This issue of China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies opens with one feature and includes 15 reviews.
FEATURE
Herself an Autobiographer: Writing Women’s Self-Representation in the Qing (Reviewing Binbin Yang, Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories) Reviewed by Xu Ma
REVIEWS
Sarah Allan, The Heir and the Sage: Dynastic Legend in Early China, reviewed by Paul R. Goldin
Paul Bevan, A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle, and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926–1938, reviewed by Hal Swindall
Susanne Bregnbæk, Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China’s Top University Students, reviewed by Chongmin Yang
Ssu-ma Ch’ien (William H. Nienhauser Jr., editor), The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III, reviewed by Grant Hardy
Lily Chumley, Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China, reviewed by Paul Gladston
Nara Dillon, Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective, reviewed by Matt Wills
Naomi Green, From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film, reviewed by Ying Xiao
You Ji, China’s Military Transformation, reviewed by Elizabeth Van Wie
Davis
Li Jieren, Ripple on Stagnant Water; Kristin Stapleton, editor, Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family, reviewed by Shiamin Kwa
Terry F. Kleeman, Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities, reviewed by James Miller
Liyan Liu, Red Genesis: The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903–1921, reviewed by Zachary A. Scarlett
Naktsang Nulo, My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone, reviewed by Tenzin Jinba
Helen F. Siu, Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey, reviewed by Colin Mackerras
Siufu Tang, Self-Realization through Confucian Learning: A Contemporary
Reconstruction of Xunzi’s Ethics, reviewed by Christine A. Hale
Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua, editors, Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province, Volume 3, reviewed by Bart Dessein
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Every quarter, China Review International presents timely, English-language reviews of recently published China-related books and monographs. Its multidisciplinary scope and international coverage make it an indispensable tool for all those interested in Chinese culture and civilization, and enable the sinologist to keep abreast of cutting-edge scholarship in Chinese studies.
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