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Volume 71 - February 2012

Book Reviews—China

The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic. By Richard Edwards. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxxiii, 340 pp., 67 pl. $55.00 (cloth).

Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought. Edited by Amy Olberding and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. ix, 313 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

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).

Chinese Religious Life. Edited by David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, and Philip L. Wickeri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937–1945. By Sherman Xiaogang Lai. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxxiii, 341 pp. $179.00 (cloth).

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).

The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing. Edited by Grace S. Fong and Ellen Widmer. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xiv, 431 pp. $185.00 (cloth).

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).

Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationalized Policy of Economic Development. By Yu Hong. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 313 pp. $80.00 (cloth).

Lineage Society on the Southeastern Coast of China: The Impact of Japanese Piracy in the 16th Century. By Ivy Maria Lim. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. xxx, 390 pp. $129.99 (cloth).

The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China. By Giovanni Vitiello. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii, 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Power and Politics in Tenth-Century China: The Former Shu Regime. By Hongjie Wang. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011. xvii, 382 pp. $124.99 (cloth).

Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China. Edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. xi, 429 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

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).

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past. By Gail Hershatter. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. xiv, 455 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Lyrical Resonance Between Chinese Poets and Painters: The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi. By Daan Pan. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. xvii, 415 pp. $124.99 (cloth).

The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China. By You-tien Hsing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv, 258 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts. Edited by Lingzhen Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xx, 430 pp. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper); $24.75 (Kindle).

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).

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