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Volume 42 - February 1979

Book Review

William Dolby (tr.): Eight Chinese plays, from the thirteenth century to the present. 164 pp. London: Paul Elek, 1978. £6.50.

Jean-Pierre Diény: Pastourelles et magnanarelles: essai sur un thème littéraire chinois. (Centre de Recherches d'Histoire et de Philologie de la ive Section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, II. Hautes Études Orientales, 8.) [iv], 141 pp. Genève, Paris: Librairie Droz, 1977

Stephen H. West: Vaudeville and narrative: aspects of Chin theater. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 20.) [xiv], 190pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1977. DM 18.

Glen Dudbridge: The legend of Miaoshan. (Oxford Oriental Monographs, No. 1.) 128 pp. London: Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, 1978. £7.50.

John Curtis Perry and Bardwell L. Smith (ed.): Essays on T'ang society: the interplay of social, political and economic sources, x, 145 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 40.

Paul Ratchnevsky (tr.): Un code des Yuan. Tom. III. Index, par Paul Ratchnevsky et Françoise Aubin. (Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol. iv.) [vii], 209 pp. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1977.

Mme. Yves de Thomaz de Bossierre: Un Belge mandarin à la cour de Chine aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Antoine Thomas 1644–1709 Ngan To P'ing-che. (La Chine aux Temps des Lumières, III.) xiv, 175 pp. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1977.

Ludmilla Panskaya and Donald Daniel Leslie: Introduction to Palladii's Chinese literature of the Muslims. (Oriental Monograph Series, No. 20.) [viii], 106 pp. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies in association with Australian National University Press, 1977. A$6.95.

Yen Ching Hwang: The overseas Chinese and the 1911 revolution, with special reference to Singapore and Malaya. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) xxvii, 439 pp. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1976. £18.

Hyogmyon Kwon: Basic ChineseKorean character dictionary. Editor: Bruno Lewin. xxvii, 556 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1978. DM 148.

Robert H. Brower (tr.): Fujiwara Teika's Hundred-poem sequence of the Shōji era, 1200. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph 55.) [vii], 120 pp., front. Tokyo: Sophia University, [1978]. $11.

D. V. Deopik (ed.): Skazki narodov Birmy. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Vostokovedeniya. Skazki i Mify Narodov Vostoka, 23.) 592 pp. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1976. Rbls. 1.97.

H. M. Rasjidi: Documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Islam à Java. (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CXII.) 282 pp. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1977.

Holden Furber: Rival empires of trade in the Orient, 1600–1800. (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, Vol. II.) xix, 408 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1976. £12.25.

D. R. Sardesai: British trade and expansion in Southeast Asia, 1830–1914. xi, 302 pp. New Delhi, etc.: Allied Publishers Private Ltd., [c1977]. Rs. 60.

Paul Newman and Roxana Ma Newman (ed.): Papers in Chadic linguistics: papers from the Leiden Colloquium on the Chadic Language Family. vii, 233 pp. Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 1977.Guilders 8.

Alain Van Der Beken: Proverbes et vie yaka. (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, Vol. 15.) 237 pp. St. Augustin: Anthropos-Institut, 1978. DM 29.

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