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Volume 5 - Issue 1 - April 1995

Book Review

Wood carvings of eastern india. By Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta. pp. xi, 160. 14 pl. Calcutta, Firma KLM Private Ltd., 1990. Rs. 450.

Amaravati. Buddhist sculpture from the Great Stupa. By Robert Knox. pp. 247, illus. in col. & bl. & wh., map. London: British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1992. £40.00.

Indo-Sino-Tibetica: studi in onore di Luciano Petech. Edited by Paolo Daffinà. (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Studi Orientali pubblicati dal Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, IX.) pp. ix, 433, illus. Rome, Bardi Editore, 1990.

The Ngor mandalas of Tibet. Listings of the mandala deities. by bSod nams rgya mtsho, revised by Musashi Tachikawa, Shunzo Onoda, Keiya Noguchi and Kimiaki Tanaka. (Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum, 4.) pp. xiv, 245. Tokyo, The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1991. Yen 6300.

Kṣembndra's Bodhisattvâvadānakalpalatā. Studies and materials. By Marek Mejor. (Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series VIII.) pp. vi, 108. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1992.

Maldives. By C. H. B. Reynolds (World Bibliographical Series, 158.) pp. xix, 93, map. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1993. £20.00.

Dutch colonialism and Indonesian Islam. Contacts and conflicts 1596–1950. By Karel Steenbrink, Translated by Jan Steenbrink and Henry Jansen (Currents of Encounter, 7.) pp. 170, 8 illus., map. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia, Rodopi, 1993.

Experimental Studies in Indonesian Prosody. Edited By Cecilia Odé and Vincent J. van Heuven, with the assistance of Ellen van Zanten. (Semaian 9.) pp. vi, 214. Leiden, Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azié en Oceanié, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1994. DFL 40.00.

The canon of supreme mystery. By Yang Hsiung. A translation with commentary by Michael Nylan. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) pp. xiv, 680, 19 figs. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993. US $74.50.

The plum in the golden vase or, Chin P'ing Mel Vol. I. The gathering. Translated by David Tod Roy. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. civ. 610, 40 illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1993. US $39.95.

Learning from Mount Hua: a Chinese physician's illustrated travel record and painting theory. By Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb. (Res Monographs on Anthropology and Aesthetics.) pp. xiv, 229, 8 col. pl., 46 bl. and wh. illus. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £50.00.

Transcending turmoil: paintings at the close of China's empire 1796–1911. By Claudia Brown and Ju-hsi Chou. pp. 368, illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Phoenix, Ariz., Phoenix Art Museum, distrib. by University of Arizona Press, 1992. US $49.95.

Descriptive catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700. By K. B. Gardner, pp. 912, 30 col., 300 bl. and wh. illus. London, The British Library; Tenri, Nara, Japan, Tenri Central Library, Tenri University, 1994. £245.00.

Central authority and local autonomy in the formation of early modern Japan. The case of Kaga domain. By Philip C. Brown, pp. xx, 312, 8 figs., 5 maps. Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press, 1993. £35.00.

The autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi. From peasant to entrepreneur. Translated with an introduction and notes by Teruko Craig, pp. xxiii, 192, front. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1994.

Japan among the powers 1890–1990. By Sydney Giffard. pp. xxi, 218, map. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1994. £19.95.

The culture of flowers. By Jack Goody, pp. xvii, 462, 19 col. illus., 42 bl. and wh. illus. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £40.00 (cloth), £13.95 (paperback).

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