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... of work. T. N. PANDEY The University of Chicago. The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant. By ARTHUR H. NETHERCOT. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1964. 483. $7.50. This book, the second of a two-volume biography, deals with the last half of the manysided life of Annie Besant. It begins with her...

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... in the Four Seas is a good introduction in English to the topics it covers, it will soon be superseded as scholars employ a wider variety of increasingly available historical materials from different repositories, triangulating them to highlight key developments in stronger relief than Ye does (this kind...

...Donn V. Hart Union Catalog of Philippine Materials of Sixty-Four Government Agency Libraries of the Philippines . Edited by Maxima M. Ferrer . Manila : Inter-Departmental Reference Service, Institute of Public Administration, University of the Philippines , 1962 . xvi , 718 . Subject...

...Edward Van Roy Supply Response in Underdeveloped Agriculture: A Case Study of Four Major Annual Crops in Thailand, 1937–1963 . By Jere R. Behrman . Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Company , 1968 . Contributions to Economic Analysis Number 55. xx, 446 pp. Map, Tables, Appendixes...

...Frances L. Nitzberg Thieves in my House: Four Studies in Indian Folklore of Protest and Change . By Ved Prakash Vatuk . Varanasi : Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan , 1969 . 107 pp. $1.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 726 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES women...

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...William Acker Chinese household furniture . By George N. Kates . New York and London : Harper and Brothers , 1948 . xiii , 125 p. $6.00. Four thousand years of China's art . By Dagny Carter . New York : The Ronald Press , 1948 . xix , 358 p. $7.50. Introduction...

...D. G. E. Hall Malaya Through Four Centuries . By N. J. Ryan . London : Oxford University Press , 1959 . 157 . 12 Plates. $1.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 366 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES work merits attention from students outside public...

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... of issues, he is clear throughout the work that his goal is not to illuminate in broad sweeps the religiopolitical history of Japan, but rather to present a focused account of the processes that drove the construction of four great temples and the broader polity that they represented. In this, he has...

...Howard S. Klein China Since the “Gang of Four.” . Edited by Bill Brugger . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1980 . 281 pp, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 751 Unfortunately, it is often...

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...Maung Maung Gyi Memoirs of the Four-foot Colonel . By General Smith Dun . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University (Department of Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Program, Data Paper, No. 113), 1980 . xii, 126 pp. $6 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 430...

...John A. Dixon Land-to-the-Tiller in the Mekong Delta: Economic, Social, and Political Effects of Land Reform in Four Villages of South Vietnam . By Charles Stuart Callison . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1983 . xxv, 391 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $26.75...