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1979; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03147537908712073

0314-7533

Ahmad Shboul, Sarva Daman Singh, Benjamin Preciado‐Solis, Kenneth G. Zysk, Ian Copland, Jim Masselos, Selwyn Cornish, Rolf Gerritsen, Léonard Y. Andaya, J. Bruce Jacobs, Craig J. Reynolds, Robert H. Taylor, John Girling, Lenore Manderson, William J. O’Malley, Cheah Boon Kheng, Anthony Johns, John P. Hoffman, James J. Fox, Stephen Wild, Alaric Maude, Patrick Guinness, J. A. C. Mackie, J.T. Yamaguchi, Paul Ivory, Gavan McCormack, John Fitzgerald, Pierre Ryckmans, Joseph K. Wong, Richard John Lynn, Thomas Harper, Joyce Ackroyd, Hugh Clarke,

South Asian Studies and Conflicts

Ismail K. Poonawala, Bibliography of Isma'ili Literature, Studies in Near Eastern Culture and Society, Vol. I, G.E. von Grunebaum Center, University of California, Los Angeles. Malibu, California, Undena Publications, 1977. xx, 533 pp. US$40.00. Steven G. Darian, The Ganges in Myth and History, Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii, 219 pp., illust., maps, bibliog., index. Cloth US$9.95. Lee siegel, Sacred and Profane Dimensions of love in Indian Traditions, as Exemplified in the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii, 328 pp., appendix, bibliog, index. Cloth $26.50. Ram Karan Sharma and Vaidya Bhagwan Dash, Agnivesa's Caraka Samhita (Text with English Translation and Critical Exposition based on Cakrapani Datta's Ayurveda Dipika), Vol. 1. Sūtra Sthana, Varanasi, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 1976. The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies Series, Vol. XCIV. XLVI, 619 pp., Rs. 75.00. K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760, Cambridge University Press, 1978. xviii, 629 pp., tables, figs., maps, notes. Pounds Stg. 37.50. A.D.D. Gordon, Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay., 1918–1933, Australian National University Monographs on South Asia No. 3, New Delhi, Manohar, 1978. xiv, 323 pp., maps, tables, charts, appendix, bibliog., index. Rs.50. Nurul Islam, Development Planning in Bangladesh — A Study in Political Economy, London, C. Hurst and Co., 1977. xiii, 267 pp. Pounds Stg.8.50. Malcolm Booker, Last Quarter, the Next Twenty‐five Years in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne University Press, 1978. 228 pp., introd., maps, reading list, index. Hardcover $14.80. H.L. Wesseling, ed., Expansion and Reaction; Essays on European Expansion and Reactions in Asia and Africa, Leiden University Press, 1978. vii, 188 pp. Hardcover Df1. 40, US$19.50, paperback Df1. 15, US$7.50. George Williams Carrington, Foreigners in Formosa 1841–1874, San Francisco, Chinese Materials Center, Inc., 1977. 308 pp., tables, bibliog., index, n.p.g. Reflections from Captivity: Phan Boi Chau's ‘Prison Notes’, Ho Chi Minh's ‘Prison Diary’, Translated by Christopher Jenkins, Tran Khanh Tuyet, and Huynh Sanh Thong, edited by David G. Marr, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1978. x, 113 pp., foreword. Softcover n.p.g. Robert S. Newman, Brahmin and Mandarin: A Comparison of the Cambodian and Vietnamese Revolutions, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Working Papers No. 15, Monash University, Melbourne, 1978. 27 pp., preface, introd., bibliog. n.p.g. Robert F. Zimmerman, Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand, Occasional Papers Series No. 50, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1978. 118 pp., introd., diagrams. S$12.00. W. Bradley, D. Morell, D. Szanton, S. Young, Thailand: Domino by Default?: The 1976 Coup and Implications for U.S. Policy, Papers in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No. 46, Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1978. viii, 62 pp., foreword, pref., introd., a note on the authors, n.p.g. Betty Jamie Chung and Ng Shui Meng, The Status of Women in Law: A Comparison of Four Asian Countries, Occasional Papers Series No. 49, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1977. 63 pp., preface, introd., tables, refs. Softcover S$6.00. Tunku Abdul Rahman, Viewpoints, Kuala Lumpur, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1978. 239 pp., plates, index. Softcover, n.p.g. Abdul Aziz Ishak, Special Guest: The Detention in Malaysia of an Ex‐Cabinet Minister, Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1977. ix‐x, 220 pp., foreword, index. Paperback $15.40, hardcover $29.25. L.F. Brakel, The Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyya, Bibliotheca Indonesica No. 12, The Hague 1975; The Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyya Apparatus Criticus to the text edition, Leiden 1975; The Story of Muhammad Hanafiyya, Bibliotheca Indonesica No. 16, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1977. viii, 131 pp. Softcover Df1. 45.‐ J.L. swellengrebel, In Leijdeokers Voetspoor: Anderhalve Eeuw Bijbelvertaling en Taalkunde in de Indonesisahe Talen II 1900–1970, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, No. 82, ‘s‐Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. xi, 340 pp., illus, notes, map, register of persons. Softcover Dfl. 55.‐ G.W. Locher, Transformation and Tradition and other essayss Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal‐, Land‐en Volkenkunde, Translation Series 18, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. Softcover, Df1. 50.‐ Margaret J. Kartomi, ed., Studies in Indonesian Music, Contributors, David Goldsworthy, Catherine Falk, Bronia Kornhauser, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, No. 7, 1978, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Clayton, 1978. vii, 183 pp., pref., maps, illus., musical transcriptions. Softcover $7.00 within Victoria (incl. postage), $8.00 interstate and overseas (incl. postage). Laporan Proyek: Social and Economic Implications of Transmigration in Indonesia: a policy‐oriented review and synopsis of existing research. A report from the Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia, in cooperation with the Research and Development Board, Department of Manpower, Transmigration and Cooperatives; prepared by Mayling Oey and Ketut Sudhana Astika, 1978. vi, 228 pp., preface, tables, maps, figs, refs. Softcover, n.p.g. Paul A. Meyer & Colin MacAndrews, Transmigration in Indonesia: An Annotated Bibliography, PI‐GMU Bibliography Series No. 3, Population Institute Gadjah Mada University, Gadjah Mada University Press, 1978. xiii, 245 pp., foreword, introd., appendices, n.p.g. Lea Jellinek, Chris Manning and Gavin Jones, The Life of the Poor in Indonesian Cities, papers given at the annual set of public lectures on Indonesia, organized jointly by the Australia‐Indonesia Association and the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1978. ii, 41 pp., preface, illus., appendices, figs. Softcover, $3.00. Robert J. Smith, Kurusu, The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975, Stanford University Press, 1978. xvi, 269 pp., US$15.00 Susan B. Hanley and Kozo Yamamura, Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1977. xiii, 409 pp., tables, index. US$34.50. Frances V. Moulder, Japan, China and the modern world economy: Toward a reinterpretation of East Asian development ca. 1600 to ca. 1918, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977. x, 255 pp., notes, bibliog., index. Pounds Stg. 9.00. Alvin D. Coox and Hilary Conroy, eds., China and Japan: A Search for Balance Since World War I, Santa Barbara and Oxford, ABC‐Clio, 1978. xxii, pp. 468, plates, index. Pounds Stg.12.38. O. Edmund Clubb, 20th Century China, 3rd ed., New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. xvi, 554 pp., notes, index, maps, illus . . $9.95. Copy supplied by ANZ Book Company Pty. Ltd. Michael Sullivan, The Arts of China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. 287 pp., illust., notes, maps, index. Paperback $10.95. Copy supplied by ANZ Book Company Pty. Ltd. P.A. Herbert, Under the Brilliant Emperor, Imperial Authority in T'ang China as seen in the writings of Chang Chiu‐ling, Oriental Monographs Series No. 21, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1978. vi, 156 pp. appendices, bibliog., index, n.p.g. Ching‐hsi Perng, Double Jeopardy: A Critique of Seven Yüan Courtroom Dramas, Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No. 35, Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1978. xi, 178 pp., appendix, notes, bibliog. US$4.00. Jennifer Brewster, Sanuki no Suke Nikki: A Translation of the Emperor Horikawa Diary, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1977. xi, 155 pp., notes, bibliog., index. Cloth $12.50 + postage. Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows, translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, New Haven, Leete's Island Books, 1977. 48 pp., US$2.75. J.V. Neustupny, Post‐Structural Approaches to Language: Language Theory in a Japanese Context, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1978. vii, 307 pp., appendix, bibliog., ¥2,000; $12.95. Copy supplied by ANZ Book Company Pty. Ltd.