Volume 24 Number 3 of China Review International begins with one feature review and 20 more reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese Studies.
FEATURE REVIEW
The Persistence and Significance of Small Urban Spaces in China (reviewing Di Wang, The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000)
Reviewed by Tim Simpson
REVIEWS
Jennifer Altehenger, Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989
Reviewed by Ji Li
Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Reviewed by Hsuan-Ying Huang
Yanjie Bian, Guanxi: How China Works
Reviewed by Jack Barbalet
Steve Chan, Trust and Distrust in Sino-American Relations: Challenge and Opportunity
Reviewed by Richard Hu
Patricia P. Chu, Where I have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return
Reviewed by Shawn Higgins
Melissa Dale, Inside the World of the Eunuch: A Social History of the Emperor’s Servants in Qing China
Reviewed by Ellen Soullière
Joshua Eisenman, Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune
Reviewed by Zhun Xu
Luke Habberstad, Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Reviewed by Christopher F. Kim
Kurtis Hagen and Steve Coutinho, translated with commentary, Philosophers of the Warring States: A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy
Reviewed by Robin R. Wang
Derek Hird and Geng Song, editors, The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Reviewed by Yinni Peng
Ming-sho Ho, Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Reviewed by Kevin Wei Luo
Hsiao-ting Lin, Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan
Reviewed by Syaru Shirley Lin
Thomas Maissen and Barbara Mittler, Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance – And Why That Matters: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Reviewed by Luke Clossey
Yuan-ning Wen and others, edited by Christopher Rea, Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities
Reviewed by David N. C. Hull
William T. Rowe, Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China
Reviewed by Margherita Zanasi
Michael Szonyi, The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Masato Hasegawa
Jinping Wang, In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600 Reviewed by Carl Déry
Bing Wang, Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore: Witnesses to Social and Cultural Transformations in the Chinese Community
Reviewed by Jing-yi Qu
Pu Wang, The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture
Reviewed by Haosheng Yang
Yun Via, Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China
Reviewed by Patrick Fuliang Shan





