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Volume 6 - Issue 2 - July 1996

Book Review

Himalayan Buddhist villages: environment, resources, society and religious life in Zangskar, Ladakh. Edited by John Crook and Henry Osmaston. pp. xxx, 866, front., 80 pi., 72 figs., errata and addenda slip. Bristol, University of Bristol, 1994. £25.00.

Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641–1795. By Dianne Lewis. (Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, 96.) pp. xvi, 160, map. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Centre for International Studies, 1995. £19.75.

Indonesia: a country study. Edited by William H. Frederick and Robert L. Worden. (Area Handbook Series, 550–39.) pp. xlix, 462, illus., 18 maps and figs. Washington DC, Federal Research Division Library of Congress, 1993. Fifth edition.

The Cambridge history of China. Volume 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907–1368. Edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett. pp. xxix, 864, 37 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £75.00.

Historical Records. By Sima Qian, translated with an introduction and notes by Raymond Dawson. (The World's Classics.) pp. xxvii, 176, map. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1994, £6.99.

Imperial rulership and cultural change in traditional China. Edited by Frederick P. Brandauer and Chün-chieh Huang, pp. xviii, 312. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1994.

Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China. Translated with annotations and an introduction by Richard E. Strassberg. pp. xxvii, 580, front., 64 illus., 5 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1994. US $60.00 (cloth), US $20.00 (paperback).

Literati and self-re/presentation: autobiographical sensibility in the eighteenth-century Chinese novel. By Martin W. Huang, pp. xiii, 237. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995. £27.50.

To steal a book is an elegant offense. Intellectual property law in Chinese Civilization. By William P. Alford. (Studies in East Asian Law, Harvard University.) pp. xiii, 222, 1 illus. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995. US $39.50, £27.95.

Confronting the supernatural: Mongolian traditional ways and means. Collected Papers. By Charles R. Bawden. pp. x, 273, 12 pl. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994. DM 148.

Monks, spies and a soldier of fortune: the Japanese in Tibet. By Scott Berry, pp. 384, maps. London, Athlone Press, 1995. £28.00.

The way of the heavenly sword. The Japanese army in the 1920s. By Leonard Humphreys. pp. xi, 252, 4 pi. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995. £27.50.

Modern Korean literature: an anthology 1908–65. Edited by Chung Chong-Wha. (Korean Culture Series.) pp. xli, 467. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1995. £45.00.

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