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Volume 117 - April 1985

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The thought of Chang Tsai (1020–1077). By Ira E. Kasoff. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions), pp. xiii, 209. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. £30.00.

Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history. Compiled by Janet E. Hunter, pp. xvi, 347, 3 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1984. £29.90 (cloth), £10.05 (paper).

A history of writing, by Albertine Gaur. pp. 224, 133 pl. London, The British Library, 1984. £15.00.

Confucianism and autocracy: professional elites in the founding of the Ming dynasty. By John W. Dardess. pp. ix, 358. Berkeley etc. University of California Press, 1983. £26.95

Shamans, lamas and evangelicals: the English missionaries in Siberia. By C. R. Bawden. pp. xviii, 382, 31 pl., 2 maps. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. £29.50.

A complete book concerning happiness and benevolence: a manual for local magistrates in seventeenth-century China. By Huang Liu-Hung. Edited and translated by Djang Chu. pp. xvi, 656. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1984. US$37.50.

Discovering history in China – American historical writing on the recent Chinese past. By Paul A. Cohen, pp. xix, 237. New York, Columbia University Press, 1984. US$32.50.

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Eastern banking: essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Edited by Frank H. H. King (The Hong Kong Bank Group History Series No. 1) pp. XVI, 791, front, 12 pl. London, Athlone Press, 1983. £35.00.

Hitomaro and the birth of Japanese lyricism. By Ian Hideo Levy. pp. ix, 174, Princeton, N. J. etc., Princeton University Press, 1984. £18.50.

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Murasaki Shikibu: her diary and poetic memoirs. Translated by Richard Bowring. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), pp. xiii, 290, 8 plates. Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1982. £21.70.

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Index for 1985

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Kanazawa: a seventeeth-century Japanese castle town. By James L. McClain. (Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, 128.) pp. xiii, 209. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, [C1982]. £17.00.

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List of Fellows

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Japanese society: tradition, self and the social order. By Robert J. Smith. (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) pp. xii, 176. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1983. £12.50.

The women of Suye Mura. By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell. pp. xxxvii, 293, 15 plates. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1982. £6.00.

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