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Volume 113 - Issue 2 - April 1981

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Nepali visions, Nepali dreams: the poetry of Laxmiprasad Devkota. With translations of selected poems by David Rubin. (Modern Asian Literature Series; UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Nepalese Series.) pp. xiii, 170. New York, Columbia University Press, 1980.

Bhutan: the early history of a Himalayan kingdom. By Michael Aris. (Central Asian Studies.) pp. [ii], xxxvi, 345. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [C1979]. £12. [Optional microfiche supplement of 4 specimen texts. £4.50.]

Gateway to wisdom. By John Blofeld. pp. 214. London, Allen and Unwin, 1980. £6.95.

Perak, the abode of grace: a study of an eighteenth-century Malay state. By Barbara Watson Andaya. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) pp. xviii, 444. Kuala Lumpur, etc., Oxford University Press, 1979. £14.95.

The making of modern South-East Asia. Vol. II. The Western impact: economic and social change. By D. J. M. Tate. pp. xiii, 618. Kuala Lumpur, etc., Oxford University Press, 1979. £21.95.

Art. Ritual. and society in Indonesia. Edited by Edward M. Bruner and Judith O. Becker. (Papers in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series, No. 53.) pp. vii, 189. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1979. £7.80.

Nan-Fang ts'ao-mu chuang: a fourth century flora of Southeast Asia. Introduction, translation, commentaries. By Hui-Lin Li. pp. x, 168. Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, [C1979]. (Distributed in G.B. by University of Washington Press. $9.)

Shang Civilization. By Kwang-chih Chang, pp. xvii, 417. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1980. £18.90.

The bureaucracy of han times. By Hans Bielenstein. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. x, 262. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1980. £16.50.

Contributions aux études sur Touen-houang. Edited by Michel Soymié. (Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie de la IVe Section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études. II. Hautes Études Orientales, 10.) pp. [vii], 167, 36 pl. Genève, Paris, Librairie Droz, 1979.

“The lament for the South”: Yü Hsin's “Ai Chiang-nan fu”. By William T. GrahamJr. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. vii, 234. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1980. £14.50.

La vie et l'oeuvre de huisi (515–577). (Les origines de la secte bouddhique chinoise du Tiantai.) By Paul Magnin (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CXVI.) pp. [vi], 289, 15 facsims. Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1979.

Chinese theater in the days of Kublai Khan. By J. I. Crump, pp. ix, 429. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, [1980]. $22.50.

The lute: Kao Ming's P'i-p'a chi. Translated by Jean Mulligan. (Translations from the Oriental Classics.) pp. ix, 317. New York, Columbia University Press, 1980. $31.25.

The Syncretic Religion of Lin Chao-en. By Judith A. Berling. (Neo-Confucian Studies; IASWR Series Buddhist Studies and Translations.) pp. xvii, 348. New York, Columbia University Press, 1980. $25.

A Critical Study of Chu Tsai-yü's contribution to the theory of equal temperament in Chinese music. By Kenneth Robinson, with additional notes by Erich F. W. Altwein. (Sinologica Coloniensia, Bd. IX.) pp. x, 136. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1980.

Mandarins, Jews, and missionaries: the Jewish experience in the Chinese empire. By Michael Pollak. pp. xviii, 436, map [on endpapers]. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980. $14.95.

Marriage and adoption in China, 1845–1945. By Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang, pp. xxi, 426. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1980. $8.95.

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