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Volume 10 - November 2000

Book Review

Fidalgos, missionários e mandarins. Portugal e a China no século xvi. By Rui Manuel Loureiro. (Orientalia, i.). pp. 736. Lisbon, Fundaçāo Oriente, 2000.

Altruism and Reality. Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. By Paul Williams, pp. xii, 272. Richmond, Curzon, 1998.

Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Edited by David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, and John Whelpton (Studies in Anthropology and History Vol. 20). pp. xv, 623. Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.

Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Edited by Hyung Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini. (Korea Research Monograph 26.) pp. 230. Berkeley, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, 1998.

Magic Coins of Java, Bali and the Malay Peninsula: Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries. By Joe Cribb. pp. 288, figs. 52. London, The British Museum Press, 1998. £75.00.

The Peoples of Bali. By Angela Hobart, Urs Ramseyer and Albert Leemann. pp. xiii, 274. Oxford, Blackwell, 1996. £35.00.

Embassies in the East: The Story of the British and their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea from 1859 to the Present. By J. E. Hoare. pp. xvi, 238. Richmond, Curzon, 1999.

Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies, from the Viewpoint of Buddhist Philology By Yasuhiro Sueki. (Bibliographica Indica et Buddhica, III), pp. xxii, 195. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1998.

Dragon's Brain Perfume. An Historical Geography of Camphor. By R. A. Donkin. (Indological Library, vol. 14.) pp. xx, 307. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999.

Empire of Hygiene. Edited by Judith Farquhar and Marta Hanson (Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Special Issue, Vol. 6, No. 3). pp. 290. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1998.

Sex and the floating world. Erotic images in Japan 1700–1820. By Timon Screech, pp. 319. London, Reaktion Books, 1999.

A Glossary of Dharmarakşa's Translation of the Lotus Sutra. By Seishi Karashima. (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica, I), pp. xxv, 696. Tokyo, The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, 1998.

A Discourse Grammer of Mandarin Chinese. By Chauncey C. Chu. pp. 484. New York, Peter Lang, 1998.

Modern Japanese Thought. Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp. vii, 403. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

História dos Portugueses no Extremo Oriente. 1° volume, tomo II: De Macau à periferia. Directed by A. H. Oliveira Marques, pp. 496. Lisbon, Fundaçāo Oriente, 2000.

Hong Kong's History: State and Society under Colonial Rule. Edited by Tak-Wing Ngo. pp. xii, 205. London, Routledge, 1999.

Studies on the Han Fu. By Gong, Kechang. translated and edited by David R. Knechtges [American Oriental Society, Vol. 84] pp. vi, 413. New Haven, American Oriental Society, 1997.

From the Mediterranean to the China Sea: Miscellaneous notes. Edited by Claude Guillot, Denys Lombard and Roderich Ptak (Vol. 7 of South China and Maritime Asia) pp. xxi, 236. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998.

Manufacturing Confucianism – Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization. By Lionel M. Jensen. pp. 444. Durham, USA, Duke University Press, 1997.

Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint 1868–1875. By Roy S. Hanashiro. pp. 234. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1999.

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