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Volume 8 - April 1998

Book Review

Preference and Choice in the Confucian Analects. By Pertti Nikkilä. (Studia Orientalia). pp. vii, 177. Helsinki, Societas Orientalis Fennica, 1997.

Li Yong and epistemological dimensions of Confucian philosophy. By Anne D. Birdwhistell. pp. xiv, 285. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. £35.00.

Macau: the Imaginary city, Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present. By Jonathan Porter. pp. xii, 240, illus., maps. Oxford etc., Westview Press, 1996. £20.50.

The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. By John Kieschnick. pp. vii, 218, glossary, bibliography, index. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1997. U.S. $27.00 (paperback).

The Roman Empire in Chinese Sources. By D. D. Leslie and K. H. J. Gardiner, pp. xxvi, 422, 7 maps. Rome, Bardi Editore, 1996.

Word-order change and grammaticalization in the history of Chinese. By Chaofen Sun. pp. xiii, 207. Stanford, Stanford University Press and CUP, 1996. £30.00

ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. Edited by John DeFrancis and others, pp. 920. Richmond, UK, Curzon Press, 1996. £25.00.

The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. By François Jullien, translated by Janet Lloyd, pp. 318, glossary. New York, Zone Books, 1995.

Chŏng Yagyŏng: Korea's challenge to orthodox neo-Confucianism. By Mark Setton. (SUNY Series in Korean Studies) pp. xv, 232, major works, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1997.

Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. By Livia Kohn. pp. xiii, 281, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. $45.00.

Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. By Carol Benedict, pp. xxii, 256, 12 figs, 27 maps. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. £30.00.

Kenmu: Go-Daigo's revolution. By Andrew Goble. pp. xxi, 390. Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1997. £32.50.

The western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan: the lens within the heart. By Timothy Screech. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism.) pp. xiv, 305, 8 col. pl., 149 figs. Cambridge etc., C.U.P., 1996. £50.00

Chinese Academic and Research Libraries: Acquisitions, Collections and Organizations. By Priscilla C. Yu. (Foundations in Library and Information Science) pp. xv, 177. London: JAI Press, 1997. £49.95.

The Expressive Act in Chinese Art: from Calligraphy to Painting. By Jianping Gao. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Aesthetica upsaliensis. Aesthetica Upsaliensis 7). pp. 229, 6 pis. Uppsala, Uppsala University, 1996. SEK 174.

Warriors of the rising sun: a history of the Japanese military. By Robert B. Edgerton. pp. 384. New York and London, W. W. Norton and Company, 1997. £22.00

Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911. By David Der-wei Wang. pp. 433. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

A History of Korea. By Roger Tennant. pp. xii, 318, 7 maps. London, Kegan Paul International1996. £55.00.

Religion in Japan, Arrows to Heaven and Earth. Edited by P. F. Kornicki and I. J. McMullen. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 50) pp. xxv, 315, 7 illus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. £40.00.

Korea's Place in the Sun: a Modern History. By Bruce Cumings. pp. 527, illus. Col. and bl. & wh., maps. New York and London, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. £25.00.

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