Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 106 - Issue 1

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Volume 106 - Issue 1 - January 1974

Reviews of Books

Monks, priests and peasants: A study of Buddhism and social structure in central Ceylon. By H. D. Evers. (Monographs in Social Anthropology and Theoretical Studies in Honour of Nels Anderson, No. I.) pp. xi, 136, 8 pl. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972. Fl. 54.

The Ramayana and the Malay shadow-play. By P. L. Amin Sweeney. Foreword by C. Hooykaas. pp. xiii, 464. Kuala Lumpur, The National University of Malaysia Press, 1972. $15.

Sino-Tibetan relations in the seventeenth century. By Zahiruddin Ahmad. (Serie Orientale Roma, XL.) pp. xiv, 345. Roma, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1970. L. 12,000.

Daughter of Tibet. By Rinchen Dolma Taring. pp. xv, 280. London, John Murray, 1970.

The district magistrate in late Imperial China. By John R. Watt. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) pp. x, 340. New York, London, Columbia University Press, 1972. £7.

Economic organization in Chinese society. Edited by W. E. Willmott. (Studies in Chinese Society Series.) pp. xi, 461. Stanford, University Press; London, O.U.P., 1972. £8.25.

An American missionary community in China, 1895–1905. By Sidney A. Forsythe. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 43.) pp. viii, 146. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, O.U.P., 1971. £2.25.

Engi-shiki: Procedures of the Engi era, Books VI-X. Translated by Felicia Gressitt Bock. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph Series.) pp. ix, 190. Tokyo, Sophia University, 1972. $10.00.

Early Buddhist Japan. By J. Edward Kidder. (Ancient Peoples and Places, 78). pp. 212, 90 photographs. London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. £3.50.

Daily life in Japan at the time of the samurai, 1185–1603. By Louis Frédéric. Translated by Eileen M. Lowe. pp. 256, 14 pi. London, George Allen and Unwin, 1972. £3.75.

Yamagata Aritomo in the rise of modern Japan, 1838–1922. By Roger F. Hackett. pp. ix, 377. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. £5.75.

Äthiopien—Ethiopia: A geomedical monograph. By K. F. Schaller, with a geographic contribution by W. Kuls. (Bi-lingual English and German Geomedical Monograph Series, No. 3.) pp. xv, 180, 64 photos., 34 figs., 7 maps. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer Verlag, 1972. DM. 68.

British defence policy east of Suez, 1947–1968. By Phillip Darby, pp. xiv, 366. London, published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1973. £6.50.

The myth of the state: Based on papers read at the Symposium on the Myth of the State held at Åbo on the 6th-8th September, 1971. Edited by Harald Biezais. (Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, VI.) pp. 188. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1972.

Travelling gent: The life of Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891). By Gerald de Gaury. pp. xi, 211, 8 pl. London and Boston, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. £3.50

Obituaries

H.M. Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden

Academician Giorgi Tsereteli

Mr. W. E. D. Allen

Professor S. Howard Hansford

Front matter

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