FEATURES
Open Door for Books
By Yun Tang, 259
The “China Model”: Expounding on American Viewpoints (reviewing Philip S. Hsu, Yu-Shan Wu, and Suisheng Zhao, editors, In Search of China’s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus; and Kent E. Calder and Francis Fukuyama, editors, East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability
Reviewed by Niv Horesh, 270
Chun-chieh Huang, Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts
Reviewed by John A. Tucker, 284
Wendy Swartz, Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427–1900); and Robert Ashmore, The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365–427)
Reviewed by Nicholas Morrow Williams, 294
RESPONSES & REPLIES
Letter to Editor, CRI
By James Cahill, 307
A Rejoinder to Cahill’s Letter
By Michael Chang, 309
REVIEWS
Joel Andreas, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class
Reviewed by Denise Y. Ho, 310
Jack W. Chen, The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty
Reviewed by Hilde De Weerdt. 314
Joseph W. Esherick, Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History
Reviewed by Guy Alitto, 317
Aaron L. Friedberg, A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 320
Meow Hui Goh, Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483–493)
Reviewed by Nicholas Morrow Williams, 327
Michael Heng Siam-Heng and Ten Chin Liew, editors, State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia
Reviewed by Peter van der Veer, 333
Margaret Hillenbrand, Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960–1990
Reviewed by Sylvia Li-chun and Christopher Ahn, 334
Paul W. Kroll, Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Reviewed by Xurong Kong, 342
Gregory B. Lee, China’s Lost Decade: Cultural Politics and Poetics 1978–1990
Reviewed by Krista Van Fleit Hang, 346
Mark Edward Lewis, China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
Reviewed by Rafe de Crespigny, 350
Li Tang, East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China
Reviewed by Mateo Nicolini-Zani 354
Paul T. K. Lin with Eileen Chen Lin, In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life between East and West
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 358
Perry Link, editor, The Scholar’s Mind: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Mote
Reviewed by Sarah Schneewind, 364
Paul P. Mariani, Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 370
Mary G. Mazur, Wu Han, Historian: Son of China’s Times
Reviewed by Denise Y. Ho, 375
Stephen McDowall, Qian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel
Reviewed by Allan H. Barr, 380
Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 382
Rebecca Nedostup, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, 387
Helen Rees, editor, Lives in Chinese Music
Reviewed by Chuen-Fung Wong, 389
Flora Sapio, Sovereign Power and the Law in China
Reviewed by Michael W. Dowdle, 392
Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh, editors, State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the People
Reviewed by Qingwen Xu, 395
Nicola Spakowski, Mit Mut an die Front. Die militärische Beteiligung von Frauen in der kommunistischen Revolution Chinas (1925–1949)
Reviewed by Gotelind Müller, 398
Phillip Stalley, Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People’s Republic of China
Reviewed by Jack Patrick Hayes, 403
Spring Su, Property Ownership and Private Higher Education in China: On What Grounds?
Reviewed by H. Swindall, 405
Wang Di, The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900–1950
Reviewed by Toby Lincoln, 409
Teresa Wright, Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era
Reviewed by Jonathan Unger, 413
Xu Xiaoqun, Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth Century China, 1901–1937
Reviewed by R. Kent Guy, 416
Wang Zhihe (王治河) and Fan Meijun (樊美筠), Second Enlightenment 第二次启蒙
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 420
WORKS RECEIVED 428
