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Volume 39 - February 1976

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Ray Huang: Taxation and governmental finance in sixteenth-century Ming China. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) xvi, 385 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1974. £8.75.

Derk Bodde: Festivals in classical China: New Year and other annual observances during the Han dynasty, 206 b.c.-a.d. 220. xvii, 439 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press [and] the Chinese University of Hong Kong, [1975]. £10.20.

Roy Andrew Miller (ed. and tr.): ‘The footprints of the Buddha’: an eighth-century Old Japanese poetic sequence. (American Oriental Series, Vol. 58.) x, 185 pp. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1975. [9¾ × 8½ inches.]

Michael Loewe: Crisis and conflict in Han China, 104 b.c. to a.d. 9.340 pp., front., plate. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1974. £6.50.

Richard J. Miller: Ancient Japanese nobility: the kabane ranking system. (University of California Publications. Occasional Papers, No. 7.) xi, 209 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1974. $9. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £5.85.)

John K. Fairbank (ed.): The missionary enterprise in China and America. (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 6.) [ix], 444 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. $15, £7.50.

Harold Bolitho: Treasures among men: the fudai daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. (Yale Historical Publications. Miscellany, 101.) xiv, 278 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974. $15, £5.60.

Ellsworth C. Carlson: The Foochow missionaries, 1847–1880. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 51.) [vii], 259 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, 1974. (Distributed by Harvard University Press. $8.50, £4.25.)

Timoteus Pokora (tr.): Hsin-lun (New treatise) and other writings by Huan T'an (43 s.c.–28 a.d.). (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, No. 20.) 1, 414 pp. + 2 errata sheets. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975. $5.

Alfons Weidert: Componential analysis of Lushai phonology. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV—Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 2.) xi, 139 pp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1975. Guilders 30.

J. D. Frodsham (tr.): The first Chinese embassy to the West: the journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-Jiung and Chang Te-yi. lxv, 222 pp., 8 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. £4.

David K. Wyatt (ed. and tr.): The crystal sands: the chronicles of Nagara Śrī Dharrmarāja. (Data Paper No. 98.) xvii, 264 pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1975. $6.50.

Paul A. Cohen: Between tradition and modernity: Wang T'ao and reform in late Ch'ing China. (Harvard East Asian Series, 77.) x, 357 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. $16, £8.

Alfonso Verdu: Dialectical aspects in Buddhist thought: studies in Sino-Japanese Mahāyāna idealism. (International Studies, East Asian Series. Research Publication, No. 8.) vii, 273 pp. + errata slip. [Lawrence, Kansas]: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, [C1974]. $15.

Bernard S. Silberman and H. D. Harootunian (ed.): Japan in crisis: essays on Taishō democracy. viii, 469 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1974]. $17.50, £9.20.

Charles Lee Keeton 3rd: King Thebaw and the ecological rape of Burma: the political and commercial struggle between British India and French Indo-China in Burma, 1878–1886. xii, 436 pp., front., 12 plates, map. Delhi: Manohar Book Service, 1974. Rs. 75.

Chu-Tsing Li: A thousand peaks and myriad ravines: Chinese paintings in the Charles A. Drenowatz collection. (Artibus Asiae, Supplementum xxx.) 2 vols.: [i], xi, 319 pp.; [vi] pp., 109 plates, 2 maps. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1974. Sw. fr. 156.

Ping-Ti Ho: The cradle of the East: an inquiry into the indigenous origins of techniques and ideas of Neolithic and early historic China, 5000–1000 b.c. xxi, 440 pp., 2 plates. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; New York, London: University of Chicago Press, 1975. $20, £12.

Thomas R. H. Havens: Farm and nation in modern Japan: agrarian nationalism, 1870–1940. xi, 358 pp. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, [1974]. $15, £7.90.

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