Central and Inner Asia
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INGRID KREIDE-DAMANI (ed.): Dating Tibetan Art: Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne. (Contributions to Tibetan Studies, 3.) 135 pp. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2003. €35.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 485-487
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ANN HEYLEN: Chronique du Toumet-Ortos: Looking through the Lens of Joseph van Oost, Missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921). (Leuven Chinese Studies XVI.) 409 pp. Leuven/Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2004. €39.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 487-489
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East Asia
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DRU C. GLADNEY: Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and other Subaltern Subjects. xvii, 414 pp. London: Hurst, 2004. £25.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 489-491
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JAMES Z. GAO: The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) x, 339 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. $50.
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SARAH HANDLER: Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture. vi, 233 pp. Berkeley and Toronto: Ten Speed Press, 2005. $50.
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KEITH MCMAHON: The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China. xi, 249 pp. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. £18.95.
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GÖRAN AIJMER New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times. viii, 180 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003. $32.
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RODERICH PTAK: China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang. Oceans and Routes, Regions and Trade (c. 1000–1600). (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 777.) xii, 304 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. £60.
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South-East Asia
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KATHARINE L. WIEGELE: Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory.) xi, 207 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. $21.
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Africa
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DEREK NURSE AND GÉRARD PHILIPPSON (eds): The Bantu Languages. (Routledge Language Family Series.) London: Routledge, 2003. xvii, 708 pages. £170.
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RUTH WATSON: ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’: Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City. (Western African Studies.) xii, 180 pp. Oxford, Athens, and Ibadan: James Currey, Ohio University Press, and Heinemann Educational Books, 2003. £45.00 (cloth); £16.95 (paper).
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 502-503
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DIANE B. STINTON: Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. (Faith and Culture Series.) xiv, 303 pp. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. £17.99.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 504-505
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ANDREW B. SMITH: African Herders: Emergence of Pastoral Traditions. xvii, 251 pp. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005. $27.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 505-507
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General
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SIMON P. JAMES: Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. (Ashgate World Philosophies Series.) viii, 142 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. £50.
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MICHAEL PYE: Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism. (Second Edition.) xi, 209 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. £21.99.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 508-510
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HAE-KYUNG UM (ed.): Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions. xi, 235 pp. Abingdon: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. £65.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 510-512
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