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Volume 80 - October 2017

Reviews: East Asia

Stephen Durrant , Wai-Yee Li , Michael Nylan and Hans Van Ess : The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's Legacy. xi, 178 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. $40. ISBN 978 0 295 99544 1.

Reviews: South Asia

Rajeev Kinra : Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. (South Asia Across the Disciplines.) xix, 371 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. £27.95. ISBN 978 0 520 28646 7.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Ismail E. Erünsal : Osmanlılarda Kütüphaneler ve Kütüphanecilik. 728 pp. Istanbul: TİMAŞ, 2015 (2nd ed.) ISBN 978 605 08 1943 4. - Ismail E. Erünsal : Osmanlılarda Sahaflık ve Sahaflar. 581 pp. Istanbul: TİMAŞ, 2013. ISBN 978 605 08 1180 3.

Richard Foltz : Iran in World History. (The New Oxford World History.) xiv, 151 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 19 933549 7.

Reviews: South Asia

Imma Ramos : Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati. xi, 126 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. £90. ISBN 978 1 4724 8944 9.

Reviews: East Asia

Matthew H. Sommer : Polyandry and Wife-selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions. xiii, 478 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 520 28703 7.

Reviews: South Asia

Aditya Malik : Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas. xx, 295 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £64. ISBN 978 0 19 932509 2.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Sherry Sayed Gadelrab : Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. x, 204 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN 978 1 78076 751 2.

Reviews: East Asia

Jennifer Eichman : A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections. (Sinica Leidensia.) xv, 422 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 90 04 30513 7.

Reviews: South Asia

Oliver Kahl : The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian Sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies.) xiv, 487 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2015. €146. ISBN 978 90 04 29025 9.

Reviews: East Asia

Robert Ford Campany: A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China. xliv, 164 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. $26. ISBN 978 0 8248 5350 1.

Reviews: South Asia

Reviews: Central Asia

Donald S. Lopez and Thupten Jinpa : Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit's Quest for the Soul of Tibet. viii, 302 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. £23.95. ISBN 978 0674 65970 4.

Reviews: East Asia

Luca Gabbiani (ed.): Urban Life in China, 15th–20th Centuries: Communities, Institutions, Representations. (Études thématiques 27.) Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2016.

Reviews: South Asia

Audrey Truschke : Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. xiii, 362 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. £44. ISBN 978 0231173629.

Reviews: East Asia

Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West (eds): Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language. xxxii, 186 pp. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 2016. £14.99. ISBN 978 1 62466 523 3.

Lothar Ledderose (series editor): Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, vol. 3 (edited by Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua ). xi, 488 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2016. ISBN 978 3 447 10588 0.

Bent Lerbæk Pedersen : Catalogue of Yao Manuscripts. (The Royal Library, Copenhagen: Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections [COMDC], vol. 10.3.) xii, 126 pp. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016. £100. ISBN 978 87 7694 184 0.

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