pen chih-shih ts'ung-shu (Series of Fundamental Knowledge for Modern citizens) edited and issued by the China Cultural Publishing Foundation, Taipeh, 1952.

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1936 (In Five Volumes), Volume IV, The Far East. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1954. xci, 1012. $4.50.

The Lotus Sutra in Chinese Art. A Study in Buddhist Art to the Year 1000. By J. Leroy Davidson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. xvi, 105. 40 plates. Index. $5.00.

Chinese Railways and British Interests, 1898–1911. By E-Tu Zen Sun. New York: Columbia University, King's Crown Press, 1954. viii, 230. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $4.00.

Hsueh-shu chi-k'an (Academic Review Quarterly), edited and published by the China Cultural Publishing Foundation, Taipeh, 1952.

1200 Chinese Basic Characters for Students of Cantonese. By K. P. K. Whitaker. With an introduction by W. Simon. London: Lund Humphries, 1953. xlii, 316. 25/-.

Chinese Mandarin Squares. By Schuyler Van R. Cammann. Bulletin of the University Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, June, 1953.

Soviet Policies in China, 1917–1924. By Allen S. Whiting. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. x, 350. $5.50.

The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius. By Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954, xvi, 224. $5.00.

Shina bukkyōshi kenkyū: Hokugi hen (Researches on the history of Buddhism in China: the Northern Wei. By Tsukamoto Zenryū . Tokyo: 1942. 654, 28.

The Nien Rebellion. By Siang-Tseh Chiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1954. xvi, 159, including Bibliography and Index. $3.50.

Government and Administration in Communist China. By S. B. Thomas. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 2nd rev. ed., 1955. iii, 196. Mimeographed. $2.75.

The Umbrella Garden, a Picture of Student Life in Red China. By Maria Yen (pseud), with Richard M. McCarthy. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1954. xii, 268. $4.00.

Phi Theta Annual. Papers of the Oriental Languages Honor Society, University of California. Vol. 3. Berkeley, 1952. 87.

Account of the T'ù-hü-hún in the History of the Chin Dynasty. Translated and Annotated by Thomas D. Carroll. Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953. 47. $0.75.

Foreign Relations of the United States. Diplomatic Papers, 1938. 5 vols. Vols. III and IV, The Far East. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1954 and 1955. iii, 768; iii, 638. 53.50, $3.25.

The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance. By Donald Keene. Cambridge Oriental Series No. 4. London: Taylor's Foreign Press, 1951. x, 205. Bibliography, index.

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