Evacuation of Kurdistan: An ill‐fated expedition

Far East

China: A World so Changed. By C. P. Fitzgerald and Myra Roper. London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1973. Pp. 243. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.00.

Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China, 1919–72. By Christopher Howe. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 171. Bibliog. Index. £3.95.

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949. By Lucien Bianco, translated from the French by Muriel Bell. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 223. Map. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

The Consolidation of the South China Frontier. By George V. H. Moseley, III. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. x+192. Appendix. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Long March to Power: The History of the Chinese Communist Party 1921–1972. By James Pinckney Harrison. London, Macmillan, 1973. Pp. 647. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.95.

Famine in China and the Missionary. Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform 1876–1884. By Paul Richard Bohr. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 283. Appendix. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £2.25.

An Introduction to Chinese Civilisation. Edited by John Meskill. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. 699. Maps. Illus. Index.

China: A Handbook. Edited by Yuan‐li Wu. Newton Abbot, David &; Charles, 1973. Pp. 915. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £13.75.

Secret Societies in China in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Jean Chesneaux, translated by Gillian Nettle. London and Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. Pp. 210. Illus. Index. £2.75.

Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840–1960. Edited by Jean Chesneaux. Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. 328. Glossaries. Bibliog. Index.

Kūkai: Major Works. Translated, with an Account of his Life and a Study of his Thought, by Yoshito S. Hakeda. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1972. Pp. 303. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.85.

The Meiji Restoration. By W. G. Beasley. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 513. Map. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

Communism in Korea. Vol. I The Movement. Vol. II The Society. By Robert A. Scalapino and Chang‐sik Lee. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 685 and 847. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $25.00 and $30.00.

South‐East Asia

The Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1900–1942. By Deliar Noer. Singapore/Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press (East Asian Historical Monographs), 1973, Pp. 390. £9.50.

My War with the C.I.A. By Norodom Sihanouk and Wilfred Burchett. London, The Penguin Press, 1973. Pp. 272. £0.50.

Cambodia in the Southeast Asian War. By Malcolm Caldwell and Lek Hor Tan. New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 450. Maps. Appendices. £6.45.

USSR Central Asia

The Soviet Union in Asia. By Geoffrey Jukes. Sydney, Angus and Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1973. Pp. 314. Bibliog. Index. £2.95.

The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia. Edited by Edward Allworth. New York and London, Praeger, 1973. Pp. 217. Maps. Bibliog. Tables. £7.00.

The Golden Road to Samarkand. By Wilfrid Blunt. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00.

The Land beyond the Mountains: Siberia and its People Today. By Leonid Shin‐karev. London, Hart‐Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Pp. 233. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

South Asia

Locality, Province and Nation. Essays on Indian Politics 1870–1940. By John Gallagher, Gordon Johnson and Anil Seal. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. 325. Map. £3.50.

Studies in Modern Indian History. Number 1. Edited by B. R. Nanda and V. C. Joshi. New Delhi, Orient Longmans, 1972. Pp. 214. Index. Rs. 30.

A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa and the Adjoining Provinces. By Sir J. Malcolm. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 580 and 547. Appendices. Index. £8.00 per vol.

History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813–1823. By Henry T. Prinsep. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 520 and 500. £7.00 per vol.

A History of the English Settlements in India: as told in the Government records, the works of old travellers, and other contemporary documents, from the earliest period to the rise of British power in India. By J. Talboys Wheeler. First published London 1878. A new impression published by the Curzon Press, London, and Barnes &; Noble, New York, 1972. Pp.xxxi + 391.

Palaces of the Raj. By Mark Bence‐Jones. London, George Allen &; Unwin, 1973. Pp. 225. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00.

India‐Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts. By Lars Blinkenberg. Copenhagen, Dansk Udenrigspolitisk Instituts Shrifter, 1972. Pp. 440. Maps. Index. Dan. Kr. 75.00.

Pakistan's Crisis in Leadership. By Fazal Muqeem Khan. Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Appendices. Index. Rs. 25.

The Middle East

Power Play: The Tumultuous World of Middle East Oil 1890–1973. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. Pp. 374. Maps. Index. £3.75.

Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. 255. Index. £4.25.

The Third Arab‐Israeli War. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1972. Pp. 285. Sketch‐map. Index. £3.50.

Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale, 1936–1947. Edited by N. A. Rose. Foreword by Meyer Weisgal. London, Valentine, Mitchell, 1973. Pp. 262. Illus. Index. £3.75.

The Kurdish Revolt 1961–1970. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1973. Pp. 196. Maps. Chronological Summary. Index. £2.95.

Capital Cities of Arab Islam. By Philip K. Hitti. Minnesota University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 176. Maps. Illus. Index. £4. E.

Mirza Malkum Khan. A Study in the History of Iranian Modernism. By Hamid Algar. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 327. Bibliog. Index. £6.10.

The Metaphysics of Avicenna (Ibn Siina). A critical translation‐commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments of Avicenna's Metaphysica. By Parviz Morewedge. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. Pp. 336. Glossary. Index. £5.00.

Through Persia in Disguise. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1973. Pp. 175. Map. Illus. Index. £2.95.

Afro‐Asia, Islam

The Afro‐Asian Movement. Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World. By David Kimche. Jerusalem, Israel University Press, 1973. Pp. 296. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £6.50.

The Islamic World. Edited by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Wald‐man. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 468. Maps. £1.80.     

A trip to Alamut,Lahijan and Rasht

Middle East

Arab Political Memoirs and Other Studies. By Elie Kedourie. London, Frank Cass, 1974. Pp. 327. Bibliog. Index. £5.95.

Arabian Assignment. By David Smiley. London, Leo Cooper, 1975. Pp. 248. Illus. Index. £6.75.

From Encroachment to Involvement. A Documentary Study of Soviet Policy in the Middle East, 1945–1973. By Yaacov Ro'i. Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press, 1974; distributed in the UK by John Wiley &; Sons. Pp. 616. Indices.

Nasserist Ideology: Its Exponents and Critics. By Nissim Rejwan. Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press, 1974. Pp. 271. Appendix. Index. £6.75.

The Modern History of Israel. By Noah Lucas. London, Weidenfeld and Nicol‐son, 1975. Pp. 500. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

The Moors in Spain and Portugal. By Jan Read. London, Faber &; Faber, 1974. Pp. 268. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.95.

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean and the Threat to the West. Four Studies in Global Strategy. Edited by Patrick Wall. London, Stacey International, 1975. Pp. 198. Maps. Illus. Index. £3.50 (paper £2.00).

South Asia

China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. By J. P. Jain. New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 1974. Pp. vi+232. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 55.

Soviet Policy towards Pakistan and Bangladesh. By J. P. Jain. New Delhi, Radiant Publishers, 1974. Pp. 212. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 50.

Soviet Policy toward India: Ideology and Strategy. By Robert H. Donaldson. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. x+264. Notes. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Minorities in Madras State. Group Interests in Modern Politics. By S. Saras‐wathi. Delhi, Impex India, 1974. Pp. 247. Tables. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 50.

India ‐ Development and Experience. By Sardar Tarlok Singh. Madras and London, Macmillan, 1975. Pp. xx+458. Index. £8.00.

British Economic Thought and India 1600–1858. A study in the history of development economics. By William J. Barber. Clarendon Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 243. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

Marriage, Religion and Society. Pattern of change in an Indian village. By Giri Raj Gupta. London, Curzon Press, 1974. Pp. 180. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

The Lion River. The Indus. By Jean Fairley. London, Allen Lane, 1975. Pp. xv+290. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.95.

An Indian Summer. By James Cameron. London, Macmillan, 1974. Pp. 224. £3.50.

Sources for the History of British India in the Seventeenth Century. By Shafaat Ahmad Khan. London, Curzon Press, 1975. Pp. 395. Index. £4.50.

Political Relations between India and Nepal, 1877–1923. By Kanchanmoy Mojumdar. Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1973. Pp. xv+331. Maps. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 30.

Himalayan Traders. Life in Highland Nepal. By Christoph von Fürer‐Haimen‐dorf. London, John Murray, 1975. Pp. 316. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Pakistan Under Challenge. By L. F. Rushbrook Williams. London, Stacey International, 1975. Pp. 224. Maps. Illus. Index. £3.90 (paper £2.20).

South‐East Asia

Southeast Asia Under the New Balance of Power. Edited by Sudershan Chawla, Melvin Gurtov and Alain‐Gerard Marsot. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1974. Pp. 196. Bibliog. Index. £2.25.

U Nu: Saturday's Son. By U Nu; translated by U Law Yone and edited by U Kyaw Win. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. xv+358. Index. £7.50.

Economic Growth and Development in West Malaysia 1947–1970. By David Lim. London, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xx+346. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £9.95.

Far East

China's Foreign Relations since 1949. By Alan Lawrance. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul (World Studies Series), 1975. Pp. 261. Maps. Biblog. Index. £5.95.

East Asia &; U.S. Security. By Ralph N. Clough. Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1975. Pp. 248. Index. $8–95 (paper $3.50).

The Logic of “Maoism”: Critiques and Explication. Edited by James Chieh Hsiung. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1975. Pp. 227. Bibliog. Index. £8.00.

The Pattern of Sino‐American Crises. Political‐Military Interactions in the 1950s. By J. H. Kalicki. London, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 279. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

China's Economic Aid. By Wolfgang Bartke. London, C. Hurst &; Co., 1975. Pp. 215. £5.00.

Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896–1911. By Don C. Price. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 301. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.00.

Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai‐tsung. By Howard J. Wechsler. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. xii+259. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China. By Paul A. Cohen. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. x+357. Notes. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.00.

Some Remarks on the Relationship between China and Mongolia. By C. R. Bawden. London, The China Society, 1974. China Society Occasional Papers. No. 17.

United States‐Japanese Relations: The Seventies. Edited by Priscilla Clapp and Morton H. Halperin. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 234. £4.00.

Japanese Radicals Revisited: Student protest in postwar Japan. By Ellis S. Krauss. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974. Pp. xiv+192. Bibliog. Index. £6.60.

The Samurai. By Paul Varley with Ivan and Nobuko Morris. First published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970; London, Penguin Books, 1974. Pp. 106. Map. Illus. Index.

Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Bakufu, Shugo and Jito. By Jeffrey P. Mass. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. 257. Glossary. Map. Bibliog. Index. £6.25.

Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West. By Mark R. Peattie. Princeton and London, Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 430. Glossary (Romaji/Kanji). Bibliog. Index. £870.

The Kuril Islands. Russo‐Japanese Frontiers in the Pacific. By John J. Stephan. Clarendon Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 279. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £6.25.     

The Russo‐Chinese frontier

General

The Anatomy of Communist Takeovers. Edited by Thomas T. Hammond. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. 664. Bibliog. Index. £12.50 (paper £3.00).

Peasant Rebellion and Communist Revolution in Asia. Edited by John Wilson Lewis. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1974. Pp. 364. Index. $12.95.

Peasant Society in a Changing Economy. Comparative Development in South‐East Asia and India. By George Rosen. Urbana, Chicago and London, University of Illinois Press, 1975. Pp. xiii+256. $8.95.

History ‐ Remembered, Recovered, Invented. By Bernard Lewis. Princeton and London, Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 111. Index. £3.45.

The First Kuwait Oil Concession: a record of the negotiations for the 1934 agreement. By Archibald H. T. Chisholm. London, Frank Cass, 1975. Pp. 254. Illus. Index. £8.00.

Middle East

Faisal: The King and his Kingdom. By Vincent Sheean. Tavistock, Devon, University Press of Arabia, 1975. Pp. 176. Maps. Illus. Index. £4.95.

Riza Shah Pahlavi: The Resurrection and Reconstruction of Iran 1878–1944. By Donald N. Wilber. New York, Exposition Press, 1975. Pp. 301. Illus. Index. £15.00.

The Golden Age of Persia. The Arabs in the East. By Richard N. Frye. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1975. Pp. 290. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

War, Technology and Society in the Middle East Edited by V. J. Parry and M. E. Yapp. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 448. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

South Asia

Elections and Political Development: The South Asian Experience. By Norman D. Palmer. London, C. Hurst &; Co., 1975. Pp. x+301. Notes. Index. £7.75.

South Asian Crisis. By Robert Jackson, London, Chatto &; Windus, 1975. Pp. 240. Appendix. Maps. Index. £4.00.

The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad 1880–1920. By C. A. Bayly. Clarendon Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 314. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

The Myth of the Lokamanya. Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. By Richard I. Cashman. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 246. Appendix. Glossary. Index. £6.85.

Muslim Community in Bengal 1884–1912. By Sufia Ahmed. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 425. Map. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Electoral Politics in an Emergent State. The Ceylon General Election of May 1970. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. London, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 240. Maps. Index. £7.00.

Political Structure in a Changing Sinhalese Village. By Marguerite S. Robinson. London, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 376. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £9.75.

South‐East Asia

Konfrontasi: The Indonesian‐Malaysian Dispute 1963–1966. By J. A. C. Mackie. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 368. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

The Communist Insurrection in Malaya 1948–1960. By Anthony Short. London, Frederick Muller, 1975. Pp. 547. Bibliog. Index. £8.95.

Malay Peasant Society and Leadership. By S. Husin Ali. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press (East Asian Social Science Monographs), 1975. Pp. 192. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.60.

The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak. By Margaret Clark Roff. Kuala Lumpur and London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 202. Map. Bibliog. Index. £7.85.

USSR

A Siberian Journey. The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774–1776. Translated and edited by Walther Kirchner. London, Frank Cass, 1975. Pp. 183. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

Far East

Liu Shao‐ch'i and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Politics of Mass Criticism. By Lowell Dittmer. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California. Press, 1975. Pp. 386. Bibliog. Index. £7.10.

The Times Atlas of China. Edited by P. J. M. Geelan and D. C. Twitchett. London, Times Books, 1974. Pp. 144 plus Index. £25.00.

Prelude to Revolution. Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question 1962–66. By Richard Baum. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. 222. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

The Chinese City between Two Worlds. Edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 458. Maps. Index. £11.00.

Prisoner of Mao. By Bao Ruo‐Wang (Jean Pasqualini) and Rudolph Chelminski. London, André Deutsch, 1975. Pp. 319. Sketch map. £3.95.

China's Republican Revolution. The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913. By Edward J. M. Rhoads. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 366. Notes. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £9.90.

China and Pakistan. Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale. By Anwar H. Syed. Massachusetts University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1975, Pp. 259. Index. £3.00.

The Chinese Theatre in Modern Times from 1840 to the Present Day. By Colin Mackerras. London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. Pp. 256. Illus. Index. £6.75.

The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yu. By Stephen Owen. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. 294. Glossary. Index. £8.25.

Japan's Greater East Asia Co‐prosperity Sphere in World War II. Selected readings and documents. By Joyce C. Lebra. London, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 212. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan. By David A. Titus. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. 360. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism. The Army and the Rural Community. By Richard J. Smethurst. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xxi+202. Bibliog. Index. £7.70.     

Some impressions of modern Turkey

General

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii+629. Tables. Figs. Maps. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £37.50.

Dictionary of Asian Philosophies. By St Elmo Nauman (Jr). New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1978. Pp. 372. Chron. Tables. Pref. $20.00.

Middle East

Middle East Contemporary Surrey Vol. I: 1976–77. Edited by Colin Legum and Haim Shaked. New York and London, Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., 1978. (For The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University) 1978. Pp. 684. Maps. Tables. Notes. Graphs. Index. £32.50.

Pasargadae. A Report on the Excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. By David Stronach. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xii+326. Figs. Fold‐outs. Plates. Maps. Preface. Appendices. Index. £25.00.

The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel. By A. L. Tibawi. London, The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1978. Pp. 72. Maps. Illus. Notes. Appendices. £3.00.

Western Civilisation through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari of Iran. Trans, by F. J. Goulding. Tehran, Sadr Publishing House, 1977. Optimus Books, Worthing, Sussex. Pp. xii+146. Foreword. Note. Gloss. £1.00.

Gertrude Bell. By H. V. F. Winstone. London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. Pp. 332. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

South Asia

Politics Mainly Indian. By W. H. Morris‐Jones. Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978. Pp. 392. Intro. Index. Rs. 60.

The Making of the Indian Princes. By Edward Thompson. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1978. First published Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. 304. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Khyber. By Charles Miller. Macmillan, New York, 1977. Macdonald and Janes, London, 1977. Pp. xix+393. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Family Web. A Story of India. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1978. Pp. 284. Illus. Gloss. £5.95.

The Ganges in Myth and History. By Steven G. Darian. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1978. Pp. 219. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $9.95.

USSR

Soviet Political Elites. By Ronald J. Hill. London, Martin Robertson, 1977. Pp. 226. Map. Figs. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub‐Arctic. By Terence Armstrong, George Rogers and Graham Rowley. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1978. Pp. 303. Maps. Tables. Gloss. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £5.95 (paper).

Central Asia

The Gilgit Game. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1865–95. By John Keay. John Murray, London, 1979. Pp. 277. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. Gloss. £7.95.

South‐East Asia

The Army and Politics in Indonesia. By Harold Crouch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978. Pp. 356. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £13.00.

The Indonesian Tragedy. By Brian May. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, Henley &; Boston, 1978. Pp. xvii+413. Illus. Maps. Notes. Gloss. Index. £8.95.

The Politics of Administration. The Malaysian Experience. By Mavis Puthucheary. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, New York and Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii+170. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £15.25.

Many Reasons Why. The American Involvement in Vietnam. By Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrief. Scolar Press, London, 1978. Pp. 250. Maps. Notes. Indices. £10.00 (cloth), £4.50 (paper).

A Concise Legal History of South‐East Asia. By M. B. Hooker. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 289. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Far East

Revolution and History ‐ Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–37. By Arif Dirlik. Berkeley, San Francisco and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. ix+299. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Chang Tso‐lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan and the Manchurian Idea. By Gavan McCormack. Folkestone, Dawson, 1977. Pp. 334. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.50.

Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P'ei‐fu 1916–39. By Odoric Y. K. Wou. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) Folkestone, Dawson; Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. Pp. 346. Index. £12.50.

Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. By Siu‐lun Wong. London, Boston and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xvi+147. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

The China Station. War and Diplomacy 1830–1860. By Gerald S. Graham. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978. Pp. 444. Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

Ancient China. The Making of the Past. By Patrick FitzGerald. Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1978. Pp. 151. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £4.95.

Rural Development: Learning from China. By Sartaj Aziz. London, The Macmillan Press, 1978. Pp. 201. Ulus. Intro. Appendices. Notes. References. Bibliog. Index. £8.95 (hardback) £5.50 (paperback).

Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars. By Edward H. Schafer. Berkeley, Los Angeles. London, California University Press, 1978. Pp. xi+352. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.75.

Confucianism and Christianity; a comparative study. By Julia Cheng. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Religions of Sophia University, Tokyo 1977. (Distributed by Phaidon Press, Oxford, in the United Kingdom). Pp. 234. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

Economic Development of South Korea. The Political Economy of Success. By L. L. Wade and B. S. Kim. Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1978. Pp. 270. Figs. Index. Notes. £12.50.     

The Baghdad railway: Its new rôle in the Middle East

General

Gardens of Paradise: The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens. By John Brookes. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1987. Pp. 240. Maps. Bibliog. Index. Chronology. Illus. £20.00.

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. By E. L. Jones. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 279. Bibliog. Index. £27.50 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

Expansion of Third World Navies. By Michael A. Morris. London. Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 293: Index £35.00.

Central Asia

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom ‐ the Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. By Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev. Translated from the Russian by R. E. F. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 403. Bibliog. Index. Maps. (First published in Russian, under the title: Poiski vymyshlennogo Tsarstva: legenda o Gosudarstve presvitera Ioanna, Moscow, 1970). £37.50.

Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan. By Albert von Le Coq. Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 180. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £8.50 Pb.

The Tragedy of Afghanistan: the Social, Cultural and Political Impact of the Soviet Invasion. Edited by Bo Huldt and Erland Jansson. London, Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. 270. Index. £27.50.

South Asia

The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. II 1. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. By Dr. C. A. Bayly. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 206. Gloss. Bibliographical Essay. Index. £17.50.

The New Cambridge History of India, II, 2: Bengal: the British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828. By P. J. Marshall. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 195. Index. Maps. £17.50.

India and Tibet. By Francis Younghusband. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 455. Illus. Maps. Index. £21.00.

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj. By Marian Fowler. New York, Viking, 1987. Pp. 337. Illus. Notes. Bibliog. $19.95.

Mediaevalism to Modernism: Socio‐economic and Cultural History of Hyderabad 1869–1911. By Sheela Raj. London, Sangam Books, 1987. Pp. 340. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

The Days of the Beloved. By Harriet Ronken Lynton and Mohini Rajan. London, Sangam Books, 1988. Pp. 279. Illus. £11.95.

South Asia: The Narrowing Options. Economist Intelligence Unit Special Report No. 110. By Brian Slocock. London. Economist Intelligence Unit. 1988. Pp. 119. Map. £115.00 Pb.

The Cat and the Lion. Robert W. Stern. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1988. Pp. 331. Bibliog. Index. $56.00.

Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement. By Edward Duyker. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 201. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £11.95.

The Political Economy of Pakistan, 1947–85. By Omar Noman. London, KPI, 1988. Pp. 218. Bibliog. Index. £25.00.

Banditry in Islam: Case Studies from Morocco, Algeria and the Pakistan North West Frontier. By David M. Hart. London Middle East and North African Studies Press, 1987. Pp. 86. Maps.

Sri Lanka: A History. By Chandra Richard de Silva. London, Sangam books, 1987. Pp. 316. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £14.95.

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka. By John D. Rogers. Curzon Riverdale, 1987. Pp. 270. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. No price stated.

South‐East Asia

ASEAN at the Crossroads. Ed. by Noordin Sopiee, Chewhay See and Lim Siang Jin. Kuala Lumpur. ISIS, Malaysia, 1987. Pp. 577. $25.00.

Financing East Asia's Success. By Michael Skully and George Viksnis, London, Macmillan, 1987. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

The Commerce in Rubber ‐ The First 250 Years. By Austin Coates. Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1987. Pp. 380. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

Government and Politics in Singapore. Ed. Jon S. T. Quah, Chan Heng Chee and Seah Chee Meow. Southeast Asian Studies Program, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1987. Tables, Bibliog. Index. Pp. 338. £11.50.

On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well‐Being Among the Batak of the Philippines. By James F. Eder. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 276. Maps. Notes. Index. $38.00.

Land, Poverty and Politics in the Philippines. By Mamerto Canlas, Mariano Miranda Jr., and James Putzel. London, Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1988. Pp. 87. Map. Index. £4.95.

Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea. By Eva Mysliwiec. Oxford, Oxfam Publications, 1988. Pp. 172. £3.95. Pb. £14.95 Hb.

Middle East

Israel and the American National Interest ‐ A Critical Examination. By Cheryl A. Rubenberg. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. 446. Index. $24.95.

The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine. By Naomi Shepherd. London, Collins, 1987. Pp. 282. Illus. Map. Bibliog. Index. Price not stated.

Far East

The Cambridge History of China. Volume 13. Republican China 1912–1949, Part 2. Edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 1111. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £60.00.

The Cambridge History of China. General Editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank. Volume 14, The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949–1965. Edited by R. L. MacFarquhar and J. K. Fairbank. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 722. Bibliographical Essays. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £50.00.

The Archaeology of Ancient China. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. By Kwang‐Chih Chang. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 475. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £45.00 Hb. £14.95. Pb.

A Dream of Red Mansions. By Ts'ao Hsüeh‐ch'in and Kao Ngo, (tr. Yang Hsien‐yi and Gladys Yang). London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1986. Pp. 499. £7.95 Pb.

Outlaws of the Marsh. By Shih Nai‐an and Lo Kuan‐chung (tr. Sidney Shapiro). London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1986, Pp. 458. £7.95 Pb.

Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century. By Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 288. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £22.50 US $35.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. By Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 451. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $45.00.

The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921–1985: A Self‐Portrait. By Laszlo Ladany. London, C Hurst &; Co 1988. Pp. 588. Bibliog. Index. £32.50.

The Sino‐Soviet Confrontation since Mao Zedong. Dispute, Detente, or Conflict? By Alfred D. Low. Social Science Monographs, Boulder, 1987. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. 332. Notes. Bibliog. $40.

Education and Socialist Modernization ‐ A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1977–1988. Edited by Shi Ming Hu and Eli Seifman. New York, AMS Press, 1987. Pp. 229. $62.50.

East Asian Conflict Zones. Ed. Lawrence E. Grinter and Young Whan Khil. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1988. Pp. 239. Map. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka. By Tetsuo Najita. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press. 1987. Pp. 344. Index. £29.95. Hb. £11.95 Pb.

Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850–1880. By Toshio Yokoyama. London, St Antony's/Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 233. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £27.50.

Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975. Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 329. Illus. Notes. Index. £25.00. Hb. £11.70. Pb.

The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. By Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 269. Illus. Index. Bibliog. £18.75.

Dōgen Kigen: Mystical Realist. By Hee‐Jin Kim. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1987. Pp. 324. Bibliog. Index. $18.95 Pb.

Hong Kong in Transition. Ed. Joseph Y. S. Cheng. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 457. £8.95. Pb.

Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong. By Carl Smith. Oxford University Press, 1985, 1988. Pp. 252. Chronology. Plates. Notes. Index. £15.00.

Siberia and the Soviet Far East: Strategic Dimensions in Multinational Perspective. Ed. Rodger Swearingen. Stanford, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987. Pp. 298. Index. $32.95.

Shorter notes

Soviet Economic Assistance to the Less Developed Countries. By Quintin V. S. Bach. Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 175. Bibliog. £27.50.

The Tibet Guide. By Stephen Batchelor. London, Wisdom Publications, 1987. Pp. 466. Illus. Index. £13.95 Pb.

The Second Afghan War 1878–1880 Casualty Roll. Compiled by Anthony Far‐rington. The London Stamp Exchange Limited, 1987. Pp. 189. (A4) £14.95.

Indian General Service Medal 1895 Casualty Roll. Compiled by Anthony Far‐rington. The London stamp Exchange limited, 1987. Pp. 166. (A4) £14.95.

The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver 1760–1860. Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson. London, W. R. T. Wilkinson, 1987. Pp. 229. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £97.50.

Kashmir. By Raghubir Singh. London, Thames and Hudson, 1987. Pp. 32. Illus. Map. £9.95 Pb.

Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Society. Ed. Chowdhury E. Haque. Winnipeg, Bangladesh Studies Assemblage, University of Manitoba, 1987. Pp. 139. Price not stated.

Course for Disaster: From Scapa to the River Kwai. By Richard Pool. London, Leo Cooper, 1987. Pp. 196. £13.95.

Medieval Persia 1040–1797. By David Morgan. Longman, London and New York, 1988. Pp. 197. Bibliog. Index. £15.95 Hb. £7.95 Pb.

Iron in the Fire: the Chinese Potters’ Exploration of Iron‐oxide Glazes. London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1988. Intro. Plates. £16 (incl. postage).     

BOOK REVIEWS

General

Modernizing Peasant Societies. A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa. By Guy Hunter. London, Oxford University Press (for the Institute of Race Relations), 1969. Pp. xi + 298. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £2.

The Politics of Foreign Aid in India. By P. J. Eldridge. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1969. Pp. xx + 187. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £3.

The Role of Land Reform in Economic Development. A Case Study of Taiwan. By Anthony Y. C. Koo. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall, 1968. Pp. xvii + 125. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.20.

The Persian Land Reform 1962–1966. By Ann K. S. Lambton. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. Pp. xiii+366. Tables. Glossary. Index. £4.20.

Language &; literature

A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. By Yuen Ren Chao. University of California Press, 1968; London, IBEG, 1969. Pp. xxxi + 847. Bibliog. Index. £7.15.

A First Course in Literary Chinese. By Harold Shadick, with the collaboration of Ch'iao Chien. Cornell University Press, 1968; London, IBEG, 1969. 3 vols. Pp. 888. Maps. Indexes. £5.25.

The Etymologies of 3,000 Chinese Characters in Common Usage. By Chang Hsuan. University of Hong Kong Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 960. Indexes. £7.00.

Beginning Korean. By Samuel E. Martin and Young‐Sook C. Lee. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1969. Pp. xxix + 575. Vocabularies. $8.75 or £3.95 (paperback; also available in cloth).

Three Mughal Poets. Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. By Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. xxii + 290. Map. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £2.40.

Ghalib, 1797–1869. Vol. 1: Life and letters. Translated and edited by Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. 404. Frontispiece. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

The World of Premchand. Selected stories of Premchand, translated by David Rubin. London, Allen and Unwin, 1969 (for UNESCO). Pp. 215. Glossary. £1.75.

War

History of the Second World War: The War Against Japan. Volume V. The Surrender of Japan. By Major‐General S. Woodburn Kirby. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. Pp. 599. Maps. Illus. Index. £6.30.

Korea: 1950–1953. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1969. Pp. 171. Maps. Index. £1.80.

The Suez Expedition 1956. By Général d'Armée André Beaufre, translated by Major‐General Richard Barry. London, Faber and Faber, 1969. (Editions Bernard Grasset, 1967.) Pp. 161. Maps. Illus. Index. £2.

The Siege. By Russell Braddon. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969. Pp. 353. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. £1.9.

Kut: The Death of an Army. By Ronald Millar. London, Secker &; Warburg, 1969. Pp. 323. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

Six Battles for India. The Anglo‐Sikh Wars: 1845–6, 1848–9. By George Bruce. London, Arthur Barker, 1969. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £2.25.

The Coming War between Russia and China. By Harrison E. Salisbury. London, Secker and Warburg, 1969. Pp. 200. Maps. £2.50

The First Afghan War. By Lady Sale. Edited by Patrick Macrory. London, Longmans, 1969. Pp. xix + 186. Maps. Frontispiece. Appendices. Index. £2.10.

Last Post at Mhow. By Arthur Hawkey. London, Jarrolds, 1969. Pp. xii + 196. Illus. Index. £1.75.

Plassey: The Founding of an Empire. By Michael Edwardes. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1969. Pp. x + 209. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.10.

Islam, Turkey, middle east

Early Muslim Architecture. I. Umayyads: A.D. 622–750. By K. A. C. Creswell, with a contribution on the Mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and of the Great Mosque at Damascus, by Marguerite Gautier‐van Berchem. 2nd edition, in 2 parts. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. Pp. xlv + 684. 141 plates + 690 text illustrations. £36.

Paintings from. Islamic Lands. Essays by D. Barrett and others. Edited by R. Pinder‐Wilson. (Oriental Studies, 4). Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1969. Pp. 204. 131 illus. £2.75.

Arabs, Islam and the Arab Caliphate in the early Middle Ages. By E. A. Belyaev. Translated from the Russian by Adolphe Gourevitch. New York and London, Praeger: Pall Mall, 1969, £3.75.

The Young Turks. The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914. By Feroz Ahmad. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. Pp. 205. Bibliog. £2.50.

Politics and Government in Turkey. By C. H. Dodd. Manchester University Press, 1969. Pp. xvi + 335. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Anatolia I: From the beginnings to the end of the 2nd millennium B.C. By U. Bahadir Alkim. London, Barrie and Rockliff: the Cresset Press, 1969. Pp. 279. Map. Illus. Index, Bibliog. £3.

A Modern History of Syria including Lebanon and Palestine. By Dr. A. L. Tibawi. London, Macmillan, 1969. Pp. 433. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.

The Russian Presence in Syria and the Holy Land 1843–1914: Church and Politics in the Near East. By Derek Hopwood. Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. viii + 232. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Republican ‘Iraq: A Study in ‘Iraq Politics Since the Revolution of 1958. By Majid Khadduri. Oxford University Press for the RIIA, 1969. Pp. xii + 318. Map. Index. £3.

Arab Historians of the Crusades. Translated from Arabic by Francesco Gabrieli and from Italian by E. J. Costello. London, Routledge, with University of California and Artemis of Zurich, 1969, Pp. xxxvi + 362. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Makers of Arab History. By Philip K. Hitti. London, Macmillan, 1969. Pp. 268. Maps. Index. £2.75.

The British in the Middle East. By Sarah Searight. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Pp. xvi + 215. £3.50.

Central Asia

Central Asia. By Gavin Hambly with Alexandre Benningson, David Bivar, Hélène d'Encausse, Mahin Hajianpur, Alastair Lamb, Chantal Lemercier‐Quelquejay and Richard Pierce. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 388. Illus. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £4.20.

Afghanistan: Some New Approaches. George Grassmurk, Ludwig W. Adamec, and Frances H. Irwin, editors. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1969. Pp. 405. Chronology. Bibliog. No price.

Tibet. By Thupten Jigme Norbu and Colin Turnbull. London, Chatto and Windus, 1969. Pp. 362. Illus. £2.50.

From the Land of Lost Content. The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet. by Noel Barber. London, Collins, 1969, Pp. 224. Map. Bibliog. £1.50.

Prolegomena to Lamaist Polity. By Nirmal Chandra Sinha. Foreword by Hugh Richardson. Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1969. Pp. xi + 92. R.20.

Indian sub‐continent

Himalayan Frontiers. By Dorothy Woodman. London, Barry and Rockliff, The Cresset Press, 1969. Pp. 423. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

History of Firuz Shah Tughluq. By J. M. Banerjee. Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1967. Pp. x + 228. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 20.

Classical India. Edited by William H. McNeill and Jean W. Sedlar. (Readings in World History, Volume 4). Oxford University Press, New York, 1969. Pp. 201. £0.65.

Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India. By R. S. Sharma. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass. 2nd Edition, 1968. Pp. 337. Biblio. Index. Rs. 20.00.

Kingship in Northern India. (circ. 600 A.D.‐1200 A.D.). By Ram Charita Prasad Singh. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1968. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 15.00.

The Transition in Bengal, 1756–1775. A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan. By Abdul Majed Khan. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xv + 376. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.25.

British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance. By David Kopf. University of California Press (London, IBEG), 1969. Pp. 324. Bibliog. Index. £4.05.

Lord Northbrook's Indian Administration, 1872–1876. By Edward C. Moulton. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 313. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Superior Person: A Portrait of Curzon and his circle in late Victorian England. By Kenneth Rose. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 475. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

The Viceroy's Wife. Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India, 1921–35. By Iris Butler. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1969. Pp. 110. Illus. Index. £2.25.

John Morley at the India Office, 1905–1910. By Stephen E. Koss. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1969. Pp. 231. Bibliog. Index. £3.80.

Politics and Administration in the Local Councils. A study of Union and District Councils in East Pakistan. By M. Rashiduzzaman. London and Karachi: Oxford University Press 1969. Pp. 124. Tables. Index. Bibliog. 90 np.

Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India and Pakistan. By M. A. Fazal. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xxxv + 345. Bibliog. Index. £4.

India and the League of Nations. By D. N. Verma. Patna, Bharati Bhawan, 1968. Pp. 350. Index. Bibliog. Rs. 30.00.

From Zamindar to Ballot Box: Community Change in a North Indian Market Town. By Richard G. Fox. Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 302. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £1.90.

Bureaucrats under Stress. Administrators and Administration in an Indian State. By Richard P. Taub. University of California Press; London, CUP, 1969. Pp. 235. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Shri Ram. A Biography. By Khushwant Singh and Arun Joshi. London, Asia Publishing House, 1968. Pp. 240. £1.50.

Student Unrest in India. By Aileen D. Ross. Montreal &; London, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1969. Pp. 301. Bibliog. Indexes. $12.50. £5.62.

Government Archives in South Asia. A Guide to the National and State Archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan. Edited by D. A. Low, J. C. Iltis and M. D. Wainwright. London, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xiii + 355. £4.25.

Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon. A Documentary History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935–1942. By G. J. Lerski. Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1968. 288 pp. Index, Paperback, $2.85.

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, with Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon. Vol. 2: Megapodes to Crab Plover. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xiv + 345. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.40.

Birds of Kerala. Second edition of The Birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xxii + 444. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.00.

Southeast Asia

War, Peace, and the Viet Cong. By Douglas Pike. Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1969. Pp. 186. Figures. Tables. Index. £2.80.

The Peasants of North Vietnam. By Gérard Chaliand. Preface by Philippe Devillers. Translated by Peter Wiles. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1969. Pp. 244. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. 35p.

Selected Articles and Speeches. By Ho Chi Minh. Edited by Jack Woddis London, Lawrence &; Wishart, 1969. Pp. 172. 52p.

Loosely Structured Social Systems: Thailand in Comparative Perspective. By John F. Embree and others. Edited by Hans‐Dieter Evers. Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1969. Pp. 148. Tables. Bibliog. $6.50.

Burma and General Ne Win. By Maung Maung. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 332. Ilus. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Indians in Malaya. Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786–1957). By Kernial Singh Sandhu. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xxiv + 346. Illus. Maps. Tables. Glossary. Index. £6.

Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xiii + 169. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £1.25.

China, Manchuria, Korea

What Mao Really Said. By Philippe Devillers. Translated by Tony White. London, Macdonald, 1969. Pp. 317. Bibliog. Index. £1.50.

Great Britain and the Taipings. By J. S. Gregory. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. xvi + 271. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

While China Faced West. American Reformers in Nationalist China 1928–1937. By James C. Thomson, Jr. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. 310. Bibliog. Index. $7.95.

Kidnapped in London. By Sun Yat Sen. Reprinted, with a Foreword by Kenneth Cantlie. London, China Society, 1969. Pp. xii 134. Illus. £1.25.

The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. By Kungtu G. Sun &; Ralph W. Huenemann. Harvard and OUP, 1969. Pp. 124. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £1.70.

Korea: Democracy on Trial. By John Kie‐chiang Oh. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 240. Map. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.80.

Japan, Philippines

A Diplomat in Japan. By Sir Ernest Satow. Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. xii + 427. Illus. Glossary. Index. £4.50.

Britain and Japan, 1858–1883. By Grace Fox. Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 627. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

The New Generation in Meiji Japan. By Kenneth B. Pyle. Stanford University Press; London, OUP, 1970. Pp. 240. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

Japan Unmasked. By Ichiro Kawasaki. Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. Pp. 231. £1.90.

The Philippines. By Raymond Nelson. London, Thames &; Hudson, 1968. Pp. 192. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £1.75. The Philippines. By John Cockcroft. London &; Sydney, Angus &; Robertson. 1969. Pp. 128. Illus. £2.62.     

Obituary: Marshal of the royal air force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington,G.C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E.

General

Islam in Perspective: A Guide to Islamic Society, Politics and Law. By Patrick Bannerman. Routledge for Chatham House. 1988. Pp. 278. Gloss. Biographical Notes. Index. £35.00.

Profit and Loss Sharing: An Islamic Experiment in Finance and Banking. By Shahrukh Ran Khan. Karachi, O.U.P., 1988. Pp. 180. Bibliog. Index. £10.95 Pb.

The Urbanization of the Third World. Ed. J. Gugler. Oxford, O.U.P., 1988. Pp. 421. Index. £12.95 Pb.

South Asia

Poona in the Eighteenth Century: an Urban History. By Balkrishna Govind Gokhale. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 225. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £9.95.

A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals. By Richard M. Fisher. Riverdale, Maryland. The Riverdale Company, 1987. Pp. 245. Appendices, Gloss. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £35.00.

The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past 1784–1838. By O. P. Kejariwal. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 293. Bibliog. Index. £12.95.

Vallabhbhai Patel: Power and Organization in Indian Politics. By Rani Dhavan Shankardass. London, Sangam Books, 1988. Pp. 325. Bibliog. Index. £17.95.

India Wins Freedom ‐ the Complete Version. By Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. London, Sangam Books, 1988. Pp. 283. Illus. Index. £12.95.

The Politics of Health in India. By Roger Jeffrey. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1988. Pp. 348. Bibliog. Index. $39.95.

Breaking the Curfew: A Political Journey Through Pakistan. By Emma Duncan. London, Michael Joseph, 1989. Pp. 313. Index. £14.95.

South‐East Asia

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, Volume One: The Lands below the Winds. By Anthony Reid. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. 275. Maps. Illus. Index. £20.00.

The Rise of Ersatz Capitalism in South‐East Asia. By Yoshihara Kunio. Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 297. Appendices. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £22.50.

Sociology of “Developing Societies”: Southeast Asia. Ed. John G. Taylor and Andrew Turton. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 1988. Pp. 280. Bibliog. Index. £30.00 Hb. £8.95 Pb.

ASEAN and the Security of South‐East Asia. By Michael Leifer. International Politics in Asia Series. Routledge, 1988. Pp. 198. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £30.00.

Indonesia Under Suharto. By Nawaz B. Mody. London, Oriental University Press, 1987. Pp. 405. Bibliog. Index. £25.00.

Chinese Politics in Malaysia ‐ A History of the Malaysian Chinese Association. By Heng Pek Koon. Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 307. Bibliog. Index. £16.50.

Running Amok ‐ an historical inquiry. By John C. Spores. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1988. Pp. 179. Notes. Bibliog. £12.35 Pb.

Heaven in Transition ‐ Non‐Muslim Religious Innovation and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia. By Susan E. Ackerman and Raymond L. M. Lee. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. 201. Bibliog. Index. £20.90.

Frank Swettenham &; George Giles Watercolours &; Sketches of Malaya 1880–1894. Text by Lim Chong Keat and Henry Barlow. Kuala Lumpur, The Malaysian‐British Society, 1988. Pp. 166. Notes. Bibliog. Price not stated.

Government and Politics of the Philippines. Eds. Raul P. De Guzman and Mila A. Reforma. Singapore, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 289. Tables. Index. £19.50.

Vietnam and the Chinese Model. A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. By Alexander Barton Woodside. Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. 358. Bibliog. Index. £11.25 Pb.

French Catholic Missionaries and the Politics of Imperialism in Vietnam, 1857–1914: A Documentary Survey. By Patrick J. N. Tuck. Liverpool University Press, 1987. Pp. 352 Maps. Bibliog. £12.50.

Decision Against War. Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954. By Melanie Billings‐Yun. New York, Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp. 199. Bibliog. Index. US$25.00.

Middle East

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. Eds. Trevor Mostyn and Albert Hourani, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 504. Illus. Index. £30.00.

Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East. Ed. Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich. New York, Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. 296. Index. Hb. $35. Pb. $12.95.

Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus. Ed. Nadim Shehadi and Dana Haffar Mills. London, I.B. Tauris, 1988. Pp. 337. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. By Kamal Salibi. London, I. B. Tauris, 1988. Pp. 247. Map. Bibliog. Index. £17.50.

The Druze. By Robert Brenton Betts. Yale University Press. 1988. Pp. 161. Maps. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £14.95.

The Soviet Union and Syria: The Asad Years. By Efraim Karsh. London, Routledge, Chatham House Papers, 1988. Pp. 136. Notes. Appendices. £7.95.

Far East

East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages. By Wm. Theodore de Bary, Harvard University Press, 1988, Pp. 160. Notes, Bibliog. Index. £15.95.

China in World History. By S. A. M. Adshead. London, Macmillan Press, 1988. Pp. 422. Notes. Index. Bibliog. £35.00. Hb.

Behind the Scenes in Peking. By Mary Hooker. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 209. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.95 Pb.

Elegant Flower: Recollections of a Cadet in Cathay. By Desmond Neill. O.U.P., 1988, Pp. 202. £6.95 Pb.

Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate. By Austin Coates. O.U.P., 1988. Pp. 250. £2.50 Pb.

Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform. By Orville Schell. New York, Pantheon Books, 1988. Pp. 381. $19.95.

Bandits in Republican China. By Phil Billingsley. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. 375. Gloss. Illus. Index. Bibliog. Maps. £42.50.

China Builds the Bomb. By John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai. Stanford, Ca, Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. 238. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. $29.50.

Hong Kong under Imperial Rule. 1912–41. By Norman Miners. Hong Kong, OUP, 1988. Pp. 330. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £18.50.

A Macao Narrative. By Austin Coates. Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 112. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £7.95.

The Craft of Gardens. By Ji Cheng. Translated by Alison Hardie, Photographs by Zhong Ming with a Foreword by Maggie Keswick. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. 144. Notes. Index. £25.00.

The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: The Complete Record. By Colin Sheaf &; Richard Kilburn. Oxford, Phaidon Christie's, 1988. Pp. 192. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. Map. Index. £45.00.

The Food of China. By E. N. Anderson. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. 263. Bibliog. Index. £14.95.

Pirates of the South China Coast 1790–1810. By Dian H. Murray. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. 243. Appendices, Bibliog. Illus. Index. US$32.50.

Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home. By Michael Jeremy &; M. E. Robinson. Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 196. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. £25.00.

Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan. By Robert A. Rosenstone. Howard University Press, 1989. Pp. 315. Frontis. £19.95.

Japanese Government Leadership and Management. By Charles P. Bingham. London, Macmillan Press, 1989. Pp. 165. Index. £29.50.

“Things Seen &; Unseen; Discourse &; Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism”. By H. D. Harootunian. Chicago &; London, University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. 494. Index (includes Bibliog.) £11.95 Pb.

Political Protest and Social Control in Pre‐war Japan: the Origins of Buraku Liberation. By Ian Neary. Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 250. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £29.95.

The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan 1910–1923. By Michael Weiner. Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 249. Index. £29.95.

A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World. By JaHyun Kim Haboush. New York, Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp. 237. Appendices, Gloss. Bibliog. Index. $35.00.

South Korea: Education, Culture and Economy. By Georgie D. M. Hyde. London, The Macmillan Press, 1988. Pp. 287. Bibliog. Index. Appendices. £35.00.

Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. By Dae‐Sook Suh. Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp. 338. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $45.00.

The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910. By Wayne Patterson. University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Pp. 257. Bibliog. Index. £28.50.

Shorter notices

International Relations of the Asian Muslim States. By James Piscatori, Lanham, New York, London, University Press of America. 1986. Pp. 41. Gloss. Bibliog. £13.40.

The Asian Development Bank and Rural Development: Policy and Practice. By R. Withol, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1988. Pp. 218. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

An Arab‐Syrian Gentleman and Warrior. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn‐Munqidh. Translated by Philip Hitti. Princeton, 1987. Pp. 265. Illus. Map. Index. $9.95 Pb.

Curzon's Persia. Edited by Peter King. London. Sidgwick &; Jackson, 1988. Pp. 192. Illus. Maps. £9.95 Pb.

The Modern History of Mongolia. By C. R. Bawden. London, Kegan Paul International. 1989. Pp. 476. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £14.95 Pb.

Gandhi and His Critics. By B. R. Nanda. Delhi, OUP, 1985. Pp. 178. Index. £9.95.

Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China 1840–1980. By Valery Garrett. Oxford University Press, (Images of Asia Series), 1988. Pp. 87. Illus. Index. £6.95.     

“Through the inner deserts to Medina.”

General

The Oil Markets of the Pacific Rim into the 1990s. By Paul McDonald. London, Financial Times Business Information, 1990. Pp. 101. £198.00 (£208/US$333 ‐overseas)

The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive. By Jack Goody. Cambridge University Press. 1990. Pp. 532. Index. £13.95 Pb.

Albuquerque: Caesar of the East. Selected texts by Albuquerque and his son. Edited with a translation and notes by T. F. Earle &; John Villiers. Warminster, Aris &; Phillips, 1990. Pp. 308. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12.95.

The Trial of Benazir: An Insight into the Status of Woman in Islam. By Rafiq Zakaria. London. Sangam Books. 1990. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. £12.95.

The Babi and Baha'i Religions: From messianic Shi'ism to a world religion. By Peter Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1987, Pp. 243. Illus. Maps. Index. £25.00 Hb.

Central Asia

My Tibet. By H. H. The Dalai Lama. Photographs and introduction by Galen Powell. University of California Press. Pp. 162. Maps. Illus. Index. $35.00.

Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise. By Hisae Kimura. London, Serindia Publications. 1990. Pp. 224. Index. £14.95

Nomads of Western Tibet: The Survival of a Way of Life. By Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall. London, Serindia Publications, 1990. Pp. 192. Illus. Index. £19.95.

Lost World: Tibet By Amaury de Riencourt. London. Honeyglen Publishing. 1990. Pp. 335. Epilogue. Gloss. Index. £13.95.

Tibet, China and India 1914–1950: A History of Imperial Diplomacy. By Alastair Lamb. London, Roxford Books. 1989. Pp. 523. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

Reflections on Tibetan Culture. By Ed. Lawrence Epstein and Richard F. Sher‐burne. New York, The Edward Mellen Press. 1990. Pp. 350. References. $69.95.

Apples in the Snow. A Journey to Samarkand. By Geoffrey Moorhouse. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1990. Pp. 189. £12.95.

South Asia

The Shah Jahan Nama of Inayat Khan. Trans. A. R. Fuller Edited and completed W. E. Bagley and Z. A. Desai. Delhi. OUP. 1990. Pp. 624. Illus. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

The Formation of the Mughal Empire. By Douglas E. Streisand. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 206. Bibliog. Index. £11.95.

Pastoral Deities in Western India. By Gunther‐Dietz Sontheimer. Trans: Anne Feldhaus. O.U.P., 1989. Pp. 278. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £34.00.

Keynes and India. By Anand Chandavarkar. London. Macrhillan. 1989. Pp. 209. Index. Bibliog. £35.00.

Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism: a Study in Indian Nationalism, 1928–1940. By Bidyut Chakrabarty. London, I.B. Tauris. 1990. Pp. 240. Bibliog. Index. £34.95.

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. By Sarvepalli Gopal. O.U.P. 1990. Pp. 500. Biog. Notes. Glos. Index. £19.50.

India Wins Errors. By Rajmohan Gandhi. Delhi, Sangam Books, 1989. Bibliog. Notes. Index. £10.95.

Politics of Communalism: A Politico‐Historical Analysis of Communal Riots in Post‐Independence India with Special Reference to the Gujarat and Rajasthan Riots. By Zenab Banu, London, Sangham Books, 1989. Pp. 226. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

Cabinet Government in India. By Madhu Limaye. London, Sangam Books, 1989. Pp. 346. Index. £15.95.

The State of Martial Rule: the origins of Pakistan's political economy of defence. By Ayesha Jalal, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 328. Map. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £30.00.

Nor Iron Bars a Cage. By Penelope Tremayne. London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1990. Pp. 195. £2.50.

South‐East Asia

Growth and Ethnic Inequality: Malaysia's New Economic Policy. By J. Faaland, J. R. Parkinson and Rais Saniman. London, Hurst and Company. 1990. Pp. 347, Map. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

Margins and Minorities: The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia. Edited by V. T. King and M. J. G. Parnwell. Hull University Press. 1990. Pp. 290, Tables. Maps. Figures. Bibliog. Index. £8.90.

A Journey among the peoples of Borneo in word and picture. By H. F. Tillema. Edited and with an introduction by Victor T. King. Oxford University Press. 1989. Pp. 251. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

Thailand and the United States: Development, Security and Foreign Aid. By Robert J. Muscat. New York: Columbia University Press. 1990. Pp. 361. Tables. Bibliog. Index: $46.00.

Middle East

Power and Stability in the Middle East. Edited by Berch Berberoglu. London, Zed Books, 1989. Pp. 206. Index. £32.95 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

The Rural Middle East: Peasant Lives and Modes of Production. Edited by Kathy and Pandeli Glavanis. London, Zed Books, 1990. Pp. 215. Index. £29.95 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

Early Islamic Architecture of the Desert: A Bedouin Station in Eastern Jordan. By Svend Helms et al. Edinburgh University Press. 1990. Pp. 188. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £25.00.

Burton: Snow upon the Desert By Frank McLynn. London: John Murray, 1990. Pp. 374. Notes. Index. Plates. £19.95.

Iran ‐ The Crisis of Democracy 1941–53. By Fakhreddin Azimi. London. I. B. Tauris. 1989. Pp. 433. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

Planning and Power in Iran ‐ Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. By Frances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones. London. Frank Cass. 1989. Pp. 238. Bibliog. Index. £22.50.

Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran. By Homa Katouzian. I. B. Tauris. 1990. Pp. 288. Notes. Index. £24.95.

In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade. By Robin Wright. London, Blooms‐bury, 1990. Pp. 284. Illus. Bibliog. Map. Index. £16.99.

The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine 1921–1951. By Avi Shlaim. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 465. Maps. Index. £7.95 Pb.

Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation. Edited by Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin. London, I. B. Tauris, 1990. Pp. 423. Appendices. Illus. Notes. £5.95 Pb.

Far East

The Search for Modern China. By Jonathan D. Spence. London, Hutchinson, 1990. Pp. 876. Tables. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £19.95.

The Soul of China. By Amaury de Riencourt. London, Honeyglen Publishing, 1989. 2nd rev. edition. Pp. 326. Index. £13.95.

The Invention of Li Yu. By Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. 272. Mus., Bibliog., Index. £21.95.

Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science. By Daniel Little. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 322. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £25.00.

China's Peasants. The Anthropology of a Revolution. By Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 358. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £30.00 Hb.

Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. By Helen F. Siu, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 378. Bibliog. Index. Maps. Photographs. £30.00.

The Geography of Contemporary China. The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade. Ed. Terry Canon and Alan Jenkins. London and New York, Routledge, 1990. Pp. 316. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £35.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb.

Golden Inches. The China Memoir of Grace Service. Ed. by John S. Service. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989. Pp. 346. Illus. $19.95.

Hong Kong: The Challenge of Transformation. Ed. Kathleen Cheek‐Milby and Miron Mushkat. University of Hong Kong Press, 1989. Pp. 314. HK$150.00.

Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong. By Michael C. Davis. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1990. Pp. 219. Index. £35.00.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3 Medieval Japan. Ed. Kozo Yama‐mura. 1990. Pp. 707. Maps. Tables. Works cited. Gloss. Index. £65.00.

Old Friends New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Pacific War 1942–1945. By Arthur J. Marder, Mark Jacobsen and John Horsfield. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. Pp. 621. Plates. Maps. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power. By Robert M. Orr, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. 178. Bibliog. Index.

Nakae Ushikichi: The Mourning of Spirit. By Joshua A. Fogel. London, Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 313. Appendix. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.50.

The British Part in the Korean War Volume I: A Distant Obligation. By General Sir Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. London, HMSO 1990. Pp. 544, Maps. £35.00 Hb.

South Korea and the Socialist Countries: The Politics of Trade. By Dan C. Sanford. London, Macmillan., 1990. Pp. 138. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

Shorter notices

Animals in four worlds: sculptures from India. By Stella Snead. University Press, Chicago, 1989. Pp. 199. Illus. £31.95.

The Soul of India. By Amaury de Riencourt. Honeyglen Publishing, London. 1990. Pp. 416. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £13.95.

Dance Dialects of India. By Ragini Devi. Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass, 1990. Pp. 234. Illus. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 6.50.

Curries and Bugles: A cookbook of the British Raj. By Jennifer Brennan. London. Viking. 1990. Pp. 324. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £16.99.

Lahore: the City Within. By Samina Qureshi. Singapore: Concept Media Pte. Ltd. 1988. Pp. 292. Maps. Illus. £40.00.

Travels in Kashmir: A Popular History of its People, Places and Crafts. By Brigid Keenan. Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. 226. Index. Bibliog. Maps. Illus. £5.99.

Borobudur: Prayer in Stone. By Soekmono, J. G. de Casparis and J. Dumarcay. London. Thames and Hudson. 1990. Pp. 176. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. £35.00.

Yemen: Invitation to a Voyage in Arabia Felix. By Jacques Hébert. Photographs by Marc Hébert. Montreal, Heritage Publishing, 1989, Pp. 140. Illus. Map. Appendices. C$30.

The Seven Shaikhdoms: Life in the Trucial States before the federation of the United Arab Emirates. By Ronald Codrai. London, Stacey International, 1990. Pp. 174. 170 illustrations. Map. £25.00.     

A description of Gilan and Baku in 1874

General

Great Britain and the Origins of the Pacific War: A Study of British Policy in East Asia 1937–1941. By Peter Lowe. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 318. Bibliog. Index. Appendices. £8.50.

Middle East

The Arabs. By Peter Mansfield. Allen Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.), London, 1976. Pp. 570. Index. £8.50.

The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. By Lord Kinross. Jonathan Cape, London 1977. Pp. 638. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

Iran: An Economic Profile. By Jahangir Amuzegar. The Middle East Institute. Washington, D.C., 1977. Pp. 280. Bibliog. Index. $12.95.

Arabic and Islamic Garland: Historical, Educational and Literary Studies. Presented to Abdul‐Latif Tibawi by Colleagues, Friends and Students. The Islamic Cultural Centre, London. Pp. 239. Biog. Bibliog. £8.00.

The World of Islam: A Handbook for Teachers. By Richard Tames. Published by the Extramural Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1977. Pp. 229. Pref. Appendices. £2.00.

Diary of a Journey across Arabia. By G. Forster Sadleir. Falcon Press, Naples, Italy. Oleander Press, New York and Cambridge, England 1977. Pp. 161. Map. £8.00. Text taken from the original edition compiled by M. Houghton from the records of the Bombay Government and printed at the Byculla Press, Bombay, in 1866. The present reprint is preceded by a biographical note, pp. 16, by F. M. Edwards, taken from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society Vol. 44 (1957) by permission of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.

South Asia

The Indian Political Parties: An Historical Analysis of Political Behaviour up to 1947. By B. B. Misra. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Oxford University Press, 1976, London, 1977. Pp. 665. Bibliog. Index. £11.50.

Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928–34. By Judith M. Brown. Cambridge University Press 1977. Pp. xix + 414. £15.50.

Documents on Political Thought in Modern India: Vol. II. By A. Appadorai. Oxford University Press, Bom bay 1976, New York, London, 1977. Pp. 892. Index. £14.00.

Development Planning in Bangladesh. A Study in Political Economy. By Nurul Islam. C. Hurst and Company, London 1977. Pp. 267. Preface. Introd. Index. £8.50.

My Years in an Indian Prison. By Mary Tyler. London, Victor Gollancz, 1977. Pp. 191. Illus. £5.20.

The Raj, the Indian Mutiny and the Kingdom of Oudh, 1801–1859. By John Pemble. London, The Harvester Press Ltd. 1977. Pp. 303. Index. Bibliog. Illus. £10.95.

The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology. By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 411. Bibliog. Index. £11.25.

Indian Asia. By Philip Rawson. Elsevier‐Phaidon Press, 1977. Pp. 152. Illus. Gloss. Index. £4.50.

A New History of India. By Stanley Wolpert. London, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 471. Maps. Preface. Bibliog. Index. £9.75.

Old Bungalows in Bangalore, South India. By Janet Pott in collaboration with Elizabeth Staley and Romola Chatterjee. Published by the author and available from 56 Addison Avenue, London W.11, 1977. Pp. 72. 85 photographs and illustrations. Measured drawings by John Sambrook. £3.50.

The Road to India. Guide to the Overland Routes to the East. By John Prendergast. John Murray, London, 1977. Pp. 206. Index. Map. £5.95.

India. By James Elliott. Batsford, London, 1977. Pp. 238. Map. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £4.95.

USSR

The Kingdom of Georgia. Notes of Travel in a Land of Women, Wine and Song. To which are appended Historical, Literary, and Political Sketches, Specimens of the National Music and a Compendious Bibliography. By Oliver Wardrop. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 1888. Reprinted 1977. London, Luzac. Pp. 202. Bibliog. Map. Illus. £8.50.

Central Asia

Great Britain and Chinese, Russian and Japanese Interests in Sinkiang, 1918–1934. By Lars‐Erik Nyman. Lund Studies in International History, 8. Esselte Studium Stockholm, 1977, Pp. 165. Maps. No price given.

Afghanistan. By Louis Dupree. Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xxiv + 760. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

South‐east Asia

Southeast Asia and China ‐ the End of Containment. By Edwin W. Martin. Boulder, Colorado (Westview Press for Center for International Studies, Georgetown University), 1977. Pp. 114. Map. Introd. Appendix. Notes. $11.25.

Southeast Asia in International Politics, 1941–1956. By Evelyn Colbert. Ithaca &; London, Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 372. Introd. Bibliog. Index. £13.15.

Power Struggle in South‐East Asia. By Oey Hong Lee. Inter Documentation Company Ag., Zug, Switzerland, and London, 1976. Pp. 614. Bibliog. Index. Documentary appendices on microfiche. S.fr. 128.

The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines. By Benedict J. Kerkvliet. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 305. Tables and Maps. Preface. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £12.00.

The District. A Study in Decentralization in West Malaysia. By J. H. Beaglehole. London, Oxford University Press, 1976. Hull Monographs on South‐East Asia 6. Pp. 117. Map. Bibliog. Index. £3.00 (soft cover).

Indonesia. By Donald W. Fryer and James C. Jackson. “Nations of the Modern World” series. Ernest Benn Ltd. London, and Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1977. Pp. 284. Glossary. Bibliog. Illus. Index. $24.

Far east

China and the World since 1949. The impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution. By Wang Gungwu. London and Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1977. Pp. 190. Preface. Introd. Notes. Bibliog. £5.95 (cloth) £2.95 (paper).

Mao Tse‐tung in the Scales of History. Edited by Dick Wilson. London, Cambridge University Press for the Contemporary China Institute Publications, 1977. Pp. xii + 331. £10.50 (hardback) £3.50 (paper).

A Memoir of Revolutionary China 1924–1941. By Ruth V. Hemenway. The University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. Pp. 216. Illus. Introd. Notes. $12.50.

Japan in the Muromachi Age. Edited by John W. Hall and Toyoda (Takeshi). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1977. Pp. xviii + 358. Gloss. Index. Illus. Maps. £13.15 (cloth). £3.70 (paper).

Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic in Modern Japan. Translated by Katharine Sparling. Souvenir Press, London 1977 (first published Basic Books, New York, 1977). Illus. Pp. 166. £4.95.     

Transport routes in Persia

General

The End of the War in Asia. By Louis Allen. London, Hart‐Davis, MacGibbon, 1976. Pp. 306. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12–50.

Plagues and Peoples. By William H. McNeill. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1976. Pp. viii +369. Map. Appendix. Index. $10.00.

Asian Medical Systems. A Comparative Study. Edited by Charles Leslie. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1976. Pp. 404. Tables. Illus. £13.20.

The Paradox of Poverty. Edited by S. Epstein and D. Jackson. Macmillan, India. Pp. 127. Rs. 40.

The Sociology of Developing Societies. By Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt. London, The Macmillan Press, 1976. Pp. 202. Preface. Introduction. Notes. Index. £7.95 (hardback) £3.95 (paperback).

Middle East

Mudros to Lausanne: Britain's Frontier in West Asia 1918.1923. By Briton Cooper Busch. State University of New York Press, New York, 1976. Pp. 430. Maps. Bibliog. Index. {3000.

From the Wings: Amman Memoirs 1947.1951. By Sir Alex Kirkbride. London, Frank Cass, 1976. Pp. 159. Index. £6.95.

South Asia

The Hidden History of the Sino·Indian Frontier. By Karunakar Gupta. Minerva Associates (Publications) Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, 1974. Pp. xiii + 173. Index. Rs.30.

The Government of India and Reform: Policies towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916.1921. By P. G. Robb. (London Oriental Series: Vol. 32) Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 370. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £10.50.

Party Politics in Pakistan 1947.1958. By K. K. Aziz. National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad 1976. Pp. 302. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Rs. 6500. U.S.$10.00.

Political Parties in Pakistan 1947.1958. By M. Rafique Afzal. National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad 1976. Pp. 270. Appendices. Bibliog.Index. Rs. 60.00. U.S. $9.00.

East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. By P. J. Marshall. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 274. Maps. Tables. Index. £7.75.

Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600.1800. By Holden Furber. Minnesota University Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xix+389. Ulus. Maps. Glossary. Index. £12.25.

Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture. By Abdul Halim Sharar. Translated and edited by E. S. Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain. London, Elek Books Ltd., 1975. Pp. 295. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Notes. Index. £12.50.

The Decline of Nayar Dominance. By Dr. Robin Jeffrey. Sussex University Press, 1976. Pp. xxi+376. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £9.00.

The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata. By A. Hiltebeitel. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 378. Appendix. Index. £13.65.

Two Monsoons. By Theon Wilkinson, with drawings by Bill Smith: Duckworth, London, 1976. Pp. 230. Illus. Map. Appendixes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £5.95.

Unmade Journey. By Ian Stephens. Stacey International, London, 1977. Pp. xv + 439. Illus. Index. £7.50.

USSR

Soviet·Asian Relations in the 1970s and Beyond: an Interperceptional Study. By Bhabani Sen Gupta. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government.) New York, Praeger, 1976. Pp. 358. Index. £17.50.

To Caucasus, the End of all the Earth. An illustrated companion to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. By Fitzroy Maclean. Jonathan Cape, 1976. Pp. 203. Illus. Map. Index. £6.50.

Larger than Life. A biography of the remarkable Dr Armand Hammer. By Bob Considine. W. H. Allen, Londoh, 1976. Pp, 287. lllus. Appendixes. Index. £5.50.

Central Asia

Mongolian Heroes of the 20th Century. Translated and edited by Urgunge Onon, with an Introduction by Owen Lattimore. AMS Press Inc., New York. Asian Studies No. 1. Pp. xx+217. Map. Illus. 117.95.

South·east Asia

Louis and the Kings of Siam. By W. S. Bristowe. Chatto and Windus, Ltd., London, 1976. Pp. 156. Illus. Appendix. Sources and Notes. £4.50.

Far East

Political Culture and Group Conflict in Communist China. By Alan P. L. Liu. Clio Books, California and England, 1976. Pp. xvii+202. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.45 (cloth), £4.10 (paper).

The Last Emperor. By Arnold C. Brackman. Charles Scribner and Sons, New York, 1976. Pp. 352. Bibliog. $12.50.

Japan Faces China: Political and Economic Relations in the Postwar Era. By Chae·Jin Lee. London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. 236. Illus. Appendixes. Notes. Tables. Index. £9.35.

Japan in Southeast Asia: Collision Course. By Raul S. Manglapus. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York/Washington D.C., 1976. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. $3.75 (paper).

The Two Koreas in East Asian Affairs. Edited by William J. Barnds. New York: New York University Press, 1976. Pp. vii+216. Index. $15.00.

Youth and Politics in Japan. By Joseph A. Massey. Farnborough, Hants, Lexington Books, D.C. Heath Ltd., 1976. Pp. xix+226. Figs. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. £10.25. “

Lu Hsiin's Vision of Reality. By William M. Lyell Jnr. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1976. Pp. i·x+355. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. By Daniel L. Overmyer. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xi+295. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £10.50.

Dogen Kigen ‐ Mystical Realist. By Hee·jin Kim. The University of Arizona Press, 1976. Pp; 370, Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. $8.95 (cloth). $4.95 (paperback).

Thought Control in Prewar Japan. By Richard H. Mitchell. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1976. Pp. 226. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. £8.75.

Women in Changing Japan. By Joyce Lebra, Joy Paulson and Elizabeth Powers. Westview Press, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 1976. Pp. 322. Preface. Bibliog. $23.7.

The Pathans 550 B.C.·AJX 1957. By Sir Olaf Caroe. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, Oxford University Press, Karachi, London, New York, Delhi, 1976. Pp. 485. Illus. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary, Index. £16.50.

Journey to the Source of the Oxus. By John Wood. Karachi, New York, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976, London, 1977. Pp. cv+280. Maps. £11.00.

Area Handbook for North Korea. Edited by Nena Freeland and Rinn·Sup Shinn. DA Pam 550.81, Second Edition, 1976. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402. Pp. xvi + 394. Bibliog.

A History of South India. By Milakate Sastri. Oxford University Press, Fourth Edition, 1976. Pp. 493. Illus. Maps. Index. £5.25 (paper).

Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia. By John Duke Anthony, with contributions and assistance from John Peterson and Donald Sean Abelson. (Historical and Cultural Dictionaries of Asia, No. 9), Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1976. Pp. viii+139. J6.00.

Soviet Asia: Bibliographies: A compilation of Social Science and Humanities Sources on the Iranian, Mongolian, and Turkic Nationalities. With an Essay on the Soviet·Asian Controversy. By Edward Allworth. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, London, 1976. Pp. lxiii+687. Map. Illus. £21.35.     

The North‐West frontier province and trans‐border country under the new constitution

Indian subcontinent

The Viceroy at Bay: Lord Linlithgow in India. By John Glendevon. London, Collins, 1971. Pp. 288. Illus. Index. £2.50.

The Transfer of Power: Constitutional Relations between Britain and India. Vol. I: The Cripps Mission, January‐April 1942. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. London, HMSO, 1970. Pp. 928. Illus. Map. Index. £7.00.

The Indian Army: Its contribution to the development of a nation. By Stephen Cohen. Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1971. £2.85.

The Politics of Nepal. By Leo E. Rose and Margaret W. Fisher. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1970. Pp. 197. Map. Index. £3.80.

General

Nationalism in Asia and Africa. Edited with an Introduction by Elie Kedourie, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Pp. 573. Index. £3.00.

Religion and Change in Contemporary Asia. Ed. Robert F. Spencer. London, OUP for Minnesota University Press, 1971. Pp. 172. Map. Index. £3.15.

The Ruler's Imperative. By W. Howard Wriggins. Columbia University Press, 1969. Pp.275. £4.50

Middle East

Peace in the Holy Land: An Historical Analysis of the Palestine Problem. By John Bagot Glubb. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. Pp. 384. Maps. Genealogical trees. Bibliog. Index. £3.15.

The Trucial States. By Donald Hawley. London, Allen and Unwin, 1970. Pp. 380. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.25.

The Wind of Morning. By Sir Hugh Boustead. London, Chatto and Windus, 1971. Pp. 240. £2.80.

Islam: a Way of Life. By Philip K. Hitti. University of MinnesotaPress, (London, OUP) 1970. Pp. 183. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £2.25.

John Company's Last War. By Barbara English. London, Collins, 1971. Pp. 192. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.10.

Southeast Asia

North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao: Partners in the Struggle for Laos. By Paul F. Langer and Joseph J. Zaslof. Harvard University Press; London, OUP, 1971. Pp. 262. Bibliog. Index. £2.90.

In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History. By David Joel Steinberg (editor), David K. Wyatt, John R. W. Smail, Alexander Woodside, William R. Roff, David P. Chandler. London, Pall Mall Press, 1971. Pp. 522. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Burma: A Profile. By Norma Brixler. London, Pall Mall Press, 1971. Pp. 244. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. £3.50.

China

The Security of China. By Arthur Huck. London, Chatto and Windus. Pp. 93. Maps. 60p.

China's Cultural Revolution. By Gargi Dutt and V. P. Dutt. London, Asia Publishing House, 1970. Pp. 260. Index. £3.25.

Education in Communist China. By R. F. Price. London, Routledge, 1970. Pp. 308. Maps. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £3.00.

Psychological Research in Communist China, 1949–1966. By Robert and Ai‐li Chin. Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1970. Pp. 274. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £2.65.

Education and Communism in China. Edited by Stewart Fraser. N.Y. and London, Pall Mall Press, 1971. £2.75.

China's Cultural Legacy and Communism. Edited by Ralph C. Croizier. London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. 313. £3.50.

Modern Chinese Stories. Selected and edited by W. J. F. Jenner. London, Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. 271. 60p.

The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China. By Tai‐an Hsia. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press. Pp. 266. Index. £3.77.

Contemporary Chinese Law: Research Problems and Perspectives. Edited by Jerome Alan Cohen. Harvard UP; London, OUP, 1971. Pp. 380. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

Industrial Development in Pre‐Communist China. A quantitative analysis. By John K. Chang. Edinburgh University Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 147. £2.50.

The Chinese Economy under Communism. By Nai‐ruenn Chen and Walter Galenson. Edinburgh University Press, 1970. Pp. 250. £3.00.

Mao Papers: Anthology and Bibliography. Edited by Jerome Ch'en. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xxxiii+221. £2.75.

The United States and China: The Next Decade. Edited by A. Doak Barnett and Edwin O. Reischauer. The National Committee on United States‐China Relations. Pall Mall Press, London. Pp. 249. £3.25.

The Extraterritorial System in China: Final Phase. By John Carter Vincent. Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 119. Index. £1.70.

British Policy in China (1895–1902). By L. K. Young. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. Pp. 356. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £3.50.

Taikoo. By Charles Drage. London, Constable, 1970. Pp. xl + 280. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. £2.25.

The Origins of Statecraft in China. Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire. By H. G. Creel. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 559. £7.80.

Far East

Mongolia, A Profile. By Victor P. Petrov. London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. 179. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £3.25.

Area Handbook for North Korea. By Rinn‐Sup Shinn and others. Washington, US Government Printing Office, 1969. Pp. xvi + 481. $3.75.

Taiwan: Studies in Chinese Local History. By Leonard H. Gordon. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 124. Glossary. Index. £1.60.

Learning to be Chinese: The Political Socialization of Children in Taiwan. By Richard W. Wilson. Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1970. Pp. 203. Bibliog. Index. £4.65.

The Philippines: Industrialization and Trade Policies. By John H. Power and Gerardo P. Sicat. Taiwan: Industrialization and Trade Policies. By Mo‐huan Hsing. London, OUP, for OECD Paris, 1971. Pp. 324. Indexes. £4.00.

Personality in Japanese History. Edited by Albert M. Craig and Donald H. Shively. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971. Pp. 481. £4.75.

A Collection of Stories from Uji: A Study Translation of the Uji Shūi Mono‐gatari. By D. E. Mills. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 459. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

Archaeology

Southern Arabia. By Brian Doe. London, Thames and Hudson, 1971. Pp. 267. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.20.

Looking for Dilmun. By Geoffrey Bibby. London, Collins, 1970. Pp. lx + 383. Maps. Illus. Index. £3.15.

Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron‐Age Horsemen. By Sergei I. Rudenko, translated and edited by M. W. Thompson. London, Dent, 1970. Pp. xxxvi + 340. Illustrated. Bibliog. Index. £12.60.     

From the Society's Local Honorary Secretary in New Zealand

General

Missile Defences and Asian‐Pacific Security. By M. J. Mazarr. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1989. Pp. 226. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific. By P. Drysdale. New York. Columbia University Press. 1988. Pp. 294. Bibliog. Index. $46.00.

Central Asia

The Great Game: on Secret Service in High Asia. By Peter Hopkirk. London, John Murray. 1990. Pp. 562. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. By Derek Waller. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. 273. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £30.00.

The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary of A Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918. By Reginald Teague‐Jones (alias Ronald Sinclair). Introd. &; Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1990. Pp. 216. Map. £14.95.

Central Asia and Kashmir. A Study in the Context of Anglo‐Russian Rivalry. By K. Warikoo, New Delhi. Gian Publishing House. 1989. Pp. 264. Bibliog. Index. Rs 250. Hb.

The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Ed. Denis Sinor. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 518. Bibliog. Index. £60.00.

Inside the Treasure House: A Time in Tibet. By Catriona Bass. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1990. Pp. 221. Illus. Index. £15.95.

Requiem for Tibet. By George N. Patterson. London, Aurum Press. 1990. Pp. 234. Map. Illus. Index. £14.95.

Requiem for Tibet. By George N. Patterson. London, Aurum Press. 1990. Pp. 234. Map. Illus. Index. £14.95.

South Asia

The New Cambridge History of India. Vijayanagara. By Burton Stein. Cambridge University Press. 1990. Pp. 156. Index. £19.50.

Maps of Mughal India. By Susan Gole. London and New York, Kegan Paul International. 1990. Pp. 60. Maps. £45.00.

The French in India: from Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars. Ed. Rose Vincent. London, Sangam Books, 1990. Pp. 165. £14.95.

Imperial Rule in Punjab 1818–1881. The Conquest &; Administration of Multan. By J. Royal Roseberry III. Riverdale, Maryland, The Riverdale Co. 1987. Pp. 274. Bibliog. Index. Maps. $34.00.

Indian Diary. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Editor: N. G. Jayal. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 222. £5.95.

Farewell the Plumed Troop: A Memoir of the Indian Cavalry 1919–1945. By D. M. Killingley. Newcastle upon Tyne, Grevatt &; Grevatt, 1990. Pp. 134. Illus. Gloss. Index. £12.95 (UK + P&;P). £16.80 (Overseas).

Letters to Chief Ministers, 1947–1964. By Jawaharlal Nehru. Volume 3, 1952–1954, New Delhi (OUP), 1987. Pp. 673. Volume 4, 1954–1957, New Delhi, (OUP), 1988. Pp. 668. Frontis. Illus. Index. £13.50 each.

Indian National Movement: Its Ideological and Socio‐Economic Dimensions. By Madhu Limaye. London, Sangam Books, 1989. Pp. 452. Chronology. Index. £25.95.

Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography. By P. Heehs. O.U.P., 1990. Pp. 172. Bibliog. Index. £4.95. Pb.

Hinduism, The Anthropology of a Civilisation. By M. Biardeau, O.U.P., Pp. 189. Notes. Gloss. £8.95.

A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism. By W. Owen Cole and Piara Singh Sambhi, London, Curzon Press, 1990, Pp. 163. £4.50.

South‐East Asia

A Malay Frontier: Unity and Dualism in a Sumarran Kingdom. By J. Drakard. SEAP Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. Ithaca, New York, 1990. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Pp. 205. US$15.

Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia. By J. Breman. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. Pp. 321. £11.95.

Doi Moi: Economic Reforms and Development Policies in Vietnam. Ed. Per Ronnås and Örjan Sjöberg. Stockholm, Swedish International Development Authority. 1990. Pp. 221. Price not stated.

Middle East

Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank. By Geoffrey Aronson. London, Kegan Paul International in association with the Institute for Palestine Studies, 1990. Pp. 376. Notes. Index. Maps £30.00.

Israel on the Brink of Decision: Division, Unity and Crosscurrents in the Israeli Body Politic. By Rosemary Hollis. London, Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, Conflict Studies No. 231, 1990. Pp. 29. Map. £7.50.

Hussain of Jordan. By James Lunt. London, Fontana, 1990. Pp. 402. Notes. Index. £4.99 Pb.

British Policy in Persia, 1918–1925. By Houshang Sabahi. London, Frank Cass &; Company, 1990. Bibliog. Index. Pp. 269. £30.00.

Far East

The Pride that was China. By Michael Loewe. London, Sidgwick and Jackson; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990. Great Civilizations Series. Pp. 312. Index. Bibliog. Illus. Maps. £20.00.

Rebellions and Revolutions; China from the 1800s to the 1980s. By Jack Gray. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 456. Maps. Index. £35.00 Hb. £11.95 Pb.

The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911–1937 By Marie‐Claire Bergère. Transl. Janet Lloyd. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; Paris, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1990. Pp. 356. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

China at Forty: Mid‐life Crisis? Ed. David Goodman and Gerald Segal. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. 178. Index. £9.95 Pb.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao from the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward. Ed. Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu. Harvard Contemporary China Series: 6, Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 561. Bibliog. Index. £11.95 Pb.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao from the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward. Ed. Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu. Harvard Contemporary China Series: 6, Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 561. Bibliog. Index. £11.95 Pb.

A Higher Kind of Loyalty. By Liu Binyan. New York, Pantheon Books. 1990. (Translated by Zhu Hong). Index. $22.95.

A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Derek Massarella. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. 442. Notes. Index. £25.00 ($35.00).

With Perry to Japan: A memoir by William Heine. Frederic Trautmann (trans.). Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Pp. 237. Illus. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $32.00.

State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis. By Andrew E. Barshay. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. 315. Bibliog. Index. Price not stated.

The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition. By James R. Bartholomew. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 371. Illus. Index. £25.00.

The Birth of the Japanese Labour Movement: Takano Fusataro and the Rodo Kumiai Kiseikai. By Stephen E. Marsland. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. 271. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $27.00.

Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan. By Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Ithaca and London. Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. 237. Index. $24.95.

The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. By Conrad Totman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University California Press, 1989. Pp. 297. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $35.00.

Postmodernism and Japan. Ed. M. Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian. Durham, Duke University Press. 1989. Pp. 279. Index. £11.15 Pb.

Culture, Control and Commitment By James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 292. Index. £30.00.

Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family. By Matthews Masayuki Hamabata. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. 192. Bibliog. Index. $19.90.

Diplomacy of Asymmetry: Korean‐American Relations to 1910. By Jongsuk Chay. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Pp. 239. Notes. Bibliog. Index. US $32.00.

A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks. By Rosemary Foot. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. 273, Chronology, Maps. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.

Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea. By Hak‐Kyu Sohn. London, Routledge, 1989. Pp. 186. Notes. Bibliog. Appendix. Index. £35.00.

Korea: A Religious History. By James Huntley Grayson. Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. 293. Bibliog. Index. £37.50.

The Great Mosque of Isfahan. By Oleg Grabar. London, I.B. Tauris &; Co., 1990. Pp. 141. Illus. Index. £24.95.     

The situation in Iraq

General

The Global Politics of Arms Sales. By Andrew J. Pierre. Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 352. Figs. Tables. Notes. Index. £14.10 (hardback); £4.20 (paperback).

Estimating Foreign Military Power. Edited by Philip Towle. London (Croom Helm), 1982. Pp. 276. Index. £13.95.

Eurasia

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. General Editors Archie Brown, John Fennell, Michael Kaser and H. T. Willetts. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 482. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £18.50 (hardback).

Central Asia

Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa. By Peter Hopkirk. London, John Murray, 1982. Pp. x + 274. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £9.75.

South Asia

India's Preferential Policies: Migrants, the Middle Classes, and Ethnic Equality. By Myron Weiner and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. vii + 184. Tables. Maps. Notes. Index. £9.95.

Pakistan: Energy Planning in a Strategic Vortex. By Charles K. Ebinger. Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. x + 155. Notes. Bibliog. £13.50.

The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857–1930. By Ian Copland. London, Sangam Books, 1982. Pp. xvi + 345. Map. Bibliog. Index. £6.95.

British Policy Towards the Indian States 1905–1939. By S. R. Ashton. London, Curzon Press (London Studies on South Asia No. 2) 1982. Pp. xii + 231. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £6.75.

Goa. By J. M. Richards. London, Hurst &; Co., 1982. Pp. xii + 143. Map. Illus. Plates. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

The India Museum 1801–1879 (India Office Library and Records). By Ray Desmond. London, H.M.S.O., 1982. Pp. xv + 215. Plates. Index. £25.00

The Arts of India. Edited by Basil Gray. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1981. Pp. 224. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £25.00

Views of Medieval Bhutan: The Diary and Drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783. Michael Aris. London, Serinda Publications; Washington,\Smithsonian Institute, 1982. Pp. 124. Maps. Plates. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £18.00

Middle East

Yemen: the Search for a Modern State. By J.E. Peterson. London, Croom Helm Ltd., 1982. Pp. 221. Map. Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. £11.95

Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State. Ali Kazancigil and Ergun Özbudun, eds. London, C. Hurst &; Co., 1981. Pp. vi + 243. Notes. Index. £8.50

South East Asia

Years of Upheaval. By Henry Kissinger. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1982. Pp. 1152. £15.95

? Sideshow. Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. 1979.

Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution. By David Morell and Chai‐anan Samudavanija. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, Publishers, Inc. 1981. Pp. xviii + 362. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. Figures. Tables. £18.75

The Sociology of Secret Societies. A study of Chinese secret societies in Singapore and peninsular Malaysia. By Mak Lau Fong. Kuala Lumpur (OUP ‐ East Asian Social Science Monographs), 1981. Pp. 178. £17.

Far East

China: Politics and Government. By Tony Saich. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xiv + 265. Map. Index. £4.95.

China's New Development Strategy. Jack Gray and Gordon White, eds. London, Academic Press Inc., 1982. Pp. x + 341. Index. £12.20.

Dissent in Early Modern China. By Paul S. Ropp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 356. Notes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. $24.00.

MITI and the Japanese Miracle: the Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–75. By Chalmers Johnson. California, Stanford University Press, 1982. PP. xvi + 393. Bibliog. Index. $28.50.

Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy (2nd edn.). By J. A. A. Stockwin. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1982. PP. xiv + 333. Maps. Index. £8.50.

The Roots of Modern Japan. By Jean‐Paul Lehmann. London, Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xviii + 352. Bibliog. Index. £6.95.

Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi. By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 304. Foreword by Benjamin Schwartz. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. $20.00.

Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu. By Kenneth Alan Grossberg. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 207. Pref. Figures. Appendices. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £10.50.

Shorter Notices

Guide to Thailand. By Achille Clarac. Edited and translated by Michael Smithies. Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press/Duang Kamol Book House, 1981. Pp. ix + 219 (Index 1–35). Notes. Maps. Plans. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £12.00 (paperback).

Tales of Burma. By Alister McCrae and friends. Paisley, James Paton Ltd., 1981. Pp. 168. Illus. Maps. Glossary. £2.95.

Academies in Ming China: A Historical Survey. By John Meskill. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1982. Pp. 203. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $12.95.

The Interlingual Critic: Interpreting Chinese Poetry. By James J. Y. Liu. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1981. Pp. 152. Notes. Chinese Name List. Bibliog. Index. £10.77.

The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness. By Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier) and Tsuneo Hayashida. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International, 1981. Pp. 64. Bibliog. Illus. Index. £9.30.

Russian Studies of Japan: An Exploratory Survey. By E. Stuart Kirby. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xi + 276.Notes. Bibliog. Index. £20.00.     

The Assyrians

Middle East

Palestine in the Arab Dilemma. By Walid W. Kazziha. New York, Barnes and Noble, London, Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 111. Foreword. Intro. Index. £6.95.

The Spirit of the East: An anthology of prose and verse inspired by the people, places and legends of the East. Edited by Gerald de Gaury and H. V. F. Winstone. London, Quarter Books, 1979. Intro. £8.95.

The Archaeology of Mesopotamia. From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest. By Seton Lloyd. London, Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1978. Pp. 252. Maps. Illus. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £10.50.

South Asia

Political Identity in South Asia. Edited by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp. Collected Papers on South Asia No. 2 Curzon Press, London, 1979. Pp. xii+266. Pref. Notes. £4.50.

Mizh. A Monograph on Government Relations with the Mahsud Tribe. By Evelyn Howell, with Foreword by Dr Akbar Ahmed. Oxford University Press, Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints from Pakistan, 1980. (Reprint from original 1931 edition). Pp. 120. Notes. Appendixes. Map.

Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab and Kalat. Vol. IV. By Charles Masson. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xxix+463. Intro. Notes. Map. £10.50.

Business Men and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay 1918–1933. By A. D. D. Gordon. Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, 1977. Pp. xiv+323. Gloss. Intro. Tables. Appendix. Biog. Notes. Bibliog. Graph. Maps. Diagrams. Index. Rs. 50.

They Called Me an “Impeccable Imperialist”: Experiences of British India 1914–47. By Lionel Jardine, CIE, ICS (Retd). Foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi. Bombay, Nimmat Publications, 1979. Pp. 78. Rs. 25.

Indian and British English. A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation. By Paroo Nihalani, R. K. Tongue, and Priya Hosali. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. viii+260. Rs. 40.

Educational Policies and Progress during British Rule in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1796–1948. By J. E. Jayasuriya. Colombo, Associated Educational Publishers, 1977. Pp. 558. Notes. Ref. Tables. Index. £6.00.

Modern Sri Lanka: A Society in Transition. Edited by Tissa Fernando and Robert Kearney. Syracuse, New York, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Press, 1979. Pp. viii+297. Illus. Tables. Pref. Maps. Index. Bibliog. Notes. US $7.50 (paper).

Caste and Family in the Politics of the Sinhalese 1947–1976. By Janice Jiggins. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii+189. Tables. Maps. Pref. Gloss. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £9.50.

USSR

The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist‐Leninist Scholarship. By Stephen Clarkson. London, Macmillan, 1978. Pp. 322. Pref. Intro. Tables. Notes. Index. £12.00.

Holy Russia: An Historical Companion to European Russia. By Fitzroy Maclean. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979. Pp. 365. Maps. Illus. Pref. Bibliog. Index. £8.95.

Central Asia

The Dervish of Windsor Castle: the Life of Armenius Vambery. By Lory Alder and Richard Dalby. London, Bachman and Turner, 1979. Pp. 512. Illus. Map. Index. Bibliog. £7.50.

Central Asian Paintings. By Mario Bussagli. Macmillan London Ltd, London, 1978. Pp. 135. Illus. Map. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

South‐East Asia

Marcos and Martial Law in the Philippines. Edited by David A. Rosenberg. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1979. Pp. 315. Preface. Introd. Appendices. Index. £12.25.

The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597–1972. By James A. Boon. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 259. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £10.50 (hardback). £3.95 (paperback).

Far East

The Japanese Company. By Rodney Clark. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. 282. Notes. Tables. Figs. Bibliog. Index. £12.00.

Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894–1943. By Richard Storry. London, Macmillan, The Making of the Twentieth Century series, 1979. Pp. 186. Bibliog. Index. £3.95.

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219. Translated and edited by Delmer M. Brown and Ichiro Ishida. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiv+479. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

The Last Confucian: Liang Shu‐ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. By Guy S. Alitto. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xvii+396. Illus. Maps. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Japan's Role in Soviet Economic Growth: Transfer of Technology since 1965. By Raymond S. Mathieson. Praeger, New York and London, 1979. Pp. xxi+278. Pref. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.00.

Hong Kong: a Study in Economic Freedom. By Alvin Rabushka. London, University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. x+129. Pref. Tables. Notes. £6.50.

Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China. By Evelyn Sakakida. Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1979. Pp. 294. Map. Tables. Figs. Notes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. $16.50.

The People's Republic of China: a Handbook. Edited by Harold C. Hinton. Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Folkestone, England. Published in the United States by Westview Press Inc. and in England by Wm. Dawson and Sons Ltd., 1979. Pp. xvii+443. Illus. Map. Tables. Pref. Bibliog. Appendix. Index. £16.00.     

Some archaeological gleanings from Gandhara on the north‐west frontier of India

Central Asia Central Asian Review. Vol. XIII, No. I, 1965. London, Central Asian Research Centre, 66a King's Road, London, S.W.3. Pp. 97. Maps. 10s.

Russia's Policy in Central Asia 1857–1868. By N. A. Khalfin. A condensed version of the original Russian by Hubert Evans. London, Central Asian Research Centre, 1964. Pp.107. Maps. Bibliog. 18s.

Communist China and Tibet. The First Dozen Years. By George Ginsburgs and Michael Mathos. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1964. Pp. 218. Bibliog. Index. Dutch guilders, 23.25.

South Asia The Road to Freedom. By Sir Percival Griffiths. London, Ampersand, 1965. Pp. 207. Bibliog. 6s.

Modern India. By Sir Percival Griffiths. London, Ernest Benn, 1965. Pp. xiii + 300. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 37s. 6d.

Federalism in India. A Study of Union‐State Relations. By Asok Chanda. London, Allen and Unwin, 1965. Pp. 347. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

The Concept of the Secular State and India. By Ved Prakash Luthcra. London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. ix + 187. Bibliog. Index. 22s.

India and the Commonwealth, 1885–1929. By S. R. Mehrotra. London, Allen and Unwin, 1965. Pp. 287. Bibliog. Index. 40s.

Indian Foreign Policy and the Border Dispute with China. By W. F. van Eekelen. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1964. Pp. ix + 220. Maps. Bibliog. Index. Dutch guilders 22.50.

Sind. A General Introduction. By H. T. Lambrick. (History of Sind Series—Vol. I.) Hyderabad (Sind): Sindhi Adabi Board, 1964. Pp. xv + 274. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Indexes.

Pakistan. Birth and Growth of a Muslim Nation. By Richard V. Weekes. London, D. Van Nostrand Co. Ltd., 1965. Pp. ix + 278. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

South‐West Asia Empire by Treaty. Britain and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century. By M. A. Fitzsimons. London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1965. (Notre Dame University Press, Indiana, 1964.) Pp. xiv + 235. Maps. Index. 50s.

Arab Unity in Terms of Law. By M. F. Anabtawi. The Hague, Martinus Nijhof, 1963. Pp. 263. Bibliog. Guilders 18.

Arabian Oil Ventures. By H. St.J. Philby. The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., 1964. Pp. xiii +134. Endpaper maps. Illus. $4.75.

The Covenant and the Sword. Arab‐Israeli Relations, 1948–56. By Earl Berger. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. Pp. ix + 245. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Cross Roads to Israel. By Christopher Sykes. London, Collins, 1965. Pp. 479. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Mandate Memories 1918–1948. By Norman and Helen Bentwich. London, Hogarth Press, 1965. Pp. 231. Index. 30s.

Ben Gurion. A Political Biography. By Maurice Edelman. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. Pp. 214. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Arab Border‐Villages in Israel. By Abner Cohen. Manchester University Press, 1965. Pp. xiv +194. Map. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Education in Israel. By Joseph S. Bentwich. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. Pp. 204. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 24s.

South East Asia. Illusion and Reality in Politics and Economics. By Lennox A. Mills. Minnesota University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. 365. Map. Index. 45s.

China and the Peace of Asia. Edited by Alastair Buchan. London, Chatto and Windus for the Institute for Strategic Studies, 1965. Pp. 253. Bibliog. 30s.

The Indo‐China War, 1945–54. A Study in Guerilla Warfare. By Edgar O'Bal‐lance. London, Faber, 1964. Pp. 285. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Conflict in Laos. The Politics of Neutralization. By Arthur J. Dommen. London, Pall Mall Press, 1964. Pp. xiv + 338. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. 40s.

The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951–1963. By Donald Hindley. University of California Press and Cambridge University Press, 1964. Pp. 380. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $8.50. 68s.

Village in Vietnam. By Gerald Cannon Hickey. Yale University Press, 1964. Pp. xxvii + 325. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 72s.

Far East Mao and the Chinese Revolution. By Jerome Ch'ên. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 419. Maps. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Communist China: The Early Years 1949–55. By A. Doak Barnett. London, Pall Mall Press, 1964. Pp. xiv + 336. Index. 42s.

The Birth of Communist China. By C. P. Fitzgerald. London, Penguin Books Ltd., 1965. Pp. 288. Maps. Index. 5s.

Soviet Scientist in China. By Mikhail A. Klochko. Trans. by Andrew Mac‐Andrew. London, Hollis and Carter, 1964. Pp. 192. 25s.

Workers of China. By K. E. Priestley. London, Ampersand, 1965. Pp. 107. 3s. 6d.

Communist China's Crusade. By Guy Wint. London, Pall Mall Press, 1965. Pp. 136. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 21s.

Li Hung‐Chang and the Huai Army. A Study in Nineteenth‐Century Regionalism. By Stanley Spector. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1964. Pp. 359. Bibliog. Index. $9.50.

Bitter Strength. By Gunther Barth. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. 305. Bibliog. Index. 48s.

Suye Mura. A Japanese Village. By John F. Embree. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1965. Pp. xxxi + 354. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Paperbound, 21s.

Government and People in Hong Kong 1841–1962. A Constitutional History. By G. B. Endacott. Hong Kong University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 263. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

Biography Ataturk. The Rebirth of a Nation. By Lord Kinross. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964. Pp. 542. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 63s.

Allenby. By Brian Gardner. London, Cassell, 1965. Pp. 314. Maps. Illus. Index. 30s.

The Forgotten Men. By Iain Adamson. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1965. Pp. 193. Map. 21 s.

The Gurkhas. By Harold James, M.C., and Denis Shiel‐Small, M.C. London, Macdonald, 1965. Pp.291. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Six Minutes to Sunset. By Arthur Swinson. London, Peter Davies, 1964. Pp. vii + 215. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Road to Nineveh. The Adventures and Excavations of Sir Austen Henry Layard. By Nora Kubie. London, Cassell, 1965. Pp. 303. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 36s.

Commissioner Lin and the Opium War. By Hsin‐Pao Chang. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 319. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 56s.

Culture and Civilization The Eastern Key. Kitab al‐Ifadah wa'l I'tibar of Abd al‐Latif al‐Baghdadi. Translation by K. Hafuth Zand and John A. and Ivy E. Videan. London, Allen and Unwin, 1964. Pp. 293. 63s.

Islamic Architecture and its Decoration A.D. 800–1500. By Derek Hill and Oleg Grabar. A Photographic Survey with an Introductory Text. London, Faber, 1964. £6 6s.

The Golden Peaches of Samarkand. By Edward H. Schafer. The University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963. Pp. 399. Illus. Bibliog. Notes. Index. 72s.

Horses in Japan. By Vivienne Kenrick. London, J. A. Allen and Co., 1964. Pp. 196. Illus. 25s.

Religion and Philosophy A History of Medieval Islam. By J. J. Saunders. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. Pp. 219. Maps. Index. 32s.

The Spirit of Islam. By Syed Ameer Ali. London, Methuen, 1965. (University Paperbacks.) Pp. ix + 515. Bibliog. Index. 21s.

Ghazali's Book of Counsel for Kings (Nasihat al‐Mulūk). Translated by F. R. C. Bagley. Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. lxxiv +197. 63s.

Studies in Christian Caucasian History. By Cyril Toumanoff. Georgetown University Press, 1963. Pp.601. Maps. Bibliog. Index.     

The ruling caste

Central Asia

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. By Henry S. Bradsher. Duke Press Policy Studies. Durham N.C. 1983. Pp. 324. Map. Bibliog. Index. $32.60. cloth. $12.75 paperback.

Islamic Peoples of The Soviet Union. By Shirin Akiner. (With an Appendix on the non‐Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union.) Kegan Paul International: London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley, 1983. Pp. 462. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

South Asia

South Asian Security after Afghanistan. By G. S. Bhargava. Lexington Books, Gower Publishing Co. Ltd., Aldershot, Hants., 1983. Pp. 198. Index. £18.50.

Escape from Empire: The Attlee Government and the Indian Problem. By R. J. Moore. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. 356. Bibliog. Index. £19.50.

The Viceroys of India. By Mark Bence‐Jones. London, Constable, 1982. Pp. 343. Illus. Index. £12.50.

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770–1870. By C. A. Bayly. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1983 (Cambridge South Asian Studies 28), Pp. 489. Maps. Index. £29.50.

A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers. By Ved Mehta. London, Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. 166. Index. £12.50.

Politics in India. By Rajni Kothari. Delhi, Orient Longman, 1982. Pp. 461. Index. £4.95.

Land to the Tiller: the Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia. By Ronald J. Herring. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 314. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

Rank and Rivalry: the politics of inequality in rural West Bengal. By Marvin Davis. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 239. Illus. Index. £20.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 342. Index. £29.

Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation. By T. J. Nossiter. London, C. Hurst &; Co. for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1982. Pp. 426. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £18.50.

Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500. By Francis Robinson. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1982. Pp. 238. £18.

Middle East

The Soviet Union and the Arabian Peninsula: Soviet Policy towards the Persian Gulf and Arabia. By Ariyeh Yodfat. Croom Helm, London &; Canberra. St Martin's Press, New York. 1983. Pp. 191. Bibliog. Index. £13.95.

The Slow Rapprochement: Britain and Turkey in the Age of Kemal Atatürk 1919–38. By Stephen F. Evans. Eothen Press. 1982. Pp. 123. Bibliog. £4.50.

Ikinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Dis Siyaseti [Turkish Foreign Policy in the Second World War]. By Zeki Kuneralp. Istanbul Matbaasi. 1982. Pp. 103. Tables. TL 350.

The History of the British Petroleum Company. Vol. 1, The Developing Years 1901–1932. By R. W. Ferrier. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 801 + xxx. Graphs. Photographs. Tables. Index. £35.

Sana'a, an Arabian Islamic City. Edited by R. B. Serjeant and R. Lewcock. London, World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983. Pp. 631. Illus. Index. £95.

South‐East Asia

The ASEAN States and Regional Security. By Sheldon W. Simon. Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. 161. £7.70.

Contemporary Laos. Edited by Martin Stuart‐Fox. St Lucia and London, University of Queensland Press. 1982. Pp. 345. Index. £22.45.

The Thai Young Turks. By Chai‐Anan Samudavanija. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 1982. Pp. 101. Appendices. Bibliog. N.p.

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903. By Stuart Creighton Miller. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1982. Pp. 340. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £19.50.

Far East

Soviet Policy in East Asia. Edited by Donald S. Zagoria. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1982. Pp. 360. Index. £21.

Justice and Politics in People's China: Legal Order or Continuing Revolution. By James P. Brady. Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd., 1982. Pp. 268. £17.80.

China On The Western Front: Britain's Chinese Workforce in the First World War. By Michael Summerskill. London, Summerskill, 1982. Pp. 236. Maps. Illus. Index. £6.95.

Yüan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols. Edited by Hok‐lam Chan and Wm. Theodore de Bary. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 545. Index. $45.50.

Economic Growth in Prewar Japan. By Takafusa Nakamura. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. 326. £30.

The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan. By John Crump. Croom Helm, London and Canberra, and St Martin's Press, New York, 1983. Pp. 374. £15.95.

The Women of Suye Mura. By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell. Chicago and London. University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. 293. Illus. Maps. Index. £6. (paper‐back).

Hideyoshi. By Mary Elizabeth Berry. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 293. Illus. Maps. Index. £24.

Shorter Notices

The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison. By Raymond W. Goldstein. Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 120. £10.95.

The Soviet “Threat” at China's Gates. By Gerald Segal. (Conflict Studies No. 143). London, Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1983. Pp. 22. £3.50 (paperback).

Emperor Hirohito and his Chief Aide‐de‐Camp ‐ the Honjō Diary 1933–36. Transl. and Introd. by Mikiso Hane. University of Tokyo Press. 1983. Pp. 263. £12.50.

Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path. By Thomas Hodgkin. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 433. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

The Trekker's Guide to the Himalaya and Karakoram. By Hugh Swift. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1982. Pp. 342. Illus. Maps. Index. £5.95.

Banaras: City of Light. By Diana L. Eck. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. 344. Illus. Index. £14.95.

The Lights of Singapore. By Roland Braddell. Oxford University Press (Oxford in Asia paperbacks), Kuala Lumpur, 1982. Pp. 205. Illus. £8.50.

China Old and New. By John Logan. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 1982. Pp. 193. Illus. £6.45. (Obtainable from Christopher Foss, Bookseller, 120 Baker Street, London, W.1)

Totto‐chan: The Little Girl at the Window. By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Translated by Dorothy Britton. Tokyo, Kodansha International Limited, 1982. Pp. 195. Illus. £7.95.     

The Musandam peninsula and its people the Shihuh

Central Asia

Tibetan Foothold. By Dervla Murphy. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. x + 206. Map. Illus. Index. 25s.

South Asia

Social Change in Modern India. By M. N. Srinivas. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 194. Index. 55.00.

Many Worlds. An Autobiography. By K. P. S. Menon. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 324. Illus. Index. 28s.

Challenges in India. By Taya Zinkin. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 248. Index. 30s.

Succession in India. By Michael Brecher. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 269. Index. 35s.

Crisis in Kashmir, 1947 to 1966. By Alastair Lamb. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. 150. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 25s.

South‐West Asia

Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab World. By Hisham B. Sharabi London, Van Nostrand Inc., 1966. Pp. ix +176. Map. 15s.

Farewell to Arabia. By David Holden. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 268. Maps. Illus. Index. 35s.

Permanent Sovereignty over Oil Reserves. By Muhamad A. Mughraby. A Study of Middle East Oil Concessions and Legal Change. Beirut, The Middle East Research and Publishing Centre, 1966. Pp. 233. Bibliog. Index. £2 11s.; $7.00; L.L.22.00.

Oil and Public Opinion in the Middle East. By David Hirst. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 127. Index. 30s.

Unknown Oman. By Wendell Phillips. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1966. Pp. xiii + 319. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

The Kurds. An Historical and Political Study. By Hassan Arfa. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 178. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia

The Making of South‐East Asia. By G. Coedès. Trans. by H. M. Wright. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. xvii + 268. Map. Illus. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia: Race, Culture and Nation. By Guy Hunter. Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xix + 190. Maps. Index. 35s.

Reporting South‐East Asia. By Denis Warner. London, Angus and Robertson, 1966. Pp. 342. Maps. Index. 36s.

Vietnam: Between Two Truces. By Jean Lacouture (trans. Konrad Kellen and Joel Carmichael). London, Seeker and Warburg, 1966. Pp. vi + 295. Sketch map. Index. 35s.

The Lost Revolutions Vietnam 1945–65. By Robert Shaplen. London, Andre Deutsch, 1966. Pp. xxi + 404. Map. Index. 36s.

Viet‐nam Witness 1953–1966. By Bernard Fall. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 363. Sketch maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

Vietnam. Penguin Special edited by Marvin E. Gettleman. Penguin Books, 1966. Pp. 480. Maps. Appendices. Index. 8s. 6d.

Towards Peace in Indo‐China. By Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon. Published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 71. 7s. 6d.

Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia. An Exploration of Eastern Policy under Lenin and Stalin. By Charles B. McLane. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 563. Map. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.

Far East

A Quarter of Mankind. By Dick Wilson. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. 308. Map. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

Chinese Journey. By Gun Kessle and Jan Myrdal. London, Chatto and Windus, 1965. Pp. 160. 45s.

The First Years of Yangyi Commune. By Isabel and David Crook. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. iv + 288. Map. Illus. Index. 42s.

Bibliography and Philology

Bibliography on Southwestern Asia. By Henry Field. In Seven Compilations, with Subject Indexes. University of Miami Press, various dates from 1953.

A Kurdish‐English Dictionary. By Taufiq Wahby and C. J. Edmonds. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. x +179. 42s.

Biography and Autobiography

Faisal. By Gerald de Gaury. London, Arthur Barker, 1966. Pp. xiv + 191. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 371. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Born in Tibet. By Chögyam Trungpa. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 264. Illus. Maps. Index. 35s.

Past Imperative. By Sir Edward Wakefield. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. xi + 226. Maps. Index. 35s.

Apprentice to Power. India 1904–1908. By Sir Malcolm Darling. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 256. 35s.

Kipling in India. By Louis L. Cornell. London, Macmillan, 1966. Pp. xiii + 224. Index. 30s.

Pickering, Protector of Chinese. By R. N. Jackson. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 127. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. 32s.

Raffles. By Maurice Collis. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 227. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Servants of the Dragon Throne. By Charles Drage. London, Peter Dawnay, 1966. Pp. 283. Sketch Maps. Illus. Index. 42s.

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Revised Translation by Eilichi Kiyooka with a Foreword by Carmen Blacker. Columbia University Press, 1966. Pp. xv+ 407. Illus. Index. 56s.

Civilization and culture

Islamic Art and Architecture. By Ernst Kühnel. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1966. Pp. 200. 118 illustrations in black and white. 21 plans. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Ancient Iran. By Edith Porada. London, Methuen, 1965. Art of the World Series. Pp. 279. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

History

The War Against Japan. Vol. IV of the Official History. By S. Woodburn Kirby et al. H.M.S.O., 1965. Pp. xxv + 568. Maps. Photographs. Appendices. Index. 85s.

Springboard to Victory. By C. E. Lucas Phillips. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 241. Maps. Diagrams. Photographs. Indexes. 30s.

Kohima. By Arthur Swinson. London, Casscll, 1966. Pp. xvi + 275. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

A History of India. Volume 2. By Percival Spear. Penguin Books, 1965. Pp. 284. Biblio. Index. 5s.

South Asia: A Short History. By Hugh Tinker. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 287. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

South Asia: A Background Book. By Angus Maude. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. Pp. 186. Maps. Index. 15s.

A Concise History of East Asia. By C. P. Fitzgerald. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 310. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. By Charles Burton Buckley. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 790. Maps. Illus. Index. 68s.

The Eastern Question 1774–1923. A Study in International Relations. By M. S. Anderson. London, Macmillan, 1966. Papcrmac. Pp. xxi + 436. Maps. Index. 25s.

England zwischen Russland und Deutschland. Der Persische Golf in der britischen Vorkriegspolitik, 1899–1907, dargestellt nach englischem Archivma‐terial. By Jens B. Plass. Hamburg, Hamburger Gesellschaft fur Völkerrecht und Auswartige Politik, 1966. (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Aüswartige Politik, Bd. 3.) Pp. viii + 507. Maps. Bibliog. Index. No price.

The Pirate Coast. By Sir Charles Belgrave. London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1966. Pp. xii + 200. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Egypt and the Fertile Crescent 1516–1922. By P. M. Holt. London, Longmans, 1966. Pp. xii + 337. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Four Aspects of Egypt. By John Marlowe. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 303. Maps. Illus. Index. 45s.

Rome on the Euphrates. By Freya Stark. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. xii + 481. Endpaper maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 63s.

The Greeks in India. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 199. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Asia, Gods and Cities. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 340. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century. By W. Samolin. Central Asiatic Studies, IX. Mouton and Co., The Hague, 1964. Pp. 100. Bibliog. Index. Map.

Religion and Philosophy

Afghani and ‘Abduh. An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam. By Élie Kedourie. London, Frank Cass and Co., 1966. Pp. ix + 97. 30s.

Islam et Capitalisme. By M. Rodinson. Paris, Aux Éditions du Seuil, 1966. Pp. 305.     

Book Reviews

Russia in Asia

Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings: 1589–1605. 2 vols. Edited by W. E. D. Allen. Cambridge, published for the Hakluyt Society, 1972. Pp. xxxii+640. Bibliog. Illus. Maps. Index. £7.60.

Turkestan Zwischen Russland und China. By Baymirza Hayit. Amsterdam, Philo Press, 1971. Pp. 414. Bibliog. Index.

The Rise of Russia in Asia. By David J. Dallin. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1971 (Yale UP 1949). Pp. 293. Map. Bibliog. Index. $9.50.

Soviet Russia and the Far East. By David J. Dallin. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1971 (Yale UP 1948). Pp. 398. Map. Bibliog. Index. $12.25.

Middle East

Sayyid Jamal ad‐Din “al‐Afghani”. A Political Biography. By Nikki R. Keddie. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1972. Pp. xvii+479. Portrait. Bibliog. Index. $20.

In Search of Omar Khayyam. By Ali Dashti. Translated by L. P. Elwell‐Sutton. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1971. Pp. 276. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

Al‐Manar English‐Arabic Dictionary: By Hasan S. Karmi. Longman, Librairie du Liban. £3.00.

The Oxford English‐Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Ed. N. S. Doniach. OUP, 1972. £12.00.

The Role of Government in the Industrialisation of Iraq 1950–65. By Ferhang Jalal. London, Frank Cass and Co., 1972. Pp. 12+142. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

Egypt: Imperialism and Revolution. By Jacques Berque. London, Faber, 1972. Pp. 736. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Index. £15.00.

The British in Egypt. By Peter Mansfield. London, Weidenfeld. £3.50.

Shah Diz of Isma'ili Fame: Its Siege and Destruction. By Caro Owen Minasian. London, Luzac, 1971. Pp. 74+52 plates. Maps. Index £4.50.

The Sub Continent

The Terrorist. Translated from the Sindhi by H. T. Lambrick. London, Ernest Benn, 1972. Pp. 246. Sketch‐maps. £2.50.

The India We Left. By Humphrey Trevelyan. London, Macmillan, 1972. Pp. 255. Illus. Map. Index. £3.95.

Socialism in India (1919–1939). Edited by B. R. Nanda. Delhi, Vikas Publications, 1972. Pp. 299. Bibliog. Index. Rs.35.

The Transfer of Power, 1942–7. Volume 3: Reassertion of Authority, Gandhi's Fast, and the Succession to the Viceroyalty. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. London, HMSO, 1971. Pp. 1182. Illus. Map. Index. £10.

The East Pakistan Tragedy. By Prof. L. F. Rushbrook Williams. London, Tom Stacey, 1972. Pp. 140. £2.80.

From Crisis to Crisis: Pakistan 1962–1969. By Herbert Feldman. Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. 340. Index. £5.50.

Company Drawings in the India Office Library. By Mildred Archer. London, HMSO, 1972. Pp. 298. Illus. Index. £4.50.

Southeast Asia

An Introduction to Southeast Asian Politics. By J. R. E. Waddell. Sydney, John Wiley &; Sons, 1972. Pp. 305. Maps. Bibliog. Index.

Singapore in Southeast Asia: an Economic and Political Appraisal. By Iain Buchanan. London, Bell, 1972. Pp. 336. Maps. Illus. Index. £3.65.

Singapore's People's Action Party: its History, Organization and Leadership. By Pang Cheng Lian. Oxford University Press. 1971. Pp. 87. Bibliog. Index. £2.10.

Politics in a Plural Society. By R. K. Vasil. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. ix+338. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.20.

The Malaysian General Election of 1969. By R. K. Vasil. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+114. Tables. Bibliog. Index.

The Ship of Sulaiman. Translated from the Persian by John O'Kane. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. x+250. £3.75.

The Straits Settlements 1826–67. By C. M. Turnbull. London, Athlone Press, 1972. Pp. 10+428. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

China

The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: Southern fields and southern ocean. By C.P. FitzGerald. Barrie and Jenkins, London, 1972. Pp. xxi+220. £4.

China and the Overseas Chinese: a study of Peking's changing policy, 1949–1970. By Stephen FitzGerald. Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xii+268. £5.90.

Military and Political Power in China in the 70s. Edited by William W. Whitson. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1972. Pp. 390. $20.

Geography

The Changing Map of Asia. Edited by W. G. East, O. H. K. Spate and Charles A. Fisher. London, Methuen, 1971. Fifth edition. Pp. xvi+678. Maps. Tables. Index. £5.75.

Asia, East by South: A Cultural Geography. By J. E. Spencer and William L. Thomas. New York, London, Sydney and Toronto, John Wiley &; Sons, 1971. Second edition. Pp. xv+669. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.25.

East Asia. China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam. Geography of a Cultural Region. By Albert Kolb. Transl. C. A. M. Sym. London, Methuen, 1971. Pp. xvi+591. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £8.50.

China's Changing Map. National and Regional Development, 1949–71. By Theodore Shabad. London, Methuen, 1972. Revised edition. Pp. xiii+370. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £5.00.

India &; Pakistan. Land, People and Economy. By O. H. K. Spate and A. T. A. Learmouth. London, Methuen (University Paperbacks), 1972. Third edition. Pp. xxxiii+439. Maps. Tables. Index. £2.50.

India, Pakistan &; Ceylon. The Regions. By O. H. K. Spate, A. T. A. Learmonth and B. H. Farmer. London, Methuen (University Paperbacks), 1972. Third edition. Pp. xxvii+455. Maps. Tables. Index. £2.50.     

Annual general meeting, 1967

General

Imperial Sunset. Volume 1: Britain's Liberal Empire 1897–1921. By Max Beloff. London, Methuen, 1969. Pp. 387. Maps. Chronology. Index. £3.25.

United Nations Peacekeeping, 1946–1967. Documents and Commentary. Part 2: Asia. By Rosalyn Higgins. London, Oxford University Press for Chatham House, 1970. Pp. xviii+486. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Colonialism in East‐West Relations: A Study of Soviet Policy towards India and Anglo‐Soviet Relations 1:0.17–1047. By Zafar Imam. New Delhi, Eastman Publications, 1969. Pp. xii+531. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 40.

India and the Soviet Union: The Nehru Era. By Arthur Stein. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. xiv+320. Bibliog. Index. £4.30.

Studies in Asian History: Proceedings of the Asian History Congress, 1961. Edited by K. S. Lal. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 530. Appendices. £4.25.

That Untravelled World. An autobiography. By Eric Shipton. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1969. Pp. 286. Illus. Maps. Index. £2.25.

Religion

The Bhagavad‐Gita (first six chapters). Translated by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. London, Penguin Books, 1970.

Eastern Religion and Western Thought. By S. Radakrishnan. London, Oxford Paperback 1970 (first pubd. 1939).

Dimensions of Islam. By Frithjof Schuon, translated by P. N. Townsend. London, Allen and Unwin, 1970. Pp. 167. Index. £1.75.

Buddhism, a Non‐Theistic Religion. By Helmuth von Glasenapp, translated by Irmgard Schloegl. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 208. Glossary. Index. £2.

Christian and Hindu Ethics. By Shivesh Chandra Thakur. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. 216. Bibliog. Index. £2.40.

The Indian Theogony. By Sukumari Bhattacharji. London, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 397. Bibliog. Index. £7.

The Buddhist Revival in China. By Holmes Welch; photographs by Henri Cartier‐Bresson. London, OUP for Harvard University Press. 1970. Pp. 385. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi. By Henry Corbin, translated by Robert Manheim. London, Routledge, 1970. Pp. 406. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Field of Zen. By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, edited by Christmas Humphreys. London, The Buddhist Society, 1969. Pp. xvii+105. Illus. Index. £1.05.

South Asian Politics and Religion. Edited by Donald Eugene Smith. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1970 (first issued 1966). Pp. 563. Index. £1.75.

The Politics of Untouchability: Social Mobility and Social Change in a City of India. By Owen M. Lynch. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 251. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Index.

Religion, Law, and the State in India. By J. Duncan M. Derrett. London, Faber and Faber, 1968. Pp. 615. Bibliog. Indexes. £4.50.

Middle East

The Middle East in Revolution. By Humphrey Trevelyan. London, Macmillan, 1970. Pp. 266. Index. £3.25.

The Game of Nations. The Amorality of Power Politics. By Miles Copeland. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 272. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Army Officers in Arab Politics and Society. By Eliezer Be'eri. London, Praeger, Pall Mall Press. 1970. Pp. 514. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.

The Chatham House Version and other Middle Eastern Studies. By Elie Kedourie. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. Pp. 488. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

The Struggle for the Middle East, 1958–68. By Walter Laqueur. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. 351. Index. £2.50.

East and West of Suez: the Suez Canal in History 1854–1956. By D. A. Farnie. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1969. Pp. 860. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £8.40.

An Arab Common Market. A Study in Inter‐Arab Trade Relations, 1920–67. By Alfred G. Musrey. New York, Frederick A. Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1969. Pp. 274. Bibliog. £6.25.

The Life and Works of Jahiz. Edited by Charles Pellat; translated from French by D. M. Hawke. London, Routledge, 1969. Pp. xiv+286. Glossary. £3.15.

A Time in Arabia. By Doreen Ingrams. London, John Murray, 1970. Pp. 160. Map. Index. £2.25.

Middle Eastern Cities: a symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Urbanism. Edited by Ira M. Lapidus. Los Angeles &; London, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 206. Index. £2.85.

The Islamic City: a colloquium. Edited by A. H. Hourani and S. M. Stern. London, Faber for Bruno Cassirer and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 222. Maps. Illus. £2.10.

Palmyra: text by Kazimierz Michalowski, photographs by Andrzej Dziewanowski. London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. 129. Illus. £2.40.

Current British Research in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Compiled by Dr. Peter Beaumont. University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1969. Pp. 89. Indices. £0.40 or $1.

A History of Persia. By Sir Percy Sykes. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1969 (3rd edn.) 2 vols: Pp. xxxix+563; xvii+616. Maps. Illus. Index. £7.50.

Persia. Introduction by James Morris. Photographs by Roger Wood. Notes on the Plates by Denis Wright. London, Thames &; Hudson, 1969. Pp. 216. Illus. Map. Index. £3.15.

Indian Sub Continent

Curzon in India. Volume Two: Frustration. By David Dilks. London, Rupert Hart‐Davis, 1970. Pp. 307. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.

Sardar Patel. By D. V. Tahmankar. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 299. Index. £3.

A View from New Delhi. By Chester Bowles. New Haven &; London, Yale University Press, 1970. Pp. 268. £1.40 (paper 90 np.)

The Partition of India ‐ Policies and Perspectives, 1935–1947. Edited by C. H. Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 607. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

National Communication and Language Policy in India. By Baldev Raj Nayer. NY, Praeger; London, Pall Mall, 1969. Pp. 310. Index. Bibliog. £5.25.

Opposition in a Dominant Party System. A study of the JanaSangh, Praja Socialist, and Socialist Parties in Uttar Pradesh, India. By Angela S. Burger. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 325. £4.05.

Jana Sangh. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. By Craig Baxter. London, OUP for University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 352. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.

Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History. Edited by Robert E. Frykenberg. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Pp. x+256. Index. $10; £4.75.

Trade and Empire in Western India 1784–1806. By Pamela Nightingale. London, CUP, 1970. Pp. 264. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £3.5.

The Nagas in the Nineteenth Century. By Verrier Elwin. London, Oxford University Press (printed in India), 1969. Pp. xii+650. Illus. Map. £4.80.

The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change. By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xiv+314. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.20.

A Garland for E. M. Forster. Edited by H. H. Anniah Gowda. Mysore, The Literary Half‐Yearly, 1969. Pp. 132 + viii.

Southeast Asia

Sukarno and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence. By Bernard Dahm. Translated from the German by Mary F. Somers Heidhues. Ithaca &; London, Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 374. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £7.15.

The Broken Triangle: Peking, Djakarta and the PKI. By Sheldon W. Simon. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. 210. Glossary. Index. £3.30.

The United States and Malaysia. By James W. Gould. London, OUP for Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. xi+267. Index. £3.30.

The French Presence in Cochin‐China and Cambodia ‐ Rule and Response (1895–1905). By Milton E. Osborne. Ithaca and London. Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 379. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.55.

Vietnam and China 1938–1954. By King C. Chen. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1969. Pp. 436. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.

Burma. By F. S. V. Donnison. Pp. 263. Illus. Bibliog. London, Ernest Benn, 1970. £2.50.

China

The Transformation of the Chinese Earth: Perspectives on Modern China. By Keith Buchanan. London, G. Bell &; Sons, 1970. Pp. xviii+321. Tables. Plates. Maps. Cartograms. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

A Study of Chinese Communes 1965. By Shahid Javed Burki. Harvard East Asian Monographs no. 29. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. xvi+97. Tables. Index. $3.50.

Communist China's Agriculture. Its Development and Future Potential. By Owen L. Dawson. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. xvii+317. £6.25.

Domestic Animals of China. By H. Epstein. Farnham Royal, Bucks., Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1969. Pp. 164. Bibliog. Plates. Index. £4.

Family and Kinship in Chinese Society. Edited by Maurice Freedman. London, OUP for Stanford University Press, 1970. Pp. 269. Index. £3.75.

Records of the Historian: Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu‐Ma Ch'ien, translated by Burton Watson. New York &; London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 356. £2.

Chinese Communist Politics in Action: edited by A. Doak Barnett. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1969. Pp. 620. Illus. Index. £5.95 (cloth), £1.80 (paper).

Studies in the Social History of China and Southeast Asia. Essays in memory of Victor Purcell. Edited by Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling. Memoir by Sybille Van der Sprenkel. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 424. £4.50.

Sun Yat Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. By Harold Z. Schiffrin. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1968. Pp. 412. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £4.55.

The Cave Temples of Maichishan. By Michael Sullivan and Dominique Dubois. With an account of the 1958 expedition to Maichishan by Anil de Silva. London, Faber &; Faber, 1969. Pp. 77 + 104 of plates. £8.50.

Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia's Trade with China and its Setting, 1727–1805. By Clifford M. Foust. London, OUP for North Carolina Press, 1970. Pp. 424. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

Far East

The Foreign Policy of North Korea. By Byung Chul Koh. NY, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press 1969. Pp. xxi + 237. Charts. Bibliog. £5.20.

Book Pirating in Taiwan. By David Kasser. London. OUP for University of Philadelphia Press, 1969. Pp. 149. Index. £3.15.

Footprints in the Snow. By Kenjiro Tokutomi, translated and with biographical introduction by Kenneth Strong. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. xlvi+326. £3.25.

How the Conservatives Rule Japan. By Nathaniel B. Thayer. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1969. Pp. 349. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Izumi Shikibu Diary. Translated by Edwin A. Cranston. London, OUP for Harvard University Press 1970. Pp. 332. Bibliog. Indexes. £6.