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Volume 58 - October 1995

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Sarah Milledge Nelson: The archaeology of Korea. (Cambridge World Archaeology.) xvi, 307 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £35, $59.95 (paper £16.95, $24.95).

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.

John S. Major: Heaven and earth in Early Han thought: chapters three, four, and five of the Huainanzi. xvi, 388 pp. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $24.95.

John E. WillsJr.: Mountain of Fame: portraits in Chinese history. xxii, 403 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. $24.95.

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.

Arthur H. ThornhillIII: Six circles, one dewdrop: the religioaesthetic world of Komparu Zenchiku. xiv, 232 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, £30.

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).

Roderick Whitfield (ed.): The problem of meaning in Early Chinese ritual bronzes. (Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia, no. 15.) 176 pp. London: Percival David Foundation, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1993. £18.

Paul Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama (tr.): The poems of Nakahara Chūya. xxii, 122 pp. Leominster: Gracewing, 1993. £7.95.

Winston L. King: Zen and the way of the sword: arming the samurai psyche. Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1993. £17.95, $25.

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.

Lisa Raphals: Knowing words: wisdom and cunning in the classical traditions of China and Greece. (Myth and Poetics.) xviii, 273 pp. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. $43.95.

Donald B. Wagner: Iron and steel in ancient China. (Handbuch der Orientalistik v. Abt., 9. Bd.) xvi, 573 pp. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993. Guilders 320, $183.

Donald and Joan Gear: Earth to heaven: the royal animal-shaped weights of the Burmese empires, xvii, 299 pp. Harrow, England: Twinstar Ltd., 1992. £38.

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).

Livia Kohn (ed.): The Taoist experience: an anthology. (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) viii, 391 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $16.95.

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).

Anthony Reid: Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680. Vol. II: Expansion and crisis, XV, 390 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. £25, $40.

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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