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Volume 87 - October 2024

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Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.
Mark Bender
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12 September 2024, pp. 384-386
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Deniz Türker: The Accidental Palace. The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul xix, 251 pp. Pennysylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 027109391 8.
Caroline Finkel
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19 February 2024, pp. 213-215
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Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.
Walid A. Saleh
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28 February 2024, pp. 215-217
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Matthew T. Kapstein (ed.): Tibetan Manuscript and Early Printed Books. Volume I: Elements xxxi, 329 pp. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. £39.30. ISBN 978 1 50171621 8.
Joanna Bialek
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11 February 2025, pp. 567-569
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Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.
Petra Maurer
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12 September 2024, pp. 386-388
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Li Jin: Jiawu he Gyarong shehui jiegou [Houses and social structure of Jiarong (Gyarong) Tibetans]. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe (Social Science Academic Press), 2017.
Yudru Tsomu
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09 October 2024, pp. 388-389
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Stuart Robson and Hadi Sidomulyo (trans.): Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance, by Kěmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje Leiden: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 52369 2.
Verena Meyer
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15 February 2024, pp. 218-219
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Vincent Goossaert: Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 352 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. ISBN 978 0 674 27094 7.
Nathan Woolley
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18 October 2024, pp. 569-571
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Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.
T.H. Barrett
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11 September 2024, pp. 390-391
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Michael Hunter: The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 240 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 20123 0.
Martin Svensson Ekström
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28 February 2024, pp. 220-221
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Hubei sheng wenwu kaogu yanjiu yuan 湖北省文物考古研究院 and Wuhan daxue jianbo yanjiu zhongxin 武漢大學簡帛研究中心 (ed. in Chief Chen Wei 陳偉 and Xiong Beisheng 熊北生, ed. Cai Dan 蔡丹, Huang Haobo 黃浩波, Lei Hailong 雷海龍, and Li Jing 李靜): Shuihudi Xi Han jiandu (Yi) Zhiri 睡虎地西漢簡牘（壹）質日 [Shuihudi Western Han Bamboo Slips and Boards (1) Event Calendars] xi, 426 pp. Shanghai: Zhong Xi shuju, 2023. ISBN 978 7 5475 2054 3.
Rens Krijgsman
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18 October 2024, pp. 571-573
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Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Script at Fudan University: Chutu wenxian yu guwenzi jiaocheng 出土文獻與古文字教程 (A Course on Unearthed Documents and Ancient Scripts). Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company, 2024. ISBN 978 7 547 52134 2.
Maddalena Poli
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11 February 2025, pp. 573-574
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Samuel N.C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson (eds): The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World.) i, 260 pp. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 58664 9.
Li Tang
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19 February 2024, pp. 222-223
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Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins (eds): The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor (Fontes Historiae Africanae/Sources of African History 24.) xli, 516 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2024. ISBN 978 0 19 726761 5.
John Parker
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12 September 2024, pp. 391-393
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Peter K. Bol: Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xiv, 393 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. £58.95. ISBN 978 0 67426793 0.
Chu Ming-kin
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18 October 2024, pp. 575-576
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時建 Shi Jian: 陇川阿昌语参考语法 A Reference Grammar of Longchuan Achang 社会科学文献出版社 Beijing: Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 752018838 8.
Ruiyao Li
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28 February 2024, pp. 223-225
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BSO volume 87 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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29 October 2024, pp. f1-f3
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Fuhai Zhang 張富海: Essays on Chinese Palaeography and Old Chinese Phonology古文字與上古音論稿 (Excavated Documents and Studies on Ancient Chinese Scripts Series.) 320 pp. Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 7 5732 0072 3.
Jinqi Ying
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19 February 2024, pp. 225-227
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Kai Jun Chen: Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China Seattle: University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2023. ISBN 978 0 29575082 8.
Jessica Harrison-Hall
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11 February 2025, pp. 577-578
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Duncan Poupard: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 90 8728 427 5.

Deniz Türker: The Accidental Palace. The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul xix, 251 pp. Pennysylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 027109391 8.

Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References ix, 683 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2022. ISBN 978 3 11077915 8.

Matthew T. Kapstein (ed.): Tibetan Manuscript and Early Printed Books. Volume I: Elements xxxi, 329 pp. Ithaka and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. £39.30. ISBN 978 1 50171621 8.

Franz-Xaver Erhard und Thomas Wild: Drumze – Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet Potsdam: Edition Tethys, 2022. ISBN 978 3 942527 16 3.

Li Jin: Jiawu he Gyarong shehui jiegou [Houses and social structure of Jiarong (Gyarong) Tibetans]. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe (Social Science Academic Press), 2017.

Stuart Robson and Hadi Sidomulyo (trans.): Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance, by Kěmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje Leiden: Brill, 2023. ISBN 978 90 04 52369 2.

Vincent Goossaert: Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xii, 352 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. ISBN 978 0 674 27094 7.

Livia Kohn: The Daode jing: A Guide New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 19 068982 7.

Michael Hunter: The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 240 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 231 20123 0.

Center for Unearthed Documents and Ancient Script at Fudan University: Chutu wenxian yu guwenzi jiaocheng 出土文獻與古文字教程 (A Course on Unearthed Documents and Ancient Scripts). Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company, 2024. ISBN 978 7 547 52134 2.

Samuel N.C. Lieu and Glen L. Thompson (eds): The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World.) i, 260 pp. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 58664 9.

Michelle Gilbert and Paul Jenkins (eds): The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor (Fontes Historiae Africanae/Sources of African History 24.) xli, 516 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2024. ISBN 978 0 19 726761 5.

Peter K. Bol: Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.) xiv, 393 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. £58.95. ISBN 978 0 67426793 0.

時建 Shi Jian: 陇川阿昌语参考语法 A Reference Grammar of Longchuan Achang 社会科学文献出版社 Beijing: Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 752018838 8.

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Fuhai Zhang 張富海: Essays on Chinese Palaeography and Old Chinese Phonology古文字與上古音論稿 (Excavated Documents and Studies on Ancient Chinese Scripts Series.) 320 pp. Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2021. ISBN 978 7 5732 0072 3.

Kai Jun Chen: Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China Seattle: University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2023. ISBN 978 0 29575082 8.

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