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Volume 116 - April 1984

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Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan: Catalogue Des Sites Archéologiques D'Afghanistan, Asie Centrale. By Warwick Ball and Jean-Claude Gardin. (Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. Synthèse, No. 8.) 2 vols.: pp. 304; 305–561 + 2 errata leaves. Paris, A.D.P.F., 1982, Fr. 210.

The Tale of Li Wa: Study and Critical Edition of a Chinese Story from the 9th Century. By Glen Dudbridge. (Oxford Monographs Series no. 4). pp. vii, 204. London: Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, 1983. £12.50.

Chinese Theater from its Origins to the Present Day. Edited by Colin Mackerras. pp. ix, 220, 16 pl. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1983. US $19.95.

Études D'iconographie Islamique: Quelques Objets Numineux Des Turcs et Des Mongols. By Jean-Paul Roux. (Cahiers Turcica.) pp. 113, 39 pl. Leuven, Editions Peeters. [For the] Association pour la Développement des Études Turques, Paris, 1982. Bel.fr. 500.

The World of K'ung Shang-Jen, A Man of Letters in Early Ch'ing China. By Richard E. Strassberg. (Studies in Oriental Culture, Number 17). pp. xxiv, 456, front. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $36.50.

Index Islamicus, 1976–1980. Compiled by J. D. Pearson and Wolfgang Behn. 2 vols.: pp. xliii, 539; xii, 348. London, Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1983. £75.

Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China. By Gilbert Rozman. pp. ix, 154. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1982. £18.50.

Guests in the Dragon: Social Demography of a Chinese District, 1895–1946. By Burton Pasternak, pp. xi, 190. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $45.50.

Anglo-Chinese Relations 1839–1860: A Calendar of Chinese Documents in the British Foreign Office Records. By J. Y. Wong. (Oriental Documents VII). pp. xv, 398. Oxford etc., Oxford University Press for the British Academy, [1983]. £25.00.

A New Fragmentary Gilgit Manuscript of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra. Edited by Oskar Von Hinüber. pp. xvii, 101, front. Tokyo, Reiyukai, 1982. Yen 8,000.

Theories of the Arts in China. Edited by Susan Bush and Christian Murck. pp. xxvi, 447. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1983. US $58.50.

The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta. Vol. 2: The Tibetan Version with Facing English Translation. Edited and translated by R. E. Emmerick. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Supplementbd. 23, 2.) pp. viii, 482. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM180.

La Jungle et le Fumet des Viandes: Un Thème Écologique Dans la Médecine Hindoue. By Francis Zimmerman. (Hautes Études.) 256 pp. [Paris], Gallimard, Le Seuil, [1982] Fr. 125.

Cultural Atlas of China. By Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. pp. 237. Oxford, Phaidon, [1983]. £17.50.

Einführung in Die Japanische Sprache. By Bruno Lewin, Wolfram Muller-Yokota and Michio Fujiwara. pp. viii, 382. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 58.

The Ramayana in Historical Perspective. By H. D. Sankalia. pp. xv, 205, 16 pl. Delhi, etc., Macmillan India Ltd., 1982. Rs.80.

The Divine Consort: Rādhā and the Goddesses of India. Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff. (Berkeley Religious Studies Series.) pp. xviii, 414, 4 pl. [Berkeley], Graduate Theological Union in Cooperation with Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, [c1982].

Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei. Translated by Burton Watson. (Translations from the Oriental Classics). pp. xxxiii, 116. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $20.00.

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