The office of Seyh ül‐Islâm and the Tanzimat— a prosopographic enquiry

Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan, a study in constitutional and political development 1899–1956 by Muddathir ‘Abd al‐Rahim. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 275 + xv, Appendixes: i‐ix, Index, Bibliography; £3·15.

The Politics of Stratification: a study of political change in a South Arabian town by Abdalla S. Bujra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 201; 5 plates; £2·75.

Economic Development in Iran, 1900–1970 by Julian Bharier. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 314; £3·75.

The Ways of the Desert by General E. Daumas, with commentaries by The Emir Abd‐el‐Kader; translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf; foreword by Robert A. Fernea. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1971. Pp. 193; $6·75.

The Children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay by Schifra Strizower. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971. Pp. xiv + 176; £1·25.

Tajribati fi‐th‐thawra (My Experience in Revolution), Vol. I by General Muhammad Umran. Beirut, 1970.

Sayyid Jamal ad‐Din ‘al‐Afghani’: A Political Biography by Nikki R. Keddie, University of California Press. Pp. xvii + 479, frontispiece, bibliography, index; £9 ·00.     

Man on the Spot: Captain George Gracey and British Policy towards the Assyrians, 1917–45

Oman Since 1856: Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society. By Robert Geran Landen. Pp. xvi+488. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 100s.

Oman: A History. By Wendell Phillips. Pp. xiv+246. Illustrations, maps, appendices, index. London: Longmans, 63s.

British Interests in the Persian Gulf. By Abdul Amir Amin. Pp. vi+164. Map, appendices, bibliography. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 36 guilders.

Lords of the Atlas. The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893–1956. By Gavin Maxwell. Pp. 318. Longmans. 1966. 50s.

Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Pp. x+388. Appendices. Index. University of California Press London: Cambridge University Press. 83s.

Islamic Reform, The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. Pp. 223, bibliog., index. University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press. 42s.

Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt. (Historical Studies from the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic). Edited by P. M. Holt, Pp. xx+400, index. Oxford University Press. 70s.

The Surest Path: The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth‐Century Muslim Statesman. By Leon Carl Brown. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series XVI. Pp. 188. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 34s.     

Iranian balances

Roots of Revolution, An Interpretive History of Modern Iran, by Nikki R. Keddie with a Section by Yann Richard. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp.321.

Continuity and Change in Modern Iran edited by Michael Bonine and Nikki R. Keddie, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp.359.     

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.     

Anglo‐Russian relationships

Trial and Error. By Dr. C. Weizmann. Pp. 608. Hamish Hamilton. 1949. 21s.

China: The Far East and the Future. By G. Keeton. 2nd Edition. xii and 511 pp. Stevens (Chatham House), 1949. 21s.

The Marichurian Crisis, 1931–2. By Sara R. Smith. Pp. 281. Columbia University Press. 1948. $3.75.

Teach Yourself Chinese. By H. R. Williamson. English University Press. Pp. viii + 530. 7s. 6d.

The 3,000 Commonest Chinese Terms. By Ronald Hall, C.B.E., and Neville Whymant, Ph. D., Litt. D. Luzac. Pp. viii+211. 15s.

How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire: A Challenge to Imperialist Powers. By George Padmore. Dennis Dobson, Ltd., London. Pp. xx+185.. 7s. 6d.

Assam Valley. By R. Muirhead Thomson. Pp. 96. Illustrations. Luzac. 10s. 6d.

Mohammedanism. By Professor H. A. R. Gibb. (Home University Library.) Pp. 206. Oxford University Press. 1949. 5s.

Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam. By W. Montgomery Watt. Pp. x + 181. Bibliography. Index. 8½”×5¾”. Luzac, London. 15s.

Life in Modern Turkey. By E. W. F. Tomlin. Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. Pp. 94. 15 Illustrations. Map. 7¼” × 4¾”.

Three Years in the Levant. By Richard Pearse. Pp.294. 12s. 6d. Macmillan and Co. 1949.

Bird of Time. By Melvin Hall. Pp. 307. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1949. $3.50.     

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.     

Boris Annenkoff: A central Asian bayard

Far East

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 1: Contradictions among the People, 1956–1957. By Roderick MacFarquhar. London, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1974. Pp. 439. Illus. Index. £5.50.

Capital Formation in Mainland China, 1952–1965. By Kang Chao. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974. Pp. 178. Statistics. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

Land Reform in the People's Republic of China. By John Wong. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1974. Pp. 319. £9.50.

The Nine Sacred Mountains of China: An Illustrated Record of Pilgrimages made in the years 1935–1936. By Mary A. Mullikin and Anna M. Hotchkis. Hong Kong, Vetch and Lee, 1973. Pp. 156. Map. Illus. Index. HK $75.00.

Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade. By William B. Hauser. Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 239. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

South‐East Asia

Twenty Years Indonesian Foreign Policy 1945–65. By Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung. The Hague, Mouton, 1974. Pp. 640. Bibliog. Index. 69 guilders.

Indonesia After the 1971 Elections. Edited by Oey Hong Lee. London, Oxford University Press for the University of Hull (Hull Monographs on South‐East Asia No. 5), 1974. Pp. 116. Index. £2.00.

A Nation in the Making: The Philippines and the United States, 1899–1921. By Peter W. Stanley. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 340. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

Central Asia

Travels into Bokhara, together with a Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus. By Sir Alexander Burnes, FRS, with a new introduction by Major‐General James Lunt, CBE. Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1973. 3 vols. Map. Illus. Index. £14.95 the set (Vol. 3 £4.25).

Central Asian Review 1953–1971: Complete Contents. Subject Index to accompany the 35 mm. microfilm edition of Central Asian Review. London, Central Asian Research Centre, 1973. Pp. 49.

Afghanistan. By Louis Dupree. Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. 760. Maps. Illus. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. $22.50.

South Asia

Radical Politics in South Asia. Edited by Paul R. Brass and Marcus F. Franda. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1973. Pp. 449. Index. £6.75.

Population, Politics and the Future of Southern Asia. Edited by W. Howard Wriggins and James F. Guyot. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. 402. Index. £4.25.

The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Vol. IV: The Bengal Famine and the New Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943–31 August 1944. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. London, HMSO, 1973. Pp. 1,295. Appendix. Glossary. Index. £13.00.

India's Revolution: Gandhi and the Quit India Movement. By Francis G. Hutchins. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. ix+326. Bibliog. Index. £8.00.

A New System of Slavery. The Export of Indian Labour Overseas. 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London, Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1974. Pp. 432. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

A Matter of Honour: an account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. By Philip Mason. London, Jonathan Cape, 1974. Pp. 580. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Sind: Before the Muslim Conquest (History of Sind Series, Volume II). By H. T. Lambrick. Hyderabad, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 217. Maps. Notes. Indices. £3.90.

Politics in Sri Lanka 1947–1973. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. London, Macmillan, 1974. Pp. 347. Index. £7.50.

Middle East

Information and the Arab Cause. By M. Abdel‐Kadir Hatem. London, Longman, 1974. Pp. 320. Index. £4.75.

Survival or Hegemony? The Foundations of Israeli Foreign Policy. By Samuel J. Roberts. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. Pp. 162. Bibliog. Index. £1.40.

The United Arab Emirates. An Economic and Social Survey. By K. G. Fenelon. London, Longman, 1973. Pp. 145. Appendices Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

Muscat and Oman: the End of an Era. By Ian Skeet. London, Faber &; Faber, 1974. Pp. 224. Illus. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. £3.95.

Modernization Without Revolution: Lebanon's Experience. By Elie Adib Salem. Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1973. Pp. 174. Index. £4.20.

The Economic Development of Iran. A Recent Survey with Projections to 1981. By Robert E. Looney. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1974. Pp. 199. Bibliog. £6.50.

Among the Dervishes. By O. M. Burke. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 203. Bibliog. £1.75.

Philosophy

Teachings of Rumi: the Masnavi. Abridged and translated by E. H. Whinfield. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 330. £4.00.

The Spirit of the East. By the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 277. £3.50.

Memoirs

With Great Truth and Respect. By Paul Gore‐Booth. London, Constable, 1974. Pp. 440. Illus. Index. £5.00.     

Kasravi: the integrative nationalist of Iran

Sistemul sau întocmirea religiei muhammedane. By Dimitrie Cantemir. Translation, introduction, and notes by Virgil Cândea. Bucure?ti: Editura Minerva, 1977. Pp.lxxiv + 687. Lei 38.

People of Salé: Tradition and Change in a Moroccan City, 1830–1930 by Kenneth L. Brown. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976. Pp. xx, 265.

Nédroma: L'Evolution d'une Médina by Gilbert Grandguillaume. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Pp. xvi, 195.

The Struggle for Palestine by J. C. Hurewitz. New York: Schocken Books, 1976. Pp. 404, index.

The Shuster Mission and the Constitutional Revolution by Robert A. McDaniel. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1974. Pp. 259. Maps. Index.

The Gecekondu by Kemal H. Karpat. Cambridge University Press. 1977. Pp. 7 + 291, Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £18.

The Limits to Power: Soviet Policy in the Middle East, edited by Yaacov Ro'i. Croom Helm. London. 1979. Pp. 376. £10.95.

Israel, the West Bank and International Law by Allan Gerson. Frank Cass, 1978. Pp: xvii + 285. £16.

The Economic and Political Development of the Sudan by Francis A. Lees &; Hugh C. Brooks. Macmillan 1977. Pp. 172, £8.95.

Trade and Investment In the Middle East by Rodney Wilson. London: Macmillan, 1977. Pp. 152. £12.

Oil and Empire: British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1900–1920 by Marian Kent. The Macmillan Press Ltd. and the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1976. £10.

Arabia of the Wahhabis by Harry St. John B. Philby, Second Edition. London: Frank Cass. 1977. Map. Pp. XIV + 422. £15.50.

Iran: Dictatorship and Development by Fred Halliday. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. Pp. 348, £1.50.

Iran: the Illusion of Power by Robert Graham. London: Croom Helm, 1978. Pp. 228, £7.95.

The Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean in International Politics edited by Abbas Amirie. Tehran: Institute for International Political and Economic Studies, 1975. Pp. 418, no price indicated.     

Impressions of Indo‐China

The Mizan Newsletter. Issued monthly by the Central Asian Research Centre and St. Antony's College, Oxford. Price Ios. per month, or £6 per annum post free.

Official Histories of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, 1939–45. Historical Section, India and Pakistan. Distributors, Orient Longmans.

Expansion of the Armed Forces and Defence Organization. Pp. 397. 15 charts and graphs; appendices and index. 45s.

Campaign in Western Asia. Pp. 461. 37 maps; plates, appendices and index. 45s.

Reconquest of Burma. Vol. I. Pp. 403. 36 maps and charts; appendices and index. 50s.

The North African Campaign, 1940–43. Pp. 515. 43 maps; plates, appendices and index. 50s.

The Origins of Russia. By George Vernadsky. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. 1959. 8vo, cloth, pp. xi, 354, 3 figs.

Bibliography of Recent Soviet Source Material on Soviet Central Asia and the Borderlands.

Die Mongolei. Land, Volk und Wirtschaft der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. By Erich Thiel. Isar Verlag Munchen (German). Pp. 495. Ill., maps.

My Golden Road from Samarkand. By Jascha Golowanjuk. Translated by Frances Hogarth‐Gaute. Published by Geo. G. Harrap and Co., Ltd. Pp. 215. 18s.

Egypt in Transition. By Jean and Simonne Lacouture. Methuen and Co., Ltd. 532 pp. Illustrated, index. 35s.

Egypt in the Sudan, 1820–81. By Richard Hill. Issued under the auspices of Chatham House. Published by Oxford University Press. 1959. Pp. 188. Index; map; bibliography. 25s. in U.K.

The English Utilitarians and India. By Eric Stokes. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Pp.350. 45s.

India, Pakistan and the West. The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. Oxford University Press. 1958. Pp. 242. Index. 7s. 6d.

The Oxford History of India. By the late Vincent A. Smith, C.I.E. Third edition, edited by Percival Spear. Oxford University Press. 1958. Pp. 849. Index; maps; illustrations. 42s.

Malaya. A Political and Economic Appraisal. By Lennox A. Mills. Oxford University Press. Pp. 234. Index. 30s.

Aden. By Sir Tom Hickinbotham. Constable. 1958. Pp. xii + 242. 13 plates; 1 map. Index. Price 21s.

The Near East. By William Yale. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1958. Pp. 486 + xix.

Major Governments of Asia. Edited by George McT. Kahin. Published by Cornell University Press (Oxford University Press, London), 1958. Pp. 607. Index, maps, bibliographies. 45s.

Himmelstier und Gletscherlowe. Mythen, Sagen und Fabcln aus Tibet. In langjährigen völkerkundlichen Forschung unter den Amdo‐Tibetern aufgenom‐men von Prof. Dr. Matthias Hermanns, S.V.D., Bombay. “Das Gesicht der Völker,” der zentralasiatiske Kulturkreis, tibetische Dichtung. Im Erich Röth‐Verlag, Kassel, 1955. Pp. 260, with one frontispiece illustration, two maps and six artistic initials. DM. 4.80.

Amiran‐Darejaniani: A Cycle of Mediæval Georgian Tales ascribed to Mose Khoneli, translated by R. H. Stevenson. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1958. 8vo, cloth, pp. xxxiii, 240.

The Rebel Emperor. By Lady Flavia Anderson. Published by Gollancz. Pp. 356. Index; biblio. 25s.

Mountains and a Monastery. By Peter Holmes. Published by Geoffrey Bles, Ltd. Pp. 191. Ill.; index. 21s.

Gateway to the Khyber. By Robin Bryans. Robert Hale. 1959. 8¾” × 5¾”. Pp. 173. Ill., index. 18s.

Preface to Cairo. A Survey of pre‐Cairo in history and legend. By Kenneth P. Kirkwood. Mutual Press Ltd., Ottawa.     

“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.     

Book reviews

General

Asia's Population Problems. With a discussion of Populations and Immigration in Australia. Edited by S. Chandrasekhar. London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. Pp. 311. Map. Index. 45s.

Central Asia

Islam in the Soviet Union. By Alexandra Bcnningsen and Chantal Lemercier‐Quelquejay. London, Pall Mall Press in association with the Central Asian Research Centre, 1967. Pp. xiii + 272. Maps. Bibliog. Indexes. 50s.

A Sino‐Soviet Cultural Frontier. The Hi Kazakh Autonomous Chou. By George Moseley. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 163. Index. 24s.

Afghanistan. By John C. Griffiths. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 179. Maps. Index. 30s.

Afghanistan. By W. K. Fraser‐Tytler. Third edition, revised by M. C. Gillett. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xvi + 362. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

The Northern Tier: Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. By Rouhollah K. Ramazani. Van Nostrand Inc., London and New York, 1966. Pp. 142. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 12s.

South Asia

Cabinet Government in India. By R. J. Venkateswaran. London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. Pp. 200. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Experiment with Freedom. India and Pakistan, 1947. By Hugh Tinker. Published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. x + 165. 15s.

The Making of Pakistan. A Study in Nationalism. By K. K. Aziz. London, Chatto and Windus, 1967. Pp. 228. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Pakistan: Its Ideology and Foreign Policy. By Arif Hussain. London, Frank Cass, 1966. Pp. 186. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Land Tenure in Village Ceylon. A Sociological and Historical Study. By G. Obeyesekere. London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. xi + 319. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 70s.

South West Asia

The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation. By Glubb Pasha. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. Pp. 48. Maps. 3s. 6d.

The Communist Movement in Iran. By Sepehr Zabih. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. viii + 279. Bibliog. Index. $6.00. 48s.

South East Asia

Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy. Origins of U.S. Involvement. By Victor Bator. London, Faber and Faber, 1967. Pp. 253. Map. Index. 42s.

Victor Charlie. The Face of War in Vietnam. By Kuno Knoebl. Translated from the German by Abe Farbstein. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 304. 42s.

A Concise History of Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. xvix + 334. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 52s. 6d.

Malaysia and its Neighbours. By J. M. Gullick. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. Pp. xiii + 194. Map. Bibliog. Index. Hard cover, 25s. Paperback, 12s. 6d.

Ideology in Indonesia. Sukarno's Indonesian Revolution. By Donald E. Weather‐bee. Yale University. South East Asian Studies. Monograph Series No. 8, 1966. Pp. x + 125. (No price.)

International Aid to Thailand. The New Colonialism. By Ronald C. Nairn. London, Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. vi + 228. Bibliog. Index. 48s.

The Rice Bowl of Asia. By David M. Davies. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 176. 25s.

Far East

Stages of Industrial Development in Asia. By Sung Jae Koh. University of Pennsylvania Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 461. Index 96s.

Britain and the Rise of Communist China. A Study of British Attitudes 1945–54. By Brian Porter. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 195. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Political Participation in Communist China. By James R. Townsend. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967. Pp. 233. Index. 44s.

The Function of “China” in Marx, Lenin and Mao. By Donald M. Lowe. University of California Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 200. Bibliog. Index. 40s.

The Party and the National Question in China. Edited and translated by George Moseley. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 186. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 60s.

The Role of the Chinese Army. By John Gittings. London, Oxford University Press for Chatham House, 1967. Pp. xix + 331. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

China Looks at the World. Reflections for a dialogue: eight letters to Tang‐lin. By François Geoffrey‐Dechaume. Translated from the French by Jean Stewart. Foreword by Philip Noel‐Baker, M.P.; Introduction by Professor Paul Mus. London, Faber, 1967. Pp. 327. Index. 36s.

The Chinese Chameleon. An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization. By Raymond Dawson. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 235. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Biography and Autobiography

Gandhi's Emissary. By Sudhir Ghosh. London, The Cresset Press, 1967. Pp. 351. Illus. Index. 42s.

Rudyard Kipling. Realist and Fabulist. By Bonamy Dobrée. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. x + 244. Index. 30s.

Early English Travellers in India. By Ram Chandra Prasad. Delhi, Sunderlal Jain, 1965. Pp. xxii + 392. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Rs.25.

Warlord: Yen Hsi‐shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949. By Donald G. Gillin. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 334. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 72s.

Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang‐hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master. By Jonathan D. Spence. Yale University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv 4. 329. Map. Bibliog. Index. 56s.

Culture and civilization

Modern Arabic Short Stories. Selected and translated by Denys Johnson‐Davies, with an Introduction by Professor A. J. Arberry. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 194. 25s.

The Tree Climber. A Play. By Tewfik al Hakim. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson‐Davies. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 87. 6s. 6d.

Javid‐Nama. By Sir Muhammad Iqbal. Translated from the Persian with introduction and notes by A. J. Arberry. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. 27s.

History

North‐West Frontier. People and Events 1839–1947. By Arthur Swinson. London, Hutchinson, 1967. Pp. 354. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

The West in Asia 1850–1914. By Michael Edwardes. London, Batsford, 1967. Pp. 216. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Indochina. By Bernard Philippe Groslier, trans. James Hogarth. London, Frederick Muller, 1966. Pp. 283. Endpaper maps. 35 colour plates; 110 monochrome plates. Bibliog. Index. 70s.

Malaysia: Selected Historical Readings. Compiled by John Bastin and Robin W. W. Winks. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 484. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4 10s.

Henri Mouhot's Diary. Edited and abridged by Christopher Pym. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. xxii + 160. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 37s. 6d.

Stories by Sir Hugh Clifford. Selected and introduced by William R. Roff. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oford University Press, 1966. Pp. xviii + 225. 42s.

Trente Siècles d'Histoire de Chine. By Roger Lévy. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1967. Pp. 309. Maps. F.10.

Strangers at the Gate. Social Disorders in South China, 1839–1861. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. 276. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 48s.

Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan. By Toshio G. Tsukahira. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 228. Bibliog. Index. Paperback, 28s.

Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868–1900. By George Akita. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 292. Bibliog. Index. 68s.

Political thought in early Meiji Japan, 1868–1889. By Joseph S. J. Pittau. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. vi + 250. Bibliog. Index. 56s.

Religion and philosophy

Islamic Reform. The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. vii + 249. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Travel

Tibetan Venture. By C. G. Lewis. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 191. Illus. 21s.

Tribes and Tribulations. By Peter Somerville‐Large. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 188. Map. Illus. 25s.

Love and Hate in China. By Hans Koningsberger. London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. Pp. 150. 21s.     

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 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.     

Learned journals and scholarly reviewing: a correspondence

The Face of Defeat: Palestinian Refugees and Guerillas by David Pryce‐Jones. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Pp. 179, 2 maps; £2.95.

Arab Socialism by Abdel Moghny Said, with a section by Samir Ahmed, Blandford Press, London, 1972, 137 pp., index.

The Making of an Arab Nationalist, Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and thought of Sati'al‐Husri, by William I. Cleveland, Princeton University Press: London: Oxford University Press 1971, pp. xvi, 211, bibl., index, £4.00.

Bright Levant by Laurence Grafftey‐Smith. Pp. xll + 295 illustrations, index. John Murray. £3.00.

Foreign Service Farewell: My Years in the Near East by J. Rives Childs. Pp. 192, illustrations, index. The University Press of Virginia. $6.00.

Hankey Man of Secrets Volume II 1919‐1931 by Stephen Roskill. Pp. 608, illustrations, index. Collins. £5.00.     

The village institutes of Turkey

Persia and the Defence of India, 1884–1892. By R. L. Greaves. The University of London. The Athlone Press. 1959. Pp. 301; 5 maps; index. 42s.

The Springing Tiger. A Study of a Revolutionary. By Hugh Toye. Cassell. Pp. 184. Appendices; plates; maps and indices. Foreward by Philip Mason. 25s.

Orde Wingate. By Christopher Sykes. Collins. Pp. 546; maps; plates and index. 35s‐

Ahmad Shah Durrani. By Sardar Ganda Singh. Asia Publishing House. Pp. 457; maps; illustrations; appendixes and index.

Political Leadership among the Swat Pathans. By Fredrik Barth. The Athlone Press. Pp. 143 and index. 25s.

A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. By K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, M.A. Second Edition. O.U.P. 1958.

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. By Albert Mayer and Associates in collaboration with McKim Marriott and Richard L. Park. With a Foreword by Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, Home Minister, Government of India. University of California Press. 1958.

The Heart of India. By Alexander Campbell. Constable. 18s. 6d.

The Yellow Wind. An excursion in and around Red China with a traveller in the Yellow Wind. By William Stevenson. Cassell, London. Pp. 368. 111.; map. 30s. net.

The Economic Growth of Hong Kong. By Edward Szczepanik. Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1958. Pp. 186. Charts; tables; map. 25s.

Missionaries, Chinese and Diplomats. The American Protestant Missionary Movement in China (1890–1952). By Paul A. Varg. Princeton University Press.

Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun‐Huang. By Basil Gray and John B. Vincent. Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., at £6 6s.

Britain and the Arabs. A Study of 50 Years, 1908–1958. By Lieutenant‐General Sir John Bagot Glubb, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.

St. Antony's Papers No. 4. Middle Eastern Affairs, No. 1. Chatto and Windus. 1958. Pp. 141. 16s.

The Reconstruction of Iraq: 1950–57. By Fabian I. Qubain. Foreign Policy Research Institute. Series No. 6. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Atlantic Books, London. Pp. 276; index. 35s.

Nuri as‐Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. By Lord Birdwood, M.V.O. Cassell, London. Pp. 306. 30s.

The Arab Federalists of the Ottoman Empire. By Hassan Saab. Pp. xii‐f 322. Biblio. Djambatan, Amsterdam. £2 2s.

Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization. Selected Essays of Ziya Gokalp. Translated and edited with an introduction by Niyazi Berkes. London. 1959. Pp. 336. 35s.

Rivers and Man. By Robert Brittain. Published by Longmans. Pp. 288. Index; ill.; map. 21s.

Babylon. By Albert Champdor. Translated from the French and adapted by Elsa Coult. London Elek Books. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Pp. 184 Index; ill. 30s.

Armed Diplomat. By Brigadier J. V. Davidson‐Houston. Published at 21s. by Robert Hale, Ltd.

Smelling the Breezes. A journey through the High Lebanon. By Ralph and Molly Izzard. Hodder and Stoughton. 8J"x5i”. 1959. Pp.253. Map; 24 illustrations. 18s. net.

Elephant Kingdom. By H. N. Marshall. Robert Hale. 1959. 8f"x5t”. Pp.190. 21 illustrations; index. 18s. net.

Beds in the East. By Anthony Burgess. Heinemann. 1959. 8” x 5I”. Pp. 237. 15s. net.

The Kurds and their Country. A History of the Kurdish People from the Earliest Times to the Present. By Major Sheikh A. Waheed. Lahore: University Book Agency, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. 190. Sketch map. 6 Rupees.

Khirbat al Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley. By R. W. Hamilton. With a Contribution by Dr. Oleg Grabar. Palestine Archaeological Museum. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Pp. 350. Illus.—9 in colour. 8 guineas.

No Friends for Travellers. By A. J. Wightman. Robert Hale, Ltd., London. 16s. net.

India and Modern Art. By W. G. Archer. George Allen and Unwin, London. Pp. 143; 61 plates, index. 35s. net.

Classical Sinhalese Sculpture, c. 300 b.c. to a.d. i.ooo. By D. T. Devendra. Alec Tiranti, Ltd., London. 1958. Pp. 48, 128 plates, index. 30s. net.

Nehru: A Political Biography. By Michael Brecher. Oxford University Press. 42s.

Indo‐Pakistan Relations 1947–1955. By Dr. Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 35s.

The Diplomacy of India: Indian Foreign Policy in the United Nations. By Ross N. Berkes and Mohinder S. Bedi. Oxford University Press. 30s.

The Message of Milarepa. By Humphrey Clarke. Wisdom of the East Series. John Murray. Pp. 104. 8s. 6d. net.

Hinduism. By Swami Nikhilananda. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 189. 16s. net.

Tao TS Ching. A translation by Ch'u Ta‐Kao. George Allen and Unwin. 1959. Pp. 95. 10s. 6d.

Lu Hsiin and the New Culture Movement in China. By Dr. Hang Sung K'ang. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 1957. Pp. 158.

Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927. By Conrad Brandt. Harvard University Press and O.U.P. 1958. Pp. 224. Index and bibliography. 25s.

The Wisdom of Lao Tse. Pp. 237. 21s.

The Wisdom of Confucius. Translated and edited by Lin Yutang. Michael Joseph. 1958. Pp. 302. 21s.

Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. Translated and annotated by Roy Andrew Miller. University of California Press. 1959. Pp. 84.

Documents on International Affairs, 1956. Selected, edited and introduced by Noble Frankland. Oxford University Press; issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 768. 84s.

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Boo\s of Wisdom of the Great Path according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa‐Samdup's English rendering. Arranged and edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a commentary, by W. Y. Evans‐Wentz. With forward by Dr. R. R. Marett and Yogic Commentary by Translator‐Professor Chen‐chi Chang. Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. xlii + 389. 9 illustrations. Price 42s. net.

The Doctrine of the Buddha. By George Grimm. Geo. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 536. 42s.

Call to Istanbul. By Constance E. Padwick. Longmans. 1958. Pp. 209. Five illustrations. 16s. 6d.

The Siege of Peking. By Peter Fleming. Rupert Hart Davis. Pp. 273; index; ill.; 25s.

Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. By Richard leBaron Bowen Jnr., Frank P. Albright and others. American Foundation for the Study of Man. Baltimore, the John Hopkins Press. 1958. Pp. 315. $10.00.

Archaeology and the Old Testament. By James B. Pritchard. London: Oxford University Press. Princeton University Press, N.J. Pp. xvi + 263. 77 illustrations. 30s.

All Things Made New. By John Ferraby. George Allen and Unwin. 30s.     

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).     

Tribes,states and anthropologists

Nomads and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden with a foreword by Ernest Gellner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xxvii + 369. £37.50.

The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan edited by Richard Tapper. London: Croom Helm, 1983, Pp. 463. £19.95.

Khans and Shahs. A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiyari in Iran by Gene R. Garthwaite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 213,, plus microfiche. £25.00.     

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.