Sino-Platonic Papers has just released online its first compilation of book reviews. Here is a list of the books discussed. (Note: The links below do not lead to the reviews but to other material.)

Invited Reviews

• J. Marshall Unger, The Fifth Generation Fallacy. Reviewed by Wm. C. Hannas
• Rejoinder by J. Marshall Unger
• Hashimoto Mantaro, Suzuki Takao, and Yamada Hisao. A Decision for the Chinese Nations — Toward the Future of Kanji (Kanji minzoku no ketsudan — Kanji no mirai ni mukete). Reviewed by Wm. C. Hannas
• S. Robert Ramsey. The Languages of China. Reviewed by Wm. C. Hannas
• James H. Cole, Shaohsing. Reviewed by Mark A. Allee
• Henry Hung-Yeh Tiee, A Reference Grammar of Chinese Sentences. Reviewed by Jerome L. Packard

Reviews by the Editor

• David Pollack, The Fracture of Meaning
• Jerry Norman, Chinese
• N. H. Leon, Character Indexes of Modern Chinese
• Shiu-ying Hu, comp., An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medico
• Donald M. Ayers, English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
• Chen Gang, comp., A Dictionary of Peking Colloquialisms (Beijing Fangyan Cidian)
• Dominic Cheung, ed. and tr., The Isle Full of Noises
• Jonathan Chaves, ed. and tr., The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry
• Philip R. Bilancia, Dictionary of Chinese Law and Government
• Charles O. Hucker, A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China
• Robert K. Logan, The Alphabet Effect
• Liu Zhengtan, Gao Mingkai, et al., comp., A Dictionary of Loan Words and Hybrid Words in Chinese (Hanyu Wailai Cidian)
• The Mandarin Daily Dictionary of Loan Words (Guoyu Ribao Wailaiyu Cidian)
• Shao Xiantu, Zhou Dingguo, et al., comp., A Dictionary of the Origins of Foreign Place Names (Waiguo Diming Yuyuan Cidian)
• Tsung-tung Chang, Metaphysik, Erkenntnis und Praktische Philosophie um Chuang-Tzu
• Irene Bloom, trans, ed., and intro., Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K’un-chih chi of Lo Ch’in-shun
• Research Institute for Language Pedagogy of the Peking College of Languages, comp., Frequency Dictionary of Words in Modern Chinese (Xiandai Hanyu Pinlyu Cidian)
• Liu Yuan, chief compiler, Word List of Modern Mandarin (Xianhi Hanyu Cibiao)
• The Editing Group of A New English-Chinese Dictionary, comp., A New English-Chinese Dictionary
• BBC External Business and Development Group, Everyday Mandarin

This is SPP no. 8, from February 1988. The entire text is now online as a 4.2 MB PDF.