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1988; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03147538808712529

0314-7533

Jennifer W. Jay, A. J. Prince, John Bagterp Jørgensen, Paul Stange, Edmund S. K. Fung, Graham Young, John Fyfield, Yen Ching–hwang, David Horner, Traadl Tan–Schlee, Arthur Stockwin, A.F. Denholm, Shinichi Kobayashi, A. G. Owens, B.J. Tenwiel, John Connell, Lenore Manderson, Christopher D. Manning, Hamish McDonald, T.G. McGee, Nerida M. Cook, David P. Chandler, Thomas R. Cantwell, My–Van Iran, Michael R. Godley, John Ingleson, John Monfies, Sylvia Tiwon, Fiona Robertson, Michael Humphrey, Robert Springborg, Iain Watson, Robin Jeffrey, William H. Newell, Greg Bailey,

Chinese history and philosophy

William Andreas Brown, Wen Tien–hsiang: A Biographical Study of a Sung Patriot, Chinese Materials Center, San Francisco, 1986. xi, 288 pp. Preface, foreword, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index, genealogy. Cloth: US $25. Hsiao–po Wang and Leo S.Chang, The Philosophical Foundations of Han Fei's Political Theory, Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy No.7, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1986, ix, 242 pp. Introduction, appendixes, bibliography, index. Paper US$10. David W. Chappell. ed., Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society, Buddhist and Taoist Studies II, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1987. vii, 222 pp. Introduction, glossary, index. Paper: US$18. Peter N. Gregory, ed., Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism, Studies in East Asian Buddhism No.4, The Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1986. 265 pp. Preface, introduction, glossary, index. Paper: US$16. Stanley Weinstein, Buddhism under the Tang, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1987. xiii, 236pp. Preface, abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: $80. June M. Grasso, Truman's Two–China Policy 1948–1950, M.E.Sharpe Inc., New York and London, 1987. viii, 206 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography, index Cloth: US$29.50. James D. Seymour, China's Satellite Parties, M.E.Sharp Inc., New York, 1987. xi, 151 pp. Preface, abbreviations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$25 Ruth Hayhoe and Marianne Bastid, eds., China's Education and the Industrialized World. Studies in Cultural Transfer, M.E. harpe Inc., New York, 1987. xi, 369 pp. Preface, notes, glossary, select bibliography, index. Cloth: US$16.50. J. Y. Wong, ed., Sun Yat–sen: His International Ideas and International Connections, Wild Peony Pty Ltd, Sydney. 1987. 218 pp. Preface, acknowledgment, glossary, bibliography and index. Paper: n.p.g. Peter Lowe, The Origins of the Korean War, Longman, London & New York, 1986. xvi, 237 pp. Maps, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, abbreviation, appendix, select bibliography, index. Paper: $19.50. A. Tom Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet, M.E. Sharpe Inc., New York, 1987. X, 277 pp. Introduction, maps, acknowledgments, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth US$27.50. Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds), Democracy in Contemporary Japan, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1986. 272 pp. Cloth: $29.95. Paper: $14.95. Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City. Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake 1867–1923. Penguin, London, 1985. 302 pp. Paper: $16.95. Kym Anderson and Yujiro Hayami et al., The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1986. xii, 185 pp. Tables and figures, contributors, preface, introduction, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paper: n.p.g. Geoffrey H. Blowers and Alison M.Turtle (eds.) Psychology Moving East: The Status of Western Psychology in Asia and Oceania, University of Sydney Press. 1987. xix 362. Paper $29. Bruce Matthews and Judith Nagata, eds, Religion, Values and Development in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1986. vii, 168 pp. Introduction, notes. Paper: n. p.g. Kathryn M. Robinson, Stepchildren of Progress. The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town, State University of New York Press, New York, 1986. xvi, 315 pp. Illustrations, tables, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. Paper: US$14.95. Cloth: US$44.50 K. Streatfield, Fertility Decline in a Traditional Society: The Case of Bali, Indonesian Population Monograph Series No. 4, Department of Demography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1986. xvii, 175 pp. Foreword, introduction, tables, figures, maps, bibliography, glossary. Paper: $12.95. D.H. Penny, Starvation: The Role of the Market System, Australian National University, Canberra, 1986. xvii, 124 pp. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, main propositions, glossary, (available on request from National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University). Andrew Szende, From Torrent to Trickle. Managing the Flow of News in Southeast Asia, Research Notes and Discussion Paper No.58, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1986. vi, 172 pp. Tables, acknowledgments, introduction, appendixes, bibliography. Paper S$14. Peter J. Rimmer Rikisha to Rapid Transit Urban Public Transport Systems and Policy in Southeast Asia. Pergamon Press, Sydney, 1986. xxvi, 387 pp. Introduction, preface, appendixes, glossary, references, index, tables, figures, plates. Cloth: $39. Yoneo Ishii, (trans. Peter Hawkes), Sangha, State, and Society: Thai Buddhism in History, Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1986. xvii, 193 pp. Translator's note, abbreviations, introduction, notes, index. Cloth: US$22. Paper: US$16. James Fenton, ed., Cambodian Witness: The Autobiography of Someth May, Faber & Faber, London and Boston, 1986. 287 pp. Introduction, preface, acknowledgments. Cloth: n.p.g. Nguyen Anh Tuan South Vietnam — Trial and Experience A Challenge for Development, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No.80 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1987. 461 pp. Preface, foreword, introduction, abbreviations, bibliography. Paper US$15. Jerzy Krupinski and Graham Burrows, eds, The Price of Freedom: Young Indochinese Refugees in Australia, Pergamon Press, Sydney, 1986 xii, 283 pp. Preface, appendix, references, index. Cloth: $39. C. F. Yong, Tan Kah–kee. The Making of an Overseas Chinese Legend, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1987. xviv, 391 pp. Preface, acknowledgments, tables, maps, plates, abbreviations, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: $90. Paul W.van der Veur, ed., Towards a Glorious Indonesia. Reminiscences and Observations of Dr Soetomo, Ohio University Press, 1987. lxxix, 283 pp. Illustrations, preface, introduction, appendixes. Paper: US$13.50. Surat–Menyurat Hatta dan Anak Agung (Letters between Hatta and Anak Agung), Sinar Harapan Publishing House, Jakarta, 1987. Keith Foulcher, Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts; The Indonesian ‘Institute of People's Culture’ 1950–1965, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1986. 234 pp. Preface, appendix, bibliographic notes, references. Paper: $8. Abdullah al–Udhari (trans.), Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry, Zed Press. Price: $12.95. Dale Eickelmann, Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth–Century Notable, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1985. xviii, 202 pp. Foreword, preface, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: US$32.50. Ali D. Johany, Michel Berne and J. Wilson Mixon Jr., The Saudi Arabian Economy, Croom Helm Ltd., London and Sydney, 1986, 189 pp. Preface, introduction, bibliography, index. Cloth: £19.95. Malcolm C. Peck, The United Arab Emirates. A Venture in Unity, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1986. xiv, 176 pp. Introduction, tables, acknowledgment, index. Cloth: £19.95. Avram Schweitzer, Israel: The Changing National Agenda Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1986. 174 pp. Index. Cloth: £19.95 Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast 1650–1740, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986. xi, 407 pp. Preface, abbreviations introduction, references, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth: $50. R.J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. xi, 218 pp. $85.00. Sheldon I. Pollock, trans., The Ramayana of Valmiki. An Epic of Ancient India, Volume Two, Ayodhyakanda, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1986. xviii, 560 pp Cloth: