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Volume 7 - July 1997

Book Review

The religious imagery of Khajuraho. By Devengana Desai. (Project for Indian Cultural Studies, IV.) pp. xxx, 269, 224 figs., 18 drawings. Bombay, Franco-Indian Research Pvt. Ltd., 1996.

The rāgas of early Indian music. Modes, melodies and musical notations from the Gupta period to c. 1250. By Richard Widdess. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) pp. xx, 429, 3 illus., 2 maps. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. £50.00.

Burmese Manuscripts. Part 3. Catalogue numbers 432–735. Compiled by Heinz Braun, assisted by Anne Peters, edited by Heinz Bechert. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band XXIII, 3.) pp. xxx, 476. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. DM 385.

Function and meaning in Buddhist art. Proceedings of a seminar held at Leiden University 21–24 October, 1991. Edited by K. R. van Kooij and H. van der Veere. (Gonda Indological Studies, III.) pp. xii, 212, illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1995.

The Thai Historical record: a computer analysis. By J. C. Eade. pp. xx, 268. Tokyo, The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko, 1996. Yen 3090.

Hindu–Buddhist architecture in Southeast Asia. By Daigoro Chihara, translated by Rolf W. Giebel. (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, XIX.) pp. xxiii, 278, 4 col. pl., 151 bl. and wh. pl., 165 figs. Leiden etc., E.J. Brill, 1996. NLG 252, US$162.75.

The Legacy of the Malay Letter. Warisan warkah Melayu. By Annabel Teh Gallop with an essay by E. Ulrich Kratz. pp. 240, 210 col., 52 bl. and wh. illus. London, The British Library for the National Archives of Malaya, 1994, £35.00.

Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000–1700. By Richard von Glahn. pp. xiv, 338, front., 12 figs., 2 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1996. £45.00.

A diplomat in Siam by earnest Satow, CMG, H.B.M. Minister-Resident, Bangkok, 1885–88. Introduced and edited by Nigel Brailey. (Kiscadale Asia Research Series, 4.) pp. 224, map, illus. Gartmore, Stirlingshire, Paul Strachan-Kiscadale Ltd., 1996. £17.50.

Early views of Indonesia: drawing from the British Library. Pemandangan Indonesia di masa lampau: Seni gambar dari British Library. By Annabel Teh Gallop, pp. 128, 126 illus. in col. and bl. and wh. London, The British Library: Jakarta, Yayasan Lontar, 1995. £22.50.

Voices form the Ming-Qing cataclysm: China tigers' jaws. Edited and tramslated by Lynn A. Struve. pp. x, 303, 24 figs., 8 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993. £27.50.

Vietnam 1945: the quest for power. By David G. Marr. (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book.) pp. xxviii, 602, front., 32 illus., 4 maps. Berkeley, etc., University of California Press, 1995. US $50.00.

Maritime Asia. Profit maximisation, ethics and trade structure C. 1300–1800. Edited by Karl Anton Sprengard and Roderich Ptak. (South China and Maritime Asia, Vol. 2.) pp. xi, 239. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994. DM 138.

Xuanzang: a Buddhist pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins, foreword by Frederick W. Mote. pp. xxiv, 263, 8 col. pl., 47 illus., 14 maps. Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, Westview Press. 1996. US $32.50.

From chronicle to canon: the hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn according to Tung Chung-shu. By Sarah A. Queen, (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. xiv, 287. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996. £35.00.

Brotherhoods and secret societies in early and mid-Qing China: the formation of a tradition. By David Ownby. pp. xviii, 235, 5 maps. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1996. £30.00.

Religious experience and lay society in T'ang China. A reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi. By Glen Dudbridge, (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) pp. x, 256, 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1995. £40.00.

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