ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
Vol. IX    No.2    2000

CONTENTS

ArticIes
KRUPA, Viktor: Chaulet's Histoire Sainte. Translating Bible into Marguesan 148
GÁLIK,Marián: Searching for Roots and Lost ldentity in Contemporary Chinese Literature 154
WONG, Dorothy: Local, .Place, and Meaning: A Cultural Reading of the Hong Kong Stories 168
RÁCOVÁ, Anna: Some Remarks on Romani Identity 180
DROZDÍK,Ladislav: lnnovative Elements in the l9th Century Arabic Lexicon 187
SORBY, Karol: The Struggle for Syria (The Road toward the United Arab Republic) 213
Book Reviews
DALLMAYR, Fred: Beyond Orientalism. Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter.
By Jarmila Drozdíková
235
EDZARD,Lutz – Nekroumý,Mohammed (Eds.): Tradition and Innovation. Norm and Deviation in Arabic and Semitic Linguistics.
By Ladislav Drozdík
237
BELNAP,R. Kirk – HAERI, Niloofar (Eds.): Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics. By Ladislav Drozdík 239
TALMON, Rafael: Arabic Grammar in its Formative Age. Kitab al-'Ayn and its Attribution to Halil b. Ahmad.
By Ladislav Drozdík
243
EISELE,John C.: Arabic Verbs in Time: Tense and Aspect in Cairene Arabic.
By Ladislav Drozdík
245
CORRIENTE ,Federico: A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic.
By Ladislav Drozdík
247
SORBY, Karol R.: Moderni spisovni arabcina. Diel II.
By Ladislav Drozdík
252
GOMBIR, Eduard: Modernk dejiny islimskych zemk.
By Karol Sorby
253
SCHWIEGER, Peter: Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke. Teil 12.
By Martin Slobodník
255
CÜPPERS, Christoph - SURENSEN, Per K.: A Collection of Tibetan Proverbs and Sayings. Gems of Tibetan Wisdom and Wit.
By Martin Slobodník
256
GRÜNFELDER, Alice: Tashi Dawa und die neuere tibetische Literatur.
By Martin Slobodník
257