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Volume 8 - April 1998

Book Review

Art and Life in Bangladesh. By Henry Glassie. pp. 511, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 6 colour illustrations, 433 bl. & wh., 8 drawings. Bloomington & Indianapolis, University of Indiana Press, 1997.

Tibet and the British Raj: the frontier cadre 1904–47. By Alex McKay, pp. xxvi, 293. London, Curzon, 1997.

In Praise of Prambanan: Dutch Essays on the Loro Jonggrang Temple Complex. Edited by Roy Jordaan. (Translation series no. 26). pp. 259, bl. & wh. photos, 28, 12 figs. Leiden, KITLV Press, 1996.

Fetish, Recognition, Revolution. By James T. Siegel. pp. x, 276. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1997.

Angkor Wat: Time, Space and Kingship. By Eleanor Mannikka. pp. 341, 209 figs., 14 colour pis. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1996. US $55.00.

Iranian Manichaean Turfan texts in early publications (1904–1934): Photo edition. Edited by Werner Sundermann. (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Supplementary Series, Vol. III), pp. 51, and 192 plates. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996. £60.00

Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire; A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. By Thomas T. Allsen. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), pp. xvi, 137. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. £30.00

The bronze age of Southeast Asia. By Charles Higham. (Cambridge World Archaeology) pp. xvi, 381, illus., map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996., £55.00 (Cloth) £19.95 (Paperback).

Mounted Archers: The Beginnings of Central Asian History. By Laszlo Torday. pp. x, 447, 13 maps. Durham etc., The Durham Academic Press, 1997. £22.50.

Studies on the Jurchens and The Chin Dynasty. By Herbert Franke and Hok-Lam Chan. (Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS591). pp. xiv, 374. Aldershot, U.K. and Brookfield, U.S.A.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997.

Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. By Annabel Walker, pp. xx, 393, 29 illus. 4 maps. London, John Murray, 1995. £25.00.

The Buddhist Forum vol. iv. Edited by Tadeusz Skorupski. pp. 291. London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1996. £18.00.

“St Liyang“: Varianten und Motiv-Transformationen eines mongolischen Spielmannsliedes. Mit mongolischen Text-Transkripten von J. Rinčindorǰi. By Walther Heissig. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 131) pp. vii, 537, 5 plates. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1996.

Taoism: growth of a religion. By Isabelle Robinet, translated by Phyllis Brooks, pp. xx, 296, index. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.

The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought. By Don J. Wyatt. pp. xii, 340, illus., map. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

Philosophy, philology and politics in eighteenth-century China: Li Fu and the Lu-Wang school under the Ch'ing. By Huang Chin-Sheng. pp. 204. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. £30.00, US$49.95.

Das Meihua xishen pu des Song boren aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Ein Handbuch zur Aprikosenblüte in Bildern und Gedichten. By Peter Wiedehage. (Monumenta Serica Monograph series XXXII). pp. 435, illus. Nettetal, Steyler Verlag, 1995.

Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia. By Uradyn E. Bulag. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), pp. x, 302. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998.

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