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FEATURES
The Political Meaning of Friendship: Reviewing the Life and Times of Two of China’s American Friends (reviewing Sidney Rittenberg, Sr., and Amanda Bennett, The Man Who Stayed Behind; Sidney Shapiro, I Chose China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man; Sidney Shapiro, Wo de Zhongguo [My China])
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Brady, 307
David S. G. Goodman, Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945
Reviewed by Odoric Y.K. Wou, 320
Prized Pulp Fiction: Hand-copied Literature from the Cultural Revolution (reviewing Zhang Baorui, Yizhi xiuhuaxie (One embroidered shoe); Bai Shihong, editor, Anliu (Undercurrents); Kuang Haowen, Yishuang xiuhuaxie (A pair of embroidered shoes); Zhang Baorui, Luohua meng (Dream of falling flowers); Dai Mi, Shaonü zhi xin (Heart of a young girl); Dai Mi, Manna huiyilu (Manna’s memoirs)
Reviewed by Inge Nielsen, 344
REVIEWS
Tomoko Akami, Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919–45
Reviewed by Lawrence T. Woods, 357
Greg Austin and Stuart Harris, Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century
Reviewed by Marie Söderberg, 359
Gregor Benton, New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938–1941
Reviewed by Jianyue Chen, 362
Zhiyue Bo, Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility since 1949
Reviewed by Robert E. Gamer, 366
Barbara J. Brooks, Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895–1938
Reviewed by Donald A. Jordan, 371
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War
Reviewed by Xiaobing Li, 374
Xiaomei Chen, Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China
Reviewed by Claire Conceison, 377
Cheng Siwei, Studies on Economic Reforms and Development in China
Reviewed by Frank C. Jen, 380
Nicholas R. Clifford, “A Truthful Impression of the Country”: British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880–1949
Reviewed by Frances Wood, 391
Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe, editors, Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi
Reviewed by Tze-ki Hon, 394
Edward L. Davis, Society and the Supernatural in Song China
Reviewed by Peter Ditmanson, 397
Jane E. Elliott, Some Did It for Civilisation; Some Did It for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War
Reviewed by Klaus Mühlhahn, 402
Mark C. Elliott, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Jane Kate Leonard, 405
David Faure and Tao Tao Liu, editors, Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception
Reviewed by Susan D. Blum, 411
Edmund S. K. Fung, In Search of Chinese Democracy: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929–1949
Reviewed by Joseph W. Esherick, 416
Sandra Gillespie, South-South Transfer: A Study of Sino-African Exchanges
Reviewed by James Gao, 419
Paul Rakita Goldin, The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
Reviewed by Jens Damm, 423
Guo Yi, Guodian zhujian yu xian-Qin xueshu sixiang (The Guodian bamboo manuscripts and pre-Qin academic thought)
Reviewed by Masayuki Sato, 427
Dongping Han, The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China’s Rural Development
Reviewed by C. Montgomery Broaded, 434
Stevan Harrell, Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Reviewed by Sara Davis, 436
Huang Jianrong, The Applicability of Policy-Making Theories in Post-Mao China
Reviewed by Lawrence C. Reardon, 440
Yiping Huang, China’s Last Steps across the River: Enterprise and Banking Reforms
Reviewed by Elliott Parker, 443
Anning Jing, The Water God’s Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater
Reviewed by Tracy Miller, 449
David Martin Jones, The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought
Reviewed by Charles Burton, 453
Ellen R. Judd, The Chinese Women’s Movement between State and Market
Reviewed by Cecilia Milwertz, 455
David N. Keightley, The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200–1045 BC)
Reviewed by John S. Major, 460
Martin Kern, The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation
Reviewed by Steven C. Davidson, 465
Jeffrey Kinkley, Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China
Reviewed by Colin Hawes, 474
Thomas H. C. Lee, Education in Traditional China: A History
Reviewed by Barbara Lynne Rowland Mori, 478
Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu, editors, Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing
Reviewed by Yihong Pan, 481
Min Lin with Maria Galikowski, The Search for Modernity: Chinese Intellectuals and Cultural Discourse in the Post-Mao Era
Reviewed by Ralph Croizier, 485
Tiziana Lippiello, Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties
Reviewed by Charles Benn, 487
Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr, God Aboveground: Catholic Church, Postsocialist State and Transnational Processes in a Chinese Village
Reviewed by David L. Wank, 489
Yadong Luo, Partnering with Chinese Firms: Lessons for International Managers
Reviewed by James Chan, 492
Susan Mann and Yu-yin Cheng, editors, Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History
Reviewed by Maram Epstein, 495
D. E. Mungello, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785
Reviewed by Judith Liu, 499
Alfreda Murck, Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent
Reviewed by Peter C. Sturman, 501
Peter Nolan, China and the Global Business Revolution
Reviewed by N. T. Wang, 507
Barbara Bennett Peterson, Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Pei-yi Wu, 514
Qi Xiaochun, Ō Gishi ronkō (A Study of Wang Xizhi)
Reviewed by Qianshen Bai, 516
Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, and Li Shi, editors, China’s Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition
Reviewed by Kristen Parris, 522
Marcia Reynders Ristaino, Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai
Reviewed by Marie-Claire Bergère, 526
David Robinson, Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China
Reviewed by Timothy Brook, 530
Robert H. Sharf, Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise
Reviewed by Albert Welter, 534
Charles Stafford, Separation and Reunion in Modern China
Reviewed by Howard Giskin, 538
Michael Szonyi, Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Reviewed by Patricia Ebrey, 544
Wenfang Tang and William L. Parish, Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract
Reviewed by Laurence J. C. Ma, 549
Regine Thiriez, Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor’s European Palaces
Reviewed by Joanne Y. Yamada, 551
Bryan W. Van Norden, editor, Confucius and the Analects: New Essays
Reviewed by Christian Jochim, 554
Griet Vankeerberghen, The Huainanzi and Liu An’s Claim to Moral Authority
Reviewed by Don J. Wyatt, 564
Wang Chen-ho, Rose, Rose, I Love You
Reviewed by Michael Berry, 568
Ann Barrott Wicks, editor, Children in Chinese Art
Reviewed by Kathleen Ryor, 572
Xiaohong Xiao-Planes, Éducation et politique en Chine: Le rôle des élites du Jiangsu, 1905–1914
Reviewed by Michael Marmé, 576
Xiaoqun Xu, Chinese Professionals and the Republican State: The Rise of Professional Associations in Shanghai, 1912–1937
Reviewed by Steve Smith, 581
Yamamoto Sumiko, History of Protestantism in China: The Indigenization of Christianity
Reviewed by Franklin J. Woo, 584
Weili Ye, Seeking Modernity in the United States, 1900–1927
Reviewed by Huping Ling, 588
Wen-hsin Yeh, editor, Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond
Reviewed by Karl Gerth, 599
You Ji, The Armed Forces of China
Reviewed by Herman Finley, 594
Peter Kieng-Hong Yu, Crab and Frog Motion Paradigm Shift: Decoding and Deciphering Taipei and Beijing’s Dialectical Politics
Reviewed by Murray A. Rubinstein, 597
Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975
Reviewed by Yu Shen, 603
Yingjin Zhang, editor, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922–1943
Reviewed by Paul Clark, 608