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Richard Barker and Lawrence Smith: Netsuke: the miniature sculpture of Japan. 184 pp. London: British Museum Publications Ltd., [1976]. £8.50.
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Stephen Owen: The poetry of Mengchiao and Han Yii. x, 294 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. $15, £9.90.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 184-185
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Harrie A. Vanderstappen (ed.): The T. L. Yuan bibliography of Western writings on Chinese art and archaeology. xlvii, 606 pp. London: Mansell, 1975. £35.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 185-186
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Robert J. Smith: Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan. xxi, 266 pp., 8 plates. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974. $12.50. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £7.25.)
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Paul A. Cohen and John E. Sohrecker (ed.): Reform in nineteenth-century China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 72.) xii, 415 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1976. (Distributed by Harvard University Press. $10.80, £6.80.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 651-652
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Richard H. Mitchell: Thought control in prewar Japan. 226 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1976. $10.95. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £9.35.)
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- 24 December 2009, p. 652
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Ernest S. Dodge: Islands and empires: Western impact on the Pacific and East Asia. (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, Vol. VII.) xvi, 364 pp., 12 plates. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1976. £11.50.
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Margaret Medley (ed.): Chinese painting and the decorative style: a colloquy held 23–25 June 1975. (Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, No. 5.) [ix], 165 pp. [London]: University of London. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, [1976]. £3.50.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 186
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James and Theodora Bynon (ed.): Hamito-Semitica: proceedings of a colloquium held by the Historical Section of the Linguistics Association (Great Britain) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March 1970. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 200.) 518 pp., 2 plates. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1975. Guilders 180.
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Gilbert Lewis: Knowledge of illness in a Sepik society: a study of the Gnau, New Guinea. (London School of Economics. Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 52.) x, 379 pp., 12 plates. London: University of London, Athlone Press; New Jersey: Humanities Press, Inc., 1975. £12.50.
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Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology. Pt. III. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. xxxv, 481 pp., 15 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1976. £16.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 187-189
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Fred W. Drake China charts the world Hsu Chi-yu and his geography of 1848 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 64) x, 272 pp, 2 maps [on endpapers] Cambridge, Mass East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1975 (Distributed by Harvard University Press $8 50, £5 80)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 189-190
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Harold Scheub: The Xhosa ntsomi. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) x, 446 pp., front., 2 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £12.50.
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Joan Mawand John Kelly: Intonation in Swahili. [v], 137 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975. £3.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 654-655
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Samuel E. Martin: A reference grammar of Japanese. (Yale Linguistic Series.) 1198 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. $40, £24.
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Paul Newman: The Kanakuru language. (West African Language Monograph Series, 9.) x, 139 pp. Leeds: Institute of Modern English Language Studies, University of Leeds, in association with the West African Linguistic Society, 1974. £5.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 655-656
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B. A. Pauw: Christianity and Xhosa tradition: belief and ritual among Xhosa-speaking Christians. xiv, 390 pp., 8 plates. Cape Town, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1975. £15.95. - Gabriel M. Setiloane: The image of God among the Sotho-Tswana. x, 298 pp. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1976. (Distributed in G.B. by P. Koston, London, W.I. £5.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 434-436
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Denise Paulme: La mère dévorante: essai sur la morphologie des contes africains. (Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines.) 323 pp. [Paris]: Gallimard, [1976].
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 656-658
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H. J. de Graaf: Islamic states in Java, 1500–1700: eight Dutch books and articles as summarized by Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 70.) vii, 213 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Guilders 40.
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Jean Derive: Collecte et traduction des littératures orales. Un exemple négroafricain: les contes ngbaka-ma'bo de R.C.A. (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, 18.) 256 pp. Paris: [Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France], 1975.
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