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Volume 115 - January 1983

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Intonation in North Indian Music: A Select Comparison of Theories with Contemporary Practice. By Mark Levy. pp. xi, 224. New Delhi, Biblia Impex Private Ltd., 1982. Rs. 100.

Rindi: an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba. By Gregory L. Forth. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 93.) pp. xvi, 519, 8 pl. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff. 1981. Guilders 145.

Chinese Art of the Warring States period: change and continuity, 480–222 B.C. By Thomas Lawton. pp. 202. Washington, D.C., Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1982. (Distributed by Indiana University Press.)

Commitment to Empire: Prophecies of the Great Game in Asia, 1797–1800. By Edward Ingram, pp. xvi, 431. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981. £22.50.

Han civilization. By Wang Zhongshu [Wang Chung-shu]. Translated By K. C. Chang and collaborators. (Early Chinese Civilizations Series.) pp. xxi, 261. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, [1982]. £24.50.

British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905–1939. By S. R. Ashton. (London Studies on South Asia, No. 2.) pp. xiv, 231. London and Dublin, Curzon Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1982. £6.75.

The Han civilization of China. By Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens. Translated By Janet Seligman. 240 pp. Oxford, Phaidon, 1982. £40.

Catalogue of the Sinhalese Manuscripts in the India Office Library. Compiled by D. J. Wijayaratne in collaboration with A. S. Kulasuriya. Edited by C. H. B. Reynolds, pp. [ii], viii, 73. London, India Office Library and Records, 1981.

Chinese ideas of life and death: faith, myth, and reason in the han period (202 B.C.–A.D. 220). By Michael Loewe. pp. x, 226. London, etc., George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1982. £12.50.

A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan. By G. H. Luce. pp. [iii], xi, 88. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981. £3.

Le règne de l'empereur Hiuan-tsong (713–756). By Lin Lü-chih. Translated and Completed By R. des Rotours. (Mémoires de l'lnstitut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol. XIII.) pp. [iv], xciii, 590. Paris, Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Éludes Chinoises, [1981].

Matériaux pour l'étude de la culture chinoise du Moyen âge: le lo-yang k'ie-lan ki. By Genowefa Zduń. (Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych. Prace Orientalistyczne, Tom XXX.) pp. 161. Warszawa, Pań;stwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1982. Zł. 150.

A Lexicon of Khmer Morphology. By Philip N. Jenner and Saveros Pou. (Mon-Khmer Studies, IX–X, 1980–1981.) pp. [ii], lxiv, 524. [Honolulu], University Press of Hawaii, [1982].

Lyric poets of the Southern T'ang: Feng Yen-ssu, 903–960, and Li Yü, 937–978. By Daniel Bryant, pp. lviii, 151. Vancouver and London, University of British Columbia Press, [1982]. $35.

Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule. By A. C. Milner. (Association for Asian Studies Monograph No. XL.) pp. xxiii, 178. Tucson, University of Arizona Press for the Association for Asian Studies, [1982]. $11.95.

A History of Modern Indonesia, C. 1300 to the Present. By M. C. Ricklefs. (Macmillan Asian Histories Series.) pp. xv, 335. London and Basingstoke, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1981. £16.

Palace women in the Northern Sung, 960–1126. By Priscilla Ching Chung. (T'oung Pao. Monographie XII.) pp. xxi, 129. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1981. Guilders 56.

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