Book Reviews—China
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama. Edited by Xiaomei Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. x, 1120 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1114-1116
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Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. By Julie Y. Chu. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. xii, 343 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1116-1118
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Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s–1930s. By Richard T. Chu. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xviii, 451 pp. $179.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1118-1120
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Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness. By Cathryn H. Clayton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xv, 420 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1120-1121
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Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China. By Susan Greenhalgh. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 156 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1121-1123
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China's Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity-Enhancing Politics. By Baogang Guo. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. 234 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1123-1125
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Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao. By Leigh K. Jenco. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 282 pp. AUD$160.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1125-1127
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Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing. By Fabio Lanza. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiii, 299 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1127-1128
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The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945. By Diana Lary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 231 pp. $29.99 (paper). - The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang. Edited and translated by Hua-ling Hu and Zhang Lian-hong. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. x, 238 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1129-1131
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Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture. By Sonya S. Lee. Aberdeen: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xv, 355 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1132-1133
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Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai. By Xun Liu. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. xvi, 396 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1133-1135
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The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond. By Hanchao Lu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 240 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1135-1136
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The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China. By Carla Nappi. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. xvi, 234 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1136-1138
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Faiths on Display: Religion and Tourism in China. Edited by Timothy Oakes and Donald S. Sutton. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. viii, 283 pp. $79.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1138-1141
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Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou. Edited by Lucie Olivová and Vibeke Børdahl. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2009. xiii, 488 pp. £50 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1141-1142
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Sovereign Power and the Law in China: Zones of Exception in the Criminal Justice System. By Flora Sapio. Leiden: Brill, 2010. China studies, volume 18. xiv, 369 pp. $179.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1143-1144
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Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China. By Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 390 pp. $36.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1144-1146
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Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics. By Yuan-kang Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xvi, 310 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1146-1148
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To Die and Not Decay: Autobiography and the Pursuit of Immortality in Early China. By Matthew V. Wells. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies, 2009. x, 190 pp. $25.00 (paper).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1149-1150
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The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs. By Wu Hung. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 272 pp., 230 illus. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 22 December 2011, pp. 1150-1152
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