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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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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
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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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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
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