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Volume 17 - Issue 1 - November 1957

Book Reviews

China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic. By Theodore Shabad. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956. xv, 295. Maps, Bibliographic Note, Index. $7.50.

Shang-shu shih-i [Exegesis of the Book of Documents]. By Ch'ü Wan-li. Taipei: Chung-hua wen-hua ch'u-pan-shih-yeh wei-yüan-hui, 1956. ii, xvi, 192. NT 15.

Confucius. By Shigeki Kaizuka. Tr. Geoffrey Bownas. Ethical & Religious Classics of East & West, No. 17. London: Allen and Unwin, New York: Macmillan, 1956. 192. Chronological Table, Maps, Index. $3.00.

Prophecy and Religion in Ancient China and Israel. By H. H. Rowley. New York: Harper & Bros., 1956. 154. List of Abbreviations, Index. $2.75.

Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine. By John Alexander Pope. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (Freer Gallery of Art), 1956. xv, 194. Appendix, Bibliography, Plates, Index. $10.00.

Japanese Politics: An Introductory Survey. By Nobutaka Ike. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. xiv, 300, ix. Tables, Charts, Maps, Works Consulted, Index. $4.00 text, $5.50 trade.

The Tokyo Trials: A Functional Index to the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. By Paul S. Dull and Michael Takaaki Umemura. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957. vi, 94. $5.00 (paper).

Sipa Khorlo (The Tibetan Wheel of Life). By Jill Cossley Batt and Irving Baird. New York: Python Publishing Company, 1955. 32.

Struggle for Asia. By SirFrancis Low. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956. ix, 239. Index. $3.50.

South-East Asia: A Short History. By Brian Harrison. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1954. xi, 268. Plates, Maps, Chart, Index. $3.50.

The Church in Southeast Asia. By Winburn T. Thomas and Rajah B. Manikam. New York: Friendship Press, 1956. xvii, 171. Map. $2.50, cloth; $1.25, paper.

The Timor Problem. A Geographical Interpretation of an Underdeveloped Island. By F. J. Ormeling. Groningen (Netherlands): J. B. Wolters, second impression, 1957. viii, 284. Maps, Tables, Photographs, Glossary, List of References, Index.

A Multiple Exchange Rate System: An Appraisal of Thailand's Experience 1946–1955. By Shu-chin Yang. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. xviii, 200. Charts, Tables, Bibliography, Notes. $3.00.

Annotated Bibliography of Burma. Prepared by the Burma Research Project of New York University; Frank N. Trager, Director and Editor. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files, 1956. viii, 230. $5.75 (paper).

Burma's Role in the United Nations, 1948–1955. By Frank N. Trager, Patricia Wohlgemuth, and Lu-yu Kiang. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1956. iv, 100. Preface, Introduction, Appendices. $1.50 (mimeographed).

Some Observations on Libraries, Manuscripts and Books of Burma from the 3rd Century A.D. to 1886 (with. Special Reference to the Royal Library of the Last Kings of Burma). By E. P. Quigly. London: Arthur Probsthain, 1956. 34. Pen Sketches, Map, Notes, Addenda, Glossary, Bibliography. 6/- (paper).

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