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China Review International, vol. 9, no. 2 (2002)

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CRI initialThis issue is available online at Project Muse.

FEATURES

The Political Meaning of Friendship: Reviewing the Life and Times of Two of China’s American Friends (reviewing Sidney Rittenberg, Sr., and Amanda Bennett, The Man Who Stayed Behind; Sidney Shapiro, I Chose China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man; Sidney Shapiro, Wo de Zhongguo [My China])
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Brady, 307

David S. G. Goodman, Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945
Reviewed by Odoric Y.K. Wou, 320

Prized Pulp Fiction: Hand-copied Literature from the Cultural Revolution (reviewing Zhang Baorui, Yizhi xiuhuaxie (One embroidered shoe); Bai Shihong, editor, Anliu (Undercurrents); Kuang Haowen, Yishuang xiuhuaxie (A pair of embroidered shoes); Zhang Baorui, Luohua meng (Dream of falling flowers); Dai Mi, Shaonü zhi xin (Heart of a young girl); Dai Mi, Manna huiyilu (Manna’s memoirs)
Reviewed by Inge Nielsen, 344

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China Review International, vol. 9, no. 1 (2002)

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CRI initialThis issue is available online at Project Muse.

FEATURES

Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study (reviewing Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, editors, Urban Spaces in Contemporary China; Deborah S. Davis, editor, The Consumer Revolution in Urban China; Randy Kluver and John H. Powers, editors, Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities; Timothy Brook and B. Michael Frolic, editors, Civil Society in China; Richard Madsen, China’s Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society; Gordon White, Jude Howell, and Shang Xiaoyuan, In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China; Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, editors, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance)
Reviewed by Guobin Yang, 1

Some Thoughts on the State of Chinese Diaspora Studies (reviewing Lynn Pan, general editor, The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas; Shen Yuanfang, Dragon Seed in the Antipodes: Chinese-Australian Autobiographies; Chen Yong, Chinese San Francisco, 1850–1943: A Trans-Pacific Community)
Reviewed by Christopher Fung, 17

Yingjin Zhang, editor, China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature
Reviewed by Paula Varsano, 23

Harriet T. Zurndorfer, editor, Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives
Reviewed by Paul S. Ropp, 41

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Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (2003)

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Editor’s Note
Samuel L. Leiter, iii

PLAY

Umbuik Mudo and the Magic Flute: A Randai Dance-Drama
Introduction by Kirstin Pauka; translated by Ivana Askovic, Barbara Polk, Kirstin Pauka, et al., 113

This first English-language publication of a randai play from West Sumatra is based on the script prepared for a student production staged in 2001 at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, by one of the translators, Kirstin Pauka, who also introduces the play and its staging.

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Journal of World History, vol. 14, no. 2 (2003)

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ARTICLES

Free and Unfree Labor Migration, 1600–1900: An Introduction
David Northrup
pp. 125-130
Abstract: The following three papers share a common interest in Asian and African overseas labor migrations that Westerners organized and manipulated during the centuries between 1600 and 1900. They illuminate different stages in Western attitudes toward slavery and other forms of unfree labor, and they shed light on the attitudes of slaves, convicts, and indentured laborers themselves.

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