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Volume 2 - April 1992

Book Review

The Ngor Mandalas of Tibet. Plates. By bSod nams rgya mtsho and Musashi Tachikawa. (Bibliotheca Codicm Asoatocorum 2.) pp. xxxv, 8 col. pl., bl. and wh. pl., 2 diagrams. Tokyo, The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies. 1989. US $49.00.

Tibet: civilisation et société. Colloque organisé par la Fondation Singer-Polignac à Paris, Les 27, 28, 29 Avril 1987. Edited by Fernand Meyer. pp. 204, 53 figs. Paris, Éditions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac and Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. 1990. FF.190.

Early temples of Central Tibet. By Roberto Vitali. pp. 150, front., 85 col. pi., 23 bl. and wh. photographs, map, diagrams London, Serindia Publications, 1990. £29,50.

Sumatran politics and poetics: Gayo history, 1900–1989. By John R. Bowen. pp. xiv, 298, 22 illus., 5 maps, 2 figs. new Heaven and London, Yale University Press, 1991. £18.95.

Islam and ethnicity in Malay politics. By Hussin Mutalib. (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs) pp. xv211Singapore etc., Oxford University Press. 1990. £19.50.

Caves of the thousand Buddhas: Chinese art from the Silk Route. By Roderrick Whitfield and Anne Farrer. with contributions by S.J. Vainker and Jessica Rawson. Edited by Anne Farrer. pp. 208. front., 151 col., 75 bl. and wh. illus. London, British Museum Publications, 1990. £19.95.

Indonesia in focus. Ancient traditions–modern times. Edited by Peter Homan and Reimar Schefold. Vincent Deccer and Nico de Jonge. pp. 161, numerous col. illus., London, Kegan Paul International, 1991. £25.00.

Men of the cliffs and caves: the development of the Chinese eremitic tradition to the end of the Han dynasty. By Art Vervoorn. pp. xii, 356. Hong Knog, The Chinese University press, 1990. US $29.00.

Exile in mid-Qing China: banishment to Xingiang, 1758–1820. By Joanna Waley-Cohen. pp. xv, 267, 3 figs., 3 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1991. £22.50.

The chosen one: succession and adoption in the court of Ming Shizong. By Carney T. Fisher. (A.N.U. Dept. of Far Eastern History II. Asian Studies Association of Australia III. East Asia Series.) pp. x, 230. I illus. Sydbey etc., Allen ' Unwin, 1990. £12.95.

China, Britain and Hong 1895–1945. By Chan Lau Kit-Ching. pp. xxiv, 479. 30 illus. Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press, 1990. US $30.00.

The private life of old Hong Kong: Western woman in the British colony 1841–1941. By Susanna Hoe. pp. xviii, 327, 16 pl., Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1991. £9.95.

The shape of the turtle: myth, art and cosmos in early China. By Sarah Allan. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) pp. xi230 65 figs. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press. 1991.

Scholar gardens of China: a study and analysis of the special design of the Chinese Private garden. By R. Stewart Johnston. pp. xix, 331, front., 8 col. pl., 320 bl. and wh. illus. map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1991. £85.00.

Understanding the Chinese mind: the philosophical roots. Edited by Robert E. Allinson. pp. vi316. Hong Kong etc., oxford University Press. 1991. First published 1989. £9.95.

A Chinese-English dictionary of enigmatic folk similes. Compiled by John S. Rohsenow. pp. xx, 324, front., illus. Tucson, Aziz., University of Arizona Press, 1991. US $45.00.

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