PADMANABH S. JAINI (ed.): Subodhālan˙kāra Porāna-tīkā (Mahāsāmi-tīkā) by San˙gharakkhita Mahāsāmi. Abhinava-tīkā (Nissaya) (anonymous). xix, 315 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 2000Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
W. ALLYN PICKETT: Guanzi: political, economic, and philosophical essays from early China. Volume 1, Revised Edition. (C&T Asian Translation Series.) xii, 491 pp. Boston: Cheng and Tsui Company, 2001. $35.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
EDWIN G. PULLEYBLANK: Essays on Tang and pre-Tang China. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS711.) xii, 286 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
GERHARD EHLERS: Indische Handschriften. Teil 13. Die Sammlung Ms. Or. Fol. der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. II, 13.) 200 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. HEINZ BECHERT (ed.): Sanskrit-Handschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 8. Die Katalognummern 1800Ð1999. Beschrieben von Klaus Wille. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. x, 8.) 289 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
SHOTA RUSTAVELI: The man in the panther's skin. (Translated from the Georgian by Marjory Wardrop). (Oriental Translation Fund XXI.) xviii, 273 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. (First published 1912 by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain.) £12.99Published in:2002By:HEWITT, GEORGEPublication type:Book Review
WOLFGANG U. DRESSLER, OSKAR E. PFEIFFER, MARKUS A. PÖCHTRAGER and JOHN R. RENNISON (ed.): Morphological analysis in comparison. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Volume 201.) 253 pp. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. $65.Published in:2002By:SIMPSON, ANDREWPublication type:Book Review
ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE (ed.): Glimpses of empire: a Corona anthology. xxvii, 302 pp. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. £24.50.Published in:2002By:YAPP, M. E.Publication type:Book Review
JAMES C. McCANN: Green land, brown land, black land: an environmental history of Africa, 1800–1990. xv, 201 pp. Oxford and Portsmouth, NH: James Currey and Heinemann Press, 1999. £12.95 (paper).Published in:2002By:TILLEY, HELENPublication type:Book Review
NICKI HITCHCOTT: Women writers in francophone Africa. ix, 193 pp. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000. £42.99. VALÉRIE ORLANDO: Nomadic voices of exile: feminine identity in francophone literature of the Maghreb. xii, 255 pp. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. $36.95Published in:2002By:HARRISON, NICKPublication type:Book Review
GIAMBATTISTA SCALA: Memoirs of Giambattista Scala, consul of His Italian Majesty in Lagos in Guinea (1862). (Translated by Brenda Packman and edited by Robert Smith.) xvii, 155 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000. £27.50Published in:2002By:RATHBONE, RICHARDPublication type:Book Review
DAVID LEE SCHOENBRUN: A green place, a good place: agrarian change, gender, and social identity in the Great Lakes region to the 15th century. (Social History of Africa.) xiv, 302 pp. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. £15.95.Published in:2002By:DOYLE, SHANEPublication type:Book Review
DONALD CRUMMEY: Land and society in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia: from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. xvii, 373 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. $60.Published in:2002By:BARNES, CEDRICPublication type:Book Review
NICO KAPTEIN: The Muhimmât al-nafâ'is: a bilingual Meccan fatwa collection for Indonesian Muslims from the end of the nineteenth century. (Seri INIS, XXXII.) xiv, 219 pp. Jakarta: Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS), 1997Published in:2002By:RIDDELL, PETER G.Publication type:Book Review
JULIAN BALDICK: Animals and shaman: ancient religions of Central Asia. 206 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. £35.Published in:2002By:MCKAY, ALEXPublication type:Book Review
JAMES H. GRAYSON: Myths and legends from Korea: an annotated compendium of ancient and modern materials. xvi, 454 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £55.Published in:2002By:WALRAVEN, BOUDEWIJNPublication type:Book Review
G. G. ROWLEY: Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji. xi, 221 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2000. $32.95, £20.50.Published in:2002By:WALTHALL, ANNEPublication type:Book Review
RICHARD SIMS: Japanese political history since the Meiji renovation, 1868–2000. xxiv, 395 pp. London: Hurst and Company, 2001. £39.50.Published in:2002By:FRASER, ANDREWPublication type:Book Review
W. G. BEASLEY: The Japanese experience: a short history of Japan. xviii, 299 pp. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. £20.Published in:2002By:BRAILEY, NIGELPublication type:Book Review
EDITH SARRA: Fictions of femininity: literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs. xii, 328 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.Published in:2002By:HELDT, GUSTAVPublication type:Book Review
MARJORIE DRYBURGH: North China and Japanese expansion, 1933–1937: regional power and the national interest. viii, 249 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.Published in:2002By:MITTER, RANAPublication type:Book Review
MASUDA WATARU (translated by JOSHUA A. FOGEL): Japan and China: mutual representations in the modern era. ix, 298 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
YIP PO-CHING: The Chinese lexicon: a comprehensive survey. x, 390 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £75.Published in:2002By:SONG, LIANYIPublication type:Book Review
VIRGINIA YIP and STEPHEN MATTHEWS: Intermediate Cantonese:a grammar and workbook. xiv, 200 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. £13.99.Published in:2002By:BAKER, HUGH D. R.Publication type:Book Review
ROBERT WARDY: Aristotle in China: language, categories and translation. (Needham Research Institute Studies, 2.) xii, 170 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £35.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
DAVID B. HONEY: Incense at the altar: pioneering sinologists and the development of Classical Chinese philology. (American Oriental Series, 86.) xxxv, 359 pp. New Haven, CT: The American Oriental Society, 2001. HARTMUT WALRAVENS: Paul Pelliot (1878–1945): his life and works - a bibliography. (Indiana University Oriental Series, Volume IX.) xxv, 248 pp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
WOLFGANG KUBIN (ed.): Symbols of anguish: in search of melancholy in China. (Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft/Société Suisse-Asie, Monographie 38.) 490 pp. Bern: Peter Lang, 2001. £40.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
JULIAN WARD: Xu Xiake (1587–1641): the art of travel writing. xviii, 231 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:HARDIE, ALISONPublication type:Book Review
NOËL GOLVERS: François de Rougemont, S.J., missionary in Ch'ang-shu (Chiang-nan): A study of the account book (1674–76) and the elogium. (Louvain Chinese Studies VII.) xvii, 794 pp. Louvain/Leuven: Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation and Leuven University Press, 1999Published in:2002By:LAAMANN, LARS PETERPublication type:Book Review
RAINER HOFFMAN and HU QIUHUA: Neokonfuzianer und Sinobuddhisten: drei Studien zur Entstehung der Lixue-Philosophie in der späten Tang-Dynastie. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Band XX.) 416 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:KUIKEN, KEESPublication type:Book Review
JENNY F. SO (ed.): Music in the age of Confucius. 152 pp. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2000. £26.95.Published in:2002By:PRATT, KEITHPublication type:Book Review
MARIA JASCHOK and SHUI JINGJUN: The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam: a mosque of their own. xx, 361 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000.Published in:2002By:BETTA, CHIARAPublication type:Book Review
ÉLISABETH ALLÈS: Musulmans de Chine: une anthropologie des Hui du Henan. (Recherches d'Histoire et de Sciences Sociales, 89.) 334 pp. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2000. 200F.Published in:2002By:NEWBY, L. J.Publication type:Book Review
M. MADHAVA PRASAD: The ideology of the Hindi film: a historical construction. xi, 258 pp. (Oxford India Paperbacks.) New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Rs 415.Published in:2002By:DWYER, RACHELPublication type:Book Review
MARK HARRISON and BISWAMOY PATI (ed.): Health, medicine and empire: perspectives on colonial India. (New Perspectives in South Asian History I.) x, 408 pp. Delhi: Sangam Books, 2001. £27.95.Published in:2002By:GONSALVES, SHIRLEYPublication type:Book Review
LAURI HONKO: Textualising the Siri epic. (FF Communications No. 264.) Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998. LAURI HONKO, in collaboration with CHINNAPPA GOWDA, ANNELI HONKO and VIVEKAE RAI: The Siri epic, as performed by Gopala Naika. Parts 1 and 2. (FF Communications 265 and 266.) Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998. LAURI HONKO (ed.): Textualization of oral epics. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 128.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000Published in:2002By:BLACKBURN, STUARTPublication type:Book Review
STELLA SANDAHL: A Hindi reference grammar. x, 156 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.Published in:2002By:SNELL, RUPERTPublication type:Book Review
NICHOLAS SUTTON: Religious doctrines in the Mahābhārata. xxii, 477 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000. Rs. 250.Published in:2002By:SMITH, JOHN D.Publication type:Book Review
EVA WILDEN: Der Kreislauf der Opfergaben im Veda. (Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien hrsg. vom Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets an der Universität Hamburg, 51.) x, 233 pp. 2 pull-out charts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
MICHAEL W. MYERS: Brahman: a comparative theology. ix, 268 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.Published in:2002By:WERNER, KARELPublication type:Book Review
HORST LASIC: Jñānaśrīmitras Vyāpticarcā. Sanskrittext, Übersetzung, Analyse. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 48.) 188 pp. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2000. HORST LASIC: Ratnakīrtis Vyāptinirnaya. Sanskrittext, Übersetzung, Analyse. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 49.) 95 pp. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2000Published in:2002By:WERNER, KARELPublication type:Book Review
ÉRIC PIRART: Les Nāsatya. Vol. II. Traduction commentée des strophes consacrées aux Aśvin dans les mandala II-V de la Rgvedasamhitā. (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fasc. CCLXXX.) 422 pp. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2001Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
DIPAK BHATTACHARYA (ed.): The Paippalāda-samhitā of the Atharvaveda. Critically edited from palmleaf manuscripts in the Oriya script discovered by Durgamohan Bhattacharya and one Śāradā manuscript. Vol. I. Consisting of the first fifteen Kāndas. (Bibl. Ind., 318.) lx, 840 pp. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1997. Rs. 1200Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
MAHES RAJ PANT: Jātarūpa's commentary on the Amarakosa. For the first time critically edited together with an Introduction, Appendices and Indexes. Pt. I Introduction. x, 468 pp. Pt. II Text. x, 512 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000. Rs. 1295 eachPublished in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
JENS BRAARVIG (ed.): Buddhist manuscripts , volume I. Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection I. xxii, 302 pp.; 12 facsimile plates. Oslo: Hermes Publishing, 2000.Published in:2002By:RUEGG, D. SEYFORTPublication type:Book Review
RUTH RODED (ed.): Women in Islam and the Middle East: a reader. xiv, 271 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999. £39.50.Published in:2002By:CHATTY, DAWNPublication type:Book Review
SUAD JOSEPH (ed.): Gender and citizenship in the Middle East. (With a foreword by Deniz Kandiyoti.) (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East.) xxxi, 400 pp. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $29.95.Published in:2002By:POVEY, ELAHEH ROSTAMIPublication type:Book Review
MAI GHOUSSOUB and EMMA SINCLAIR-WEBB (ed.): Imagined masculinities: male identities and culture in the modern Middle East. 294 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2000. £25.00, £14.95 paperback.Published in:2002By:MARCHAND, TREVOR H. J.Publication type:Book Review
AMIRA EL-AZHARY SONBOL: The new Mamluks: Egyptian society and modern feudalism. xli, 292 pp. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.Published in:2002By:BADRAWI, MALAKPublication type:Book Review
ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI: War, politics and society in Afghanistan, 1978–1992. xiv, 320 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 2000. £45.Published in:2002By:MONSUTTI, ALESSANDROPublication type:Book Review
JOSEF TROPPER: Ugaritische Grammatik. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 273.) xxii, 1056 pp. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:GIANTO, AGUSTINUSPublication type:Book Review