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Volume 79 - May 2020

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Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition. By Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780300196115 (paper).
Tumurbaataryn Khishigdulam
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16 December 2020, pp. 989-991
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Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China. By Joshua Hill. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 298 pp. ISBN: 9780674237223 (paper).
Sebastian Veg
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16 June 2020, pp. 470-472
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The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China. Translated and annotated by Jun Fang and Lifang He. Hong Kong: Proverse Hong Kong, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN: 9789888491629 (paper).
Graham Sanders
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05 October 2020, pp. 746-750
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China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church. By Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xv, 385 pp. ISBN: 9780190923464 (cloth).
Albert M. Wu
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24 February 2020, pp. 170-171
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The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet. By Berthe Jansen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 281 pp. ISBN: 9780520297005 (paper).
Dominic D. Z. Sur
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16 June 2020, pp. 472-474
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Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity. By Timothy Grose. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 160 pp. ISBN: 9789888528097 (cloth).
Darren Byler
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05 October 2020, pp. 750-752
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Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao. By Yang Kuisong. Translated by Gregor Benton and Ye Zhen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520325272 (paper).
Yidi Wu
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16 December 2020, pp. 991-993
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Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US. By Pei-Chia Lan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xi, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781503605909 (paper).
Shenglin Elijah Chang
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24 February 2020, pp. 172-173
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Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China. By John Robert Shepherd. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xix, 250 pp. ISBN: 9780295744407 (paper).
Dorothy Ko
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24 February 2020, pp. 173-176
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The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge. By Minhua Ling. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781503610767 (paper).
Jenny Chan
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16 December 2020, pp. 993-994
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Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy. By Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. 320 pp. 9781503604278 (paper).
Andrew B. Liu
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05 October 2020, pp. 752-754
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The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600–1930). By Xiaorong Li. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2019. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781604979527 (cloth).
Yanning Wang
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16 June 2020, pp. 474-476
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Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pool: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China. By James M. Hargett. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780295744476 (paper).
Elizabeth Kindall
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05 October 2020, pp. 754-757
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Blossom on the Run: A Han Dynasty Adventure (Blossom and the Great Han) (Volume 1). By Michael Nylan and Robert J. Litz. Princeton, N.J.: Metron Publications, 2016. 298 pp. ISBN: 9781603770927 (paper).
Ann Waltner
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16 June 2020, pp. 476-477
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At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China. By Xia Shi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ix, 274 pp. ISBN: 9780231546232 (cloth).
Margaret Mih Tillman
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24 February 2020, pp. 176-177
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Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780231193481 (cloth).
Ghassan Moazzin
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16 December 2020, pp. 994-996
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China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949. By Brian Tsui. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x, 291 pp. ISBN: 9781107196230 (cloth).
Zach Smith
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24 February 2020, pp. 178-179
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Southern Rain: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century China. By Harry Miller. Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books, 2018. 288 pp. ISBN: 9789888273379 (paper).
Ann Waltner
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16 June 2020, pp. 478-479
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Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature: Tales and Commentary. Translated and introduced by Wilt L. Idema. Foreword by Haiyan Lee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 254 pp. ISBN: 9780295744834 (paper).
I-Hsien Wu
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05 October 2020, pp. 757-760
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Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. By Covell F. Meyskens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 292 pp. ISBN: 9781108489553 (cloth).
Koji Hirata
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16 December 2020, pp. 996-998
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Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition. By Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780300196115 (paper).

Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China. By Joshua Hill. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 298 pp. ISBN: 9780674237223 (paper).

The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China. Translated and annotated by Jun Fang and Lifang He. Hong Kong: Proverse Hong Kong, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN: 9789888491629 (paper).

China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church. By Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xv, 385 pp. ISBN: 9780190923464 (cloth).

The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet. By Berthe Jansen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 281 pp. ISBN: 9780520297005 (paper).

Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity. By Timothy Grose. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 160 pp. ISBN: 9789888528097 (cloth).

Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao. By Yang Kuisong. Translated by Gregor Benton and Ye Zhen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520325272 (paper).

Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US. By Pei-Chia Lan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xi, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781503605909 (paper).

Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China. By John Robert Shepherd. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xix, 250 pp. ISBN: 9780295744407 (paper).

The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge. By Minhua Ling. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781503610767 (paper).

Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy. By Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. 320 pp. 9781503604278 (paper).

The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600–1930). By Xiaorong Li. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2019. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781604979527 (cloth).

Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pool: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China. By James M. Hargett. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780295744476 (paper).

Blossom on the Run: A Han Dynasty Adventure (Blossom and the Great Han) (Volume 1). By Michael Nylan and Robert J. Litz. Princeton, N.J.: Metron Publications, 2016. 298 pp. ISBN: 9781603770927 (paper).

At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China. By Xia Shi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ix, 274 pp. ISBN: 9780231546232 (cloth).

Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780231193481 (cloth).

China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949. By Brian Tsui. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x, 291 pp. ISBN: 9781107196230 (cloth).

Southern Rain: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century China. By Harry Miller. Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books, 2018. 288 pp. ISBN: 9789888273379 (paper).

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature: Tales and Commentary. Translated and introduced by Wilt L. Idema. Foreword by Haiyan Lee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 254 pp. ISBN: 9780295744834 (paper).

Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. By Covell F. Meyskens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 292 pp. ISBN: 9781108489553 (cloth).

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