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1937 CHINA STEIN (R.A.), The Lin-Yi, its location,...

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1937 CHINA] STEIN (R.A.), The Lin-Yi, its location, its contribution to the formation of Champa, and its connection with China, Peiping, Catholic University Press 1947, in-8 square, XV-335 pp, illustrated with 2 maps in the text and accompanied by 7 large folding maps in pocket, paperback. Published in HAN HIUE, Bulletin du Centre d'Etudes Sinologiques de Pékin, volume II, fasc. 1-3 (monographic issue). Locations (K'iu-sou, the capital of the primitive Lin-yi, K'iu-tou-k'ien), the Gnomon and Pi-king, the itinerary of Lieou Fang, the Barbarians beyond the frontiers, the works of Ma Yuan, the Siang commandery, the ethnicity of the Lin-yi, ethnographic folklore, Chouei-king-tchou and Smrtyupasthana sutra, astronomical observations of the Chinese in the Lin-yi (by M. Destombes, captain of the long course) Copy complete with all the loose maps. Attached: Chinese and Buddhist mixtures, Brussels, Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises 1937, in-8, 304 pp, uncut. That is 2 volumes.

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