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Volume 77 - February 2014

Reviews: Central Asia

Nathan W. Hill (ed.): Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.) x, 480 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €163. ISBN 978 90 04 23202 0.

Reviews: South Asia

James McHugh: Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. xix, 322 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978 0 19 991632 0.

Aditya Behl: Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379–1545, edited by Wendy Doniger. x, 403 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. ISBN 978 0 19 514670 7.

Reviews: Central Asia

Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper: Tibet: An Unfinished Story. xxii, 367 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 2014. £20. ISBN 978 18490 4359 5.

Reviews: East Asia

Li Chenyang: The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony. (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy.) xvii, 197 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978 0415 84474 1.

Bernhard Scheid, with Kate Wildman Nakai (ed.): Kami Ways in Nationalist Territory: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West. xi, 277 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. €52.80. ISBN 978 3 7001 7400 4.

Reviews: Central Asia

John Kenneth Knaus: Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the 21st Century. (American Encounters / Global Interactions.) xvii, 355 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 0 8223 5234 1.

Virgil Ciocîltan: The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, translated by Samuel Willcocks. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.) ix, 321 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978 90 04 22666 1.

Reviews: South-East Asia

Reviews: East Asia

William S.-Y. Wang: Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing. xxxiv, 200 pp. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2013. ISBN 978 962 937 215 6.

Reviews: Central Asia

Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer (eds): The Tibetan History Reader. xxvi, 720 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 14469 8.

Reviews: South-East Asia

Park Seung Woo and Victor T. King (eds): The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies: Korea and Beyond. xviii, 468 pp. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013. £42.95. ISBN 9 78 981 4414 58 6.

Reviews: Central Asia

Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein and Gray Tuttle (eds): Sources of Tibetan Tradition. (Introduction to Asian Civilizations.) xl, 814 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 13599 3.

Reviews: East Asia

Li Feng: Early China: A Social and Cultural History. (New Approaches to Asian History.) xxi, 346 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 521 71981 0.

Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders: Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History. xvi, 247 pp. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. ISBN 978 1 4411 4509 3.

Matthias L. Richter: The Embodied Text: Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts. (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts.) xii, 208 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €96. ISBN 978 90 04 23657 8.

Reviews: Africa

John Parker and Richard Reid (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History. (Oxford Handbooks.) xxii, 538 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. ISBN 978 0 19 957247 2.

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BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW

Reviews: East Asia

Thierry Meynard (ed. and trans.), Matteo Ricci (Li Madou): Le Sens réel de «Seigneur du Ciel». (Bibliothèque chinoise.) 626 pp. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. €39. ISBN 978 2 251 10013 5.

Ronald Egan: The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) ix, 422 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2013. £42.95. ISBN 978 0 674 72669 7.

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