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Volume 115 - January 1983

Reviews of Books

Ueda Akinari. By Blake Morgan Young, pp. xi, 177. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, [1982]. $35.

The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: an Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text. Vol. 2. By Colin A. Ronan. pp. xii, 459. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1981. £15.

The formation of the early Meiji legal order: the Japanese code of 1871 and its Chinese foundation. By Paul Heng-chao Ch'en. (London Oriental Series, Vol. 35.) pp. xxii, 204. Oxford, etc., Oxford University Press, 1981. £12.

China: Its History and Culture. By W. Scott Morton, pp. xx, 276. New York, Lippincott and Crowell, [1981]. £7.50.

Kenkenroku: a diplomatic record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–95. By Mutsu Munemitsu. Edited and translated with historical notes by Gordon Mark Berger. pp. xx, 311, front., 2 plates. [Tokyo], University of Tokyo Press, [1982]. (Distributed in G.B. by Global Book Resources, London. £13.50.)

The Taipans: Hong Kong's Merchant Princes. By Colin N. Crisswell. pp. x, 249, 32 pl. Hong Kong, etc., Oxford University Press, 1981. £13.

The Ten Thousand Leaves: a Translation of the Man'yōshū, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry. Vol. I. By Ian Hideo Levy. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. [vii], 409. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1981]. £15.20.

My thirty-three years' dream: the autobiography of Miyazaki Tōten. Translated By Etō Shinkichi and Marius B. Jansen. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xxviii, 298, 4 pl. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1982]. £17.

The great map of mankind: British perceptions of the world in the age of Enlightenment. By P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams, pp. vi, 314, 2 maps [on endpapers]. London, etc., J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1982. £16.50.

Ōkagami: The Great Mirror. Fujiwara Michinaga (966–1027) and his Times. a Study and Translation. By Helen Craig McCullough. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. x, 381. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1980. £12.60.

Meeting Report

Meetings and Lectures at the Society

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The Monkey's Straw Raincoat, and Other Poetry of the Bashō School. Introduced and translated by Earl Miner and Hiroko Odagiri. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xix, 394, 4 pl. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1981]. £20.90.

Meeting Report

Anniversary Meeting

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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan. By Robert Lyons Danly. pp. xii, 355, 15 pl. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, [1981]. £13.95.

Selbstentblössungsrituale: zur Theorie und Geschichte Der Autobiographischen Gattung “Shishōsetsu” in Der Modernen Japanischen Literatur. By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit. pp. xii, 288. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1981. DM 54.

Accounts

Accounts

Index

Index for 1983

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The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. By James Patrie. (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 17.) pp. xi, 174. [Honolulu], University Press of Hawaii, 1982. $7.50.

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JRA volume 115 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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A Short History of Archaeology. By Glyn Daniel. (Ancient Peoples and Places, 100.) pp. 232, 8 pl. London, Thames and Hudson, [1981]. £9.50.

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Volume 115 - January 1983

Reviews of Books

Meeting Report

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Meeting Report

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Accounts

Index

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Front matter

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