FEATURES
Two Recently Published Histories on the Song Dynasty (960–1279) (reviewing Dieter Kuhn, The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China; Denis C. Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith, editors, The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5, Part One, The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907–1279)
Reviewed by James M. Hargett, 293
A Reassessment of Early Confucianism in Light of Newly Excavated Manuscripts (reviewing Liang Tao 梁濤, Guodian Zhujian Yu Simeng Xuepai 郭店竹簡與思孟學派 (The Guodian bamboo manuscripts and the Zisi-Mencian lineage)
Reviewed by Shirley Chan, 304
Manchu Language Resources in the People’s Republic of China: A Comprehensive Review
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 308
REVIEWS
Xiaolan Bao, Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City 1948–1992
Reviewed by Margaret M. Chin, 323
Miranda Brown, The Politics of Mourning in Early China
Reviewed by Constance A. Cook, 326
Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 330
Stephen Chiu and Tai-Lok Lui, Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City
Reviewed by Lisa Fischler, 334
Alexander Des Forges, Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production
Reviewed by Frederik Green, 338
Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, editors, Sinographies: Writing China
Reviewed by Andrea Bachner, 341
Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Reviewed by Yanhua Zhang, 344
Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 347
Anne E. McLaren, Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China
Reviewed by Miranda Brown, 355
Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, editors, Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
Reviewed by Audrey Yue, 357
Hannah Pakula, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 362
Laikwan Pang, The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China
Reviewed by Lisa Claypool, 367
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation
Reviewed by Paul R. Goldin, 371
Nicolas Standaert, The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe
Reviewed by Miranda Brown, 375
Hans Stumpfeldt, Einundachtzig Han-Gedichte
Reviewed by Nicholas Morrow Williams, 378
Ian Taylor, China’s New Role in Africa
Reviewed by Dorothy McCormick, 382
Maghiel van Crevel, Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
Reviewed by Jack W. Chen, 385
Donald B. Wagner, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 11, “Ferrous Metallurgy”
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin, 390
Dong Wang, Managing God’s Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888–1952
Reviewed by Baoyan Cheng, 395
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Global Shanghai 1850–2010: A History in Fragments
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 399
Fusheng Wu, Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early Medieval China
Reviewed by Jack W. Chen, 401
Dongping Yang, editor, The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2, Changes and Struggles
Reviewed by Herman F. Huang, 406
Judith T. Zeitlin, The Phantom Heroine: Ghost and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature
Reviewed by Ning Ma, 409
WORKS RECEIVED
Works Received, 417