JOHN MACK (ed.): Africa: arts and cultures. 220 pp. London: British Museum Press, 2000. £16.95.Published in:2002By:COURT, ELSBETHPublication type:Book Review
LUDEWIG FERDINAND RØMER: A reliable account of the Coast of Guinea, 1760. (Translated and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes.) xxx, 290 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000. £35.Published in:2002By:RATHBONE, RICHARDPublication type:Book Review
DAVID SMYTH (ed.): The canon in Southeast Asian literatures: literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.Published in:2002By:KEPNER, SUSANPublication type:Book Review
CENTRE D'ÉTUDES CORÉENNES: Mélanges offerts à Li Ogg et Daniel Bouchez. (Cahiers d'Études Coréennes, 7.) 549 pp. Paris: Collège de France, 2000.Published in:2002By:DEUCHLER, MARTINAPublication type:Book Review
KYOKO INOUE: Individual dignity in modern Japanese thought: the evolution of the concept of jinkaku in moral and educational discourse. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 35.) xi, 262 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2001. £37.50Published in:2002By:SASAMOTO-COLLINS, HIROMIPublication type:Book Review
BRIAN BOCKING: The oracles of the three shrines: windows on Japanese religion. xvii, 142 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. £45.Published in:2002By:READER, IANPublication type:Book Review
MIKE DOUGLASS and GLENDA S. ROBERTS (ed.): Japan and global migration: foreign workers and the advent of a multicultural society. xiii, 306 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £60.Published in:2002By:WILTSHIRE, RICHARDPublication type:Book Review
CHRISTIAN GALAN: L'enseignement de la lecture au Japon. Politique et éducation. 365 pp. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2001. €21.35.Published in:2002By:KORNICKI, P. F.Publication type:Book Review
NANETTE GOTTLIEB: Word-processing technology in Japan: kanji and the keyboard. xvi, 219 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £40.Published in:2002By:PIZZICONI, BARBARAPublication type:Book Review
STEFAN KAISER, YASUKO ICHIKAWA, NORIKO KOBAYASHI and HILOFUMI YAMAMOTO: Japanese: a comprehensive grammar. xx, 636pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. £29.99.Published in:2002By:CARROLL, TESSAPublication type:Book Review
GREG AUSTIN and STUART HARRIS: Japan and Greater China: political economy and military power in the Asian century. xvi, 368 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. £16.95.Published in:2002By:DRIFTE, REINHARDPublication type:Book Review
BARBARA J. BROOKS: Japan's imperial diplomacy: consuls, treaty ports, and war in China, 1895–1938. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xi, 296 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.Published in:2002By:AUSLIN, MICHAELPublication type:Book Review
STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG: Popular religion in China: the Imperial metaphor. xii, 283 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £16.99 (paper).Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
DAVID P. BARRETT and LARRY N. SHYU (ed.): Chinese collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: the limits of accommodation. xiv, 290 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.Published in:2002By:MITTER, RANAPublication type:Book Review
ALEXANDER PANTSOV: The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919 –1927. (Chinese Worlds.) xii, 324 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. £40.Published in:2002By:THATCHER, IAN D.Publication type:Book Review
ALAN RICHARD SWEETEN: Christianity in rural China: conflict and accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies No. 91.) xii, 281 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2001. $50Published in:2002By:LEE, JOSEPH TSE-HEIPublication type:Book Review
EDWARD J. M. RHOADS: Manchus and Han: ethnic relations and political power in late Qing and early Republican China, 1821–1928. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) x, 394 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2000. $55.00.Published in:2002By:DI COSMO, NICOLAPublication type:Book Review
CHIANG YEE: The silent traveller in London. (Lost and Found Series.) xvi, 216 pp. Oxford: Signal Books Limited, 2002. £10.99.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
SUSANNA HOE: Women at the siege of Peking. xxii, 408 pp. Oxford: HOLO Books, The Women's History Press, 2000. £22.95.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
MICHEL HOCKX (ed.): The literary field of twentieth-century China. vii, 252 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999.Published in:2002By:KUBIN, WOLFGANGPublication type:Book Review
VEENA NAREGAL: Language politics, elites, and the public sphere: western India under colonialism. (Permanent Black Monographs: The 'Opus 1' Series.) xi, 300 pp. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001. Rs 575, £27.95.Published in:2002By:ORSINI, FRANCESCAPublication type:Book Review
MARJATTA PARPOLA: Kerala Brahmins in transition: a study of a Nampūtiri family. (Studia Orientalia.) xiii, 436 pp. Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society, 2000.Published in:2002By:BRADLEY, TAMSINPublication type:Book Review
ANNA A. SUVOROVA: Masnavi: a study of Urdu romance, translated from the Russian by M. Osama Faruqi. (The Millennium Series.) xxvi, 291 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000. £6.99.Published in:2002By:SHACKLE, CHRISTOPHERPublication type:Book Review
ZONG-QI CAI (ed.): A Chinese literary mind: culture, creativity, and rhetoric in Wenxin Diaolong. xii, 315 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.Published in:2002By:WANG, TZI-CHENGPublication type:Book Review
ALISON SHAW: Kinship and continuity: Pakistani families in Britain. xvii, 320 pp. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. £38.Published in:2002By:MENSKI, WERNERPublication type:Book Review
WERNER F. MENSKI: Modern Indian family law. xiv, 432 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. £50.Published in:2002By:SUBEDI, SURYA P.Publication type:Book Review
ANDRÉ LÉVY, translated by WILLIAM H. NIENHAUSER, Jr: Chinese literature, ancient and classical. xi, 168 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. PAULINE YU, PETER BOL, STEPHEN OWEN and WILLARD PETERSON (ed.): Ways with words: writing about reading texts from early China. (Studies on China.) x, 283 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. £12.50Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
JOHN S. ROHSENOW: ABC dictionary of Chinese proverbs. xxvi, 239 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, and Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2002. £16.99.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
SUMIT GUHA: Health and population in South Asia: from earliest times to the present. vii, 178 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. £25.Published in:2002By:GONSALVES, SHIRLEYPublication type:Book Review
RACHEL DWYER: The poetics of devotion: the Gujarati lyrics of Dayārām. (London Studies on South Asia, 19.) xii, 379 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.Published in:2002By:MALLISON, FRANÇOISEPublication type:Book Review
CATHERINE A. ROBINSON: Tradition and liberation: the Hindu tradition in the Indian women's movement. (Curzon Studies in Asian Religions.) x, 230 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. £40.Published in:2002By:FLOOD, GAVINPublication type:Book Review
J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT: The Bible and the Buddhists. 136 pp. Bornato in Franciacorta: Sardini, 2000.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
FREDA MATCHETT: Krsna: lord or avatāra? The relationship between Krsna and Visnu in the context of the avatāra myth as presented by the Harivamśa, the Visnupurāna and the Bhāgavatapurāna. (Curzon Studies in Asian Religion.) x, 254 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 2001Published in:2002By:WERNER, KARELPublication type:Book Review
MUDAGAMUWE MAITHRIMURTHI: Wohlwollen, Mitleid, Freude und Gleichmut: eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung der vier apramānas in der buddhistischen Ethik und Spiritualität von den Anfängen bis hin zum frühen Yogācāra. 443 pp. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, 50.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999Published in:2002By:PAGEL, ULRICHPublication type:Book Review
ERNST WINDISCH: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Karin Steiner und Jörg Gengnagel. (Glasenapp-Stiftung Bd. 41.) xxix, 718 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001.Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
LUCIAN SCHERMAN: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Friedrich Wilhelm. (Glasenapp-Stiftung Bd. 40.) xxxii, 704 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001.Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
K. R. NORMAN: Collected papers. Vol. VII. xvii, 265 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 2001.Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
JÜRGEN WASIM FREMBGEN: Reise zu Gott: Sufis und Derwische im Islam. 219 pp. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. €12.50.Published in:2002By:GREEN, NILEPublication type:Book Review
JOHN R. HINNELLS: Zoroastrian and Parsi studies. Selected works of John R. Hinnells. vii, 430 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. £50.Published in:2002By:HINTZE, ALMUTPublication type:Book Review
NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS: Bactrian documents from northern Afghanistan, I: Legal and economic documents. 255 pp. (Studies in the Khalili Collection, Vol. III=Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II, Vol. VI.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. £45Published in:2002By:HUMBACH, HELMUTPublication type:Book Review
NĀSIR KHUSRAW: Knowledge and liberation, a treatise on philosophical theology: a new edition and English translation of the Gushāyish wa rahāyish by Faquir M. Hunzai, with an introduction and commentary by Parwiz Morewedge. xii, 132, 92 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris (in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), 1998. £25. ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL (ed. and trans.): Make a shield from wisdom: selected verses from Nāsir-i Khusraw's Dīvān. (Revised edition) vii, 103 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris (in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), 2001. £12.95. ALICE C. HUNSBERGER: Nasir Khusraw, the ruby of Badakhshan: a portrait of the Persian poet, traveller and philosopher. (Ismaili Heritage Series, 4.) xxiii, 292 pp. 4 pl. London and New York: I. B. Tauris (in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), 2000Published in:2002By:SHACKLE, CHRISTOPHERPublication type:Book Review
THOMAS T. ALLSEN: Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiv, 245 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. £40.Published in:2002By:LANE, GEORGEPublication type:Book Review
OTAR KADSHAIA and HEINZ FÄHNRICH: Mingrelisch–Deutsches Wörterbuch. (Kaukasienstudien.) 688 pp. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2001. €98.Published in:2002By:HEWITT, GEORGEPublication type:Book Review
BIRGITT HOFFMANN: Waqf im mongolischen Iran: Rašīduddīns Sorge um Nachruhm und Seelenheil. (Freiburger Islamstudien, XX.) 416 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:JACKSON, PETERPublication type:Book Review
HEND GILLI-ELEWY: Bagdad nach dem Sturz des Kalifats: die Geschichte einer Provinz unter ilhānischer Herrschaft (656–735/1258–1335). (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 231.) x, 246 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:JACKSON, PETERPublication type:Book Review
JAN PAUL HINRICHS (ed.): Passage Istanbul. (Het Oog in't Zeil, 8.) 240 pp. Amstelveen: Bas Lubberhuizen Uitgever.Published in:2002By:MIGNON, LAURENTPublication type:Book Review
WILLIAM HALE: Turkish foreign policy, 1774–2000. xvi, 375 pp. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. £35.Published in:2002By:ÇETINSAYA, GÖKHANPublication type:Book Review
ILDIKÓ BELLÉR-HANN and CHRIS HANN: Turkish region: state, market and social identities on the East Black Sea coast. (World Anthropology Series.) xii, 244 pp. Oxford: James Currey and Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2001. £16.95Published in:2002By:MIGNON, LAURENTPublication type:Book Review
YASIR SULEIMAN: The Arabic grammatical tradition: a study in ta'līl. xi, 228 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. £65.Published in:2002By:KAYE, ALAN S.Publication type:Book Review
DEVIN DEWEESE (ed.): Studies on Central Asian history in honor of Yuri Bregel. xi, 354 pp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001.Published in:2002By:NORRIS, H. T.Publication type:Book Review