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Volume 117 - Issue 2 - April 1985

Reviews of Books

Jinnah of Pakistan. By Stanley Wolpert. pp. xii, 421, 2 maps, 19 pl. New York etc., Oxford University Press, 1984. $24.95 (£22.50).

Setting the East ablaze; Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia. By Peter Hopkirk. pp. 252, 27 pl., 2 maps. London, John Murray, 1984. £10.95.

Die politische Stellung der Sikhs innerhalb der Indischen Nationalbewegung 1935–1947. By Christine Effenberg. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 94.) pp [ii], 232. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. DM 44.

Canal Irrigation in British India: perspectives on technological change in a peasant economy. By Ian Stone. (Cambridge South Asian Studies.) pp. xiv, 375, p pl., 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984, £30.00.

The Assamese: religion, caste and sect in an Indian village. By Audrey Cantlie. (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Studies on South Asia, No. 3.) pp. xiii, 322, 14 maps. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1984. £10.50.

Tibetan paintings: a study of Tibetan thangkas 11th–19th centuries. By Pratapaditya Pal. pp. viii, 225, 115 colour plates, 12 monochrome illus. London and Pennsylvania, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd for Ravi Kumar, Sotheby Publications, 1984. £42.50.

Catalogue du Kanjur tibétain de l'édition de 'Jang sa-tham. Seconde partie. Texte en Translitération. By Yoshiro Imaeda. (Bibliographia Philologica Buddhica. Series Maior, IIb) pp. 112. Tokyo, International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1984.

A gambling style of government: the establishment of the Chartered Company's rule in Sabah, 1878–1915. By Ian Black. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) pp. x, 254, 8 pl., maps. Kuala Lumpur etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £18.50.

Myth and meaning in early Taoism: the theme of chaos (hun-tun). By N. J. Girardot. (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religion.) pp. xiv, 422, illus. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1983. £26.20.

The literary works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007–72). By Ronald C. Egan. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. vi, 269. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £30.00.

Seventeenth century Macau in contemporary documents and translations. Edited and translated by C. R Boxer, pp. xii, 214, front, illus. Hong Kong etc., Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1984.

A mosaic of the hundred days: personalities, politics and ideas of 1898. By Luk S. K. Kwong. pp. x, 356. Cambridge, Mass., Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984. £16.00.

Politics and sinology: the case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934). By Joshua A. Fogel. (Harvard East Asian Monographs 114.) pp. xxiv, 420, front. Cambridge, Mass., Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1984. £17.60.

The Cambridge History of China, vol. 12. Republican China 1912–1949, part 1. Edited by John K. Fairbank. pp. xviii, 1002. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1983. £50.00.

The Chinese language — fact and fantasy. By John DeFrancis. pp. x, 331, illus., 1 map. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

The Shogun Age Exhibition. Edited by the Shogun Age Exhibition Committee, pp. 280, 273 colour plates, map, charts, glossary. Tokyo, The Shogun Age Exhibition Committee, 1984. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle.) $50.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

State and diplomacy in early modern Japan: Asia in the development of the Tokugawa bakufu. By Ronald P. Toby (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) pp. xviii, 309, illus. 2 maps, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £26.00.

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