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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 1 - Issue 3 - July 1991

Book Review

Essays in comparative Altaic linguistics. By Denis Sinor. (Indian University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 143.) pp. x, 454. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1990.

The history and the life Of Chinggis Khan. Translated and annotated by Urgunge Onon. pp. xix, 183, map. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1990. Dfl. 118, US$59.00.

The misson of Friar William of Rubruck: his journey to the court of the Great Khan MÖngke 1253–55. Translated by Peter Jackson, introduction, notes and appedices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan. (Second series, Vol. 173) pp. 312, front., 4 maps. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1990. £25.00.

Essays on the history and Buddhism of Burma. By U Than Tun, edited by Paul Strachan. pp. viii, 185. Arran, Kiscadale Publications, no date. £17.50.

In the center of authority: the Malay Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa. By Hendrik M.J. Maier. (Studies on Southeast Asia, 4.) pp. 210. Ithaca, NY, Southeast Asia Program Cornell University, 1988. US$14.00.

Chinesische Manichaica: mit textkritischen Anmerkungen und einmen Glossar. Edited and translated by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer.(Studies in Oriental Religions, Vol. 14.) pp. viii, 184, 18 pp. Chinese text. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987.

An introduction to the civil service of Sung China: with emphasis on its personnel administration. ByWinston W. Lo.. pp. xii, 297. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1987. US$36.00.

Chinese lyricists of the seventeenth century. By David R. McCraw. pp. xii, 193. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1990, US$24.00.

The butterfly as companion: meditation on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu. By Kuang-Ming Wu.(Suny Series in Religion and Philosophy.) pp. xiv, 512. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1990. US$56.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in medieval Japan By James C. Dobbins. (Religion in Asia and Africa Series.) pp. xi, 242, front. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989. U.S. $3500.

Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology. Compiled and edited by Helen Craig McCullough. pp. xvii, 578. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1990. U.S. $60.00.

Japanische Handschriften und traditionelle Drucke aus der Zeit vor 1868 in Bochum. Compiled by Eva Kraft. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland Bd. XXVII, 4.), pp. xxi, 151, 7 pl. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. DM 106.

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