China Review International Vol. 23 No. 1 (2016)

Volume 23 of China Review International begins with four featured reviews and a response, along with 15 more reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese studies.

FEATURES

• Mixed with All the Hokum and Bally Hooey: ‘Chinese Food’ and America (reviewing Haiming Liu’s From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States) Reviewed by Shiamin Kwa

• Literary Archaism, Personal Expression and Self-Cultivation in Ming China: Li Mengyang and his World (reviewing Chang Woei Ong’s Li Mengyang, the North-South Divide, and Literati Learning in Ming China) Reviewed by Richard John Lynn

• Toward a More Inclusive Definition of Chinese Painting (reviewing Craig Clunas’s Chinese Painting and Its Audiences) Reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen

• Peace Dynamics of East Asia (reviewing Explaining the East Asian Peace: A Research Story by Stein Tønnesson and Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it came about. Will it last? edited by Elin Bjarnegård and Joakim Kreutz; both distributed by UH Press from NIAS Press) Reviewed by Alan Hunter

RESPONSE

• John C. Didier’s response to Michael Saso’s review of In and Outside the Square: The Sky and the Power of Belief in Ancient China and the World, c. 4500 b.c.-a.d. 200, 3 Volumes, Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 192, in China Review International vol. 16, no. 4 (2009)

REVIEWS

• Song-Chuan Chen’s Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War Reviewed by Emily Mokros

• James Flath’s Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius (available from UH Press) Reviewed by Man Xu

• Wu Hung’s Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China Reviewed by Shana J. Brown

• Stuart Young’s Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (available from UH Press) Reviewed by Hans-Rudolf Kantor

• Laura Madokoro’s Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War Reviewed by Glennys Young

…plus 10 more reviews and works received.

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About the Journal

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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