Category: China Review International

After many years of running far behind schedule, China Review International (CRI) will make radical changes in the manner and frequency in which it delivers reviews. The founding goals of CRI were to review a wide range of international scholarly literature in Chinese studies, and to do so in a timely manner.

In an effort to improve timeliness, CRI will publish smaller batches of reviews at quarterly intervals and deliver them digitally to all but a few subscribers who will have to pay an extra premium for the print edition. Subscribers who have already renewed will not be charged the extra fees until their next renewal cycle.

Starting from volume 15 (for 2008, currently in production a year behind schedule), CRI will appear in three editions.

• Online edition – All current institutional subscribers are urged to switch to the digital edition of CRI hosted by Project MUSE. Contact Project MUSE for 2009 pricing.
• Email edition – Subscribers who provide their email addresses to UHP Journals will receive each issue in PDF format. This will include review contributors and others who receive complimentary copies. Pricing for email delivery during 2009 will remain $50 for institutions and $30 for individuals.
• Print edition – Subscribers who absolutely require delivery in print will be served by very shortrun digital printing. Pricing for the print edition will rise to $80 for 2009. Contact UHP Journals to request this option.

The UH Press wishes to express its gratitude to CRI reviewers and subscribers for their continuing patience and support. We hope these change will serve the CRI community better in the years to come.

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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
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 14, no. 2 (2007)”

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 14, no. 1 (2007)”

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 13, no. 2 (2006)”

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 13, no. 1 (2006)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 12, no. 2 (2005)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 12, no. 1 (2005)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 11, no. 2 (2004)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 11, no. 1 (2004)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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Opium, Empire, and Modern History (reviewing Alan Baumler, editor, Modern China and Opium: A Reader; Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, editors, Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952; Glenn Melancon, Britain’s China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour, 1833–1840; Carl A. Trocki, Opium, Empire, and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750–1950)
Reviewed by James L. Hevia, 307

Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue
Reviewed by Elisabetta Corsi, 326

Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms, editors, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Reviewed by Mary I. Bockover, 337

The Confucian Body (reviewing Thomas A. Wilson, editor, On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius
Reviewed by Joseph A. Adler, 351

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 10, no. 2 (2003)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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More “Mencius-on-Human-Nature” Discussions: What Are They About? (reviewing Alan Kam-leung Chan, editor, Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations)
Reviewed by Michael LaFargue, 1

Roman Malek, S.V.D., editor, Western Learning and Christianity in China: The Contribution and Impact of Johann Adam Schall von Bell, S.J. (1592–1666)
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 28

Edward J. M. Rhoads, Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 40

Y. M. Yeung and David K. Y. Chu, editors, Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation
Reviewed by Murray A. Rubinstein, 59

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 10, no. 1 (2003)”

This issue is available online at Project Muse.

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 9, no. 2 (2002)”