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Volume 88 - Issue 1-2 - April 1956

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The Chinese Gentry. Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-century Chinese Society. By Chung-li Chang. Introduction by Franz Michael. xxi + 250 pp. University of Washington Press. Seattle. 1955. $5.75.
A. Waley
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Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast. The Opening of The Treaty Ports. By John King Fairbank. (Harvard Historical Studies. Vols. 62 and 63.) pp. xiii + 489 and pp. iii + 88. Geoffrey Cumberledge, London. 60s. each.
Ifor B. Powell
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The Nine Songs. A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China. By Arthur Waley. pp. 64. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London. 10s.
R. O. Winstedt
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The Empire of Min. By Edward H. Schafer. Chas. E. Tuttle and Co., Rutland Vermont and Tokyo, 1954. pp. xii + 146.
E. G. Pulleyblank
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Some Records of Ethiopia (1593–1646). Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia, by Manoel de Almeida together with Bahrey's History of the Galla. Translated and edited by C. F. Beckingham and G. W. B. Huntingford. pp. xcviii + 267. Hakluyt Society, London, 1954.
Edward Ullendorff
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Village Perse-Achéménide. By R. Ghirshman. Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique en Iran, Tome XXXVI, pp. 102, figs. 11, pls. liii. Paris, 1954.
J. M. Munn-Rankin
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The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. By Edward Ullendorff. pp. xiv + 273. Taylor's Foreign Press. London, 1955.
A. F. L. Beeston
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The Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil-Ziwa (= Studi e Testi 176). By E. S. Drower. The Mandaic text reproduced together with translation, notes, and commentary. In 8°, xi, 96 pp., plus facsimile of texts. Vatican City, 1953.
Cyrus H. Gordon
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The Relationship of the Semitic and Egyptian Verbal Systems. By T. W. Thacker. pp. xxvi + 341. Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford, 1954. 42s.
H. S. Smith
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Studies in Arabian Fatalism. By Helmer Ringgren. pp. 225. (Uppsala University Årsskrift, 1955, 2.)
Margaret Smith
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Studies in Middle Assyrian Chronology and Religion. by Hillel A. Fine. pp. xiii + 151. Cincinnati, 1955.
O. R. Gurney
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The History of the Jewish Khazars. By D. M. Dunlop. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1954. pp. xv + 293. Price (in England) 40s.
Gerard Clauson
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Prières Magiques Éthiopiennes pour Délier les Charmes (maftәḥe šәrāy). By S. Strelcyn. pp. lxxvi + 498. Rocznik Orientalistyczny XVIII. Warsaw, 1955. Zl. 52.50.
Edward Ullendorff
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The Mahābhārata. For the first time critically edited by Vishnu S. Sukthankar (August, 1925–January, 1943) and S. K. Belvakar (since 04, 1943). Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. - Vol. XV: Śāntiparvan, edited by S. K. Belvakar; pt. 2, fasc. 23, pp. 1265–1624, 1952; and fasc. 24, pp. 1625–2080, 1953. - Vols. VIII and IX: Droṇaparvan, edited by S. K. De, pt. 1, fasc. 25, pp. viii + 264, 1953. - Vol. X: Karṇaparvan, edited by P. L. Vaidya, pt. 2, fasc. 27, pp. ix–lxxviii + 321–697.
Walter Gurner
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Sangītaratnākara. Edited by PanditS. Subrahmanya Sastri. pp. xxxii + 599. Vol. IV. Adyar Library Series, No. 86. 1953.
A. Bake
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The Vedic Octave and Extracts from the Sangīta Sāra in Abhinava Bharata Sāra Sangraha. Varalakshmi Academy Publication Series. Research Board Bulletin, No. 1. pp. 44. Rs. 3. Sri Varalakshmi Academies of Fine Arts, Mysore.
A. H. Bake
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The English Factories in India. Vol. IV (new series): The Eastern Coast and Bay of Bengal. By the late SirCharles Fawcett. xxxiii + 377 pp., 2 sketch-maps. Oxford, Clarendon Press; London, G. Cumberlege, 1955. Price £2 10s.
C. R. Boxer
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Land and Society in Malabar. By Adrian C. Mayer. With a preface by ProfessorRaymond Firth, pp. x, 158. Issued under the auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations. Oxford University Press, 1952. 11s. 6d.
A. L. Basham
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Ṛgvedic Legends through the Ages. By H. L. Hariyappa. pp. xxi + 208. Deccan College Dissertation Series, 9. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, 1953. Rs. 15.
A. L. Basham
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The Sanskrit Language. By T. Burrow. Faber and Faber. vi + 426 pages. London, 1955. 55s.
Walter Gurner
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