Sino-Platonic Papers, 21 (December 1990)

Reviews

Contents

• Karen G. Turner, James V. Feinerman, and R. Kent Guy, eds. The Limits of the Rule of Law in China. University of Washington, School of Law, Asian Law Series, 14. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2000. xiv, 348 pages. Reviewed by Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

The next 15 reviews below (all the remaining reviews except the last, long one) are by the editor of SPP.

• Endymion Wilkinson. Chinese History: A Manual. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 46. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998. xxiv, 1068 pages. Revised and enlarged edition, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 52. Same publisher and distributor,2000. xxiv, 1181 pages.
• Lydia H. Liu, ed. Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 456 pages.
• XlANG Chu. Ban Shan shi zhu; fu Shide shi zhu [The Annotated Poems of Cold Mountain; with an Appendix of the Annotated Poems of Pickup]. Peking: Zhonghua Shuju, 2000. 19 + 1036 + 90 pages.
• SUN Hongkai and JIANG Huo. "Han-Zang yuyan xishu fenlei zhi zheng ji qi yuanliu [The Controversy over the Linguistic Affiliation and Classification of Sino- Tibetan and Its Origins and Development]." Dangdai yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics), 2 (1999), 17- 32.
• Jenny F. So, ed. Music in the Age of Confucius. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery , Smithsonian Institution; distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2000. 152 pages.
• TSENG Yuho. A History of Chinese Calligraphy. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1993. xxix, 415 pages.
• Edward J. M. Rhoads. Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2000. x, 394 pages.
• Louisa Schein. Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. xviii, 365 pages.
• Geoffrey Lewis. The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix, 190 pages.
• Kevin Robb. Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece. University Press, 1994. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 310 pages.
• Oswald J. L. Szemerényi. Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics. Translated from Einführung in die vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, 4th ed. (Dannstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990), by David Morgan Jones and Irene Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996; first paperback ed., 1999. xxxiii, 352 pages.
• Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard. Dictionary of the Ancient Near East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. x, 342 pages.
• Helmut Birkhan. Kelten / Celts: Bilder ihrer Kultur / Images of Their Culture. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999. 453 pages; 800 color and black and white illustrations (photographs, maps, and drawings).
• Elizabeth Lichtenberger. Austria: Society and Regions. Tr. Lutz Holzner. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press [Verlag der bsterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften], 2000. An expanded version of the author's Österreich- Wissenschaftliche Länderkunde (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997). 491 pages; 310 color illustrations; 21 color maps; 78 tables.
• William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato 0. Dubreuil, ed. Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington, DC and Seattle, Washington: Arctic Studies Center of the National Museum of Natural History, Srnithsonian Institution, in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 415 pages, 595 illustrations (320 in color), maps, index.

• New Information about Ancient Mummies in Xinjiang (Two Items)

Feature Review

• H. K. Horken (1898-1996). Ex nocte lux: Enträtselte Urgeschichte im Licht jangster Forschung. Tlibingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1972. 594 pages. Ex nocte lux: Unriddled Pre-History in Light of the Most Recent Research. Review and summary -- translation by Adelheid E. Krohne.