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Volume 116 - April 1984

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Paññāsa-Jātaka, or Zimme Paṇṇāsa (In The Burmese Recension). Vol. II (Jātakas 26–50). Edited by Padmanabh S. Jaini. (Text Series, No. 173.) pp. xliii, 309–584. London, Pali Text Society, 1983. (Distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul. £22.50.).

Voyage to Tonking in the Year Át-Hợi (1876). By P. J. B. Trương-Vĩnh-Ký. Translated and edited by P. J. Honey, pp. [vi], 127. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1982. £7.

Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. By Austin Hale. (Trends in Linguistics. State-of-the-Art Report 14.) pp. vii, 213. Berlin, etc., Mouton Publishers, [1982]. DM 92.

Der Aus Dem Lotos Entstandene: Ein Beitrag Zur Ikonographie Und Ikonologie Des Padmasambhava Nach Dem Rin Chen Gter Mdzod. By Christa Klaus. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 85.) pp. [vi], 187, 18 pl. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1982. DM 68

Catalogue du Kanjur Tibétain De L'Édition De 'Jang Sa-Tham. Première Partie. Édition En Fac-Similé Avec Introduction. By Yoshiro Imaeda. (Bibliographia Philologica Buddhica. Series Maior, IIa.) pp. 104. Tokyo, International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1982.

Das Asaraγči Neretü-Yin Teüke Des Byamba Erke Daičing Alias Šamba Jasaγ (Eine Mongolische Chronik Des 17. Jahrhunderts). Translated by Hans-Rainer Kämpfe. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 81.) pp. x, 211. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 98.

Early Medieval Chinese Poetry: The Life and Verse of Wang Ts'an (A.D. 177–217). By Ronald C. Miao. (Münchener Ostasiatiasche Studien, Bd. 30.) pp. xxi, 328. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, GmbH, 1982. DM 46.

Poems on Poetry: Literary Criticism By Yuan Hao-Wen (1190–1257). By John Timothy Wixted. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 33.) pp. xvi, 482. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 66.

Missionary Journalist in China: Young J. Allen and his Magazines, 1860–1883. By Adrian A. Bennett, pp. xii, 324. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, [1983].

The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. By Michael H. Hunt. pp. xiii, 416. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. $36.

Ding Ling's Fiction: Ideology and Narrative in Modern Chinese Literature. By Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker. (Harvard East Asian Series, 98.) pp. xiii, 196. Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. £16.

Kume-Lieder Und Kume: Zu Einem Problem Der Japanischen Frühgeschichte. By Nelly Naumann. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. XLVI, 2.) pp. vii, 142. Wiesbaden, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, 1981. DM 40.

Ukifune: Love in the Tale of Genji. Edited by Andrew Pekarik. (Companions to Asian Studies.) pp. xv, 278, front., 24 pl. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. $32.50.

A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari. Introduction and translation by Thomas H. Rohlich. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xi, 247. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1983]. £25.80.

The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale. Translated by Rosette F. Willig. pp. xi, 248. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1983. $19.50.

Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu. By Kenneth Alan Grossberg. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 99.) pp. xii, 208. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1981. (Distributed by Harvard University Press. £10.50.)

Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History. Edited by Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy. pp. xii, 411. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, [1983]. $22.50.

Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition. Edited by Tetsuo Najita and J. Victor Koschmann. pp. x, 456. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1982]. £31.70.

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