East Asia
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NICOLA DI COSMO: Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. ix, 369 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £47.50.
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THOMAS A. WILSON (ed.): On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 217.) xiv, 424 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. £29.95.
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BERNARD FAURE (ed.): Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. (Routledge Curzon Studies in Asian Religion.) ix, 320 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. JOHN R. MCRAE: Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. xx, 204 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
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FA-TI FAN: British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. xii, 238 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. £32.95.
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REBECCA E. KARL and PETER ZARROW (eds): Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs.) x, 273 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
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RICHARD E. STRASSBERG (ed. and trans.): A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas. xxii, 314 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002.
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JAMES H. COLE: Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages. 2 vols. xxxii, 1427 pp. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. £189.
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SIEW-YUE KILLINGLEY: Usage of Pronouns, Address and Relationship Terms in Chinese. (Second Edition.) 54 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt & Grevatt, 2003. £10.
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ANDREA LOUIE: Chineseness across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. x, 246 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Cloth £57, paper £16.95.
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INOUE NOBUTAKA (ed.), ITŌ SATOSHI, ENDŌ JUN and MORI MIZUE (trans. Mark Teeuwen and John Breen): Shinto—A Short History. xvi, 223 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
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SUSAN L. BURNS: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society.) x, 282 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.
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ANN R. KINNEY Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java. 303 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. £60.
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CLAUDINE BAUTZE-PICRON: The Buddhist Murals of Pagan: Timeless Vistas of the Cosmos. xiv, 242 pp. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003.
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MICHAEL JACKSON: In Sierra Leone. xiv, 226 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2004. £15.50.
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SIBEL BARUT KUSIMBA: African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions. xxi, 284 pp. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003. £24.95.
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MICHAEL PEARSON: The Indian Ocean. (Seas in History.) xi, 330 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. £50.
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ULRIKE FREITAG Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 87.) xv, 589 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. €150.
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PETER SMITH (ed.): Bahá'ís in the West. (Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, 14.) xii, 307 pp. Los Angeles: Kalimát Press, 2004. $32.50.
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ROZINA VISRAM: Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History. xii, 488 pp. London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002. £14.99.
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Short Notices
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MATHIEU TILLIER: Vies des Cadis de Misr 237/851–366/976. Extrait du Raf' al-isr ‘an qudāt Misr d'Ibn Hağar al-’Asqalānī. (Preface by Thierry Bianquis.) (Cahier des Annales islamologiques 24.) xviii, 212 pp. Cairo: Institut Français d'archéologie orientale, 2002.
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