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Volume 47 - Issue 3 - October 1984

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Christoph Harbsmeier: Aspects of Classical Chinese syntax. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph Series, No. 45.) vii, 303 pp. London and Malmö; Curzon Press, 1981. £10.
J. S. Freundlich
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24 December 2009, pp. 581-583
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Ronald C. Miao: Early mediaeval Chinese poetry: the life and verse of Wang Ts'an (A.D. 177–217). (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 30.) xxi 328 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 46.
Tao Tao Liu Sanders
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24 December 2009, p. 583
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Jerome Silbergeld: Chinese Painting style: media, methods and principles of form. xi, 68 pp., 48 Plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1982. $37.50, £21 (Paper $18.50, £10.50).
Craig Clunas
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24 December 2009, pp. 583-584
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Nancy Ing (ed.): Winter plum: contemporary Chinese fiction. (Asian Library Series, No. 32.) xxiv, 498 pp. Taipei: Chinese Materials Center, 1982
Sen Ma
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24 December 2009, pp. 584-585
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Nancy Ing (ed. and tr.): Summer glory a collection of contemporary Chinese poetry. (Asian Library Series, 31.) xxiii, 171 pp. Taipei: Chinese Materials Center, 1982.
G. B. Lee
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24 December 2009, p. 585
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Prescott Clarke and J. S. Gregory (ed.): Western reports on the Taiping a selection of documents. xxx, 454 pp. London: Croon Helm, 1982 [pub. 1983]. £19.95.
C. A. Curwen
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24 December 2009, pp. 585-587
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Roderick MacFarquhar: The origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960. xvii, 470 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the East Asian Institute of Columbia University and the Research Institute on International Change of Columbia University, 1983. £22.50.
David S. G. Goodman
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24 December 2009, pp. 587-588
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Susan L. Shirk: Competitive comrades: career incentives and student strategies in China. xii, 231 pp. Berkeley, Los Angles and London: University of california Press, 1982. £18, $31.
R. F. Ash
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24 December 2009, p. 588
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Irena Powell: Writers and society in modern Japan. (St. Antony's/Macmillan Series.) xv, 149 pp. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1983. £20.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnerit
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24 December 2009, pp. 588-589
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A Burmese-English dictionary. Vol. VI. Complited under the direction of the late J. A. Steward and of C. W. Dunn. Revised and edited by Hla Pe, A. J. Allott and J.W.A. Okell. [III], 361–73. pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981.
D. Bernot
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24 December 2009, pp. 589-591
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Verena Reichle: Bawm Language end lore: Tibeto-Burman area. (European University Studies/Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe xxi: Linguistik. Bd. 14.) x, 255 pp. Bern, Frankfurt am Main and Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1981. SFr. 45.90.
E. J. A. Henderson
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24 December 2009, pp. 591-592
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Nicholas Tarling: The burthen, the risk, and the glory: a biography of Sir James Brooke. x, 465 pp., 4 plates. Kuala Lumper, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1982. £28.
John Bastin
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24 December 2009, pp. 592-593
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Christine Dobbin: Islamic revivalism in a changing peasant economy: Central Sumatra, 1784–1847. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph series, No. 47.) xii, 300 pp. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1983.
Ruth Mcvey
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24 December 2009, pp. 593-594
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Derek Freeman: Margard Mead and Samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropolgical myth. xvii, 379 pp., 6 Plates. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.
G. B. Milner
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24 December 2009, pp. 594-597
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I. M Lewis (ed.): Nationalism and self determination in the Horn of Africa. ix, 226 pp. London: Ithaca Press, 1983. £6.
Christopher Clapham
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24 December 2009, pp. 597-599
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Werner J. Lange: History of the Southern Gonga (Southwestern Ethiopia). (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 61.)[xviii], 348 pp., 12 Plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982. DM 78.
David Turton
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24 December 2009, p. 599
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Siegmund Brauner and N. V. Ochotina (ed.): Studien zur national-sprachlichen Entwicklung in Afrika:soziolinguistische und sprachpolitische Probleme. (Studien über Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika, Bd. 34.) 284 pp. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag1982. M 18.
Theodora Bynon
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24 December 2009, pp. 599-601
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Robert H. Bates: Essays on the political economy of rural Afica. (African Studies Series, 38.) [viii], 178 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £17.50, $29.50.
Richard Jeffries
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24 December 2009, p. 601
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Pierre Nougayrol: Le day de Bouna II: Lexique day-franÇais. Index franÇais-day. (Bibliothêque de la SELAF, 77–8.) 178 pp. Paris: SELAF, 1980.
Norbert Cyffer
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24 December 2009, pp. 601-603
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P. Akụjụọobi Nwachukwu: Towards an Igbo literary standard. viii, 88 pp. London, Boson and Melbourne: Kegan paul International for the International African Insitute, 1983. £.7.95.
Kay Williamson
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24 December 2009, pp. 603-604
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Christoph Harbsmeier: Aspects of Classical Chinese syntax. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph Series, No. 45.) vii, 303 pp. London and Malmö; Curzon Press, 1981. £10.

Ronald C. Miao: Early mediaeval Chinese poetry: the life and verse of Wang Ts'an (A.D. 177–217). (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 30.) xxi 328 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 46.

Jerome Silbergeld: Chinese Painting style: media, methods and principles of form. xi, 68 pp., 48 Plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1982. $37.50, £21 (Paper $18.50, £10.50).

Nancy Ing (ed.): Winter plum: contemporary Chinese fiction. (Asian Library Series, No. 32.) xxiv, 498 pp. Taipei: Chinese Materials Center, 1982

Nancy Ing (ed. and tr.): Summer glory a collection of contemporary Chinese poetry. (Asian Library Series, 31.) xxiii, 171 pp. Taipei: Chinese Materials Center, 1982.

Prescott Clarke and J. S. Gregory (ed.): Western reports on the Taiping a selection of documents. xxx, 454 pp. London: Croon Helm, 1982 [pub. 1983]. £19.95.

Susan L. Shirk: Competitive comrades: career incentives and student strategies in China. xii, 231 pp. Berkeley, Los Angles and London: University of california Press, 1982. £18, $31.

Irena Powell: Writers and society in modern Japan. (St. Antony's/Macmillan Series.) xv, 149 pp. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1983. £20.

A Burmese-English dictionary. Vol. VI. Complited under the direction of the late J. A. Steward and of C. W. Dunn. Revised and edited by Hla Pe, A. J. Allott and J.W.A. Okell. [III], 361–73. pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981.

Verena Reichle: Bawm Language end lore: Tibeto-Burman area. (European University Studies/Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe xxi: Linguistik. Bd. 14.) x, 255 pp. Bern, Frankfurt am Main and Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1981. SFr. 45.90.

Nicholas Tarling: The burthen, the risk, and the glory: a biography of Sir James Brooke. x, 465 pp., 4 plates. Kuala Lumper, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1982. £28.

Christine Dobbin: Islamic revivalism in a changing peasant economy: Central Sumatra, 1784–1847. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph series, No. 47.) xii, 300 pp. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1983.

Derek Freeman: Margard Mead and Samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropolgical myth. xvii, 379 pp., 6 Plates. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

I. M Lewis (ed.): Nationalism and self determination in the Horn of Africa. ix, 226 pp. London: Ithaca Press, 1983. £6.

Werner J. Lange: History of the Southern Gonga (Southwestern Ethiopia). (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 61.)[xviii], 348 pp., 12 Plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982. DM 78.

Siegmund Brauner and N. V. Ochotina (ed.): Studien zur national-sprachlichen Entwicklung in Afrika:soziolinguistische und sprachpolitische Probleme. (Studien über Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika, Bd. 34.) 284 pp. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag1982. M 18.

Robert H. Bates: Essays on the political economy of rural Afica. (African Studies Series, 38.) [viii], 178 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £17.50, $29.50.

Pierre Nougayrol: Le day de Bouna II: Lexique day-franÇais. Index franÇais-day. (Bibliothêque de la SELAF, 77–8.) 178 pp. Paris: SELAF, 1980.

P. Akụjụọobi Nwachukwu: Towards an Igbo literary standard. viii, 88 pp. London, Boson and Melbourne: Kegan paul International for the International African Insitute, 1983. £.7.95.

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