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Volume 63 - Issue 2 - January 2000

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The Near and Middle East - Ami Elad: The village novel in modern Egyptian literature. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 175.) iii, 204 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1994.

The Near and Middle East - Menahem Milson: Najib Mahfuz: the noveliṡt-philosopher of Cairo. xvi, 304 pp. New York: St Martin's Press; Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1998. $40.

South Asia - R. Adriaensen, H. T. Barker and H. Isaacson (ed.): The Skandapurāna. Vol. 1. Adhyāyas 1–25. Critically edited with prolegomena and English synopsis. (Suppl. to Groningen Oriental Studies.) xiii, 349 pp., front. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1998. Fl. 200.

South Asia - A. Rahman (ed.): History of Indian science, technology and culture, A. D. 1000–1800. (History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, volume III, part 1.) xx, 445 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. Rs 900.

South Asia - Aamer Hussein (ed.): Hoops of fire: fifty years of fiction by Pakistani women. 175 pp. London: Saqi Books, 1999. £9.95 (paper).

South Asia - Michael N. Pearson: Port cities and intruders: the Swahili coast, India and Portugal in the Early Modern era. (Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative Studies.) x, 202 pp. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. £30.

Central Asia - Katia Buffetrille and Charles Ramble (ed.): Tibétains 1959–1999: 40 arts de colonisation. (Collection Monde HS no. 108.) 177 pp. Paris: Éditions du Monde, 1998. FF120.

East Asia - Burton Watson (tr.): The Zen teachings of Master Lin-chi: a translation of the Lin-chi lu. xxxii, 140 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

East Asia - Martin Kern: Die Hymnen der chinesischen Staatsopfer: Literatur und Ritual in der politischen Repräsentation von der Han-Zeit bis zu den Sechs Dynastien (Sinologica Coloniensia, 19.) 340 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997. DM 120.

East Asia - Timothy Brook: The confusions of pleasure: commerce and culture in Ming China. xxv, 320 pp. 4 maps, 38 illustrations. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. $40, £35.

East Asia - Bei Dao: Landscape over zero. (Translated by David Hinton with Yanbing Chen.) 103 pp. London: Anvil Press, 1998.

East Asia - Frank N. Pieke and Hein Mallee (ed.): Internal and international migration: Chinese perspectives. (Chinese Worlds.) xii, 354 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 1999. £45.

East Asia - Bernard Frank: Kata-imi et kata-tagae. Étude sur les interdits de direction à l'époque Heian. 288 pp. Paris: Collège de France—Institute des Hautes Études Japonaises, 1998.

East Asia - James L. Huffman: Creating a public: people and press in Meiji Japan. x, 573 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. $54.

East Asia - Hoklam Chan: China and the Mongols: history and legend under the Yuan and Ming, x, 340 pp. (Variorum Collected Studies series CS 647.) Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1999. £57.50.

East Asia - Jahyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler (ed.): Culture and state in late Chosôn Korea. (Harvard–Hallym Series on Korean Studies; Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 182.). xii, 304 pp. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. £24.95.

East Asia - A. Charles Muller (tr.): The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's guide to meditation (with commentary by the Son monk Kihwa). (SUNY series in Korean studies.) xi, 329 pp. Albany, NY: State Oniversity of New York Press, 1999.

South-East Asia - Joe Cribb: Magic coins of Java, Bali and the Malay Peninsula: thirteenth to twentieth centuries—a catalogue based on the Raffles collection of coin-shaped charms from Java in the British Museum. 208 pp., 80 plates. London: British Museum Press1999. £75.

South-East Asia - Hiromu Honda and Noriki Shimazu: The beauty of fired clay. Ceramics from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. (Introduction by Dawn F. Rooney.) 284 pp., 358 plates. Kuala Lumpur and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. £85.

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