AUGUSTIN BERQUE: Japan: cities and social bonds. (Translated by Christopher Turner.): 234 pp. Yelvertoft Manor, Northamptonshire: Pilkington Press, 1997.Published in:2002By:WALEY, PAULPublication type:Book Review
ON-CHO NG: Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642–1718) and Qing learning. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) ix, 258 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. $22.95.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
VERNER BICKLEY: Searching for Frederick and adventures along the way. 418 pp. Hong Kong: Asia 2000 Ltd., 2001. HK $195.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
NIVEDITA MENON (ed.): Gender and politics in India. (Themes in Politics.) xi, 539 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001 (hardback edition, 1999). Rs. 575.Published in:2002By:GONSALVES, SHIRLEYPublication type:Book Review
DAVID T. RUNIA (ed.): The Studia Philonica annual. Studies in Hellenistic Judaism , vol. VIII. (Brown Judaic Studies, 309.), 228 pp. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996.Published in:2002By:VELTRI, GIUSEPPEPublication type:Book Review
YOSHINO KOSAKU (ed.): Consuming ethnicity and nationalism: Asian experiences. (ConsumAsiaN.) 202 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. £40.Published in:2002By:MARTINEZ, D. P.Publication type:Book Review
KATARZYNA CWIERTKA and BOUDEWIJN WALRAVEN (ed.): Asian food: the global and the local. (ConsumAsiaN.) x, 190 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2002. £40.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
SUKANTA CHAUDHURI: Translation and understanding. vii, 89 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. £11.99.Published in:2002By:MUKHERJEE, ALISONPublication type:Book Review
KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO (ed.): Innovative Buddhist women: swimming against the stream. xxviii, 354 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £15.99.Published in:2002By:CROSBY, KATEPublication type:Book Review
ROBIN LAW (ed.): The English in West Africa 1685–1688: the local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699. Part 2. (Fontes Historiae Africanae , New Series. Sources of African History, 5.) xvi, 468 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2001. £45Published in:2002By:PARKER, JOHNPublication type:Book Review
KEES VAN DIJK: A country in despair: Indonesia between 1997 and 2000. viii, 621 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001.Published in:2002By:RIGG, JONATHANPublication type:Book Review
MERVYN BROWN: War in Shangri-la: a memoir of civil war in Laos. xix, 243 pp. London and New York: The Radcliffe Press, 2001. £24.50.Published in:2002By:STUART-FOX, MARTINPublication type:Book Review
NANETTE GOTTLIEB and PING CHEN (ed.): Language planning and language policy: East Asian perspectives. x, 210 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:SIMPSON, ANDREWPublication type:Book Review
T. E. MCAULEY (ed.): Language change in East Asia. viii, 306 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:TAKEUCHI, LONEPublication type:Book Review
TESSA CARROLL: Language planning and language change in Japan. (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 86.) xii, 276 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £40.Published in:2002By:TAKEUCHI, LONEPublication type:Book Review
HIKARU SUZUKI: The price of death: The funeral industry in contemporary Japan. xi, 266 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2000. £25.Published in:2002By:TSUJI, YOKHOPublication type:Book Review
JAMES J. ORR: The victim as hero: ideologies of peace and national identity in postwar Japan. viii, 271 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. $22.95.Published in:2002By:DIERKES, JULIANPublication type:Book Review
W. A. THOMAS: Western capitalism in China: a history of the Shanghai stock exchange. xii, 312 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. £47.50.Published in:2002By:RICHARDSON, PHILIPPublication type:Book Review
THOMAS M. BUOYE: Manslaughter, markets, and moral economy: violent disputes over property rights in eighteenth-century China. xvi, 283 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £37.50.Published in:2002By:FAURE, DAVIDPublication type:Book Review
MARTIN PALMER: The Jesus Sutras: rediscovering the lost religion of Taoist Christianity. xvi, pp. 271. London: Piatkus, 2001. £17.99.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
SARAH HANDLER: Austere luminosity of Chinese classical furniture. xi, 417 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. $65.Published in:2002By:CLUNAS, CRAIGPublication type:Book Review
YANG XIANYI: White Tiger: an autobiography of Yang Xianyi. xxvi, pp. 302. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. $18.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
DAVID TOD ROY (trans.): The plum in the golden vase or , Chin p'ing mei. (Volume two: the rivals.) (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) lxix, 646 pp. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. £27.95.Published in:2002By:LO, ANDREWPublication type:Book Review
UTA LAUER: A master of his own: the calligraphy of the Chan abbot Zhongfeng Mingben (1262–1323). (Studien zur Ostasiatischen Schriftkunst, 5.) 164 pp, 43 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Euro45.Published in:2002By:BARRETT, T. H.Publication type:Book Review
ROMILA THAPAR: Cultural pasts: essays in early Indian history. xi, 1156 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Rs. 2,350.Published in:2002By:MCKAY, A. C.Publication type:Book Review
PHILIPPE RAMIREZ: De la disparition des chefs: une anthropologie politique népalaise. (Monde Indien Sciences Sociales 15<sup>e</sup> × 16<sup>e</sup> siècle.) 370 pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000.Published in:2002By:CAMPBELL, BENPublication type:Book Review
M. RAFIQUE AFZAL: Pakistan: history and politics 1947–1971. xvi, 490 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. $20.Published in:2002By:TALBOT, IANPublication type:Book Review
ROB JENKINS: Democratic politics and economic reform in India. (Contemporary South Asia.) ix, 250 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. £16.95.Published in:2002By:MISRA, AMALENDUPublication type:Book Review
TANIKA SARKAR: Hindu wife, Hindu nation: community, religion and cultural nationalism. viii, 290 pp. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001. £28.95.Published in:2002By:BARUA, APRATIMPublication type:Book Review
SUSMITA ARP: Kālāpāni: Zum Streit über die Zulässigkeit von Seereisen im kolonialzeitlichen Indien. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, Band 52.) vii, 258 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:MENSKI, WERNER F.Publication type:Book Review
A. K. RAMANUJAN: Uncollected poems and prose. (Edited by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan and Keith Harrison.) xii, 109 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Rs. 495.Published in:2002By:PANDEY, RAKESHPublication type:Book Review
ALF HILTEBEITEL: Rethinking the Mahābhārata: a reader's guide to the education of the dharma king. x, 365 pp. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2001. $25, £16.Published in:2002By:BROCKINGTON, JOHNPublication type:Book Review
RANJANI OBEYESEKERE: Portraits of Buddhist women: stories from the Saddharmaratnāvaliya. x, 231 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.Published in:2002By:CROSBY, KATEPublication type:Book Review
KLAUS KARTTUNED and PETTERI KOSKIKALLIO (ed.): Vidyārnavavandanam. Essays in honour of Asko Parpola. (Studia Orientalia, 94.) 511 pp. Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2001. Finnmarks 250.Published in:2002By:WRIGHT, J. C.Publication type:Book Review
KAHAR BARAT (ed. and trans.): The Uygur-Turkic biography of the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, ninth and tenth chapters. (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, 166.) xxxiv, 430 pp. Bloomington, IN: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2000. $79Published in:2002By:HAMILTON, JAMESPublication type:Book Review
CAROLE BLACKWELL: Tradition and society in Turkmenistan: gender, oral culture and song. xi, 203 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:MARCHAND, TREVOR H. J.Publication type:Book Review
M. HOLT RUFFIN and DANIEL WAUGH (ed.): Civil society in Central Asia. ix, 331 pp. Seattle and London: Washington University Press with the Center for Civil Society International, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1999. $19.95 (paperback)Published in:2002By:AKINER, SHIRINPublication type:Book Review
OWEN WRIGHT: Demetrius Cantemir: the collection of notations. Volume 2: Commentary. (SOAS Musicology Series.) x, 607 pp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. £65.Published in:2002By:STOKES, MARTINPublication type:Book Review
ODED PERI: Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem: the question of the Holy Sites in early Ottoman times. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage.) x, 219 pp. Leiden, Boston and Cologne: Brill, 2001. Euro64.Published in:2002By:FINKEL, CAROLINEPublication type:Book Review
DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS (ed.): Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition. ix, 336 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. £36.50.Published in:2002By:OUYANG, WEN-CHINPublication type:Book Review
MICHAEL COOPERSON: Classical Arabic biography: the heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Ma'mūn. xxii, 217pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £35.Published in:2002By:MOJADDEDI, JAWID A.Publication type:Book Review
LINDA S. NORTHRUP: From slave to sultan: the career of al-Mansūr Qalāwūn and the consolidation of Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria (678–689 A.H./1279–1290 A.D.). (Freiburger Islamstudien, 18.) 349 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998Published in:2002By:HATHAWAY, JANEPublication type:Book Review
CHRISTIAN KOCH: Politische Entwicklung in einem arabischen Golfstaat: die Rolle von Interessengruppen im Emirat Kuwait. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 232.) x, 287 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000.Published in:2002By:STEINBERG, GUIDOPublication type:Book Review
P. CRONE and F. W. ZIMMERMANN: The epistle of Sālim ibn Dhakwān. (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) xi, 407 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. £65.Published in:2002By:MELCHERT, CHRISTOPHERPublication type:Book Review
JAWID A. MOJADDEDI: The biographical tradition in Sufism: the tabaqāt genre from al-Sulamī to Jāmī. (Curzon Studies in Asian Religion.) ix, 230 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:KNYSH, ALEXANDERPublication type:Book Review
ANDREW RIPPIN: Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices. (Second edition.) (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) xii, 346 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. £12.99.Published in:2002By:SCHARBRODT, OLIVERPublication type:Book Review
WILLIAM C. CHITTICK: The heart of Islamic philosophy: the quest for self-knowledge in the teachings of Afdal al-Dīn Kāshānī. xiii, 360 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. £45.Published in:2002By:LEAMAN, OLIVERPublication type:Book Review
SATOE HORII: Die gesetzlichen Umgehungen im Islamischen Recht (hiyal). Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ğannat al-ahkām wa-ğunnat al-hussām des Hanafiten Sa'īd b. 'Alī as-Samarqandī (gest. 12. Jhdt). (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 239). 206 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2001. Euro41Published in:2002By:MENSKI, WERNERPublication type:Book Review
PATRICK FRANKE: Begegnung mit Khidr: Quellenstudien zum Imaginären im traditionellen Islam. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 79.) xv, 620 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Euro89.Published in:2002By:LIEBESKIND, CLAUDIAPublication type:Book Review
PAUL V. MANKOWSKI: Akkadian loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 47.) xviii, 232 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000. $29.95.Published in:2002By:RICHARDSON, M. E. J.Publication type:Book Review