China Review International, vol. 17, no. 4 (2010)

FEATURES

Imperial Power, Legal Cosmology, and Beyond (reviewing Jiang Yonglin, The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code)
Reviewed by Pär Cassel, 393

Tang Ministers through a Qing Mirror (reviewing Anne Burkus-Chasson, Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou)
Reviewed by Tamara H. Bentley, 396

A Song Dynasty “Naturalist” Explores China’s Southwestern “Contact Zone” (reviewing James M. Hargett, translator, Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea)
Reviewed by Benjamin B. Ridgway, 400
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China Review International, vol. 17, no. 3 (2010)

FEATURES

James Cahill, Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
Reviewed by Michael G. Chang, 299

Ralph Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare
Reviewed by Peter Lorge, 303

Yunnan: Periphery or Center of an International Network? (reviewing Bin Yang, Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan [Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE])
Reviewed by Michael C. Brose, 305
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China Review International, vol. 17, no. 2 (2010)

FEATURES

A New Study of Peasants without the Party (reviewing Lucien Bianco, Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution)
Reviewed by Xiaorong Han, 197

Speaking of Cao Cao (reviewing Rafe de Crespigny, Imperial Warlord: A Biography of Cao Cao 155–220 A.D.)
Reviewed by David A. Graff, 201

China and Russian Literature in Historical Perspective (reviewing Mark Gamsa, The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice; Mark Gamsa, The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature: Three Studies) 
Reviewed by Alison Dray-Novey, 204
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China Review International, vol. 17, no. 1 (2010)

FEATURES

Jay Taylor Finds Rehabilitating Chiang Kai-shek’s Reputation No Small Task (reviewing Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China)
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 1

Being What We Read: Perennialism in Chinese Islamic Studies (reviewing Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick, and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms) 
Reviewed by James D. Frankel, 8

Eternal Questions (reviewing Yuri Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Era) 
Reviewed by Dennis Grafflin, 13
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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 4 (2009)

FEATURES

Why Shanghai? On Engagement and Empiricism in the Field of Chinese Urban History (reviewing Wen-Hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843–1949; Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity)
Reviewed by Niv Horesh, 419

China’s Soft Power: The Case for a Critical and Multidimensional Approach (reviewing Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World)
Reviewed by Paul G. Pickowicz, 439

Li Lin, editor, The China Legal Development Yearbook
Reviewed by Carl Minzner, 456
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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 3 (2009)

FEATURES

Two Recently Published Histories on the Song Dynasty (960–1279) (reviewing Dieter Kuhn, The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China; Denis C. Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith, editors, The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5, Part One, The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907–1279)
Reviewed by James M. Hargett, 293

A Reassessment of Early Confucianism in Light of Newly Excavated Manuscripts (reviewing Liang Tao 梁濤, Guodian Zhujian Yu Simeng Xuepai 郭店竹簡與思孟學派 (The Guodian bamboo manuscripts and the Zisi-Mencian lineage)
Reviewed by Shirley Chan, 304

Manchu Language Resources in the People’s Republic of China: A Comprehensive Review
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 308
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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 2 (2009)

FEATURES

China’s Rising Presence in Africa (reviewing Sarah Raine, China’s African Challenges; Chris Alden, Daniel Large, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, editors, China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and Continent Embrace)
Reviewed by Ian Taylor, 155

Continuing the Reevaluation: Four Studies of the Cultural Revolution (reviewing Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution; Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics during the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972–1976; Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution; Paul Clark, The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History)
Reviewed by John A. Rapp, 160

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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 1 (2009)

FEATURES

Doing Business in China: Tips for an Outsider (Lǎowài)
(reviewing Xiaowen Tian, Managing International Business in China; Tim Ambler, Morgen Witzel, and Chao Xi, Doing Business in China; Hong Liu, Chinese Business: Landscapes and Strategies)
Reviewed by Anton Kriz and Byron Keating, 1

What Time Is the “Great Divergence”? And Why Economic Historians Think It Matters
(reviewing Walter Scheidel, editor, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires; Tommy Bengstsson, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee, Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900)
Reviewed by Niv Horesh, 18

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China Review International, vol. 15, no. 4 (2008)

FEATURES

Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, and Georges Métailié, editors. Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin, 455

Yong Deng. China’s Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations
Reviewed by Edward Friedman, 465

Erik Zürcher, translator. Kuoduo richao: Li Jiubiao’s Diary of Oral Admonitions: A Late Ming Christian Journal; W. South Coblin. Francisco Varo’s Glossary of the Mandarin Language
Reviewed by R. Po-chia Hsia, 470

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China Review International, vol. 15, no. 3 (2008)

FEATURES

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law
Reviewed by Christopher Lupke, 315

Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2. The Calm Before the Storm 1951–1955; Hsiao-ting Lin, Tibet and Nationalistic China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–1949
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 325

Xiaoxi Li, editor, Assessing the Extent of China’s Marketization; Shuanglin Lin and Shunfeng Song, editors, The Revival of Private Enterprise in China; Keming Yang, Entrepreneurship in China
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 330

Daniel A. Bell, China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society; K. K. Yeo, Musing with Confucius and Paul: Toward a Chinese Christian Theology
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 349

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 15, no. 3 (2008)”

China Review International, vol. 15, no. 2 (2008)

FEATURES

Daniel A. Bell. Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context
Reviewed by Fred Dallmayr, 163

Mario Poceski. Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism
Reviewed by John R. McRae, 170

Lothar von Falkenhausen. Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 B.C.): The Archaeological Evidence
Reviewed by Robert L. Thorp, 185

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