FEATURES
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
REVIEWS
Peter Acker. Liu Chuxuan (1147–1203) and his Commentary on the Daoist Scripture Huangdi yinfu jing
Reviewed by Jan De Meyer, 193
Joanne D. Birdwhistell. “Mencius” and Masculinities: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking
Reviewed by Sarah A. Mattice, 195
John G. Blair and Jerusha Hull McCormack. Western Civilizations with Chinese Comparisons
Reviewed by Nick Brasovan, 198
Fan Pen Li Chen. Chinese Shadow Theatre, History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors
Reviewed by Colin Mackerras, 209
Vincent Goossaert. The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics
Reviewed by Brian R. Dott, 213
Richard Gotshalk. The Classic of Way and Her Power, A Miscellany?
Reviewed by James D. Sellmann, 216
Barbara Hendrischke. The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism
Reviewed by Harold Swindall, 220
Christopher Mills Isett. State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644–1862
Reviewed by Marc Andre Matten, 225
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt. Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-Construction
Reviewed by Picus Shizi Ding, 228
François Jullien. Maev de la Guardia, translator. The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics
Reviewed by ShiPu Wang, 234
Roy Kamphausen and Andrew Scobell, editors. Right-Sizing the People’s Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of the Chinese Military
Reviewed by Richard A. Bitzinger, 244
Brian Kennedy and Elizabeth Guo. Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey
Reviewed by Stanley E. Henning, 247
Ann Kent. China, International Organizations, and Global Security
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 250
Ching Kwan Lee. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Reviewed by Baogang Guo, 255
Cecile Leung. Etienne Fourmont (1683–1745): Oriental and Chinese Languages in Eighteenth-Century France
Reviewed by Gloria Bien, 258
Mark E. Lewis. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
Reviewed by Tiezhu Dong, 265
Lin Jinghua 林精華. Wudu Eluosi: Zhongguo xiandaixing wenti zhong de Eguo yinsu 誤讀俄羅斯﹕中國現代性問題中的俄國因素 (Misreading Russia: The Russia Factor in the Problem of China’s Modernity)
Reviewed by Mark Gamsa, 270
Gordon Mathews, Eric Kit-wai Ma, and Tai-lok Lui. Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation; Agnes S. Ku and Ngai Pun, editors. Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 281
James A. Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
Reviewed by Thomas Barfield, 286
Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang, editors. From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Andreas Steen, 291
May Sim. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius
Reviewed by J. E. Tiles, 296
Czeslaw Tubilewicz. Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe: Shopping for Allies
Reviewed by Vincent Kelly Pollard, 305
Zhang Longxi. Unexpected Affinities: Reading Across Cultures
Reviewed by Steven Shankman, 310
Works Received, 312