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FEATURES
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
RESPONSE & REPLY
Response to Review by Franklin Woo of The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States
By Ross Terrill, 348
Reply to Ross Terrill
By Franklin Woo, 349
REVIEWS
Qianshen Bai, Fu Shan’s World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century
Reviewed by Anne Burkus-Chasson, 351
Jiemen Bao, Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora
Reviewed by Jenny Godley, 357
James Behuniak, Jr, Mencius on Becoming Human
Reviewed by Robert Eno, 359
Alan J. Berkowitz, Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China
Reviewed by Robert Ford Campany, 364
Chris Berry and Feii Lu, editors, Island on the Edge: Taiwan Cinema and After
Reviewed by Tan Ye, 367
Morris L. Bian, The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
Reviewed by Satyananda J. Gabriel, 369
Michel Bonnin, Génération perdue: Le mouvement d’envoi des jeunes instruits à la campagne en Chine, 1968–1980 (Lost generation: The movement sending educated youth to China’s countryside, 1968–1980)
Reviewed by Vincent K. Pollard, 373
Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow, editors, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by P. F. Kornicki, 377
Tung X. Bui, David C. Yang, Wayne D. Jones and Joanna Z. Li, editors, China’s Economic Power House: Economic Reform in Guangdong Province
Reviewed by Yongjin Zhang, 381
Cao Jinqing, China along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society
Reviewed by Gene Cooper, 383
Sing-chen Lydia Chiang, Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Rania Huntington, 387
Anita Chung, Drawing Boundaries: Architectural Images in Qing China
Reviewed by Minghui Hu, 392
Craig Clunas, Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559
Reviewed by Suzanne Wright, 395
Elisabettta Corsi, La fábrica de las illusiones: Los Jesuitas y la difusión de la perspectiva lineal en China, (1698–1766)
Reviewed by John W. Witek, S.J., 398
Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China
Reviewed by Wang Li, 401
Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
Reviewed by Graham Parkes, 404
Erika E. S. Evasdottir, Obedient Autonomy: Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
Reviewed by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, 407
Fu Hualing, Carole J. Petersen, and Simon N. M. Young, editors, National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 under Scrutiny
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 410
Robert H. Gassmann, Antikchinesisches Kalenderwesen: Die Rekonstruktion der chunqiu-zeitlichen Kalender des Fürstentums Lu und der Zhou-Könige (The ancient Chinese calendar system: The reconstruction of the Spring and Autumn–period calendar of the Principality of Lu and of the Zhou Kings)
Reviewed by Hans van Ess, 415
Evelyn Goh, Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From “Red Menace” to “Tacit Ally”
Reviewed by Robert Sutter, 417
Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, editors, Chinese Business in Southeast Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship
Reviewed by Derek Heng Thiam Soon, 419
Joanna Grant, A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the “Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories”
Reviewed by Bridie Andrews Minehan, 423
John Henry Gray, China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People
Reviewed by Judith Green, 426
Qitao Guo, Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou
Reviewed by Megan Evans, 430
Guo Xiaoqin, State and Society in China’s Democratic Transition: Confucianism, Leninism, and Economic Development
Reviewed by Robert E. Gamer, 436
Patrick Hanan, Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Reviewed by Ying Wang, 441
Henrietta Harrison, The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942
Reviewed by Dan Shao, 445
Virginia Harper Ho, Labor Dispute Resolution in China: Implications for Labor Rights and Legal Reform
Reviewed by Mark W. Frazier, 448
Martin Huang, editor, Snakes Legs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings and Chinese Fiction
Reviewed by Victoria Cass, 451
Christopher R. Hughes and Gudrun Wacker, editors, China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward
Reviewed by Jack Linchuan Qiu, 455
Åshild Kolås and Monika P. Thowsen, On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld, 458
Shuyu Kong, Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Jason McGrath, 461
Janghee Lee, Xunzi and Early Chinese Naturalism
Reviewed by Paul R. Goldin, 466
Mark Leenhouts, Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking Literature
Reviewed by Rong Cai, 469
Martin Lehnert, Partitur des Lebens: Die Liaofan si xun von Yuan Huang (1533–1606) Reviewed by Michael Leibold, 474
Cheng Li, editor, Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978–2003
Reviewed by Hongshan Li, 477
Huaiyin Li, Village Governance in North China 1875–1936
Reviewed by Henrietta Harrison, 485
Michael Loewe, The Men Who Governed Han China: Companion to A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods
Reviewed by R.R.C. de Crespigny, 487
Jie Lu, Dismantling Time: Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization
Reviewed by Robin Visser, 491
Sheldon H. Lu and Emille Yueh-yu Yeh, editors, Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics
Reviewed by James Udden, 497
Christopher Lupke, editor, The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Tongdong Bai, 501
Ma Jisen, The Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China
Reviewed by Jin Qiu, 509
Joyce A. Madancy, The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s
Reviewed by Lars Peter Laamann, 512
Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Endymion Wilkinson, 515
Thomas Michael, The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse
Reviewed by Leah Kalmanson, 520
Sherry J. Mou, Gentlemen’s Prescriptions for Women’s Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
Reviewed by Judith Liu, 524
Pun Ngai, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Reviewed by Karen Garner, 528
Randall Peerenboom, China’s Long March toward Rule of Law
Reviewed by Robert J. Morris, 532
Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 538
Mu-chou Poo, Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China
Reviewed by Jerry H. Bentley, 545
Thomas H. Reilly, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire
Reviewed by Miguel Angel González Chandía, 547
Morris Rossabi, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists
Reviewed by Naran Bilik, 550
Song Geng, The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Wang Yiyan, 554
Lynn A. Struve, editor, The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time
Reviewed by Gang Zhao, 558
Ban Wang, Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China
Reviewed by Haun Saussy, 562
Jeanne L. Wilson, Strategic Partners: Russian-Chinese Relations in the Post-Soviet Era
Reviewed by Elizabeth Wishnick, 564
Elizabeth Wishnick, Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Reviewed by Rouben Azizian, 567
Dorothy C. Wong, Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form
Reviewed by Jonathan Pettit, 570
Yunxiang Yan, Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949–1999
Reviewed by Mary Scoggin, 574
Dali Yang, Remaking the Chinese Leviathan
Reviewed by Kun-Chin Lin, 577
Yang Guobin (translator into English) and Zhou Zhenfu (translator into modern Chinese), [Liu Xie,] Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind
Reviewed by Eugene Chen Eoyang, 587
Y. M. Yeung and Shen Jianfa, editors, Developing China’s West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development
Reviewed by Terry McGee, 589
Xueguang Zhou, The State and the Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949–1994
Reviewed by Xiaojun Wang, 592
Books Received, 596
