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Volume 75 - November 2016

Book Reviews—China

Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity. By Shawn Arthur . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. ix, 276 pp. ISBN: 9780739178928 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Asia Comparative/Transnational

Queer Marxism in Two Chinas. By Petrus Liu . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780822359722 (cloth, also available in paper).

Book Reviews—China

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia. By Liam Matthew Brockey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 528 pp. ISBN 9780674416680 (cloth).

Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism. By Xiaoshuo Hou. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi, 164 pp. ISBN: 9781107448780 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. Edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang , Michelle Yeh , and Ming-ju Fan . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxiv, 565 pp. ISBN: 9780231165761 (cloth; also available as e-book).

The Political and Economic History of China (1949–1976). By Hu Angang. Translated by Guangyu Hu, Glenn Griffith, and Vivian Hui. 3 vols. Hong Kong: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2013. 676 pp. ISBN: 9789814332729 (cloth).

Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BCE–50 CE. By Erica Fox Brindley . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxii, 279 pp. ISBN: 9781107084780 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Transformation of Governance in Rural China: Market, Finance, and Political Authority. By An Chen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi, 391 pp. ISBN 9781107081758 (cloth; also available as e-book).

The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. By Paul Copp . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxx, 363 pp. ISBN: 9780231162708 (paper, also available as e-book).

Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces. By Kristina Kleutghen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xv, 379 pp., 112 color photos, 5 line drawings. ISBN: 9780295994109 (cloth).

Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination. By Tamara T. Chin . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 94. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiv, 363 pp. ISBN: 9780674417199 (cloth).

The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation. By Scott Cook. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2012. 2 vols. xviii, 1,200 pp. ISBN 9781933947648 (vol. 1, paper), 9781933947655 (vol. 2, paper).

Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism. By Joyce Mao. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015. viii, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780226252711 (cloth).

Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China. Edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing . Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780774823685 (cloth; also available in paper).

The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism. By Alexander F. Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. vii, 233 pp. ISBN 9781107544987 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book).

China's Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen. By Minghui Hu . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xi, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780295994765 (cloth).

America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation. By John R. Haddad . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. ix, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781439906897 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972. By Eric C. Han. Harvard East Asian Monograph Series 367. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asian Center, Harvard University Press, 2014. xvi, 250 pp. ISBN 9780674491984 (cloth).

The Metamorphosis of Tianxian Pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949–1956). By Wilt L. Idema . Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2015. x, 344 pp. ISBN: 9789629965938 (cloth).

The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China: May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics. By Shakhar Rahav. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xv, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780199382262 (cloth).

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