The Journal of Asian Studies: Volume 71 - Issue 1

Published on behalf of Association for Asian Studies

Only show content I have access to (5)

Over 3 years (71)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
The Journal of Asian Studies
ISSN: 0021-9118

EISSN: 1752-0401

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

< Back to all issues

Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2012

The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 71 - Issue 1 -

Contents

Page 2 of 4

Book Reviews—China

Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Edited by Sebastian Heilmann and Elizabeth J. Perry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. viii, 320 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Ho-fung Hung
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 210-211
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950. By Wenqing Kang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. x, 191 pp. $49.50 (cloth), $27.95 (paper); Varies (electronic).
Matthew H. Sommer
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 212-213
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xvi, 279 pp. $25.00 (paper).
Shu-min Huang
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 214-215
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code. By Jiang Yonglin. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 2011. xiv, 245 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Michael Marmé
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 215-217
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. viii, 352 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
Leon Antonio Rocha
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 217-219
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners’ City, 1853–98. By Samuel Y. Liang. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. xviii, 218 pp. $130.00 (cloth).
Hanchao Lu
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 219-221
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China. By Shao-Hua Liu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xiv, 232 pp. $60 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (electronic).
James Farrer
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 221-223
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner. Edited by Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. x, 223 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $69.99 (electronic).
Joshua H. Howard
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 223-225
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan. By Andrew D. Morris. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. xi, 271 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $49.95 (electronic).
R. Kenji Tierney
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 225-226
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. By Christopher M. B. Nugent. Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. x, 341 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Michael A. Fuller
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 227-228
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Judicial Independence in China: Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion. Edited by Randall Peerenboom. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x, 262 pp. $34.99 (paper), $15.39 (electronic).
Jonathan K. Ocko
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 229-231
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Negotiating Religion in Modern China: State and Common People in Guangzhou, 1900–1937. By Shuk-Wah Poon. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. vi, 208 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Zhao Ma
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 231-232
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong. By Claire Roberts. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xv, 232 pp., 60 color illus. $49.95 (cloth).
Lisa Claypool
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 233-234
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shanren. By Jing Shen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. xiii, 320 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $80.00 (electronic).
Patricia Sieber
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 234-236
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Changing Media, Changing China. Edited by Susan L. Shirk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 281 pp., $99.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Jingrong Tong
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 236-238
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West. By Edward S. Steinfeld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 280 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper)
Allen Carlson
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 238-240
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China. By Yi-Li Wu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xiii, 362 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $49.95 (electronic).
Joan Judge
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 240-241
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China. By Cong Ellen Zhang. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. xiv, 301 pp. $49.00 (cloth).
James M. Hargett
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 242-243
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. Edited by Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming. London; New York: Routledge, 2011. xv, 278 pp. $155.00 (cloth); $54.95 (paper).
Stephen C. Angle
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 243-245
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Reorienting the Manchus: A Study of Sinicization 1583–1795. By Pei Huang. Cornell East Asia Series 152. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2011, xxiv, 374 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper).
Loretta E. Kim
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

16 February 2012, pp. 245-247
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Page 2 of 4

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2012

Book Reviews—China

Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Edited by Sebastian Heilmann and Elizabeth J. Perry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. viii, 320 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950. By Wenqing Kang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. x, 191 pp. $49.50 (cloth), $27.95 (paper); Varies (electronic).

Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xvi, 279 pp. $25.00 (paper).

The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code. By Jiang Yonglin. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 2011. xiv, 245 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. viii, 352 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners’ City, 1853–98. By Samuel Y. Liang. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. xviii, 218 pp. $130.00 (cloth).

Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China. By Shao-Hua Liu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xiv, 232 pp. $60 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (electronic).

Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner. Edited by Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, and Paul G. Pickowicz. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. x, 223 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $69.99 (electronic).

Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan. By Andrew D. Morris. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. xi, 271 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $49.95 (electronic).

Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. By Christopher M. B. Nugent. Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. x, 341 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Judicial Independence in China: Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion. Edited by Randall Peerenboom. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x, 262 pp. $34.99 (paper), $15.39 (electronic).

Negotiating Religion in Modern China: State and Common People in Guangzhou, 1900–1937. By Shuk-Wah Poon. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. vi, 208 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong. By Claire Roberts. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xv, 232 pp., 60 color illus. $49.95 (cloth).

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shanren. By Jing Shen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. xiii, 320 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $80.00 (electronic).

Changing Media, Changing China. Edited by Susan L. Shirk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 281 pp., $99.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)

Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West. By Edward S. Steinfeld. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 280 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper)

Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China. By Yi-Li Wu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xiii, 362 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $49.95 (electronic).

Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China. By Cong Ellen Zhang. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. xiv, 301 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. Edited by Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming. London; New York: Routledge, 2011. xv, 278 pp. $155.00 (cloth); $54.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Reorienting the Manchus: A Study of Sinicization 1583–1795. By Pei Huang. Cornell East Asia Series 152. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2011, xxiv, 374 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $45.00 (paper).

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2012

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia