Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 2 - Issue 3

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Volume 2 - Issue 3 - November 1992

Book Review

Marathi reading course. By I. M. P. Raeside and B. V. Nemade. pp. viii, 289, LondonSchool of Oriental and African Studies, 1991. £30.00.

Nepal. Compiled by John Whelpton. with assistance of Lucette Boulnots, David Gellner, Michael Hutt, Abhi Subedi and Carol Tingey. (World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 38.) pp. xxv, 294, map. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1991. £44.95.

Tibet. Compiled by John Pinfold. (World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 128.) pp. xxvi, 159, map. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1991. £26.95.

Freedom from fear and other writings. By Aung Suu Kyi, edited with an introduction by Michael Aris, forword by Václav Havel. pp. xxviii, 338, 12 pl. London etc., Viking Press and Penguin Books, 1991. £14.99 and £6.99.

Austroasiatic languages: essays in honour of H. L. Shorto. Edited by J. H. C. S. Davidson. (Collceted Papers in Oriental and African Studies.) pp. viii, 249, front., I pl. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1991. £14.00.

Sumatran politics and poetics: Gayo history, 1900–1989. By John R. Bowen. pp. xiv, 298, 22 illus., 5 maps, 2 figs. new Heaven and London, Yale University Press, 1991. £18.95.

Indonesia in focus. Ancient traditions–modern times. Edited by Peter Homan and Reimar Schefold. Vincent Deccer and Nico de Jonge. pp. 161, numerous col. illus., London, Kegan Paul International, 1991. £25.00.

Exile in mid-Qing China: banishment to Xingiang, 1758–1820. By Joanna Waley-Cohen. pp. xv, 267, 3 figs., 3 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1991. £22.50.

The private life of old Hong Kong: Western woman in the British colony 1841–1941. By Susanna Hoe. pp. xviii, 327, 16 pl., Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1991. £9.95.

Scholar gardens of China: a study and analysis of the special design of the Chinese Private garden. By R. Stewart Johnston. pp. xix, 331, front., 8 col. pl., 320 bl. and wh. illus. map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1991. £85.00.

A Chinese-English dictionary of enigmatic folk similes. Compiled by John S. Rohsenow. pp. xx, 324, front., illus. Tucson, Aziz., University of Arizona Press, 1991. US $45.00.

Traditional Japanese poetry: an anthology. Translated, with an introduction, by Steven D. Carter. pp. xv, 515, front., 25 other illus. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1991. US $60.00(paperback).

An introduction to Japanese tea ritual. By Jennifer L. Anderson. pp. xvi, 348, illus. NY, State University of New York Press, 1991. US $16.95(paperback).

Korea old and new: a history. By Carter J. Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew Michael Robinson and Edward W. Wagner. pp. ix, 454, maps. Published for the Korean Institut, Harvard University by Ilchokak Publishers, Soul, distributed Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990. £11.95.

Musica Asiatica 6. Edited by Allen Marett. pp. x, 133. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35.00.

Chains of empire: English public schools, masonic cabalism, historical causality, and imperial clubdom. By P. J. Rich. pp. 226, front, illus. in bl. wh. London and New York, Regency Press, 1991.

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