Category: China Review International

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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

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 9, no. 1 (2002)”

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Chinese Culinary History (reviewing Huang Hsing-Tsung, Fermentations and Food Science; Xu Hairong, editor-in-chief, Zhongguo yinshi shi [The history of Chinese food]; Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, editors,The Cambridge World History of Food)
Reviewed by Endymion Wilkinson, 285

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 8, no. 2 (2001)”

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“Like Kissing through a Handkerchief”: Traduttore Traditore (a review of Lydia Liu, editor, Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations)
Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel, 1

Göran Malmqvist, Bernhard Karlgren: Ett Forskarporträtt
Reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen, 15

Second-Language Studies and College-level Chinese Language Textbooks in the U.S.
By Cynthia Y. Ning, 34

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 8, no. 1 (2001)”

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China in Europe: A Brief Survey of European China Studies at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century (reviewing T. H. Barrett, Singular Listlessness: A Short History of Chinese Books and British Scholars; Center for East Asian Studies for UNESCO, “The Development of Contemporary China Studies”; European Association of Chinese Studies publications: Chinese Studies in the Nordic Countries, Survey no. 3; Chinese Studies in the U.K., Survey no. 7; Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, and Slovenian Sinology, Survey no. 5; Russian Sinology, Survey no. 4; International Institute for Asian Studies, Guide to Asian Studies in Europe; Helmut Martin und Christiane Hammer, Chinawissenschaften—Deutschsprachige Entwicklungen: Geschichte, Personen, Perspektiven: Referate der 8. Jahrestagung 1997 der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien; Ming Wilson and John Cayley, editors, Europe Studies China: Papers from an International Conference on the History of European Sinology)
Reviewed by Thomas Kampen, 291

Human Rights and Asian Values: The Limits of Universalism (reviewing Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, editors, The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights)
Reviewed by Randall Peerenboom, 295

The Nanjing Massacre: A Review Essay (reviewing Honda Katsuichi, The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame; Joshua A. Fogel, editor, The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography; Timothy Brook, editor, Documents on the Rape of Nanking; Hua-ling Hu, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin)
Reviewed by John A. Tucker, 321

Mark Edward Lewis, Writing and Authority in Early China
Reviewed by Martin Kern, 336

Confucianism and Modernity, Insights from an Interview with Tu Wei-ming
By Bingyi Yu and Zhaolu Lu 377

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 7, no. 2 (2000)”

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REMEMBERING TANG TSOU

Tang Tsou (1918–1999)
By Vincent Kelly Pollard, 1

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Ruth Cherrington, Deng’s Generation: Young Intellectuals in 1980s China; Bruce Gilley, Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China’s New Elite; Willy Wo-Lap Lam, The Era of Jiang Zemin
Reviewed by Peter Baehr, 7

Christoph Harbsmeier, Logic and Language. Volume 7, Part 1, of Science and Civilisation in China
Reviewed by Lisa Raphals, 18

The Chinese Community in French Polynesia: Scholarly Sources of Understanding
By Margaret E. Burns, 28

Barend J. ter Haar, Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity Reviewed by Dian H. Murray, 36

C. X. George Wei, Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944–1949; John W. Garver, The Sino-American Alliance: Nationalist China and American Cold War Strategy in Asia
Reviewed by Pingchao Zhu, 45

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 7, no. 1 (2000)”

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Yu, Anthony C., Rereading The Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
Reviewed by John Minford, p. 307

Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts
By Stanley E. Henning, p. 319

The Study of Chinese Philosophy in the West: A Bibliographic Introduction
By Karel van der Leeuw, p. 332

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 6, no. 2 (1999)”

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E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks, translators and commentators, The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors; Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr., translators and commentators, The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
Reviewed by John Makeham, p. 1

Dai Qing, compiler, The River Dragon Has Come!
Reviewed by Sen-dou Chang, p. 34

Charles Feinstein and Christopher Howe, editors, Chinese Technology Transfer in the 1990s: Current Experience, Historical Problems, and International Perspectives
Reviewed by Richard P. Suttmeier, p. 39

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 6, no. 1 (1999)”

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Julia Ching, Mysticism and Kingship in China: The Heart of Chinese Wisdom
Reviewed by Sor-Hoon Tan – p. 307

“A Cigarette for Sukarno … Brought Disgrace upon the Chinese People”: A Review Essay on the Cultural Revolution (reviewing of Sebastian Heilman, Turning Away from the Cultural Revolution: Political Grass-Roots Activism in the Mid-Seventies; Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun, Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution; Michael Schoenhals, editor, China’s Cultural Revolution 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party; and Yan Jiaqi and Gao Gao, Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution)
Reviewed by Vera Schwarcz – p. 312

Princeton Teaching Associates, The Multimedia I Ching [CD-ROM], and Software Design Studios, The Columbia I Ching on CD-ROM
Reviewed by Kenneth Goodall – p. 323

Xin Ren, Tradition of the Law and Law of the Tradition: Law, State, and Social Control in China
Reviewed by Barbara Phillips Sullivan – p. 327

Richards, Mencius on the Mind: Experiments in Multiple Definition
Reviewed by Peter Wong Yih Jiun – p. 333

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 5, no. 2 (1998)”

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Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Reviewed by Paul A. Cohen — p. 1

Vibeke Bordahl, The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling
Reviewed by Boris Riftin — p. 17

Xiaomei Chen, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Reviewed by Michel Hockx — p. 22

Benjamin Elman, compiler, Classical Historiography for Chinese History [online]
Reviewed by Nicolas Standaert — p. 52

Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashi Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld — p. 30

Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld — p. 30

Warren W. Smith, Jr., Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld — p. 30

Wu Hung, Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
Reviewed by Ladislav Kesner — p. 35

Harriet T. Zurndorfer, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present
Reviewed by Nicolas Standaert — p. 52

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 5, no. 1 (1998)”

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Redeeming Sima Qian
By Stephen Durrant — p. 307

Patricia Buckley Ebrey, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Reviewed by Charles Mason — p. 314

Hashimoto Keizo, Catherine Jami, and Lowell Skar, editors, East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond
Reviewed by Daiwie Fu — p. 316

Francois Jullien: Comparative Thinking
By Karel van der Leeuw — p. 322

Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar
Reviewed by Stephen L. Field — p. 336

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 4, no. 2 (1997)”

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Christina Kelley Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s
Reviewed by Deborah Buffton — p. 1

Chun-chieh Huang and Erik Zürcher, editors, Time and Space in Chinese Culture
Reviewed by John Allen Tucker — p. 5

Stephen Owen, editor and translator, An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911
Reviewed by H. R. Lan — p. 23

Xiaobing Tang, Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao
Reviewed by David D. Buck — p. 29

Tu Wei-ming, editor, The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today
Reviewed by Lionel M. Jensen — p. 33

Zhu Weizheng, Yindiao weiding de chuantong (A tradition without a definite tone)
Reviewed by Q. Edward Wang — p. 51

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 4, no. 1 (1997)”

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J. D. Schmidt, Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905
Reviewed by Richard John Lynn, p. 305

Artyom I. Kobzev, Ucheniye o simvolakh i chislakh v kitaiskoi klassicheskoi filosofii (The teaching of symbols and numbers in classical Chinese philosophy)
Reviewed by Alexander V. Lomanov, p. 332

Michael Loewe, editor, Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide
Reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen, p. 337

Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 3, no. 2 (1996)”