Volume 119 - April 1987
Reviews of Books
Pagan, the origins of modern Burma. By Michael Aung-Thwin. pp. xii, 264, 4 maps. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press. 1985. $25.00.
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Religionspolitik in Britisch-Indien 1793–1813: christliches Sendungsbewusstsein und Achtung Hinduistischer Tradition im Widerstreit. Von Cornelia Witz. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 98.) pp. viii, 137. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. DM 28.
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The Indian ‘Mutiny’ 1857–58: a guide to source material in the India Office Library and Records. By Rosemary Seton. pp. xvi, 99, 10 pl. London, The British Library, 1986. £12.95.
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Thailand. Compiled by Michael Watts. (World Bibliographical Series, Volume 65.) pp. xlii, 275, maps. Oxford etc., Clio Press. 1986. £38.25.
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Thailand: a short history. By David K. Wyatt. pp. xviii, 351, 22, 13 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1984. £27.50.
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Crime and criminality in British India. Edited by Anand A. Yang. (Association for Asian Studies Monograph XLII.) pp. xii, 192, map. Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1985. US$17.95.
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War in Afghanistan, 1879–80. The personal diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor. Edited by William Trousdale. pp. x, 266, front., illus., 3 maps. Detroit, Wayne State Unversity Press, 1985.
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Six dynasties poetry. By Kang-i Sun Chang. pp. xviii, 216, illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1986. £21.50.
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Islam et société en asie du sud. Études réunies par Marc Gaborieau. (Collection Purusartha, 9.) pp. 203. Paris, Éditions de l'École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. Fr.170.
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Mirages on the sea of time: the Taoist poetry of Ts'ao T'ang. By Edward H. Schafer. pp. vii, 153. Berkeley etc., University of California Press. 1985. £15.25.
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The State and peasant politics in Sri Lanka. By Mick Moore. (Cambridge South Asian Studies No. 34.) pp. xv, 326, 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1985. £30.00.
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Classical Chinese tales of the supernatural and the fantastic, selections from the third to the tenth century. Edited by Karl S. Y. Kao. (Chinese Literature in Translation.) pp. x, 405. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 1985. $27.50.
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Peacock dreams. By Bill Tydd. pp. x, 193. Putney, London, British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA), 1986.
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Eastern Zhou and Qin civilisations. By Li Xueqin. translated by K. C. Chang. (Early Chinese Civilization Series.) pp. xvi, 527, 212 figs. New Heaven and London, Yale University Press. 1985. £55.00.
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Hollands Ruhm in Asien, François Valentyns Vision des Niederlāndischen Imperiums im 18. Jahrhundert. By Jörg Fisch. (Beiträge zur Kolonial- und Überseegeschuchte, Bd. 34.) pp. xx, 166, front., 18 illus. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986. DM 38.
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The survival of empire: Portuguese trade and society in China and the South China Sea. 1630–1754. By George Bryan Souza pp. xx, 282, 9 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press. 1986. £27.50.
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The Chinese transformation of Manichaeism: a study of Chinese Manichaean terminology. By Peter Bryder. pp. xii, 176, Chinese texts, corrigenda and addenda slip. Distributed by Bokförlaget Plus Ultra, Loborod, Sweden. 1985.
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Yogyakarta, cultural heart of Indonesia. By Michael Smithies. pp. ix, 101, 16 col. pl., 6 maps and plans. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press (Oxford Paperbacks), 1986. £4.95. - The temples of Java. By Jacques Dumarçay, translated and edited by Michael Smithies. pp. viii, 101, 21 figs., 12 col. pl., 22 b. and w. pl. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press (Oxford Paperbacks), 1986. £4.95.
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China and the Christian Impact: a conflict cultures. By Jacques Gernet. translated by Janet Lloyd. pp. vii, 310, Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press. Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences et de l'Homme, 1985 (French edition 1982). £30.00. (cloth), £12.50 (paper).
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Family and population in East Asian history. Edited by Susan B. Hanley and Arthur P. Wolf. (Based on a conference sponsored by the joint committees on Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.) pp. xxiv, 360. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press. 1985. US$45.00
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