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Volume 16 - April 2006

Book Review

Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India. By Tapati Guha-Thakurta. pp. 432. New York, Columbia University Press, 2004.

Tagus to Taprobane: Portuguese Impact on the Socio-culture of Sri Lanka from 1505 AD. By Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya. pp. 459. Dehiwala (Sri Lanka), Tisara Prakasakayo, 2001.

The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947. By Robert J. Blyth. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series). pp. x, 270. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Legends, Tales, and Fables in the Art of Sogdiana. By Boris Marshak, with an appendix by Vladimir A. Livshits. pp. xi, 187. New York, Biblioteca Persica Press, 2002.

Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China. Edited by Roel Sterckx. pp. viii, 264, index. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618–907: The Politics of Paradise. By Tonia Eckfeld. pp. 164. London, Routledge Curzon, 2004.

The Butcher of Amritsar General Reginald Dyer. By Nigel Collett. pp. xvi, 575. London, Hambledon, 2005.

Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art, a Codicological Study of Iranian and Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th–11th Century East Central Asia. By Zsuzsanna Gulácsi. pp. xiv, 253Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2005.

Heidegger, Rorty and the Eastern Thinkers: a hermeneutics of cross-cultural understanding. By Wei Zhang. pp. 127. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006.

Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India. By William Gould pp. xv, 302. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Uma imagem do Japão. A aristocracia guerreira niponica nas cartas jesuitas de Évora (1598). By Ana Fernandes Pinto. Colecção Memória do Oriente, Vol. 20. pp. xix, 254. Macau, Fundação Oriente and Instituto Português do Oriente, 2004.

T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History. By S. A. M. Adshead. pp. xvii, 233Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave McMillan, 2004.

Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China. By Patricia Laurence. pp. xxvi, 488, plates, illust. map, comparative chronology, index of Chinese and British Figures, index, notes, 2 appendices, bibliog. Columbia, South Carolina University Press, 2003.

The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies). By David Webster. pp. xv, 267. London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Academic Nations in China and Japan: Framed in Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal. By Margaret Sleeboom. pp. xx, 220. London and New York, Routledge Curzon, 2004.

Zhong Pu guanxi shi (História Das relações Sino-portuguesas), 1513–1999. By Huang Qinghua. 3 vols. pp. iii, 1430. Hefei, Huangshan shushe, 2005.

Early Buddhist Metaphysics. The Making of a Philosophical Tradition (Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies). By Noa Ronkin. pp. xiii, 279. London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

The Notion of Diṭṭhi in Theravāda Buddhism. The Point of View (RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism). By Paul Fuller. pp. xiv, 257. London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500–1300. By Bruce L. Batten. pp. 183. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Van Vliet's Siam. By Chris Baker, Dhiravat na Pombejra, Alfons van der Kraan and David K. Wyatt. pp. 347. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2005.

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