Volume 122 - April 1990
Reviews of Books
The formation of Ch'an ideology in China and Korea: the Vajrasamādhi-Sūtra, a Buddhist Apocryphon. By Robert E. BuswellJr, (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xviii, 315, 8 pl. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1989. US $39.50.
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Who is a Sikh? The problem of Sikh identity By W. H. McLeod. pp. xi, 140. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, £19.50.
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Bronze, clay and stone: Chinese art in the C. C. Wang family collection. By Annette L. Juliano. pp. 184, illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Published by Hsi An T'ang. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1988. US $45.00.
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Nepali: a national language and its literature. By M. J. Hutt, pp. xii, 252, map. London, School of Oriental and African Studies and New Delhi, Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1988. £12.00.
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Nepalese Manuscripts. Part 1: Nevārī and Sanskrit. Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. By Siegfried Lienhard with the collaboration of Thakur Lal Manandhar. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band XXXIII, 1.) pp. xxxiii, 222, 4 col. pl., 12 bl. and wh. pl. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988. DM 174.
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Handbook of the Oriental Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art. By John H. Seto with contributions by Betty Gosling, Bryding Adams Henley, Pratapaditya Pal and Donald A. Wood. pp. 224, front., 182 illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1988. US $22.50.
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Imperial life in the Qing dynasty: treasures from the Shenyang Palace Museum, China. Edited by Grace Wong and Goh Eck Kheng. pp. 118, illus. in col. Singapore, Landmark Books for Historical and Cultural Exhibitions Singapore Pte Ltd, 1990. Distributed by Gazelle Book Service, Lancaster. £18.95.
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhután and the Maldives. Edited by Francis Robinson, pp. 520, illus. in col. and bl. and wh., maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £30.00.
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Southeast Asia in the age of Commerce 1450–1680. Volume One: the lands below the winds. by Anthony Reid. pp. xvi, 275, illus., 4 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. £20.00.
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The Oxford-Duden pictorial Chinese & English dictionary. Simplified character edition, pp. 853, 384 illus. Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1989. £25.00.
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In search of Southeast Asia: a modern history. Edited by David Joel Steinberg, pp. xi, 590, 5 maps and figs. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1987. £17.00.
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Understanding peasant China: case studies in the philosophy of social sciences. By Daniel Little, pp. xi, 322, 6 figs., 6 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. US $36.00, £25.00.
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The commerce in rubber: the first 250 years. by Austin Coates. pp. xv, 380, 50 pi., 3 maps (2 on endpapers). Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1987. (Commissioned by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association.) £25.00.
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Lordship and inheritance in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura sōryō system. By Jeffrey P. Mass. pp. xii, 332, map. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1989. US $38.50.
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Burmese entrepreneurship: creative response in the colonial economy. by Aung Tun Thet. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 126.) pp. xvi, 197. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. DM 36.
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The green archipelago: forestry in preindustrial Japan. By Conrad Totman. (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book.) pp. xiii, 297, 8 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1989.
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Tea in Japan: essays on the history of Chanoyu. Edited by Paul Varley and Kumakura Isao. pp. xi, 285, 8 col. pl., 16 bl. and wh. pl. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. US $25.00.
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A full hearing: orality and literacy in the Malay world. By Amin Sweeney, pp. ix, 338. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1987. US $37.50.
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Documents Graphiques de la conservation d'Angkor 1963–1973. By J. Dumarçay. La fouille du Sras-Srang. By Paul Courbin. (École Françhise d'Extrême-Orient, Collection de Textes et Documents sur l'lndochine, XVII.) pp. 59, 89 pl., 58 other illus. and figs. Paris, École Françhise d'Extrême-Orient, 1988.
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Books Received
Other Books Received for Review
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