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maeda ai: text and the city: essays on japanese modernity. (edited and with an introduction by james a. fujii.) xv, 392 pp. durham, nc: duke university press, 2004. $89.95.
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- 06 September 2005, pp. 339-340
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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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OUYANG XIU (trans. RICHARD L. DAVIS): Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. lxxxii, 669 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 147-149
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michael. f. marra (ed. and trans.): kuki shu¯zo¯: a philosopher's poetry and poetics. xi, 357 pp. honolulu: university of hawai'i press, 2004. $56.
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charles k. armstrong: the north korean revolution, 1945–1950. xiii, 265 pp. ithaca and london: cornell university press, 2004. $19.95 paperback.
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- 06 September 2005, pp. 342-343
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PAUL JAKOV SMITH and RICHARD VON GLAHN (eds): The Song–Yuan–Ming Transition in Chinese History. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 221.) x, 528 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. £38.95.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 149-150
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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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DEREK NURSE AND GÉRARD PHILIPPSON (eds): The Bantu Languages. (Routledge Language Family Series.) London: Routledge, 2003. xvii, 708 pages. £170.
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RICHARD VON GLAHN: The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. xii, 385 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004. £36.95.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 151-152
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volker grabowsky and andrew turton (eds): the gold and silver road of trade and friendship: the mcleod and richardson diplomatic missions to tai states in 1837. chiang mai: silkworm books, 2003.
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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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GLEN DUDBRIDGE: The Legend of Miaoshan. (Revised Edition.) (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) x, 159 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. £45.
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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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TANSEN SEN: Buddhism, diplomacy and trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600–1400. xvi, 388 pp. Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. $55.
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ELEANOR B. MORRIS WU: From China to Taiwan: Historical, Anthropological and Religious Perspectives. 274 pp. Sankt Augustin: Monumenta Serica Institute, 2004.
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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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JAMES L. HEVIA: English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. xviii, 387 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. £74.00 (cloth), £18.50 (paper).
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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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HANS J. VAN DE VEN War and Nationalism in China 1925–1945. (RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia.) xii, 377 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £70.
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