South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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China and Inner Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Chinese lives : the people who made a civilization / Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood. Sociology and anthropology in twentieth-century China : between universalism and indigenism / edited by Arif Dirlik, with Guannan Li and Hsiao-pei Yen How to read Chinese poetry. Workbook / Jie Cui and Zong-qi Cai. The Global Recession and China’s Political Economy / Edited by Dali L. Yang. Paths toward the modern fiscal state

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Art and Archaeology – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century : theory, education and practice / edited by Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga. Damien Hirst / edited by Ann Gallagher with contributions by Ann Gallagher … [et al.]. Ancient interactions : east and west in Eurasia / edited by Katie Boyle, Colin Renfrew & Marsha Levine. The search for immortality : tomb treasures of Han China / [edited by] James C.S. Lin. Chinese architecture

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China – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Books Tibet : hitting the high roads / by Jia Lin Quick access to the People’s Republic of China : the first sixty years (1949-2009) / [Zhang Haixing, Qi Pengfei bian zhu]. Chinese literature : great tradition since the Book of songs / Yao Dan … [et al.] ; translated [from the Chinese] by Li Ziliang … [et al.]. Chinese food / Liu Junru ; [translated from the original Chinese

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China and Inner Asia – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Journals Inner-Asia – Volume 1(1999) onwards. Books Newest trends in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in chinese /ed. Janet Zhiqun Xing. Confucian philosophy :innovations and transformations /edited by Chung-Ying Cheng and Justin Tiwald. Ming China, 1368-1644 :a concise history of a resilient empire /John W. Dardess. Merchants of Canton and Macao : politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade /Paul A. Van Dyke. Reluctant regulators : how the West created

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