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Volume 14 - September 1955

Book Reviews

Shinchō chūkishi kenkyū (A study of mid-Ch'ing history). By Suzuki Chūsel Toyohashi: Aichi Daigaku Kokusai Mondai Kenkyūjo (Aichi University Research Institute on International Problems), 1952, 225. Map.

A Glossary of Chinese Art and Archaeology. By S. Howard Hansford. London: China Society, 1954. xi, 104. Index, 8 plates.

The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia. By John F. Cady. Published for the American Historical Association. New York: Cornell University Press, 1954. xii, 322, including Bibliography and Index. $5.00.

Nien-chün (The Nien army). (6 vols.) Hui-min ch'i-i (The Moslems' revolutions). (4 vols.) Wu-hsü pien-fa (The Reform movement of 1898). (4 vols.) Compiled by Chung-Kuo Shih-Hsüeh-Hui (Chinese Historical Society), and published by Shen-Chou Kuo-Kuang She, Shanghai, 1952 and 1953.

Political Systems of Highland Burma, a Study of Kachin Social Structure. By E. R. Leach. With a foreword by Raymond Firth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, for the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1954. xii, 324. Bibliography, appendices, index. $7.00.

Chinese Calligraphy. By Chiang Yee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2nd ed., 1954. xvi, 230. $6.00.

China's Management of the American Barbarians: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841–1861, with Documents. By Earl Swisher. Far Eastern Association Monograph No. 2. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1953. xxi, 844. $7.50; $6.75 to members of the Far Eastern Association.

Author index to the Bibliotheca Sinica of Henri Cordier. Compiled, issued, and distributed by the East Asiatic Library. New York: Columbia University Library, 1954. iv, 84. $3.50.

Some Dependent Peoples of the South Pacific. By Linden A. Mander. New York: The Macmillan Company, issued under the auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1954. xix, 535. Index.

Structure Drill in Cantonese: First Fifty Patterns. By K. P. K. Whitaker. (No. 4 in the series Structure Drill through Speech Patterns, edited by B. Schindler and W. Simon.) London: Lund, Humphries, 1954. xxix, 101.

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China. By Joseph R. Levenson, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1953, XII, 256 $4.00.

Some Remarks on Rural Industry in Indonesia. (Enige aantekeningen over de nijverheid in Indonesiē) Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. By A. Aten, Rural Industries Specialist, Rural Welfare Branch, Agriculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.

An Annotated Collection of Mongolian Riddles. By Archer Taylor. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series-Volume 44, Part 3. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1954. $12.00.

Shanghai: Key to Modern China. By Rhoads Murphey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. xii, 232. Bibliography, Notes and Index. $4.50.

Matériaux pour l'enseignement élémentaire du chinois. Écriture, transcription, langue parlée nationale. By Paul Demieville. Paris: Librarie D'Amerique Et D'Orient, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1953. ii, 86, 73.

Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao. By David Crockett Graham. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 123, No. 1. Smithsonian Institution, 1954. xi, 336. 24 plates, bibliography, appendix and index.

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