30 Oct 2006

Louis Schram's 'Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier' (orig pub. 1955-61)
www.lulu.com, Morrisville, NC, US
Supplied note: "Louis Schram's classic 3-volume study of the Monguor has now been combined into one volume, new introductions have been written, and made available in very affordable hardback and paperback versions as well as a FREE download on http://www.lulu.com/content/plateaupubs. [Note: the cited address appears to malfunction. For a reliable access try http://www.lulu.com/content/406799 - tmciolek.] - ks."
Self-description: "[A 2006] Republication in a single volume of Schram's classic study of the Monguor: (V.1) Their origins, history, and social organization; (V.2) Their religious life, and (V.3) Records of the Monguor clans: history of the Monguors in Huangchuang and the chronicles of the Lu family. New introductions by Juha Janhunen, Paul Neitupski, Gray Tuttle, Keith Slater, Jeroom Heyndrickx, and Limusishiden & Kevin Stuart."
Site contents: [a note by Prof Frank Conlon]: "The new publication, as at the website URL cited above is: _The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier_ by Louis M. J. Schram Republication in a single volume of Schram's classic study of the Monguor: (V.1) Their origins, history, and social organization; (V.2) Their religious life, and (V.3) Records of the Monguor clans: history of the Monguors in Huangchuang and the chronicles of the Lu family. New introductions by Juha Janhunen, Paul Neitupski, Gray Tuttle, Keith Slater, Jeroom Heyndrickx, and Limusishiden & Kevin Stuart [PAPERBACK]. Product Details: Printed: 695 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", perfect binding, black and white interior ink Publisher: Kevin Stuart Copyright: © 2006 by Kevin Stuart Standard Copyright License The original publication was in three parts of the _Transactions of the American Philosophical Society between 1954 and 1961. Father Louis Schram spent some twelve years in residence in the area documented. The original bibliographical citations that I have located are: Louis M. J. Schram, _The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier: Their Origin, History and Social Organization (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1954) 138pp. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society_ (New Series) Vol. XLIV, part 1] _The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier: Part II, Their Religious Life_ (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1957) 164pp. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society_ (New Series) Vol. XLVII, part 1] _The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan frontier. Part III, Records of the Monguor clans: History of the Monguors in Huangchung and The chronicles of the Lu family_ (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society,, 1961). 117 pp. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series) Vol. LI, part 3.] - fconlon"
URL http://www.lulu.com/content/406799
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [The site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Kevin Stuart (kevin.stuart--at--gmail.com), forwarded by Frank Conlon (conlon--at--u.washington.edu) of h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
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