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Volume 4 - November 1994

Book Review

Money, markets and trade in early Southeast Asia. The development of indigenous monetary systems to ad 1400. By Robert S. Wicks. (Studies on Southeast Asia.) pp. xiv, 354, 76 maps, tables and figs. Ithaca, NY, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992.

Music and musical thought in early India. By Lewis Rowell. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) pp. xvii, 409, front. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992. £47.25 (cloth), £19.25 (paperback).

Southeast Asia in the early modern era. Trade, power and belief. Edited by Anthony Reid. (Asia East by South.) pp. xvi, 286, 14 illus., 6 maps. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1993. US $45.00 (cloth), US $17.55 (paperback).

Power and religiosity ina post-colonial setting: Sinhala Catholics in contemporary Sri Lanka. By R. L. Stirbat. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 87.) pp. xx, 231, 4 figs., 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £35.00.

Performance in Java and Bali: studies of narrative, theatre, music, and dance. Edited by Bernard Arps. pp. xi, 244, illus. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993. £10.00.

Earth to heaven: the royal animal-shaped weights of the Burmese empires. By Donald and Joan Gear. pp. xvii, 299, 69 photos, 130 drawings, 4 maps. Harrow, Twinstar Ltd., 1992. £38.00.

The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia. Vol. 2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Nicholas Tarling. pp. xi, 706, 6 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £55.00.

China: a new history. By John King Fairbank. pp. xvii, 519, 48 illus., 24 maps. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1992. £22.25.

South East Asia: a Guide to reference material. By Andrew Dalby. (Regional Reference Guides, 2). pp. xiv, 302. London etc., Hans Zell, 1993. £55.00.

Burmese Puppets. By Noel F. Singer. (Images of Asia.) pp. xii, 98, 20 col. illus., 25 bl. and wh. illus., map on end papers. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £9.95.

The writing of official history under the T'ang. By Denis Twitchett. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. xi, 290. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £30.00.

L'europe et le Slam du xvie au xviiie siècle: apports culturels. By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h. (Collections Recherches Asiatiques. Travaux du Centre d'histoire et Civilisations de la Péninsule Indochinoise.) pp. 302, 16 col. pl, 16 bl. and wh. pl., 3 figs. Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1993.

The fall of The Jurchen Chin: Wang E's memoir of Ts'ai-chou under the Mongol siege (1233–1234). By Hok-lam Chan. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Band 66.) pp. ix, 181, 2 maps. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 68.

Javanese shadow puppets. By Ward Keeler. (Images of Asia.) pp. vii, 72, 16 col. illus., 20 bl. and wh. illus., map on end papers. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £9.95.

Hindu Gods at Sukhodaya. By M. C. Subhadradis Diskul, English version by the author and A. B. Griswold. pp. xv, 132, illus. Bangkok, White Lotus Co. Ltd., 1990.

Shanghai sojourners. Edited by Frederic WakemanJr. and Wen-hsin Yeh. (China Research Monograph 40.) pp. xi, 362, map. Berkeley, California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992. US $20.00.

Looking in odd mirrors: the Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier and W. van der Molen. (Semaian 5.) pp. x, 326. Leiden, Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. Dfl. 40.

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