FEATURES
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
REVIEWS
David Bray, Social Space and Governance in Urban China
Reviewed by Hong Yung Lee, 69
Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen P. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton, editors, Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 73
Xiao-yuan Dong, Shunfeng Song, and Xiaobo Zhang, China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects
Reviewed by Gregory Veeck, 84
Benjamin A. Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 87
John Friedmann, China’s Urban Transition
Reviewed by Nils Mevenkamp, 98
Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
Reviewed by Robert E. Gamer, 103
C. Patterson Giersch, Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier
Reviewed by Kevin Caffrey, 107
Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security
Reviewed by Wei-chin Lee, 114
Qu Qubai; Jamie Greenbaum, translator, Superfluous Words: Qu Qubai
Reviewed by Ellen Huang, 117
John Christopher Hamm, Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel
Reviewed by Meir Shahar, 119
Mette Halskov Hansen, Frontier People: Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 122
Evelyn Hu-Dehart and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, editors, Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora
Reviewed by Maria W. L. Chee, 128
John Jorgensen, Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch’an
Reviewed by John R. McRae, 132
William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li, editors, Normalization of U.S.– China Relations: An International History
Reviewed by Yu Shen, 146
Thoralf Klein and Reinhard Zöllner, editors; Foreword by Winfried Scharlau, Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) und das Christentum in Ostasien: Ein Missionar zwischen den Kulturen
Reviewed by Karin Betz, 157
Yves Lenoir and Nicolas Standaert, editors, Les Danses rituelles chinoises d’après Joseph-Marie Amiot: Aux sources de l’ethnochorégraphie
Reviewed by Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, 162
Song Hwee Lim, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Reviewed by Jens Damm, 166
Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
Reviewed by John B. Henderson, 170
Kam Louie, Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China
Reviewed by Hong Xiao, 175
Hans-Georg Moeller, Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory
Reviewed by Carine Defoort, 179
Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion
Reviewed by Marc L. Moskowitz, 186
Benjamin Penny, editor, Daoism in History: Essays in Honor of Liu Ts’un-yan
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 190
Fabrizio Pregadio, Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
Reviewed by Jan De Meyer, 194
Christopher A. Reed, Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937
Reviewed by Tani E. Barlow, 196
Priscilla Roberts, editor, Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War
Reviewed by Pierre Asselin, 198
Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer, editors, Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region
Reviewed by Ronald Schwartz, 203
Sarah Schneewind, Community Schools and the State in Ming China
Reviewed by Hilde De Weerdt, 209
Andrew Scobell and Larry M. Wortzel, editors, Chinese National Security Decisionmaking under Stress
Reviewed by Herman F. Finley, 213
Anna M. Shields, Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice
of the Huajian ji 花間集 (Collection from among the Flowers)
Reviewed by William H. Nienhauser Jr., 217
Jerome Silbergeld, Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice
Reviewed by Alexander C. Y. Huang, 226
Judith G. Smith, editor, Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li
Reviewed by Kate Lingley, 230
Li Tang, A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and Its Literature in Chinese: Together with a New English Translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian Documents
Reviewed by Gunner Mikkelsen, 232
Yanfang Tang and Qinghai Chen, Advanced Chinese: Intention, Strategy, and Communication
Reviewed by Jianhua Bai and Fengtao Wu, 236
Barend J. ter Haar, Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Reviewed by Hilde De Weerdt, 239
Jennifer Took, A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China: Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China
Reviewed by John E. Herman, 243
Steve Tsang, editor, If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
Reviewed by John F. Copper, 245
Jing Tsu, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895–1937
Reviewed by Lingchei Letty Chen, 247
Hartmut Walravens, editor, David Crockett Graham (1884–1961) as Zoological Collector and Anthropologist in China
Reviewed by Nicholas Tapp, 251
Ming Wan, Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation
Reviewed by Erik W. Esselstrom, 254
David Wang, The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
Reviewed by Sheldon H. Lu, 257
Jing Wang, editor, Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Laurence J. C. Ma, 262
Ellen Widmer, The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
Reviewed by Ying Wang, 267
Xiaoxin Wu, editor, Encounters and Dialogues: Changing Perspectives on Chinese-Western Exchanges from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 270
Yan Haiping, Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948
Reviewed by Rong Cai, 276
Yang Zhen, Qingchao Huangwei Jicheng Zhidu 清朝皇位继承制度 (The Institution of Qing Throne Succession)
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 280
Yip Po-Ching and Don Rimmington, Chinese: An Essential Grammar, second edition
Reviewed by John Jing-hua Yin, 288
Anthony C. Yu, State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives
Reviewed by Thomas DuBois, 292
Peter Yu Kien-hong, Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study
Reviewed by Xiaorong Han, 296
Peter Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949
Reviewed by Diana Lary, 300
Zhang Tiejiang, Jiekai Harbin Youtairen lishi zhi mi: Harbin Youtairen shequ kaocha yanjiu (Revealing the Enigma of Jewish History in Harbin: A Survey of the Harbin Jewish Community)
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan, 302
Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896–1937
Reviewed by Paul Clark, 305
Xiaohuan Zhao, Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History
Reviewed by Rania Huntington, 307
Zheng Jixiong 鄭吉雄, Yi tuxiang yu Yi quanshi 易圖象與易詮釋
Reviewed by Edward L. Shaughnessy, 312
Zhang-Yue Zhou and Wei-Ming Tan, editors, Grains in China: Foodgrain, Feedgrain, and World Trade
Reviewed by Gregory Veeck, 318
Brook Ziporyn, The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang
Reviewed by Haiming Wen, 322
BOOKS RECEIVED, 327