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Volume 38 - Issue 1 - November 1978

Book Review—China

Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays. Edited by Andrew H. Plaks. Foreword by Cyril Birch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xii, 365 pp. List of Contributors, Index. $25.00

The Poetry of the Early T'ang. By Stephen Owen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. xv, 455 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Index. $20.00.

Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture. Edited by Christian F. Murck. The Art Museum, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xxi, 230 pp. Illustrations, List of Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms, List of Contributors, Index. $35.00.

Anyang. By Li Chi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. xviii, 304 pp. Map, Color Plates, Figures, Notes, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $25.00.

Confucianism and Christianity: A Comparative Study. By Julia Ching. Tokyo, New York, & San Francisco: Kodansha International, in cooperation with The Institute of Oriental Religions, Sophia University, Tokyo, 1977. xxvi, 234 pp. Notes, Chronological Table, Selected Bibliography, Index. $12.50.

Book Review—Japan

Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. By Thomas R.H. Havens. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. xi, 280 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $9.95.

Ox against the Storm: A Biography of Tanaka Shōzō, Japan's Conservationist Pioneer. By Kenneth Strong. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978. 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography. $15.00.

Pure Land Buddhist Painting. By Jōji Okazaki. Translated and adapted by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis. Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd. and Shibundō (Japanese Arts Library), 1977. 201 pp. 25 Color Plates, 166 Black and White Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.95.

Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context. By James R. Brandon, William P. Malm, and Donald H. Shively. Hawaii: The University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xv, 183 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index, Notes on Authors, 33 plates, 15 musical notations. $6.50 (paper).

The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan. By Susan Matisoff. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. xi, 272 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.00.

Book Review—South Asia

The Outlook Tower: Essays on Urbanization in Memory of Patrick Geddes. Edited by J. V. Ferreira and S.S. Jha. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1976. xxxiii, 475 pp. Appendix. Rs. 120.00.

Political Parties and Democratic Consensus: A Study of Party Organisations in an Indian City. By Thomas Pantham. Delhi: Macmillan Co. of India, 1976. xvi, 215 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Index. Rs. 48.00.

Gokhale: The Indian Moderates and the British Raj. By B.R. Nanda. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xii, 520 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. $25.00.

The Bureaucracy in India: An Historical Analysis of Development up to 1947. By B.B. Misra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977. xii, 421 pp. Appendix, Select Bibliography, Index. Rs. 75.00; $13.25.

Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda. Edited and Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller. New York: Columbia University Press (Translations from the Oriental Classics), 1977. xx, 225 pp. Sanskrit Text, Glossary. $ 17.50 (cloth), $3.95 (paper).

Stone Age Painting in India. By Robert R.R. Brooks and Vishnu S. Wakankar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. xii, 116 pp. Illustrations, Plates, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00.

The Ganges in Myth and History. By Steven G. Darian. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii, 219 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $9.95.

Culture of a Sacred Town: A Sociological Study of Nathdwara. By Rajendra Jindel. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1976. xii, 233 pp. Glossary, Plates, Select Bibliography, Index. Rs. 45.00.

Faith and Knowledge in Early Buddhism: An Analysis of the Contextual Structures of an Arahant-Formula in the Majjhima-Nikāya. By Jan T. Ergardt. Leiden: E.J. Brill (Studies in the History of Religions [Supplements to Numen] XXXVII), 1977. xii, 182 pp. Bibliography, Index. D.Gld. 48.00.

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Volume 38 - Issue 1 - November 1978

Book Review—China

Book Review—Japan

Book Review—South Asia