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Volume 44 - Issue 1 - February 1981

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James Cahill: Parting at the shore: Chinese painting of the early and middle Ming dynasty 1368–1580. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 281 pp., 106 plates. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1978.

Michael Sullivan: Symbols of eternity: the art of landscape painting in China. xiii, 205 pp., map. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1979. £10.

Delmer M. Brown and Ichirō Ishida (ed. and tr.): The future and the past. A translation of the Gukanshō: an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219. xiv, 479 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1979. £15.

Peter Judd Arnesen: The medieval Japanese Daimyō: the Ōuchi family's rule of Suō and Nagato. x, 246 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. £11.

Masao Miyoshi: As we saw them: the first Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860). xi, 232 pp., front. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1979. £9, $14.95.

Winfried Boscher: Wörterbuch Vietnamesisch-Deutsch. Unter Mitarbeit von Phan Trung Liên. 738 pp. Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, 1978. M. 77.

Hetty Nooy-Palm: The Sa'dan Toraja: a study of their social life and religion. Vol. I: Organization, symbols and beliefs. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 87.) xii, 338 pp., 16 plates. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979.

L. F. Brakel (ed. and tr.): The story of Muhammad Hanafiyyah: a medieval Muslim romance. (Bibliotheca Indonesica, 16.) viii, 131 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.

Colin N. Crisswell: Rajah Charles Brooke: monarch of all he surveyed. xiii, 253 pp., front., 16 plates, map [on endpapers]. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1978. £11.50.

R. A. L. H. Gunawardana: Robe and plough: monasticism and economic interest in early medieval Sri Lanka. (The Association for Asian Studies. Monographs and Papers No. xxxv.) xii, 377 pp., 3 maps. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1979. $9.50 (paper $5.95).

G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville: The Mombasa rising against the Portuguese, 1631: from sworn evidence. (Union Académique Internationale. Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia I.) lvii, 116 pp., front., 3 plates. London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1980. £32.50.

Richakd Borshay Lee: The !Kung San: men, women, and work in a foraging society. xxv, 526 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1979. £22.50 (paper £7.95).

Wendy James: 'Kwanim Pa: the making of the Uduk, people: an ethno-graphic study of survival in the Sudan-Ethiopian borderlands. xiv, 304 pp., front., 10 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1979. £15.

Ernest Emenyonu: The rise of the Igbo novel. xxiii, 212 pp. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1978. £11.95.

Short Notices

Kurt Bittel: Beitrag zur kenntnis hethitischer Bildkunst. (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-hist. Klasse, Jg. 1976, 4. Abh.) 27 pp., 12 plates. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1976. DM 24.

Samuel Noah Kramer: From the poetry of Sumer: creation, glorification, adoration, [v], 104 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1979. £7.

S. M. Burstein: The Babyloniaca of Berossus. (Sources for the Ancient Near East, Vol. I, Fasc. 5.) 44 pp. Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1978. $3.30.

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