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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Beckingham, C. F.
• Whitaker, Ian
• Kirby, Ruth
• Murphy, Dervla
• Hyman, Anthony
• Kellas, A. R. H.
• Zinkin, Taya
• Guptara, Prabhu S.
• Yapp, M. E.
• Short, Anthony
• Wheeler, Geoffrey
• Wright, Denis
• Riches, Derek
• da Silva, J. B.
• Duncanson, Dennis
• Hoare, J. E.
• Draycott, Kathleen
• Funnell, Victor
• Nish, Ian
• Gilchrist, Andrew
• Topsfield, Andrew
• Guptara, Prabhu
• Zinkin, Maurice
• Plummer, Simon Scott
• Longmire, R. A.
• Paxton, Julian
• Macro, Eric
• E. Hoare, J.
• Jenner, W. J. F.
• Black, Robin

Titel

Book reviews

Ist Teil von

• Asian Affairs, 1984, Vol.15 (3), p.310-352

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• General The New Diplomacy: International Affairs in the Modern Age. By Abba Eban. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1983. Pp. 427. Index. £15.00. Poppe, Nicholas - Reminiscences (Studies on East Asia Vol. 16). (Ed. Henry G. Schwarz). [Bellingham]: Western Washington University, Centre for East Asian Studies, 1983. Pp. 331. Illus. Index. The Land is Shrinking: Population Planning in Asia. By Gayl D. Ness and Hirofumi Ando. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. Pp. 225. Index. $25.00. Central Asia Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. By Janet Rizvi. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. 224. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Illus. Index. £15. Human Rights in the Soviet Union. By Albert Szymanski. London, Zed Books. 1984. Pp. 338. Index. £7.95 (Pb.) The Carpets of Afghanistan. By Richard Parsons. London. Oriental Textile Press/ Antique Collectors Club, 1983. £25. South Asia Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Edited by Tim Bayliss-Smith and Sudhir Wanmali. Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. 384. Index. £30. Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development. Edited by Peter Robb. London. Curzon Press. 1983. Pp. 250. Pref. Notes. £8.50. Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British rule. Edited by Peter Robb. London. Curzon Press. 1983. Pp. 314. Pref. Notes. £9.50. Daddyji-Mamaji. By Ved Mehta. London. Picador (Pan Books). 1984. Pp. 346. Illus. £3.50. Pb. Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Asian Temple. By C. J. Fuller. Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. 232. Illus. Tables. Index. £22.50. A Squire of Hindoostan. By Narindar Saroop. New Delhi. Palit & Palit. (available from BACSA). 1983. Pp. 178. Illus. Index. £5 + 50p postage. Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian. By John Beames. London. Eland Books. 1984. Pp. 312. Index. £4.95. South-East Asia Vietnam As History: Ten Years After the Paris Peace Accords. Edited by Peter Braestrup. Washington, University Press of America, 1984. Pp. 160 and Appendices. $8.75. Middle East The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan. Edited by Richard Tapper. Croom Helm. London and Canberra. 1983. Pp. 463. Maps. Index. £19.95. Khans and Shahs: A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiyari in Iran. By Gene R. Garthwaite. Cambridge University Press 1983. Pp. 213. Map. Bibliog. Index. Documents on microfiche. £25. An Unfinished Odyssey: Lebanon and Beyond. By Cecil Hourani. London. Weiden-feld and Nicolson. 1984. Pp. 209. Illus. Map. Notes. Index. £12.95. Shifting Sands: the British in South Arabia. By David Ledger. London. Peninsular Publishing. 1983. Pp. 227. Photographs. Maps. Index. £13.95. Far East Sun Yat-sen: Founder and Symbol of China's Revolutionary Nation-Building. By G.-K. Kindermann (ed.), Munich and Vienna (Giinter Olzog Verlag), Vol. 1 of East-West Syntheses, 1983. Pp. 332. DM 48,Pb. The Siege at Peking. By Peter Fleming. Oxford University Press. 1984. Pp. 273. Maps. Illus. Index. £3.95. China at the Centre. 300 Years of Foreign Policy. By M. Mancall. New York. The Free Press. 1984. Pp. 540. Index. $29.95. . Printing and Publishing in Medieval China. By Denis Twichett. New York. Frederic Beil. 1983. Pp. 94. Illus. £7.95. (Pb.) Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China. Edited by James L. Watson. Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. 289. Notes. Contributors. Index. £25.00. The Standard of "Civilisation" in International Society. By Gerrit W. Gong. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. 267. Index. Bibliog. £19.50. The Middle Kingdom: Inside China Today. By Erwin Wickert. London. Harvill Press, 1983. Pp. 377. (Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn). £12.50. Appointment in Japan: Memories of Sixty Years. By G. C. Allen. London, Athlone Press, 1983. Pp. 196. £12.50. The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies February to June 1942. By H. P. Willmott: Annapolis, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1983. Pp. 596. Maps. Pref. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Indexes. $24.95. The Hidden Sun: Women of Modern Japan. By Dorothy Robins-Mowry. Foreword by Edward O. Reischauer. Boulder City, Colorado. Westview Press (U.K. Distributors - Bowker Publishing Company, Epping). 1983. Pp. 394. Bibliog. Illus. Index. Appendices. £28.50 (£12.50 Pb). Shorter Notices On the Study of Indian Art. By Pramod Chandra. Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. 134. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £11. Picturesque India: Sketches and Travels of Thomas and William Daniell. By Jagmohan Mahajan. New Delhi. Rupa & Co. 1983. Rs. 295. A New Face of Hinduism: The Swaminarayan Religion. By Raymond Brady Williams. Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. 217. Illus. Index. £. 17.50. So They Rode and Fought. By Major General Shahid Hamid. Tunbridge Wells. Midas Books. 1984. Pp. 189. Illus. £10.50. The Message Bearers: The Nationalist Politics and the Entertainment Media in South India, 1880-1945. By S. Theodore Baskaran. Madras. Cre-A Publishers, 1984. Pp. 203. No price stated. Elephanta: The Cave of Shiva. Photographs by Carmel Berkson. Essays by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, George Michell and Carmel Berkson. Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 48 + 75 b/w plates. Intro. Notes on terminology. Bibliog. £30.40 (hardback), £16.05 (paperback). Indonesians - Portraits from an Archipelago. Photographs by Ian Charles Stewart and text by I. C. Stewart & Judith Shaw. London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1983. 234 pages. Notes. Bibliog. £26.95. Golden Earth: Travels in Burma. By Norman Lewis. London. Eland Books. 1983. Pp. 275. Index. Illus. Paperback £4.95. The Birds of Oman. By Michael Gallagher and Martin Woodcock. Quartet Books, London, Melbourne, New York. Pp. 310. Illus, 120 plates. Biblog. Index. £37.50. The Struggle for South Yemen. By Joseph Kostiner. London. Croom Helm Ltd. 1984. Pp. 195. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £14.95. The Encyclopaedia Sinica. By Samuel Couling, with an Introduction by H. J. Lethbridge. Hong Kong. Oxford in Asia Reprints. 1983. Pp. 633. Bibliog. Pref. Addenda. £17.50. Cultural Atlas of China. By Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Oxford, Phaidon, 1983. Pp. 237. Illus. 58 maps. Bibliog. Index. £17.50. The Heart of the Dragon. By Alasdair Clayre. London, Collins/Harvill, 1984. Pp. 281. Colour plates. Maps. Index. £12.95. Europe in China. By E. J. Eitel. Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1983. Pp. 575. Index. Reprint. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self, and the Social Order. By Robert J. Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. 176. Foreword. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £12.50. Education under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools 1960-1980. By Jonathan Unger. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 308. Index. $31.20. Yemen Rediscovered. Written and photographed by Michael Jenner. Longmans, London and New York, 1983. Pp. 160. Illus. Maps. Charts. Index £11.50. New Peace County: A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region. By Peter Y. L. Ng (prepared for press and with additional material by Hugh D. R. Baker). Hong Kong University Press, 1983. Pp. 151. Hong Kong $75.00.