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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 121 - January 1989

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Born in fire: the Indonesian struggle for independence. An anthology. Edited by Colin Wild and Peter Carey, pp. xxviii, 215, front., illus. Published by arrangement with BBC Publications by Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1988. £25.60 (cloth), £12.30 (paperback).

Die Kalang: eine Volksgruppe auf Java und ihre Stamm-Mythe. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Javas. By Friedrich Seltmann. pp. 430, illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM 244.

Singapore. Compiled by Stella R. Quah and Jon S. T. Quah. (World Bibliographical Series. Vol. 95.) pp. xv, 258, map. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1988. £36.00.

The tale of the Heike. Translated with an introduction by Helen Craig McCullough. pp. 489, front, illus., maps. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1988. US $60.00.

Musui's story: the autobiography of a Tokugawa samurai. by Katsu Kokichi, translated with an introduction and notes by Teruko Craig, pp. xxi, 178, 6 col. pl., 6 b. and w. illus., 2 maps. Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1988. US $19.95.

East Asian civilizations: a dialogue in five stages. By Wm. Theodore de Bary. (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, 1986.) pp. xi, 160. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1988. £15.95.

Korean music: its history and its performance. by Keith Pratt, pp. 279, 142 col. illus., 51 figs., 2 maps, cassette tape with 12 recordings. London, Faber Music Ltd. in association with Jung Eum Sa Publishing Corp., Seoul, 1987. £45.00.

Studien und Texte zur Kriegsgeschichte der südlichen Sungzeit. By Herbert Franke. (Asiatische Forschungen, Monographienreihe zur Geschichte, Kultur und Sprache der Völker Ost- und Zentralasiens. Band 102.) pp. ix, 335, 6 illus., 2 maps. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 132.

The Sino-Judaic bibliographies of Rudolf Loewenthal. Edited by Michael Pollak. (Bibliographica Judaica 12.) pp. xiii, 208. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press in association with the Sino-Judaic Institute, Palo Alto, California, 1988. US $20.00.

Musica Asiatica 5. Edited by Richard Widdess. pp. vi, 269, illus. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1988. £45.00.

The China consuls: British consular officers, 1843–1943. By P. D. Coates. pp. xii, 619, 16 pl., map (on end papers). Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1988. £21.00.

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Brocade river poems: selected works of the Tang dynasty courtesan Xue Tao. Translated and introduced by Jeanne Larsen. (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation.) pp. xxvii, 107. Princeton, NJ., Princeton University Press, 1987. £13.70 (cloth), £6.35 (paperback).

Gems of Chinese poetry from The Book of Songs to the present. Edited and translated by. Ding Zuxin and Burton Raffel. pp. viii, 179, 2 illus. Liaoning, Liaoning University Press and Hamden, Conn., The Shoe String Press Inc., 1986. Distributed by Clio Distribution Services, Oxford. £15.25.

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The reading of imagery in the Chinese poetic tradition. By Pauline Yu. pp. xi, 239. Princeton, NJ., Princeton University Press, 1987. £19.70.

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