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Volume 47 - Issue 2 - June 1984

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Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson: Mandarin Chinese: a functional reference grammar. xix, 691 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1981. £26, $45.

D. C. Lau (tr.): Chinese classics: Tao te ching. xl, 325 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, [1982]. $23.

David R. Knechtges (ed. and tr.): Wen xuan, or Selections of refined literature. Vol. I: Rhapsodies on metropolises and capitals, Xiao Tong (501–531). xiv, 627 pp. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Universtiy Press, 1982. £37.30.

David R. Knechtges (ed. and tr.): The Han shu biography of Yang Xiong (53 B. C.-A. D. 18). (Occasional Paper, No. 14.) ix, 178 pp. Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1982 [pub. 1983]. $4.

William Watson (ed.): Lacquerwork in Asia and beyond. A Colloquy held 22–24 June 1981. (Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, No. 11.) University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1982. 343., 90 Plates. £11.

Etō Shinkichi and Marius B. Jansen (ed. and tr.): My thirty-three years' dream: the autobiography of Miyazaki Tōten. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xxviii, 298 pp. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. £17.

Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell: The uomen of Suye Mura. xxxvii, 293 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Richard Rubinger: Private academies in Tokugawa Japan. xvii, 282 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. £19.80.

K. M. de Silva: A history of sri Lanka. xx, 603 pp. London: C. Hurst and Co.; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, [1982]. £18.50.

Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman languages. (Trends in Linguistics. State-of-the-art Report, No. 14.) vii, 213 pp. Berlin, New York and Amsterdam: Mouton Publishers, 1982. DM 92, $46.

Saveros Pou: Rāmakerti II (Deuxième version du Rāmāyana khmer). Texte khmer, traduction et annotations. (Publications de l’École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CXXXII.) [xi], 300 pp., 12 Plates. Paris: École Franéaise d̓Extrême-Orient, 1982.

P. J. Honey (ed. and tr.): Voyage to Tonking in the year Ât-họ'i (1876), by P. J. B. Truo'ng-Vīnh-Ký. 125 pp., map. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1982. £7.

David Feeny: The political economy of productivity: Thai agricultural development, 1880–1975. X, 238 pp. Vancouver and London: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. £ 19.50

Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson and Helen Cordell (ed.): The short story in South East Asia: aspects of a genre. (Collected Papers in Oriental and African Studies.) xii, 270. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982. £5.

Christine Padoch: Migration and its alternatives among the Iban of Sarawak. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-’Land-;en Volkenkunde,98.) xi, 126 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Guilders 30, US$15.

John U. Wolff and Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo: Communicative codes in Central Java. (Linguistiecs Series VIII Data Paper No. 116.) x, 197 pp. Ithaca, N.y.: Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1982. $7.50.

Gilbert H. Herdt (ed.): Rituals of manhood: male initiiation in Papua New Guinea. xxvi, 365 pp., 2 maps [on endpapers]. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, [1982]. £24.50, $42.25.

J. E. Inikori (ed.): Forced migration: the impact of the export slave trade on African Societies. 349 pp. London, etc.: Hutchinson Publishing Ggrop Ltd., 1982. £12.95 (paper £5.95).

Kenneth F. Kipleand Virginia Himmelsteib King: Another dimension to the Black Diaspora: diet, disease and racism. xix, 295 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1981 [pub. 1982]. £20.

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