Volume 117 - April 1985
Reviews of Books
Tibetan thangka painting, methods and materials. By David P. Jackson and Janice A. Jackson, pp. 182, 185 illustrations. London, Serindia Publications, 1984. £18.50.
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A gambling style of government: the establishment of the Chartered Company's rule in Sabah, 1878–1915. By Ian Black. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) pp. x, 254, 8 pl., maps. Kuala Lumpur etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £18.50.
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Myth and meaning in early Taoism: the theme of chaos (hun-tun). By N. J. Girardot. (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religion.) pp. xiv, 422, illus. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1983. £26.20.
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Burmese administrative cycles: anarchy and conquest, c. 1580–1760. By Victor B. Lieberman. pp. xvii, 338, 4 maps. Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £37.00.
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The literary works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007–72). By Ronald C. Egan. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. vi, 269. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £30.00.
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Melaka – the transformation of a Malay capital c. 1400–1980. Edited by Kernial Singh Sandhu and Paul Wheatley. 2 vols.: pp. xxix, 816, front., 32 plates; pp. xxix, 784, front., 20 plates. Kuala Lumpur etc., Oxford University Press for Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983. £120.
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Seventeenth century Macau in contemporary documents and translations. Edited and translated by C. R Boxer, pp. xii, 214, front, illus. Hong Kong etc., Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1984.
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Descriptive catalogue of the Javanese manuscripts and printed books in the main libraries of Surakarta and Yogyakarta. By Nicholas Girardet. pp. xix, 1128. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 190.
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A mosaic of the hundred days: personalities, politics and ideas of 1898. By Luk S. K. Kwong. pp. x, 356. Cambridge, Mass., Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984. £16.00.
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The three worlds of Bali. By J. Stephen Lansing. (Praeger Special Studies. Praeger Scientific), pp. xv, 171, map (on endpapers); illustrations and figures in text. New York, Praeger, 1983.
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Politics and sinology: the case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934). By Joshua A. Fogel. (Harvard East Asian Monographs 114.) pp. xxiv, 420, front. Cambridge, Mass., Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1984. £17.60.
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Science and civilisation in china. By Joseph Needham. Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part II: Agriculture. By Francesca Bray. pp. xxviii, 724, 271 illustrations. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £50.00.
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Concepts of health, disease and vitality in traditional Chinese society: a psychological interpretation. By N. H. Van Straten. Based on the research materials of Georg Koeppen. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Band 34) pp. vii, 193. Franz Verlag GMBH, Wiesbaden, 1983. DM 46.
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The Cambridge History of China, vol. 12. Republican China 1912–1949, part 1. Edited by John K. Fairbank. pp. xviii, 1002. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1983. £50.00.
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The Chinese language — fact and fantasy. By John DeFrancis. pp. x, 331, illus., 1 map. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
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The art of rulership: a study in ancient Chinese political thought. By Roger T. Ames. pp. xvii, 277. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1983. US.$25.00.
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Philosophy and argumentation in third-century China: the essays of Hsi K'ang. Translated by Robert G. Henricks. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), pp. x, 214. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1983. £25.80.
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The Shogun Age Exhibition. Edited by the Shogun Age Exhibition Committee, pp. 280, 273 colour plates, map, charts, glossary. Tokyo, The Shogun Age Exhibition Committee, 1984. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle.) $50.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
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State and diplomacy in early modern Japan: Asia in the development of the Tokugawa bakufu. By Ronald P. Toby (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) pp. xviii, 309, illus. 2 maps, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £26.00.
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Goddesses, ghosts and demons: the collected poems of Li He (790–816). Translated with an introduction by J. D. Frodsham. (Poetica 15.) pp. lix, 290. London, Anvil Press Poetry Ltd., 1983. £10.00 (Revised edition of The Poems of Li Ho (791–817). Translated by J. D. Frodsham. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970).
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