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Bulletin of SOAS
ISSN: 0041-977X

EISSN: 1474-0699

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Volume 48 - June 1985

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Michael Carrithers: The Buddha. (Past Masters.) [x], 102 pp. Oxford and New York: Oxford University press, 1983. £7.95 (paper £1.95).

Rosane Rocher: Orientalism, poetry, and the millennium; the checkered life of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1751–1830. [xi], 354 pp., 10 Plates, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. Rs. 350.

Louis Dumont: Affinity as a value: marriage alliance in South India, with comparative essays on Australia. x, 230 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. £17.50.

Penelope Francks: Technology and agricultural development in pre-war Japan. [xiv], 322 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. £22.50.

Michael Carrithers: The forest monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study. xii, 306 pp., 14 Plates. Delhi, etc.: oxford University Press, 1983. £17, Rs.145.

Ekkehard May: Die Kommerzialisierung der japanischen Literatur in derspäten Edo-Zeit 1750–1868. Rahmen-bedingungen und Entwicklungstendengen der erzhlenden prosa im Zeitalter ihrer ersten Vermarktung. xvi, 254 pp., 18 plates. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 68.

Tadeusz Skorupski: The SarvadurgatipariĖodhana Tantra: elimination of all evil destinies. Sanskrit and Tibetan texts with introduction, English translation and noties. xxix, 385 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. Rs.200.

Hans-Rainer Kämpfe: Das Asaraγči neretü-yin teüke des Byamba erke daičing alias Šamba ǰasay. (Eine mongolische Chronik des 17. Jahrhunderts.) (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 81.) x, 211 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983.

Katō Shūichi: A history of Japanese literature. Translated by Don Sanderson. Vol. II: The years of isolation; Vol. III: The modern years. [xx], 230 pp.; xvii, 307 PP. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1983. £20 each. [Vol. I, 1979.]

Tsung-Tung Chang: Metaphysik, Erkenntnis und Praktische Philosophie im Chuang–Tzu. Zur Neu–Interpretation und systematischen Darstellung der Klassischen chinesischen Philosophie. [xi, 486] pp. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman, 1982. DM 148.

Paul Ratchnevsky: Činggis-khan: sein Leben und Wirken. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 32.) x, 207 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 42.

Robert G. Henricks (ed. and tr.): Philosophy and argumentation in third-century China: the essays of Hsi K'ang. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) x214 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. £25.80.

Takie Sugiyama Lebra: Japanese women: constraint and Fulfillemnt. xi, 345 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. $18.95.

W.South Coblin: A handbook of Eastern Han sound glosses. xiii, 316 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1983. 32.75.

N. J. Girardot: Myth and meaning in early Taoism: the theme of chaos (hun-tun). xiii, 422 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1983.

Études coréennes de Maurice Courant. (Centre d'Études Coréennes du Collège de France. Cahiers d'Études Coréennes, No. 1.) 293 pp. Paris: Editions du Léopard d'or, 1983.

S. J. Tambiah: The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: a study in charisma, hagiograpy, sectarianism and millennial buddhism. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 49.) xi, 414 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1984. £27.50(paper £10.95.)

John Timothy Wixted: Pomes on portry: literary criticisb by Yuan Hao-wen (1190–1257). (ünchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 33). xvi, 482 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner erlag Gmbh, 1982. DM 66.

Piet van der Loon: Taoist book in the libraries of the Sung period: a critical study and index. (Oxford Oriental Institute. Monographs, No. 7.) [vii_ 189 pp. 2 charts [on endpapers]. London; Ithaca Press, [1984]. £15.

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