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Tapati Guha-Thakurta: The making of a new ‘Indian’ art: artists, aesthetics and nationalism in Bengal, c. 1850–1920. (Cambridge South Asian Studies, 52.) xxvii, 349 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £45, $85.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 181-182
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Piers Vitebsky: Dialogues with the dead: the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, no. 88.) xix, 294 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £40, $59.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 182-183
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Partha Chatterjee: The nation and its fragments: colonial and postcolonial histories. (Studies in Culture/Power/History.) xiii, 282 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. $49.50, £42.50 (paper $15.95, £12.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 183-184
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Jean-Pierre Drège: Les bibliothèques en Chine au temps des manuscrits (jusqu'au xe siècle). (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CLXI.) 324 pp., 24 plates. Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1991.
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Isabelle Robinet: Taoist meditation: the Mao-shan tradition of great purity. Transl. by Julian F. Pas and Norman J. Girardot. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xxx, 285 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $59.50 (paper $19.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 184-186
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Wai-kam Ho (ed.) and Judith G. Smith (coordinating ed.): The century of Tung Ch 'i-ch'ang 1555–1636. 2 vols. xxxvi, 465 pp; xvii, 603 pp. Kansas City: Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art and the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1992. $150 (paper $75).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 186-187
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Julia K. Murray: Ma Hezhi and the illustration of the Book of Odes, xvi, 256 pp., 8 [col.] plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £55, $95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 187-188
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Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb: Learning from Mount Hua: a Chinese physician's illustrated travel record and painting theory. xiv, 229 pp., 8 [col.] plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £50, $75.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 189-190
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Madeline K. Spring: Animal allegories in T'ang China (American Oriental Series, Vol. 76). viii, 174 pp. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1993.
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Rosemary E. Scott (ed.): The porcelains of Jingdezhen. (Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 16.) 256 pp., map. London: Percival David Foundation and School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993. £25.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 190-191
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Lynn A. Struve (ed. and tr.): Voices from the Ming-Qing cataclysm: China in tigers' jaws, x, 303 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. £27.50, $40.
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- 05 February 2009, p. 192
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Philip F. Williams: Village echoes: the fiction of Wu Zuxiang. vii, 303 pp. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1993. £26.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 192-193
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Emily Honig: Creating Chinese ethnicity: Subei people in Shanghai 1850–1980. xv, 174 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. £18.95, $27.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 193-194
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John Lagerwey (comp.): Comportement rituel et corps social en Asie. (Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, no. 79.2.) iv, 378 pp. Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1992.
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Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald: The rise of a refugee god: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin. x, 204pp. Hong Kong, etc.: Oxford University Press. 1993. £35.
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Ian Astley-Kristensen (ed. and tr.): The Rishukyō: the Sino-Japanese Tantric Prajñāpāramitā in 150 verses (Amoghavajra's version). (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua, in.) Tring, Herts: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1991.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 195-196
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Roger J. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim: Making capitalism: the social and cultural construction of a South Korean conglomerate, xii, 276 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. $35.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 196-198
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Delmer M. Brown (ed.): The Cambridge history of Japan. Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, xxiii, 602 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £70.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 198-199
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Sebastian Izzard: Kunisada's world. With essays by J. Thomas Rimer and John T. Carpenter. xi, 199 pp. New York: Japan Society of America [and] Ukiyo-e Society of America, 1993.
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Karatani Kōjin: Origins of modern Japanese literature. Transl. by Brett de Bary et al.xx, 219 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993., $15.95 (paper).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 201-202
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