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Volume 72 - June 2009

Books Received for Review

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Corrigendum

Research Article: The Mahābhārata as national history and allegory in modern tales of Abhimanyu – Corrigendum

Reviews: South Asia

Priti Kumar Mitra: The Dissent of Nazrul Islam: Poetry and History. 330 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. Rs. 695. ISBN 978 0 19 568398 1.

John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams (eds): Parsis in India and the Diaspora. (Routledge South Asian Religions Series.) xiv, 290 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 44366 1.

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

BSO volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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BSO volume 72 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Reviews: Central and Inner Asia

P.J. Marczell: Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Volume One: Csoma Kőrösi's Planet. (Monograph Series No. XLV.) xxiii, 302 pp., Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Volume Two: British-Indian Source Documents. (Monograph Series No. XLV.) xxviii, 593 pp. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 2007. $120.

Reviews: East Asia

Marc S. Abramson: Ethnic Identity in Tang China. (Encounters with Asia.) xxv, 258 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. £36. ISBN 0 8122 4052 9.

Ouyang Xiu (translated and with an introduction by Richard L. Davis): Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. lxxix, 669 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. £17.50. ISBN 978 0 231 12827 8.

Christian Meyer: Ritendiskussionen am Hof der nördlichen Song-Dynastie (1034–1093): Zwischen Ritengelehrsamkeit, Machtkampf und intellektuellen Bewegungen. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series.) 646 pp. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2008. €65. ISBN 978 3 8050 0551 7.

James M. Hargett: Riding the River Home: A Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126–1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu). xi, 302 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. $55. ISBN 978 962 996 302 6.

Judith T. Zeitlin: The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature. xiv, 298 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. $57. ISBN 978 0 8248 3091 5.

Fan Pan Li Chen: Chinese Shadow Theatre, History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors. xxii, 343 pp. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. £41. ISBN 978 077353197 0.

Christopher Hancock: Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism. xii, 268 pp. London: T & T Clark, 2008. £19.99. ISBN 978 0567031778.

Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié (eds): Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. (Sinica Leidensia.) xiii, 772 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. €149. ISBN 9789004160637.

Paul Williams: Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations. (Second edition.) xi, 438 pp. London: Routledge, 2009. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 415 35653 4.

Kelly M. Foreman: The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xiv, 143 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. £45. ISBN 978 0 7546 5857 3.

Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee and Nicholas Casswell: Korean Kayagŭm Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre. (SOAS Musicology Series.) xiii, 160 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 7546 6362 1.

Reviews: South-East Asia

Karel Steenbrink: Catholics in Indonesia 1808–1942. A Documented History: Volume 2 – The Spectacular Growth of a Self-Confident Minority, 1903–1942. xiii, 634 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007. €47.50. ISBN 978 90 6718 141 2.

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Volume 72 - June 2009

Books Received for Review

Corrigendum

Reviews: South Asia

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Reviews: Central and Inner Asia

Reviews: East Asia

Reviews: South-East Asia