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Mcmahon Keith: Misers, shrews, and polygamists: sexuality and malefemale relations in eighteenthcentury Chinese fiction. xi, 378 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. £18.95.
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Ownby David: Brotherhoods and secret societies in early and mid-Qing China: the formation of a tradition. xvi, 235 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. £30.
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Lydia H. Liu: Translingual practice: literature national culture and translated modernity, China, 1900–1937. xx, 474 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1995. £40, $60 (paper £14.95, $19.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 182-183
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Dikötter Frank: Sex, culture and modernity in China: medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican period. ix, 233 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1995. £19.50.
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Miles James: The legacy of Tiananmen: China in disarray, viii, 379 pp., 16 plates, map [on endpapers]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. $29.95.
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D. D. Leslie and K. H. J. Gardiner: The Roman empire in Chinese sources. (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, ‘Studi Orientale’, Vol. xv.) xxvi, 422 pp. Rome: Bardi, 1996.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 184-185
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D. R. Howland: Borders of Chinese civilization: geography and history at empire's end. (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society.) x, 342 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996. £50 (paper £21.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 185-187
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Imamura Keiji: Prehistoric Japan: new perspectives on insular East Asia. x, 246 pp. London: UCL Press, 1996. £17.95.
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H. Kerlen: Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands-Oranda kokunai shozō Meiji izen Nihon kankei korekushon mokuroku. (Japonica Neerlandica: Monographs of the Netherlands Association for Japanese Studies, Vol.VI.) xv, 918 pp. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1996. Guilders 160.
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Eyal Ben-ari: Body projects in Japanese childcare: culture, organization and emotions in a preschool. x, 166 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1997. £40.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 189-190
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Eleanor Mannikka: Angkor Wattime space and kingship. xv, 330 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. $55.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 191-192
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Frits Stall: Mantras between fire and water: reflections on a Balineserite. (Verhadelingen Afdelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 166.) vii, 112 pp. Amsterdam, etc.: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1995 Guilders 60.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 192-193
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Margaret J. Wiener: Visible and invisible realms: power, magic and colonial conquest in Bali. xiv, 445 pp. Chicago and London: University ofChicago Press, 1995, £55.95, $80.50 (paper £20.75, $29.75).
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Joseph Fischer: The folk art of Java. (The Asia Collection.) xv, 152 pp. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1994. £27.50.
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Annabel Teh Gallop: Early views of Indonesia: Drawings from the British Library. [English /Indonesian text.] 128 pp. London: British Library; Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar, 1995. £22.50.
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Naengnoi Suksri and Freeman Michael: Palaces of Bangkok: royal residences of the Chakri dynasty. 368 pp. Bangkok: River Books, 1996. (Distributed by Thames and Hudson.£50.)
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René van Den Berg [and] La Ode Sidu: Muna-English dictionary. xxviii, 709 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996. DM 82, £38.40, $66.
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Jean-Claude Rivierre: Dictionnaire cėmuhî-français suivi d'un lexique français-cėmuhî. (Langues et Cultures du Pacifique, 9. SELAF, 345.) 543 pp. Paris: Peeters, 1994.
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Russell Joan: Teach yourself Swahili. (Teach Yourself Seies.) [vi], 324 pp. London: Hodder Headline, 1996. ₣8.99.
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John R. Rennison: Koromfe. (Descriptive Grammars.) xxiv, 541 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. £95.
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