Book Reviews—China
Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age. By Jason McGrath. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii, 300 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 12 May 2009, pp. 606-607
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Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368–1644). Edited by David M. Robinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xii, 432 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 19 August 2009, pp. 952-954
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True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China. By Weijing Lu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xviii, 347 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 27 January 2009, pp. 272-273
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The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry. By Stephen Owen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. 360 pp. $49.95 (cloth). - The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827–860). By Stephen Owen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. 596 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 23 November 2009, pp. 1262-1265
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Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. By Ruth Rogaski. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xiv, 401 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 19 August 2009, pp. 954-956
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Rightful Resistance in Rural China. By Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 179 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).
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- 12 May 2009, pp. 608-609
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Rethinking Recarving: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the “Wu Family Shrines” and Han China. Edited by Naomi Noble Richard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2008. 384 pp. $60.00 (paper).
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- 23 November 2009, pp. 1265-1267
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Opening China: Karl F. A. Gützlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827–1852. By Jessie Gregory Lutz. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. xix, 364 pp. $45.00 (paper).
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- 27 January 2009, pp. 273-275
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Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition. By Graham Sanders. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. 316 pp. $44.95 (cloth).
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- 19 August 2009, pp. 956-958
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Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. By Steven R. Platt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 286 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 27 January 2009, pp. 275-276
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How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. By Morten Schlütter. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 289 pp. $48.00 (cloth).
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- 23 November 2009, pp. 1267-1268
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Painting Faith: Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture. By An-yi Pan. Sinica Leidensia Series, vol. 77. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxiv, 396 pp. $218.00 (cloth).
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- 12 May 2009, pp. 609-611
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China's Tibet? Autonomy or Assimilation. By Warren W. SmithJr. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xxi, 313 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 19 August 2009, pp. 958-959
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The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe. By Nicolas Standaert. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. viii, 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
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- 23 November 2009, pp. 1269-1270
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Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China. By Martin J. Powers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xvi, 434 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 27 January 2009, pp. 277-278
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The Poetry of He Zhu (1052–1125): Genres, Contexts and Creativity. By Stuart H. Sargent. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiii, 502 pp. $170.00 (cloth).
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- 12 May 2009, pp. 611-612
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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village. By Ralph A. ThaxtonJr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii, 383 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).
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- 23 November 2009, pp. 1270-1272
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China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation. By David Shambaugh. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008. xiv, 234 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 12 May 2009, pp. 613-614
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The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai. By Marcia R. Ristaino. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 206 pp. $27.95 (cloth).
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- 27 January 2009, pp. 278-280
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Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing. By Chloë F. Starr. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxvi, 294 pp. $155.00 (cloth).
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- 19 August 2009, pp. 960-961
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