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Volume 68 - November 2009

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The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. By Larissa N. Heinrich. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Ruth Rogaski
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12 May 2009, pp. 597-599
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Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. By Stephen R. MacKinnon. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 182 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
R. Keith Schoppa
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19 August 2009, pp. 944-945
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At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai. Edited by Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 310 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Hanchao Lu
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27 January 2009, pp. 263-265
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Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. By M. Taylor Fravel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 375 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Arthur Waldron
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23 November 2009, pp. 1252-1254
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The Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China. By Joseph R. McDermott. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xiv, 294 pp. $57.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
R. Kent Guy
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19 August 2009, pp. 945-947
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The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan. By J. Michael Farmer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xviii, 246 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Alan K. L. Chan
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27 January 2009, pp. 265-266
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The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China. Edited by Tze-ki Hon and Robert J. Culp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xv, 322 pp. $155.00 (cloth).
Dominic Sachsenmaier
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23 November 2009, pp. 1254-1255
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The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism. By Barbara Hendrischke. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. x, 410 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
Ursula-Angelika Cedzich
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12 May 2009, pp. 599-601
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Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. By Pierre F. Landry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii, 295 pp. $85.00 (cloth).
Xi Chen
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23 November 2009, pp. 1256-1257
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Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China. By Anne E. McLaren. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 209 pp. $54.00 (cloth).
Christian de Pee
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19 August 2009, pp. 947-949
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A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. By Linda Grove. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $69.00 (cloth).
Kenneth Pomeranz
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27 January 2009, pp. 267-268
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The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. By Joan Judge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Weili Ye
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12 May 2009, pp. 601-602
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China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change. By Andrew C. Mertha. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii, 168 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Jeremy T. Paltiel
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19 August 2009, pp. 949-950
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From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China. By Wendy Larson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xx, 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Jianmei Liu
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23 November 2009, pp. 1257-1259
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Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction. By Daniel Hsieh. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. 331 pp. $39.00 (cloth).
Jack W. Chen
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27 January 2009, pp. 268-270
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The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625–1916. By Michael Keevak. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. ix, 195 pp. $39.50 (cloth).
Luke Clossey
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12 May 2009, pp. 603-604
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Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. By Amy McNair. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. x, 230 pp. $56.00 (cloth).
Bonnie Cheng
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23 November 2009, pp. 1260-1261
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The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China. By Zhiru Ng. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xiii, 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth).
Jinhua Chen
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19 August 2009, pp. 951-952
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Traditions, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850–1910. By Kirk W. Larsen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asia Center, 2008. xi, 328 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Richard S. Horowitz
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27 January 2009, pp. 270-271
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City between Worlds: My Hong Kong. By Leo Ou-Fan Lee. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 332 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
John M. Carroll
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12 May 2009, pp. 604-606
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The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. By Larissa N. Heinrich. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. By Stephen R. MacKinnon. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 182 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai. Edited by Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 310 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. By M. Taylor Fravel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 375 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

The Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China. By Joseph R. McDermott. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xiv, 294 pp. $57.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan. By J. Michael Farmer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xviii, 246 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China. Edited by Tze-ki Hon and Robert J. Culp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xv, 322 pp. $155.00 (cloth).

The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism. By Barbara Hendrischke. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. x, 410 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. By Pierre F. Landry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii, 295 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China. By Anne E. McLaren. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 209 pp. $54.00 (cloth).

A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. By Linda Grove. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $69.00 (cloth).

The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. By Joan Judge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change. By Andrew C. Mertha. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii, 168 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China. By Wendy Larson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xx, 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction. By Daniel Hsieh. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. 331 pp. $39.00 (cloth).

The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625–1916. By Michael Keevak. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. ix, 195 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. By Amy McNair. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. x, 230 pp. $56.00 (cloth).

The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China. By Zhiru Ng. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xiii, 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Traditions, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850–1910. By Kirk W. Larsen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asia Center, 2008. xi, 328 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

City between Worlds: My Hong Kong. By Leo Ou-Fan Lee. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 332 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

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