Volume 119 - Issue 1 - January 1987
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Reviews of Books
Pagan, the origins of modern Burma. By Michael Aung-Thwin. pp. xii, 264, 4 maps. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press. 1985. $25.00.
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Thailand. Compiled by Michael Watts. (World Bibliographical Series, Volume 65.) pp. xlii, 275, maps. Oxford etc., Clio Press. 1986. £38.25.
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Thailand: a short history. By David K. Wyatt. pp. xviii, 351, 22, 13 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1984. £27.50.
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Six dynasties poetry. By Kang-i Sun Chang. pp. xviii, 216, illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1986. £21.50.
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Mirages on the sea of time: the Taoist poetry of Ts'ao T'ang. By Edward H. Schafer. pp. vii, 153. Berkeley etc., University of California Press. 1985. £15.25.
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Classical Chinese tales of the supernatural and the fantastic, selections from the third to the tenth century. Edited by Karl S. Y. Kao. (Chinese Literature in Translation.) pp. x, 405. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 1985. $27.50.
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Eastern Zhou and Qin civilisations. By Li Xueqin. translated by K. C. Chang. (Early Chinese Civilization Series.) pp. xvi, 527, 212 figs. New Heaven and London, Yale University Press. 1985. £55.00.
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The survival of empire: Portuguese trade and society in China and the South China Sea. 1630–1754. By George Bryan Souza pp. xx, 282, 9 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press. 1986. £27.50.
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The Chinese transformation of Manichaeism: a study of Chinese Manichaean terminology. By Peter Bryder. pp. xii, 176, Chinese texts, corrigenda and addenda slip. Distributed by Bokförlaget Plus Ultra, Loborod, Sweden. 1985.
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China and the Christian Impact: a conflict cultures. By Jacques Gernet. translated by Janet Lloyd. pp. vii, 310, Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press. Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences et de l'Homme, 1985 (French edition 1982). £30.00. (cloth), £12.50 (paper).
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Early Chinese texts on painting. Compiled and edited by Susan Bush and Hsio-yen Shih. pp. xii, 391, 8 pl. Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. 1985. £18.25.
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The riverside counselor's stories: vernacular fiction of late Heian Japan. Translated with an introduction and notes by Robert L. Backus. pp. xxxii, 234. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press. 1985. US $35.00.
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Shikitei Sanba and the comic tradition in Edo fiction. By Robert W. Leutner. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 25.) pp. xi, 232. Cambridge, Mass., Council on East Asian Studies and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1985. £17.95.
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The saga of Dazai Osamu: a critical study with translations. By Phyllis I. Lyons. pp. xvi, 410, 9 pl. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1985. US $38.50.
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Population disease and land in early Japan. 645–900. By William Wayne Farris. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 24.) pp. xix, 235, 16 figs., 8 maps. Cambridge, Mass., Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University and Harvard-Yenching Institute. Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1985. £18.50.
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Portuguese merchants and missionaries in feudal Japan. 1543–1640. By C. R. Boxer. (Collected Studies Series CS 232.) pp. vi, 338, 5 illus., maps. London, Variorum Reprints, 1986. £32.00.
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Buddhistische Tempelnamen in Japan. By Dietrich Seckel. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien hrsg. von Wolfgang Bauer, Herbert Franke, Wolfram Naumann, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Band 37.) pp. xii, 318. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden Gmbh, 1985. DM 92. (Summarized in English: Dietrich Seckel, “Buddhist Temple Names in Japan”, Monumenta Nipponica 40:4 (Winter1985), pp. 359–386.)
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Injurious to public morals: writers and the Meiji state. By Jay Rubin. pp. xvi, 331, 12 pl. + errata slip. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1984. US $ 35.00.
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Russia against Japan 1904–05. a new look at the Russo-Japanese war. By J. N. Westwood. pp. ix, 183, 16 pl. map. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1986. £27.50.
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An intellectual history of wartime Japan 1931–1945. By Shunsuke Tsurumi. (Japanese Studies Series.) pp. viii, 136. London etc., KPI, 1986. (First published in Japanese in 1982 by Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo.) £20.00.
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