China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies

China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies aims to present informative, insightful, and critical English-language reviews of innovative and relevant Chinese Studies-related books from within and outside of China. Its multi- and interdisciplinary scope and global coverage make it an essential tool for everyone interested in the culture and society of Chinese-language communities around the world and enable any informed scholar to keep abreast of contemporary cutting-edge academic research.

Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies, College of Arts, Languages & Letters, University of Hawai‘i

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• Recent Articles

• China–Art–Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginnings of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day by David Clarke (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism by Robert Culp (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City 1880s–1950s by Evan N. Dawley (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China by Jun Fang and Lifang He (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Will China Save the Planet? by Barbara Finamore (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China by Macabe Keliher (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment by Jane Kate Leonard (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China: Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation by Paul Michael Linehan, and: China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges ed. by Robert S. Ross and Jo Inge Bekkevold (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Classical Chinese Medicine by Liu Lihong (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ ed. by Roman Malek (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy by Amy Olberding (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843–1937 by Cole Roskam (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Being Modern in China by Paul Willis (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness. Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life ed. by Becky Yang Hsu and Richard Madsen (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China by Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles ed. by Jim Behuniak (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province. vol. 4. Wofoyuan Section D ed. by Martin Bemmann and Sun Hua (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure ed. by Howard Chiang (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

  The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The "Fragrant and Bedazzling" Movement (1600–1930) by Xiaorong Li (review)
  Posted on Thursday July 23, 2020

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• Author Guidelines

• 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.

  Language – Reviews are published in English. If your review is written in another language, the original and an English translation are requested.

  Length – The editorial policy of CRI is not to restrict the reviewer as to length of review. On average, most reviews have between1000 and 2000 words. If you anticipate your review will be much longer than this, please negotiate an appropriate length with the editor.

  Deadline – Please note that we expect to receive your completed review within two months of your receiving the book from us unless you otherwise inform us.

  Submission media – Manuscripts should be submitted as electronic file attachments in two forms: 1) a text file, e.g., a Microsoft Word document, and 2) a PDF file for reference. Please use the same name for both files, with the book author/editor surname followed by the reviewer surname in the following format: bookauthorsurname-reviewersurname.doc or .pdf

  Manuscript format – Please use Times New Roman 12-point typeface with 1-inch margins; format notes, if any, as endnotes; and double-space all text, including book headers, extracts, endnotes, bibliography, and references. Chinese should be transliterated using the pinyin system. Chinese characters may be included in the body of the text, if desired. If Chinese characters are included, please review the final version of both text and PDF files to ensure all characters display correctly. As appropriate, indicate the proper placement of diacritical marks for transliterated Japanese or Sanskrit words.

  Publication data – Please list complete publication data from the title page or Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data page of the reviewed book at the head of your review, using the journal text as a style sheet. This includes the following elements (and please use this order): author(s) (including translators, compilers,editors, and writers of forewords, afterwords, and so on, if indicated),title, series, place of publication, press, date of publication, front matter pages, text pages, price (if available), and ISBN number. In addition, please indicate whether book is hardcover or paperback. For example:

  Klaas Ruitenbeek. Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter’s Manual Lu Ban Jing. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 23. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill,1993. xvi, 520 pp. Hardcover $120.00, ISBN xxx-xxxxxx-x. Paperback$40.00, ISBN xxx-xxxxxx-x.

  Author data – Please include your name and institutional affiliation at the end of your review, followed by a brief sentence describing yourself, e.g., “Jane Smith is an associate professor of history at _____ specializing in studies of the Cultural Revolution.”

  Editorial address – Book reviews should be sent a e-mail attachments to CRI@Hawaii.edu.

  Books for review should be sent to:

  Managing Editor, China Review International
  Center for Chinese Studies
  University of Hawai’i
  1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 417
  Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

• Editorial Board

• Editor

  Ming-Bao Yue, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Hawai‘i

  Managing Editor

  Benjamin Fairfield, University of Hawai‘i

  Corresponding Editors (Europe)

  Carine Defoort, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  Corresponding Editors (China)

  An Pingqiu, Peking University

  Liu Dong, Tsinghua University

  Board of Advisors

  University of Hawai‘i Center for Chinese Studies Executive Committee

  Board of Editors

  Peter K. Bol, Harvard University

  Cynthia J. Brokaw, Brown University

  Susan Bush, J. K. Fairbank Center, Harvard

  Chang Hao, Ohio State University

  Paul A. Cohen, Wellesley College

  Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College

  Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington

  J. Mark D. Elvin, Australian National University

  Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University

  Joseph W. Esherick, University of California, San Diego

  Judith Farquhar, University of North Carolina

  R. Kent Guy, University of Washington

  Stevan Harrell, University of Washington

  Hsu Cho-yun, University of Pittsburgh

  Lin Shuen-fu, University of Michigan

  Perry Link, Princeton University

  Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University

  Jean C. Oi, Stanford University

  Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia

  Harold D. Roth, Brown University

  Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh

  Vera Schwarcz, Wesleyan University

  Helen F. Siu, Yale University

  Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University

  Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University

  Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago

  Yü Ying-shih, Princeton University

• Indexes

• Book Review Index

  Children’s Book Review Index

  De Gruyter Saur–
  Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus
  IBZ – Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
  Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur

  EBSCOhost–
  Academic Search Alumni Edition, 3/1/2004-
  Academic Search Complete, 3/1/2004-
  Academic Search Elite, 3/1/2004-
  Academic Search Premier, 3/1/2004-
  Academic Search Ultimate, 3/1/2004-
  America: History and Life, 3/1/2000-
  Current Abstracts, 3/1/2004-
  Historical Abstracts (Online), 3/1/1994-
  Humanities International Complete, 3/1/2004-
  Humanities International Index, 3/1/2004-
  Humanities Source, 3/1/2004-
  Humanities Source Ultimate, 3/1/2004-
  Literary Reference Center, 3/1/2004-
  Literary Reference Center Plus, 3/1/2004-
  Literary Reference Center: Main Edition, 3/1/2004-
  MainFile, 3/1/2004-
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 3/1/2004-
  Public Affairs Index, 3/1/2004-
  TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 3/1/2004-

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  Academic OneFile, 09/2000-
  Book Review Index Plus
  Expanded Academic ASAP, 09/2000-
  General OneFile, 09/2000-
  InfoTrac Custom, 3/1994-
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  World History Collection, 03/1994 –
  World History in Context, 03/1994-

  OCLC–
  ArticleFirst, vol.6, no.2, 1999-vol.16, no.4, 2011
  Electronic Collections Online, vol.6, no.2, 1999-vol.16, no.4, 2011

  ProQuest–
  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core
  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Selective
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)