China Review International Vol. 24 No. 1 (2017)

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Volume 24 Number 4 of China Review International begins with one feature review and 19 more reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese Studies.

FEATURE REVIEW

Print Culture and Media in Late Imperial and Early Republican China
Reviewed by Yu Zhang

REVIEWS

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China by Hongwei Bao
Reviewed by Charlie Yi Zhang

Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script transed. by Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge
Reviewed by Jing Zhang

The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan by Chi Pang-yuan
Reviewed by Miya Xie

Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution by Xing Fan
Reviewed by Yawen Ludden

What Is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History by Ge Zhaoguang
Reviewed by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Long Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? eds. by Michel Hockx, Joan Judge, and Barbara Mittler
Reviewed by Yan Xu

The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War: The Great American Dream by Roger B. Jeans
Reviewed by Yafeng Xia

Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China by Jinhua Jia
Reviewed by Lucas Wolf

Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping by Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Reviewed by Niv Horesh

The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality by Ling Hon Lam
Reviewed by Curie Virág

Comics Art in China by John A. Lent and Xu Ying
Reviewed by Hannes Rall

The Edge of the Island by Chen Li
Reviewed by Norbert Francis

Body, Society, and Nation: The Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghaiby Chieko Nakajima
Reviewed by Ka-che Yip

The Taoism of Clarified Tenuity: Content and Intention by Florian C. Reiter
Reviewed by Jan De Meyer

Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City by Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang
Reviewed by Anning Hu

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949 by Di Wang
Reviewed by Kelly Hammond

A New Literary History of Modern China ed. by David Der-wei Wang
Reviewed by Flair Donglai Shi

Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949 by Michael Williams
Reviewed by Gregor Benton

China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization by Ying Xiao
Reviewed by Panpan Yang

Works Received


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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China Review International publishes reviews of recent scholarly literature and “state-of-the-art” articles in all fields of Chinese studies. Reviews are generally published by invitation only; however, unsolicited reviews will be considered for publication based on merit and guidelines can be found here.

China Review International
Volume 24 Number 1
(2017)

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