...Rudolf Loewenthal Drevnyi Khorezm; opyt istoriko-arkheologicheskogo issledovaniia (Ancient. Khorasmia; An Historio-archaeological Study) . By S. P. Tolstov . Moscow : MGU , 1948 . (Moskovskii ord. Lenina gos. universitet im. M. V. Lomonosova.) 352 p. 87 plates (2 plates, 1 frontispiece...

...Romeyn Taylor Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1–600 . By Xinru Liu . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1988 . xxii, 231 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 360 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ancient India...

...Chu Pingyi Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections . By Nathan Sivin . Aldershot, Great Britain : Variorum , 1995 . xi, 328 pp. £60.00. Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections . By Nathan Sivin . Aldershot, Great Britain...

...Lawrence Krader On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks . By Sir Aurel Stein . New York : Pantheon Books , 1964 . xxii, 290 . $5.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 526 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES candid compared to what foreigners can bring themselves to say about...

...Norman D. Palmer Political Theory of Ancient India; A Study of Kingship from the earliest times to circa A.D. 300 . By John W. Spellman . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1964 . xxiv, 288 . Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $6.10. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965...

...Robert Backus Van Chun, Drevnekitaĭskiĭ materialist i prosvetitelʼ [Wang Chʻung, Materialist and Teacher of Ancient China] . By Apollon A. Petrov . Moscow : Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1954 . 103 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1...

...Harold Shadick Ch'u Tz'u, The Songs of the South. An Ancient Chinese Anthology . By David Hawkes . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1959 . x, 229 . Textual and Additional Notes, Index. $4.80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 77 So...

... and inexperienced when he ascended the throne in or about 322 B.C., he must have been under fifty when his reign terminated twenty-four years later … the twelve years' famine is not incredible. In short, the Jain tradition holds the field, and no alternative exists.” 5 Law N. N. , Aspects of Ancient...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 doi: 10.1017/S0021911813000326. Published by Cambridge University Press, 28 May 2013. The table of contents entry for this review should read: WATSUJI trans. Nara, Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara: Koji...

...David Porter Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China . By John A. Rapp . London : Continuum International , 2012 . xi, 292 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 John Rapp's new book is structured...

...Richard C. Rudolph The Archaeology of Ancient China . By Kwang-chih Chang . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1964 . Revised and enlarged edition, xxv, 483 pp. Appendix, Index, Illustrations, Tables. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 604...

...Max Loehr Ancient Chinese Bronzes . By William Watson . Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Co. , 1962 . 117 . Illustrations. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 131 carries on an active and comprehensive program of exchange...

..., Explorations of an Ancient Tradition . Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , the M.I.T. East Asian Science Series, vol. II, 1973 . xxxvi, 334 pp. Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 511 note...

...David N. Lorenzen Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India . By Ram Sharam Sharma . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , Revised Edition, 1968 . xviii, 336 pp. Index. Rs. 20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 197 ahabad...

...Thomas R. Trautmann Studies in the Society and Administration of Ancient and Medieval India. Vol. I: Society . By D. C. Sircar . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1967 . ix, 321 pp. Index. Rs. 25.00. Studies in Indian Coins . By D. C. Sircar . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass...

...J. W. Spellman Republics in Ancient India: c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. . By J. P. Sharma . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1968 . xvi, 278 pp. Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. 51 guilders. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 712 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES economic...

...Alfred Bloom The Feast of Kingship: Accession Ceremonies in Ancient Japan . By Robert S. Ellwood. Tokyo : Sophia University , 1973 viii, 175 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 BOOK REVIEWS the politics...

...Philip B. Calkins Ancient India . By D. D. Kosambi . New York : Pantheon Books , 1965 . xi, 243 pp. Illustrations, Index. $6.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 188 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES offices and formal responsibilities. Although Kochanek has...

...Jeremy Tanner Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China . Edited by Hans Beck and Griet Vankeerberghen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 453 pp. ISBN: 9781108485777 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Rulers...

... or recent times in Melanesia and artifacts from the ancient bronze-age art of the Far East. AN ANCIENT CHINESE MIRROR DESIGN 51 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 52 FAR EASTERN QUARTER'LY A MELANESIA /9\ Mft 0VEMB HAH / \ wi* vr v v BC D E ANCIENT CHINA Fig. 6 TX i F i Fig. 7 Fig. 9 Fig. 8 Fig. 10 AN ANCIENT CHINESE MIRROR...