FEATURES

Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity: Studies of Imperial and Republican Beijing in Perspective (reviewing Madeleine Yue Dong. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories; Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900; Jianfei Zhu. Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420–1911)
Reviewed by Yamin Xu, 1

JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism
Reviewed by Bryan W. Van Norden, 39

Philip L. Wickeri. Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the
Chinese Church
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 46

REVIEWS

Daniel L. Bell and Hahm Chaibong, editors. Confucianism for the Modern World
Reviewed by Christian Jochim, 59

E. N. Berthrong. What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others
Reviewed by Edward Slingerland, 71

History and Identity in Hong Kong: Resisting China’s Political Control; Embracing China as the Motherland (reviewing John M. Carroll. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong)
Reviewed by Jung-fang Tsai, 78

Bruce Gilley. China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead
Reviewed by Alan P. L. Liu, 94

Yufan Hao and Lin Su, editors. China’s Foreign Policy Making: Societal Force and Chinese American Policy
Reviewed by Qiang Zhai, 97

James M. Hargett. Stairway to Heaven: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei
Reviewed by Mario Poceski, 101

Laura Hostetler. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in
Early Modern China
Reviewed by Zhao Gang, 106

Martin W. Huang. Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Jens Damm, 110

Christopher Hutton and Kingsley Bolton. A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
Reviewed by Hugh D. R. Baker, 114

Zhong Jian, director. Try to Remember
Reviewed by Konrad Ng, 117

Lee Seung-hwan. A Topography of Confucian Discourse: Politco-philosophical Reflections on Confucian Discourse since Modernity
Reviewed by John Berthrong, 120

Mark Edward Lewis. The Flood Myths of Early China
Reviewed by Kyung-Ho Suh, 125

Chun Lin. The Transformation of Chinese Socialism
Reviewed by Yu-Shan Wu, 132

Xiaoqing Diana Lin. Peking University: Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898–1937
Reviewed by Margherita Zanasi, 137

Zwia Lipkin. Useless to the State: “Social Problems” and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927–1937
Reviewed by Paulene Keating, 141

Suping Lu. They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals; Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu, eds. Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing
Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel, 146

Roman Malek, editor. The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ, vol. 3a
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan, 156

BOOKS RECEIVED, 160

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FEATURES

Theodore Huters, Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Reviewed by Lydia H. Liu, 329

Martin Kern, editor, Text and Ritual in Early China
Reviewed by Brian J. Bruya, 338

Stephen Owen, The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Reviewed by David McCraw, 355

Atsuko Sakaki, Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature
Reviewed by Wiebke Denecke, 360

REVIEWS

Limin Bai, Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Jon Saari, 369

Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen, Zhou Enlai: A Political Life
Reviewed by Chen Jianyue, 372

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Kevin Caffrey, 376

Hans Bielenstein, Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589–1276
Reviewed by Tansen Sen, 381

Yomi Braester, Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China
Reviewed by Paul Clark, 385

Shehong Chen, Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
Reviewed by Xiujing Liang, 387

Jae Ho Chung, editor, Charting China’s Future: Political, Social, and International Dimensions
Reviewed by Zhang Qingmin, 390

Kim-chong Chong, Early Confucius Ethics: Concepts and Arguments
Reviewed by Steve Stegeman, 394

Sherman Cochran, Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Dong Shen, 401

Claire Conceison, Significant Other: Staging the American in China
Reviewed by Alexander C.Y. Huang, 404

Constance A. Cook, Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey
Reviewed by Mark Berkson, 411

Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford, editors, Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics
Reviewed by Christian de Pee, 417

Ronald Egan, The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China
Reviewed by Roslyn Lee Hammers, 424

Jospeh W. Esherick, editor, Empire, Nation, and Beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Frederic Wakeman
Reviewed by Zheng Yangwen, 426

Sara L. Friedman, Intimate Politics: Marriage, Market, and State Power in Southeast China
Reviewed by Yen Hsueh-cheng, 430

Kelly Sims Gallagher, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 435

Robert H. Gassmann, Verwandtschaft und Gesellschaft im Alten China: Begriffe, Strukturen und Prozesse
Reviewed by Kai Vogelsang, 440

Joshua Goldstein, Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera 1870–1937
Reviewed by Colin Mackerras, 443

Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson, editors, Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
Reviewed by Tina Mai Chen, 447

Gary G. Hamilton, Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Society
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 451

Stephen G. Haw, Beijing: A Concise History
Reviewed by Yamin Xu, 455

Ruth Hayhoe, Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators
Reviewed by Tanja Sargent, 457

Gail Hershatter, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 461

Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames, editors, Confucian Cultures of Authority
Reviewed by Sor-hoon Tan, 465

Alister David Inglis, Hong Mai’s “Record of the Listener” and Its Song Dynasty Context
Reviewed by Paul Jakov Smith, 470

Jinhua Jia, The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China
Reviewed by Peter D. Hershock, 477

Marjorie King, China’s American Daughter: Ida Pruitt (1888–1985)
Reviewed by Greg Rohlf, 484

Jeffrey Kinkley, Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel
Reviewed by Shuyu Kong, 487

Jon Kowallis, The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the “Old Schools” during Late Qing and Early Republican China
Reviewed by Ban Wang, 491

Karyn Lai, Learning from Chinese Philosophies: Ethics of Interdependent and Contextualised Self
Reviewed by Michael Ing, 494

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Economic Reform in China, 1979–2003: The Marketization of Labor and State Enterprises
Reviewed by Maria N. DaCosta, 499

Karen J. Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
Reviewed by Changfu Chang, 502

Man-houng Lin, China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856
Reviewed by Dennis O. Flynn, 505

Lu Li’an, Yang Tian Chang Xiao: Yige Dan Jian Shiyi Nian De Hongweibing Yuzhong Yutianlu (Outcry from a Red Guard Imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution)
Reviewed by Jing Li, 510

Roman Malek, editor, Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia
Reviewed by John W. Witek, 513

Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich, Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures
Reviewed by Petrus Liu, 516

Stephen D. Mau, Hong Kong Legal Principles: Important Topics for Students and Professionals
Reviewed by Pitman B. Potter, 521

Julia K. Murray, Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology
Reviewed by Ann Barrott Wicks, 523

Xing Ruan, Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China
Reviewed by Michael J. Walsh, 527

Robin Ruizendaal, Marionette Theatre in Quanzhou
Reviewed by Colin Mackerras, 530

David Shambaugh, editor, Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics
Reviewed by Lawrence T. Woods, 534

Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower
Reviewed by Edward Friedman, 536

Martina Siebert, Pulu 譜錄: “Abhandlungen und Auflistungen” zu materieller Kultur und Naturkunde im traditionellen China
Reviewed by Andrea Bréard, 542

Sima Qian; William H. Nienhauser Jr., editor; Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang, Bruce Knickerbocker, Wang Jin, Zhang Zhenjun, and Zhao Hua, translators, The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume V: 1. The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China
Reviewed by Esther Park, 544

Nicolas Standaert and Ad Dudink, editors, Forgive Us Our Sins. Confession in Late Ming and Early Qing China
Reviewed by R. Po-chia Hsia, 550

Janet C. Sturgeon, Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand
Reviewed by Ann Maxwell Hill, 554

Tan Chee-Beng, editor, Southern Fujian: Reproduction of Traditions in Post-Mao China
Reviewed by C. Fred Blake 558

Tang Yan 湯晏, Yidai caizi Qian Zhongshu 一代 才子 錢 鍾書 (Qian Zhongshu: A Great Literary Genius in His Day)
Reviewed by Pei Huang, 562

Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner, editors, Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion
Reviewed by Czeslaw Tubilewicz, 566

Stephen F. Teiser, Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples
Reviewed by Matthew McDonald, 570

Edward Vickers, In Search of an Identity: The Politics of History as a School Subject in Hong Kong, 1960s–2005
Reviewed by Gay Garland Reed, 576

David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei, editors, Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond
Reviewed by Maram Epstein, 579

James C. Y. Watt, et al., China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 A.D.
Reviewed by Bonnie Cheng, 585

Robert P. Weller, Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan
Reviewed by Jerry McBeath, 596

Zhibin Xie, Religious Diversity and Public Religion in China
Reviewed by Robert P. Weller, 599

Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein, editors, Everyday Modernity in China
Reviewed by Xin Liu, 601

Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
Reviewed by Morris L. Bian, 603

Zhou Ji, Higher Education in China
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 608

Zhou Yongming, Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China
Reviewed by Christopher R. Hughes, 617

BOOKS RECEIVED, 619

FEATURES

How Serious Is the Divergence between Western Liberalism and the Political Logic of Chinese Civilization? (reviewing Stephen C. Angle, Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry)
Reviewed by Thomas A. Metzger, 1

How Serious Is Our Divergence? A Reply to Thomas A. Metzger
By Stephen C. Angle, 20

Resources for Textual Research on Premodern Taoism: The Taoist Canon and the State of the Field in the Early 21st Century (reviewing Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen, editors, The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang [Daozang tongkao 道藏通考])
Reviewed by Russell Kirkland, 33

Rudolf G. Wagner, The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi; A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation; Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi’s Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue)
Reviewed by Jay Goulding, 61

REVIEWS

David Bray, Social Space and Governance in Urban China
Reviewed by Hong Yung Lee, 69

Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen P. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton, editors, Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 73

Xiao-yuan Dong, Shunfeng Song, and Xiaobo Zhang, China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects
Reviewed by Gregory Veeck, 84

Benjamin A. Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 87

John Friedmann, China’s Urban Transition
Reviewed by Nils Mevenkamp, 98

Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Reviewed by Robert E. Gamer, 103

C. Patterson Giersch, Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier
Reviewed by Kevin Caffrey, 107

Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security
Reviewed by Wei-chin Lee, 114

Qu Qubai; Jamie Greenbaum, translator, Superfluous Words: Qu Qubai
Reviewed by Ellen Huang, 117

John Christopher Hamm, Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel
Reviewed by Meir Shahar, 119

Mette Halskov Hansen, Frontier People: Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 122

Evelyn Hu-Dehart and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, editors, Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora
Reviewed by Maria W. L. Chee, 128

John Jorgensen, Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch’an
Reviewed by John R. McRae, 132

William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li, editors, Normalization of U.S.– China Relations: An International History
Reviewed by Yu Shen, 146

Thoralf Klein and Reinhard Zöllner, editors; Foreword by Winfried Scharlau, Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) und das Christentum in Ostasien: Ein Missionar zwischen den Kulturen
Reviewed by Karin Betz, 157

Yves Lenoir and Nicolas Standaert, editors, Les Danses rituelles chinoises d’après Joseph-Marie Amiot: Aux sources de l’ethnochorégraphie
Reviewed by Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, 162

Song Hwee Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Reviewed by Jens Damm, 166

Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
Reviewed by John B. Henderson, 170

Kam Louie, Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China
Reviewed by Hong Xiao, 175

Hans-Georg Moeller, Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory
Reviewed by Carine Defoort, 179

Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion
Reviewed by Marc L. Moskowitz, 186

Benjamin Penny, editor, Daoism in History: Essays in Honor of Liu Ts’un-yan
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 190

Fabrizio Pregadio, Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
Reviewed by Jan De Meyer, 194

Christopher A. Reed, Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937
Reviewed by Tani E. Barlow, 196

Priscilla Roberts, editor, Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War
Reviewed by Pierre Asselin, 198

Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer, editors, Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region
Reviewed by Ronald Schwartz, 203

Sarah Schneewind, Community Schools and the State in Ming China
Reviewed by Hilde De Weerdt, 209

Andrew Scobell and Larry M. Wortzel, editors, Chinese National Security Decisionmaking under Stress
Reviewed by Herman F. Finley, 213

Anna M. Shields, Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice
of the Huajian ji 花間集 (Collection from among the Flowers)
Reviewed by William H. Nienhauser Jr., 217

Jerome Silbergeld, Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice
Reviewed by Alexander C. Y. Huang, 226

Judith G. Smith, editor, Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li
Reviewed by Kate Lingley, 230

Li Tang, A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and Its Literature in Chinese: Together with a New English Translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian Documents
Reviewed by Gunner Mikkelsen, 232

Yanfang Tang and Qinghai Chen, Advanced Chinese: Intention, Strategy, and Communication
Reviewed by Jianhua Bai and Fengtao Wu, 236

Barend J. ter Haar, Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Reviewed by Hilde De Weerdt, 239

Jennifer Took, A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China: Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China
Reviewed by John E. Herman, 243

Steve Tsang, editor, If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
Reviewed by John F. Copper, 245

Jing Tsu, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895–1937
Reviewed by Lingchei Letty Chen, 247

Hartmut Walravens, editor, David Crockett Graham (1884–1961) as Zoological Collector and Anthropologist in China
Reviewed by Nicholas Tapp, 251

Ming Wan, Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation
Reviewed by Erik W. Esselstrom, 254

David Wang, The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
Reviewed by Sheldon H. Lu, 257

Jing Wang, editor, Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Laurence J. C. Ma, 262

Ellen Widmer, The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
Reviewed by Ying Wang, 267

Xiaoxin Wu, editor, Encounters and Dialogues: Changing Perspectives on Chinese-Western Exchanges from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 270

Yan Haiping, Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948
Reviewed by Rong Cai, 276

Yang Zhen, Qingchao Huangwei Jicheng Zhidu 清朝皇位继承制度 (The Institution of Qing Throne Succession)
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 280

Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington, Chinese: An Essential Grammar, second edition
Reviewed by John Jing-hua Yin, 288

Anthony C. Yu, State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives
Reviewed by Thomas DuBois, 292

Peter Yu Kien-hong, Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study
Reviewed by Xiaorong Han, 296

Peter Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949
Reviewed by Diana Lary, 300

Zhang Tiejiang, Jiekai Harbin Youtairen lishi zhi mi: Harbin Youtairen shequ kaocha yanjiu (Revealing the Enigma of Jewish History in Harbin: A Survey of the Harbin Jewish Community)
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan, 302

Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896–1937
Reviewed by Paul Clark, 305

Xiaohuan Zhao, Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History
Reviewed by Rania Huntington, 307

Zheng Jixiong 鄭吉雄, Yi tuxiang yu Yi quanshi 易圖象與易詮釋
Reviewed by Edward L. Shaughnessy, 312

Zhang-Yue Zhou and Wei-Ming Tan, editors, Grains in China: Foodgrain, Feedgrain, and World Trade
Reviewed by Gregory Veeck, 318

Brook Ziporyn, The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang
Reviewed by Haiming Wen, 322

BOOKS RECEIVED, 327

FEATURES

Dorothy Ko, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
Reviewed by Paul S. Ropp, 305

Sūn Hóngkāi 孙宏开, editor, Zhōngguó xīn fāxiàn yŭyán yánjiū cóngshū
中国新发现语言研究丛书 [New Found Minority Languages in China Series]
Reviewed by Katia Chirkova, 312

David C. Yu, translator, History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1
Reviewed by James D. Sellmann, 322

REVIEWS

Bob Adamson, China’s English: A History of English in Chinese Education
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 333

Ellen Bangsbo, Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research and Policy Publications; and Andrew Martin Fischer, State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth
Reviewed by Gray Tuttle, 338

David Barker, Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking
Reviewed by Cynthia J. Brokaw, 343

Robert Barnett, Lhasa: Streets with Memories
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 349

Richard Belsky, Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing
Reviewed by Michael G. Chang, 352

Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, San tzu ching Explicated: The Classical Initiation to Classic Chinese, Couplet I to XI
Reviewed by David Kenneth Schneider, 356

Dennis J. Blasko, The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Reviewed by Richard A. Bitzinger, 363

Donna Brunero, Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854–1949
Reviewed by Lane J. Harris, 366

Yongshun Cai, State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched
Reviewed by Joshua Leran Holmes, 370

Tianyu Cao, editor, The Chinese Model of Modern Development
Reviewed by Dave Flynn, 374

Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Amy Yin Man Chow, editors, Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience
Reviewed by Livia Kohn, 377

K. C. Chang and P. Xu, editors, The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective
Reviewed by Gregory G. Indrisano, 382

Adam Yuet Chau, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China Reviewed by David A. Palmer, 387

Chih-p’ing Chou, Hua-Hui Wei, Kun An, and Wei Wang, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese
Reviewed by Jeffrey J. Hayden, 390

Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China
Reviewed by James Behuniak Jr., 394

Thomas D. Curran, Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation
Reviewed by Judith Liu, 398

Barbara Davis, The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation
Reviewed by Stanley E. Henning, 402

Du Jiaji 杜家骥, Qingchao manmeng lianyin yanjiu 清朝满蒙联姻研究
(Manchu-Mongol Intermarriage during the Qing Dynasty)
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 406

Jie Fan, Thomas Heberer, and Wolfgang Taubmann, Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Mobo C. F. Gao, 409

Joshua A. Fogel, editor, The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State: Japan and China
Reviewed by Shana J. Brown, 411

Hung-Gay Fung, Changhong Pei, and Kevin H. Zhang, China and the Challenge of Economic Globalization: The Impact of WTO Membership
Reviewed by Shaomin Li, 415

Han Bangqing, The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Reviewed by Chloë Starr, 418

Xiaorong Han, Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900–1949
Reviewed by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, 421

Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, editors, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy
Reviewed by Elizabeth Wishnick, 423

Liam C. Kelley, Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship
Reviewed by C. Michele Thompson, 427

Russell Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition
Reviewed by Eric Sean Nelson, 432

Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo, editors, House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese
Reviewed by Sunamita Lim, 435

Wolfgang Kubin, Die chinesische Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert
Reviewed by Martin Winter, 439

Charles A. Laughlin, editor, Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature
Reviewed by Yibing Huang, 444

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China,
1860–1900
Reviewed by Sue Gronewold, 449

Lee Pui-tak, editor, Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China: Interaction and Reintegration
Reviewed by Alvin Y. So, 454

Elizabeth J. Leppman, Changing Rice Bowl: Economic Development and Diet in China Reviewed by Jack F. Williams, 457

Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato, editors, Unemployment, Inequality, and Poverty in Urban China Reviewed by Rong Cai, 459

Xuanli Liao, Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Policy Towards Japan Reviewed by Zhiqun Zhu, 463

Donald S. Lopez Jr., editor, Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
Reviewed by Henry C. H. Shiu, 466

Kathryn A. Lowry, The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th-Century China: Reading, Imitation, and Desire
Reviewed by Benjamin A. Hackman, 470

Hanchao Lu, Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
Reviewed by Paize Keulemans, 476

John Makeham and A-chin Hsiau, editors, Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua
Reviewed by Scott Simon, 479

Michael Marmé, Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge
Reviewed by Mark Swislocki, 482

Ronald I. McKinnon, Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted Virtue
Reviewed by Maria N. DaCosta, 484

Laikwan Pang and Day Wong, editors, Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
Reviewed by Kam Louie, 488

Pei Minxin, China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Development Autocracy
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 491

Peipei Qiu, Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai
Reviewed by James D. Sellmann, 496

Lawrence C. Reardon, The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 503

Sang Ye, China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic
Reviewed by Michael Tsin, 507

Dorothy J. Solinger, editor, Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms:Individual Pathways from Plan to Market
Reviewed by Cal Clark, 509

Michel Strickmann, Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia Reviewed by Jonathan Pettit, 512

Yiyan Wang, Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World
Reviewed by Howard Goldblatt, 517

Yang Shuhui and Yang Yunqin, translators; Feng Menglong, compiler, Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2
Reviewed by Allan H. Barr, 520

Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, and James Geiss, Classical Chinese (supplement 2): Readings in Poetry and Prose
Reviewed by David McCraw, 522

Yangwen Zheng, The Social Life of Opium in China
Reviewed by David Bello, 529

Zheng Yishou, Introduction to Rhetoric 辭章學發凡
Reviewed by Haixia W. Lan, 533

Books Received, 536

FEATURES

Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China; and Liu Haifeng, Kejuxue daolun
Reviewed by Thomas H. C. Lee, 1

Kwang-Ching Liu and Richard Shek, editors, Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China; Myron L. Cohen, Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China; and Nicola Di Cosmo and Don J. Wyatt, editors, Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History
Reviewed by Howard Giskin, 13

Inoue Hiromasa, Shindai ahen seisaku shi no kenkyū (Studies in the History of Qing Policy toward Opium)
Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel, 43

François Jullien, Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece, Translated by Sophie Hawkes
Reviewed by James D. Sellmann, 52

Hong Liu and Sin-Kiong Wong, Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics, and Socio-Economic Change, 1945–1965; Jonathan Chua with Ellen H. Palanca and Clinton Palanca, editors, Chinese Filipinos; Teresita Ang See, Go Bon Juan, Doreen Go Yu, and Yvonne Chua, editors, Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life; and Andrew R. Wilson, editor, The Chinese in the Caribbean
Reviewed by Richard T. Chu, 63

REVIEWS

Ofra Anson and Shifang Sun, Health Care in Rural China: Lessons from HeBei Province
Reviewed by Ka-che Yip, 83

David G. Atwill, The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856–1873
Reviewed by Kevin Caffrey, 86

Timothy Brook, Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
Reviewed by Joseph Benjamin Askew, 91

Allen Carlson, Unifying China, Integrating the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era
Reviewed by Ja Ian Chong, 93

Paul Clark, Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films; and Michael Berry, Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers
Reviewed by Mingwei Song, 99

Antonio S. Cua, Human Nature, Ritual, and History: Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert, 104

Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, and Kevin J. O’Brien, editors, Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice
Reviewed by Joshua Leran Holmes, 107

Brian R. Dott, Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 110

Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot with David Shambaugh, The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures
Reviewed by Shana J. Brown, 114

Paul R. Goldin, After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert, 117

Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler, Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics
Reviewed by Chen Jianyue, 122

Colin S. C. Hawes, The Social Circulation of Poetry in the Mid-Northern Song: Emotional Energy and Literati Self-Cultivation
Reviewed by Joseph R. Allen, 126

Tze-ki Hon, The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960–1127
Reviewed by Bent Nielsen, 129

Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray, Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists’ Collusion with Ethnic Domination
Reviewed by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, 133

Ping-chen Hsiung, A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China Reviewed by Pei-yi Wu, 138

Nicole Huang, Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s
Reviewed by Eugenia Lean 144

Hung-yok Ip, Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921–1949: Leaders, Heroes, and Sophisticates
Reviewed by Michael Tsin, 148

Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change Reviewed by Emily Honig, 150

Xiao-bin Ji, Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019–1086)
Reviewed by Robert W. Foster, 152

Xiaofei Kang, The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
Reviewed by Philip Clart, 157

Christopher T. Keaveney, The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature: The Creation Society’s Reinvention of the Japanese Shishōsetsu
Reviewed by Philip F. Williams, 163

Ronald C. Keith, editor, China as a Rising World Power and Its Response to ‘Globalization’ Reviewed by Edward Friedman, 167

Rose Kerr and Nigel Wood, Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 12, Ceramic Technology
Reviewed by Erica Brindley, 171

Russell Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition
Reviewed by James Miller, 174

Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson, editors, SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? Reviewed by Yanzhong Huang, 177

Volker Klöpsch and Eva Müller, editors, Lexikon der Chinesischen Literatur
Reviewed by Karin Betz, 182

Keith Nathaniel Knapp, Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China
Reviewed by Robin Wang, 185

Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok, editor, Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy of Spatial Development
Reviewed by David A. Smith, 187

John Lagerwey, editor, Religion and Chinese Society, Volume 2: Taoism and Local
Religion in Modern China
Reviewed by Christian Jochim, 192

Mechthild Leutner and Nicola Spakowski, editors, Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 197

Mark Edward Lewis, The Construction of Space in Early China
Reviewed by Thomas Michael, 202

Haiming Liu, The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 204

Li Liu, The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States
Reviewed by Robert D. Drennan, 210

Christine Loh and Civic Exchange, editors, At the Epicentre: Hong Kong and the
SARS Outbreak
Reviewed by Marta Hanson 214

Thomas A. Metzger, A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 221

Paul Monk, Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China
Reviewed by June Teufel Dreyer, 237

Donald J. Munro, A Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Ch’ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics
Reviewed by Sor-hoon Tan, 240

On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang, Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China
Reviewed by Mark Halperin, 246

Volker Olles, Der Berg des Lao Zi in der Provinz Sichuan und die 24 Diözesen der daoistischen Religion
Reviewed by Jan De Meyer, 250

Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, editors, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance, 2nd Edition
Reviewed by Janet W. Salaff, 252

James Reardon-Anderson, Reluctant Pioneers: China’s Expansion Northward, 1644–1937
Reviewed by Diana Lary, 255

Stuart R. Schram, editor, and Nancy J. Hodes, associate editor, Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912–1949. Volume VI, The New Stage, August
1937–1938. Volume VII, New Democracy, 1939–1941
Reviewed by Norman Smith, 257

Stephen Teo, Wong Kar-wai: Auteur of Time
Reviewed by Audrey Yue, 261

Chenshan Tian, Chinese Dialectics: From Yijing to Marxism
Reviewed by Nicholas S. Brasovan, 264

Xiaofei Tian, Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table
Reviewed by Zhu Mei, 271

Xiufang Wang, Education in China Since 1976
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 274

Wang Zhenping, Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period
Reviewed by Bruce L. Batten, 278

Maria Weber, editor, Welfare, Environment, and Changing U.S.–Chinese Relations: 21st Century Challenges in China
Reviewed by Sangbum Shin, 281

Calla Wiemer and Heping Cao, editors, Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: China’s Economic Presence
Reviewed by Harrison Cheng, 284

Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space Reviewed by Shana J. Brown, 289

Xiang Biao, Transcending Boundaries: Zhejiangcun: The Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing, Translated by Jim Weldon
Reviewed by C. Cindy Fan 293

Books Received, 299

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FEATURES

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin, 297

Janet M. Theiss, Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China Reviewed by Robert E. Hegel, 307

John Makeham, Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
Reviewed by Don J. Wyatt, 311

The Local in the Global: Understanding, Explanation, and System (reviewing Stephen Feuchtwang, editor, Making Place: State Projects, Globalization and Local Responses in China)
Reviewed by Jamie Morgan, 322

Getting Beyond the Boundaries: Zhuangzi’s Ethics of Otherness (reviewing Steven Coutinho, Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy: Vagueness, Transformation, and Paradox
Reviewed by Shaobo Xie, 332

Peng Guoxiang, Liangzhi xue de zhankai—Wang Longxi yu zhongwan Ming de Yangming xue (The unfolding of the learning of innate knowledge of the good—Wang Longxi and Yangming learning in the mid-late Ming)
Reviewed by On-cho Ng, 342

RESPONSE & REPLY

Response to Review by Franklin Woo of The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States
By Ross Terrill, 348

Reply to Ross Terrill
By Franklin Woo, 349

REVIEWS

Qianshen Bai, Fu Shan’s World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century
Reviewed by Anne Burkus-Chasson, 351

Jiemen Bao, Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora
Reviewed by Jenny Godley, 357

James Behuniak, Jr, Mencius on Becoming Human
Reviewed by Robert Eno, 359

Alan J. Berkowitz, Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China
Reviewed by Robert Ford Campany, 364

Chris Berry and Feii Lu, editors, Island on the Edge: Taiwan Cinema and After
Reviewed by Tan Ye, 367

Morris L. Bian, The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
Reviewed by Satyananda J. Gabriel, 369

Michel Bonnin, Génération perdue: Le mouvement d’envoi des jeunes instruits à la campagne en Chine, 1968–1980 (Lost generation: The movement sending educated youth to China’s countryside, 1968–1980)
Reviewed by Vincent K. Pollard, 373

Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow, editors, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by P. F. Kornicki, 377

Tung X. Bui, David C. Yang, Wayne D. Jones and Joanna Z. Li, editors, China’s Economic Power House: Economic Reform in Guangdong Province
Reviewed by Yongjin Zhang, 381

Cao Jinqing, China along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society
Reviewed by Gene Cooper, 383

Sing-chen Lydia Chiang, Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Rania Huntington, 387

Anita Chung, Drawing Boundaries: Architectural Images in Qing China
Reviewed by Minghui Hu, 392

Craig Clunas, Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559
Reviewed by Suzanne Wright, 395

Elisabettta Corsi, La fábrica de las illusiones: Los Jesuitas y la difusión de la perspectiva lineal en China, (1698–1766)
Reviewed by John W. Witek, S.J., 398

Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China
Reviewed by Wang Li, 401

Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
Reviewed by Graham Parkes, 404

Erika E. S. Evasdottir, Obedient Autonomy: Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
Reviewed by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, 407

Fu Hualing, Carole J. Petersen, and Simon N. M. Young, editors, National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 under Scrutiny
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 410

Robert H. Gassmann, Antikchinesisches Kalenderwesen: Die Rekonstruktion der chunqiu-zeitlichen Kalender des Fürstentums Lu und der Zhou-Könige (The ancient Chinese calendar system: The reconstruction of the Spring and Autumn–period calendar of the Principality of Lu and of the Zhou Kings)
Reviewed by Hans van Ess, 415

Evelyn Goh, Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From “Red Menace” to “Tacit Ally”
Reviewed by Robert Sutter, 417

Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, editors, Chinese Business in Southeast Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship
Reviewed by Derek Heng Thiam Soon, 419

Joanna Grant, A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the “Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories”
Reviewed by Bridie Andrews Minehan, 423

John Henry Gray, China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People
Reviewed by Judith Green, 426

Qitao Guo, Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou
Reviewed by Megan Evans, 430

Guo Xiaoqin, State and Society in China’s Democratic Transition: Confucianism, Leninism, and Economic Development
Reviewed by Robert E. Gamer, 436

Patrick Hanan, Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Reviewed by Ying Wang, 441

Henrietta Harrison, The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942
Reviewed by Dan Shao, 445

Virginia Harper Ho, Labor Dispute Resolution in China: Implications for Labor Rights and Legal Reform
Reviewed by Mark W. Frazier, 448

Martin Huang, editor, Snakes Legs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings and Chinese Fiction
Reviewed by Victoria Cass, 451

Christopher R. Hughes and Gudrun Wacker, editors, China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward
Reviewed by Jack Linchuan Qiu, 455

Åshild Kolås and Monika P. Thowsen, On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 458

Shuyu Kong, Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Jason McGrath, 461

Janghee Lee, Xunzi and Early Chinese Naturalism
Reviewed by Paul R. Goldin, 466

Mark Leenhouts, Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking Literature
Reviewed by Rong Cai, 469

Martin Lehnert, Partitur des Lebens: Die Liaofan si xun von Yuan Huang (1533–1606) Reviewed by Michael Leibold, 474

Cheng Li, editor, Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978–2003
Reviewed by Hongshan Li, 477

Huaiyin Li, Village Governance in North China 1875–1936
Reviewed by Henrietta Harrison, 485

Michael Loewe, The Men Who Governed Han China: Companion to A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods
Reviewed by R.R.C. de Crespigny, 487

Jie Lu, Dismantling Time: Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization
Reviewed by Robin Visser, 491

Sheldon H. Lu and Emille Yueh-yu Yeh, editors, Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics
Reviewed by James Udden, 497

Christopher Lupke, editor, The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Tongdong Bai, 501

Ma Jisen, The Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China
Reviewed by Jin Qiu, 509

Joyce A. Madancy, The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s
Reviewed by Lars Peter Laamann, 512

Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Endymion Wilkinson, 515

Thomas Michael, The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse
Reviewed by Leah Kalmanson, 520

Sherry J. Mou, Gentlemen’s Prescriptions for Women’s Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
Reviewed by Judith Liu, 524

Pun Ngai, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Reviewed by Karen Garner, 528

Randall Peerenboom, China’s Long March toward Rule of Law
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 532

Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 538

Mu-chou Poo, Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China
Reviewed by Jerry H. Bentley, 545

Thomas H. Reilly, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire
Reviewed by Miguel Angel González Chandía, 547

Morris Rossabi, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists
Reviewed by Naran Bilik, 550

Song Geng, The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Wang Yiyan, 554

Lynn A. Struve, editor, The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time
Reviewed by Gang Zhao, 558

Ban Wang, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China
Reviewed by Haun Saussy, 562

Jeanne L. Wilson, Strategic Partners: Russian-Chinese Relations in the Post-Soviet Era
Reviewed by Elizabeth Wishnick, 564

Elizabeth Wishnick, Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Reviewed by Rouben Azizian, 567

Dorothy C. Wong, Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form
Reviewed by Jonathan Pettit, 570

Yunxiang Yan, Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949–1999
Reviewed by Mary Scoggin, 574

Dali Yang, Remaking the Chinese Leviathan
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 577

Yang Guobin (translator into English) and Zhou Zhenfu (translator into modern Chinese), [Liu Xie,] Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind
Reviewed by Eugene Chen Eoyang, 587

Y. M. Yeung and Shen Jianfa, editors, Developing China’s West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development
Reviewed by Terry McGee, 589

Xueguang Zhou, The State and the Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949–1994
Reviewed by Xiaojun Wang, 592

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FEATURES

Scott Cook, editor, Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi
Reviewed by Bryan W. Van Norden, 1

Tackling the Translation of an Invaluable Primary Source that No One Person
Would Dare Face Alone (reviewing Ding Wenjiang and Zhao Fengtian, original compilers, Ryō Keichō nenpu chōhen ([annotated Japanese translation of] Liang Qichao nianpu changbian = Chronological biography of Liang Qichao, full edition)
Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel, 15

Jason C. Kuo, Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung’s Late Work
Reviewed by An-yi Pan, 29

RESPONSES AND REPLIES

Response to John Allen Tucker’s Review of Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives
By Nicholas F. Gier, 53

REVIEWS

Tani E. Barlow, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
Reviewed by Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, 57

Zong-qi Cai, editor, Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties
Reviewed by Xiaofei Tian, 62

Stuart Chandler, Establishing a Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization
Reviewed by Jason Clower, 67

Wm. Theodore de Bary, Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 71

Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
Reviewed by Kathleen L. Lodwick, 74

Rolf Elberfeld, Phänomenologie der Zeit im Buddhismus: Methoden interkulturellen Philosophierens
Reviewed by Wing-Cheuk Chan, 76

B. J. Elder, The Oriole’s Song: An American Girlhood in Wartime China
Reviewed by Cristina Zaccarini, 84

Stephen Eskildsen, The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters
Reviewed by Russell Kirkland, 88

James A. Flath, The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
Reviewed by Craig Clunas, 97

Joshua Fogel, editor, The Role of Japan in Liang Qichao’s Introduction of Modern
Western Civilization to China
Reviewed by Lu Yan, 100

Marián Gálik, Influence, Translation and Parallels: Selected Studies on the Bible in China
Reviewed by Chloë Starr, 103

Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, China: New Engine of World Growth
Reviewed by Thomas P. Lyons, 106

Howard Giskin and Bettye S. Walsh, editors, An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family
Reviewed by Stevan Harrell, 112

Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, editors, State and Society in 21st-century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 117

Ho Che Wah 何志華, «文子»著作年代新証 (The new evidence pointing to the date of the Wenzi)
Reviewed by Paul van Els, 121

Peter Ho, Jacob Eyeferth, and Eduard B. Vermeer, editors, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture
Reviewed by Gregory Veeck, 123

Yasheng Huang, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era
Reviewed by Andrew Wedeman, 126

Hilary K. Josephs, Labor Law in China
Reviewed by Virginia E. Harper Ho, 130

François Jullien, A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking
Reviewed by Christiaan Mitchell, 134

Anne Behnke Kinney, Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China
Reviewed by Cynthia L. Chennault, 140

Richard Curt Kraus, The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture
Reviewed by James Gao, 144

Michael Lackner and Natascha Vittinghoff, editors, Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China
Reviewed by Susan Mann, 147

Lam Wai-man, Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization
Reviewed by Mobo C. F. Gao, 152

Li Qiancheng, Fictions of Enlightenment: Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors and Dream of the Red Chamber; Zhou Zuyan, Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature
Reviewed by Louise Edwards, 154

Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making
Reviewed by John Schrecker, 157

Xin Liu, editor, New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China
Reviewed by Susan D. Blum, 161

Xing Lu, Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication
Reviewed by Howard Goldblatt, 170

Qian Ma, Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Reviewed by Ban Wang, 173

Colin Mackerras, editor, Ethnicity in Asia
Reviewed by Hazel J. Lang, 178

Roman Malek, editor, The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ
Reviewed by Patrick Fulian Shan, 180

Iona D. Man-Cheong, The Class of 1761: Examinations, State and Elite in Eighteenth Century China
Reviewed by Benjamin Elman, 184

Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Reviewed by Julia Kwong, 191

Martino Martini, S.J, Opera Omnia
Reviewed by Giovanni Vitiello, 194

James Miller, Daoism: A Short Introduction
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 197

Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World
Reviewed by Philip A. Kuhn, 201

Barbara Mittler, A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai’s News Media, 1872–1912
Reviewed by Chang-tai Hung, 203

James C. Mohr, Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown
Reviewed by Ka-che Yip, 206

Ning Qiang, Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Reviewed by Susan Whitfield, 209

Roderich Ptak, China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang: Oceans and Routes, Regions and Trade (c. 1000 to 1600)
Reviewed by George Modelski, 213

Eric Reinders, Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 215

Karl Joseph Rivinius, Das Collegium Sinicum zu Neapel und seine Umwandlung in ein Orientalisches Institut: Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte
Reviewed by Lydia Gerber, 219

Harold D. Roth, editor, A Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu
Reviewed by Paul Kjellberg, 222

Anthony L. Schmieg, M.D. Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine
Reviewed by Stanley E. Henning, 226

Wartime Experience, Collective Memories, and Hong Kong Identity (reviewing Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation)
Reviewed by Jung-fang Tsai, 229

Patrick Taveirne, Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874–1911
Reviewed by Kathleen L. Lodwick, 247

Bill Taylor, Chang Kai, and Li Qi, Industrial Relations in China
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 249

Seventeenth-century European Images of China (reviewing Friederike Ulrichs, Johan Nieuhofs Blick auf China (1655–1657): Die Kupferstiche in seinem Chinabuch und ihre Wirkung auf den Verleger Jacob van Meurs; Pascale Girard, Le voyage en Chine d’Adriano de Las Cortes S.J. (1625); Ernst van den Boogaart, Het verheven en verdorven Azië: Woord en beeld in het Itinerario en de Icones van Jan Huygen van Linschoten; Sun Ying, Wandlungen des europäischen Chinabildes in illustrierten Reiseberichten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts)
Reviewed by Nicolas Standaert, 254

Wang Gungwu, Ideas Won’t Keep: The Struggle for China’s Future
Reviewed by Margherita Zanasi, 260

Andrew H. Wedeman, From Mao to Market
Reviewed by Marion E. Jones, 264

Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu, The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage
Reviewed by Richard King, 270

Andrew R. Wilson, Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880–1916
Reviewed by Richard T. Chu, 273

Shujie Yao and Xiaming Liu, editors, Sustaining China’s Economic Growth in the Twenty-first Century
Reviewed by Frank R. Gunter, 279

Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, and James Geiss, Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader
Reviewed by Yongping Zhu, 284

Zhang Yongjin, China’s Emerging Global Businesses: Political Economy and Institutional Investigations
Reviewed by Flemming Christiansen, 288

Suisheng Zhao, A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 290

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FEATURES

The History of Contemporary Area Studies: Philosophy, Emergent Causal Relations, and the Nontriviality of the Sociology of Knowledge (reviewing Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian, editors, Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies
Reviewed by Jamie Morgan, 215

Constitutioning Hong Kong: “One Country, Two Systems” in the Dock (reviewing Johannes M. M. Chan, H. L. Fu, and Yash Ghai, editors, Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Conflict over Interpretation; Jia Risi, Chen Wenmin, Fu Hualing, zhubian, Ju Gang Quan Yinfa de Xianfa Zhenglun
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 248

REVIEWS

Bonnie Adrian, Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan’s Bridal Industry
Reviewed by Marc L. Moskowitz, 265

Göran Aijmer, New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Reviewed by Tan Chee-Beng, 267

Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü, Taxation without Representation in Rural China
Reviewed by Peter Hays Gries, 270

Wayne Bert, The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard?
Reviewed by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, 273

Stacey Bieler, “Patriots” or “Traitors”? A History of American-Educated Chinese Students
Reviewed by Alan P. L. Liu, 277

Christine Boos, Engelbert Boos, and Frank Sieren, The China Management Handbook
Reviewed by Alev M. Efendioglu, 280

Richard C. Bush, At Cross Purposes: U.S.–Taiwan Relations since 1942
Reviewed by Dennis Van Vranken Hickey, 284

Rong Cai, The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Reviewed by Lingchei Letty Chen, 287

Aimin Chen, Gordon G. Liu, and Kevin H. Zhang, editors, Urbanization and Social Welfare in China
Reviewed by Qingwen Xu, 292

James H. Cole, compiler, Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western Languages: Subjects
Reviewed by Michael C. Brose, 297

Corinne H. Dale, editor, Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader
Reviewed by Karl S. Y. Kao, 302

John DeFrancis, editor, ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary
Reviewed by Michael Sawer, 309

Koen De Ridder, editor, Footsteps in Deserted Valleys: Missionary Cases, Strategies
and Practice in Qing China; Koen De Ridder and Ku Wei-Ying, editors, Authentic
Chinese Christianity: Preludes to Its Development (Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries); Ku Wei-ying, editor, Missionary Approaches and Linguistics in Mainland
China and Tai-wan (respectively, Leuven Chinese Studies, vols. 8, 9, 10)
Reviewed by Timothy G. Conkling, 315

Bruce J. Dickson, Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change
Reviewed by Lawrence C. Reardon, 322

Thilo Diefenbach, Kontexte der Gewalt in moderner chinesischer Literatur
Reviewed by Martin Winter, 325

Martin Edmonds and Michael M. Tsai, editors, Taiwan’s Maritime Security
Reviewed by Steven E. Phillips, 330

Fa-ti Fan, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter
Reviewed by John W. Dardess, 333

Käte Finsterbusch, Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen. Band iv,
Abbildungen und Addenda (List and index of motifs of the representations of the
Han. Volume iv, Pictures and addenda)
Reviewed by Hans van Ess, 335

James Z. Gao, The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–1954
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 337

Karl Gerth, China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
Reviewed by Wei Zhao, 339

Dru C. Gladney, Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 343

Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank, editors, Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
Reviewed by Scott Kennedy, 348

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh, A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 351

John S. Gregory, The West and China since 1500
Reviewed by Ricardo K. S. Mak, 355

Peter Hays Gries, China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy
Reviewed by Jonathan Harrington, 358

Maxwell K. Hearn, Cultivated Landscapes: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill
Reviewed by Susan E. Nelson, 363

Dieter Heinzig, The Soviet Union and Communist China, 1945–1950: The Arduous Road to the Alliance
Reviewed by Michael Sheng, 365

Response to Michael Sheng’s Review of The Soviet Union and Communist China, 1945–1950
Dieter Heinzig, 371

Michael Sheng’s Reply to Dieter Heinzig, 376

Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh, editors, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under the Japanese Occupation
Reviewed by R. Keith Schoppa, 378

Alfred K. Ho, China’s Reforms and Reformers
Reviewed by Yu Shen, 382

Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer, Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population
Reviewed by Paul Bolt, 385

Fengyuan Ji, Linguistic Engineering: Language and Politics in Mao’s China
Reviewed by Glen Peterson, 389

David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, and Marc L. Moskowitz, editors, The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan
Reviewed by Hai Ren, 392

William C. Kirby, editor, Realms of Freedom in Modern China
Reviewed by Merle Goldman, 400

Livia Kohn, The Daoist Monastic Manual: A Translation of the Fengdao Kejie
Reviewed by Russell Kirkland, 405

Elisabeth Köll, From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China
Reviewed by Morris L. Bian, 411

Anthony W. Lee, editor, Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories
Reviewed by Tao Tao Liu, 415

Eliza Wing-Yee Lee, editor, Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
Reviewed by Hans Yeung, 418

Gang Lin and Xiaobo Hu, editors, China after Jiang
Reviewed by Timothy Cheek, 422

Lu Yan, Re-understanding Japan: Chinese Perspectives, 1895–1945
Reviewed by Noriko Kamachi, 425

Brian E. McKnight and James T. C. Liu, translators and editors, The Enlightened Judgments Ch’ing-ming Chi: The Sung Dynasty Collection
Reviewed by Edward H. Kaplan and Susan Blondell Kaplan, 434

John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Genealogy, and Transformation in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Reviewed by Mario Poceski, 437

Françoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca, editors, Politics in China: Moving Frontiers
Reviewed by Jeremy Paltiel, 441

Andrew D. Morris, Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
Reviewed by Judy Polumbaum, 446

Huaichuan Mou, Rediscovering Wen Tingyun: A Historical Key to a Poetic Myth
Reviewed by Fusheng Wu, 450

Bent Nielson, A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology: Chinese Studies of Images and Numbers from Han
(202 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) to Song
(960–1279 C.E.)
Reviewed by Tze-ki Hon, 453

S.C.M. Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy
Reviewed by Katherine K. Reist, 456

Lauren F. Pfister, Striving for ‘The Whole Duty of Man’: James Legge and the Scottish Protestant Encounter with China: Assessing Confluences in Scottish Nonconformism, Chinese Missionary Scholarship, Victorian Sinology, and Chinese Protestantism
Reviewed by Gillian Bickley, 460

Steven E. Phillips, Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945–1950
Reviewed by Thomas B. Gold, 464

Frank N. Pieke, Pal Nyiri, Mette Thuno, and Antonella Ceccagno, Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe
Reviewed by Wing Chung Ng, 467

James D. Sellmann, Timing and Rulership in Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu)
Reviewed by Hans-Georg Moeller, 471

Paula M. Varsano, Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception
Reviewed by Qiancheng Li, 474

Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
Reviewed by Randall Nadeau, 477

Wang Gungwu, Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science, and Governance
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 486

Wang Gungwu, To Act Is to Know: Chinese Dilemmas
Reviewed by Jianyue Chen, 489

Wang Hui, China’s New Order: Society, Politics and Economy in Transition
Reviewed by Xiaoming Huang, 493

Xu Wang, Mutual Empowerment of State and Peasantry: Village Self-Government in Rural China
Reviewed by Edward Friedman, 498

Yanlai Wang, China’s Economic Development and Democratization
Reviewed by Robert W. Mead, 504

Ying Wang and Carrie E. Reed, compilers, Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity; Fangyuan Yuan, Advanced Business Chinese: Economy and Commerce in a Changing China and the Changing World
Reviewed by Frances Weightman, 507

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, editor, Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches
Reviewed by Shana J. Brown, 510

Timothy B. Weston, The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and
Chinese Political Culture, 1898–1929
Reviewed by Pauline Keating, 512

Books Received, 516
Errata, 519

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FEATURES

History, Contradiction, and the Apotheosis of Mao Zedong (reviewing Anita M. Andrew, and John A. Rapp, Autocracy and China’s Rebel Founding Emperors: Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu; Timothy Cheek, Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions: A Brief History with Documents; Melissa Schrift, Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult)
Reviewed by Ronald C. Keith, 1

Norman Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage
Reviewed by James Hevia, 8

Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott, editors, Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan; and Robin R. Wang, Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty
Reviewed by Lily Xiaohong Lee, 15

REVIEWS

Poul Andersen, The Demon Chained under Turtle Mountain: The History and Mythology of the Chinese River Spirit Wuzhiqi
Reviewed by Michael Saso, 23

Robert Bickers, editor, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
Reviewed by Carolyn Wakeman, 25

Anne-Marie Brady, editor, Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic
Reviewed by Qiang Zhai, 27

Melissa Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power and Migration on Changing Identities
Reviewed by Franklin Woo, 30

Ole Bruun, editor, Fengshui in China: Geomantic Divination Between State
Orthodoxy and Popular Religion
Reviewed by Yinong Xu, 35

Kara Chan, James U. McNeal, editor, Advertising to Children in China
Reviewed by Yan Lu, 41

Hongmin Chen, editor, Handian lide renjiguanxi yu zhengzhi—du Hafo-Yanjing Tushuguan cang “Hu Hanmin wanglai handiangao”
 [Human relations and politics within the correspondence—Reading “Hu Hanmin’s [collected] Correspondence” at the Harvard-Yenching Library]
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan, 44

Xiaomei Chen, editor, Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
Reviewed by Howard Giskin, 47

Ekaterina Yurievna Chirkova, editor, In Search of Time in Peking Mandarin
Reviewed by Scott McGinnis, 50

Kim-chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan, C. L. Ten, editor, The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Approaches
Reviewed by Ralph Weber, 54

Paul A. Cohen, China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Reviewed by Shana Brown, 59

Antonio S. Cua, editor, Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
Reviewed by Geir Sigurdsson, 62

Catherine Despeux, and Livia Kohn, Women in Daoism
Reviewed by Robin Wang, 69

Magnus Fiskesjö, editor, “Reconsidering the Correlative Cosmology of Early China,” Special issue, Bulletin [of] The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Östasiatiska Museet, Stockholm
Reviewed by Thomas Michael, 72

Xinian Fu, Guo Daiheng, Liu Xujie, Pan Guxi, Qiao Yun, and Sun Dazhang, Chinese Architecture
Reviewed by Puay-peng Ho, 77

Hideo Fukamachi, editor, Jindai Guangdong de zhengdang shehui guojia—Zhongguo Guomindang jiqi dangguotizhi de xingchengguocheng [Party, Society and State in Modern Guangdong: An Evolution of the Chinese Nationalist Party and its Party-State System]
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan, 82

Arianne M. Gaetano, Tamara Jacka, editor, On The Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Satyanada Gabriel, 84

Daniel Gardner, editor, Zhu Xi’s Reading of the Analects
Reviewed by Suck Choi, 87

Susan L. Glosser, Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953
Reviewed by Joan Judge, 92

Merle Goldman, and Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China
Reviewed by Kristen Parris, 95

Gregory Eliyu Guldin, editor, What’s a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in South China
Reviewed by David Arkush, 102

Qitao Guo, Exorcism and Money: The Symbolic World of the Five-Fury Spirits in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Paul R. Katz, 105

Bret Hinsch, editor, Women in Early Imperial China
Reviewed by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, 112

Rania Huntington, editor, Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative
Reviewed by Lei Jin, 115

John Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography
Reviewed by John R. McRae, 121

Shigehisa Kuriyama, editor, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Reviewed by Thomas Michael, 130

Chin-Chuan Lee, editor, Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Reviewed by Michael Keane, 133

Guoli Liu, editor, Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 138

Mingda Ma, Shuojian conggao (Discourses on the sword: Collected manuscripts)
Reviewed by Stanley E. Henning, 141

Maisie J. Meyer, From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai
Reviewed by Jonathan Goldstein, 146

Rural China in Transformation (reviewing Rachel Murphy, How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China; Hiroshi Sato, The Growth of Market Relations in Post-reform Rural China: A Micro-analysis of Peasants, Migrants, and Peasant Entrepreneurs)
Reviewed by Lei Guang, 151

Qian Ning, T. K. Chu, translator, editor, Chinese Students Encounter America; Yihong Pan, Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China’s Youth in the Rustication Movement
Reviewed by Stanley Rosen, 158

Gary Rawnsley, Ming-yeh Rawnsley, editor, Political Communications in Greater China: The Construction and Reflection of Identity
Reviewed by Junhao Hong, 162

Tze-lan D. Sang, The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China
Reviewed by Jens Damm, 166

Shu-ning Sciban, and Fred Edwards, Dragonflies: Fiction by Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Deborah Buffton, 169

Andrew Scobell, editor, China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March
Reviewed by Harvey Nelsen, 171

Edward Slingerland, editor, Confucius Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Reviewed by Yuet-Keung Lo 174

Barend J. ter Haar, Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity
Reviewed by Michael Saso, 180

Ross Terrill, editor, The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States
Reviewed by Franklin Woo, 182

Scott Waldron, Colin Brown & John Longworth, editor, Rural Development in China: Insights from the Beef Industry
Reviewed by Greg Veeck, 186

Ding Xiang Warner, editor, A Wild Deer Amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition
Poetics of Wang Ji
Reviewed by Jonathan Chaves, 189

Marsha Weidner, editor, Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
Reviewed by Albert Welter, 193

Chung Wu, The Essentials of the Yi Jing
Reviewed by Stephen L. Field, 198

Yifa, editor, The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui
Reviewed by Albert Welter, 206

Books Received, 211