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Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2008

SOUTH ASIA

Book Review

K. R. Norman: Collected Papers (Vol. VIII.). xviii, 383 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £32. ISBN 978 086013 431 2.

CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA

Book Review

George Lane: Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. (Daily Life through History.) xxiv, 315 pp. Westport, CT: The Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 978 0313332265.

Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn (eds), In Collaboration With Ernest Tucker: History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods. xx, 604 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €128.

Daniel Prior: The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph. (Turcologica.) xviii, 155 pp., CD. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €68. ISBN 3 447 05138 8.

EAST ASIA

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Lars Peter Laamann: Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China. Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720–1850. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia.) xiv, 204 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £65. ISBN 0 415 29779 6.

Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A. D. Stefanowska (eds): Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.–618 C.E. xxx, 410 pp. Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. $99.95. ISBN 978 0 7656 1750 7.

Frances Wood: The First Emperor of China. ix, 209 pp. London: Profile Books, 2007. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 84668 032 8.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford (eds): Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. (Harvard East Asian Monographs.) xx, 625 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2006. £38.95. ISBN 978 0 674 02127 3.

Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens and Stacie Matsumoto (eds): Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. x, 450 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. £32.50. ISBN 0 8248 3013 7.

Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (eds): Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.(Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series.) xv, 345 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £21.99. ISBN 978 0 415 36185 9.

Robert E. Buswell Jr (ed): Religions of Korea in Practice. (Princeton Readings in Religions.) xx, 542 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 11347 5.

Jae Jung Song: The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context. xv, 185 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £65. ISBN 0 415 32802 0.

SOUTH-EAST ASIA

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John N. Miksic: Historical Dictionary of Ancient Southeast Asia. (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras.) xlix, 497 pp. Lanham, MD, Toronto and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2007. £76. ISBN 0 810 855 244.

AFRICA

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Richard Fardon: Lela in Bali: History through Ceremony in Cameroon. (Cameroon Studies.) xiv, 162 pp. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006. £37.50. ISBN 1 84545 215 1.

Saheed A. Adejumobi: The History of Ethiopia. (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations.) xx, 219 pp. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. £25.95. ISBN 0 313 32273 2.

GENERAL

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SHORT NOTICES

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Hilmi Yavuz: Seasons of the Word: Selected Poems. (Middle East Literature in Translation.) xiv, 118 pp. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2007. £11.50. ISBN 0 8156 0879 9.

Piotr Michalowski and Niek Veldhuis (eds): Approaches to Sumerian Literature. Studies in Honour of Stip (H. L. J. Vanstiphout). (Cuneiform Monographs.) vi, 247 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. €90. ISBN 9004 15325 X.

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Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2008

SOUTH ASIA

Book Review

CENTRAL AND INNER ASIA

Book Review

EAST ASIA

Book Review

SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Book Review

AFRICA

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GENERAL

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SHORT NOTICES

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