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Volume 58 - November 1999

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Book Reviews—China

Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism. By Lisa Rofel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 330 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Ellen R. Judd
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26 March 2010, pp. 1118-1119
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From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Official Ideology in Deng's China. By Kalpana Misra. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xviii, 270 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $21.99 (paper).
Arif Dirlik
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26 March 2010, pp. 811-812
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Changing Stories in the Chinese World. By Mark Elvin. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 265 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Xiaobing Tang
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26 March 2010, pp. 487-489
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Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. By Peter Charles Sturman. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xi, 276 pp. $35.00.
Amy McNair
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26 March 2010, pp. 167-169
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Taiwan: A New History. Edited by Murray A. Rubinstein. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xiv, 520 pp. $67.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Alan M. Wachman
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26 March 2010, pp. 1119-1121
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Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China. By Yanqi Tong. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997. xiii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Timothy Cheek
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26 March 2010, pp. 169-171
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Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. By Robert E. Hegel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxii, 484 pp.
Ellen Widmer
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26 March 2010, pp. 489-490
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Lu Xun and Evolution. By James R. Pusey. Albany: State University of New York, 1998. xix, 249 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Frank Dikötter
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26 March 2010, pp. 812-813
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Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. By Qian Zhongshu; selected and translated by Ronald Egan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 483 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Richard John Lynn
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26 March 2010, pp. 813-815
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The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. By Ban Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. ix, 312 pp. $45.00.
Yingjin Zhang
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26 March 2010, pp. 171-173
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State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and Expressiveness. By Joseph S. C. Lam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvi, 205 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Kathryn Lowry
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26 March 2010, pp. 491-492
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Methods of the Way: Early Chinese Ethical Thought. By Rune Svarverud. Sinica Leidensia, Vol. 42. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1998. xvi, 430 pp. $179.50.
Robert Eno
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26 March 2010, pp. 1121-1122
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Unstately Power, Volume II. Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Governmental Reforms. By Lynn T. WhiteIII. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1998. xxii, 765 pp.
Tony Saich
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26 March 2010, pp. 1122-1124
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Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. By Sow-Theng Leong. Edited by Tim Wright. Introduction and maps by G. William Skinner. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix, 234 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Philip A. Kuhn
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24 May 2010, pp. 492-494
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Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911. By David Der-wei Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 433 pp. $49.50.
Theodore Huters
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26 March 2010, pp. 173-174
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Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. By Lisa Raphals. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xxiii, 348 pp. $21.95.
Anne Behnke Kinney
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26 March 2010, pp. 815-816
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Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China; A Study and Translation. Volume II. By W. Allyn Rickett. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 578 pp. $99.50.
Eric Henry
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26 March 2010, pp. 817-818
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“Silk and Bamboo” Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. By J. Lawrence Witzleben. Kent, Oh. and London: The Kent State University Press, 1995. xxi, 197 pp.
Frederick Lau
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26 March 2010, pp. 174-176
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Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. By Susan Mann. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 326 pp. $49.50.
Cynthia Brokaw
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24 May 2010, pp. 494-496
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No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843–1943. By Frances Wood. London: John Murray, 1998. xiii, 368 pp. £25.00.
Nicholas R. Clifford
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26 March 2010, pp. 1124-1125
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Book Reviews—China

Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism. By Lisa Rofel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 330 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Official Ideology in Deng's China. By Kalpana Misra. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xviii, 270 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $21.99 (paper).

Changing Stories in the Chinese World. By Mark Elvin. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 265 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. By Peter Charles Sturman. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xi, 276 pp. $35.00.

Taiwan: A New History. Edited by Murray A. Rubinstein. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xiv, 520 pp. $67.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China. By Yanqi Tong. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997. xiii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. By Robert E. Hegel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxii, 484 pp.

Lu Xun and Evolution. By James R. Pusey. Albany: State University of New York, 1998. xix, 249 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. By Qian Zhongshu; selected and translated by Ronald Egan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 483 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. By Ban Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. ix, 312 pp. $45.00.

State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and Expressiveness. By Joseph S. C. Lam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvi, 205 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Methods of the Way: Early Chinese Ethical Thought. By Rune Svarverud. Sinica Leidensia, Vol. 42. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1998. xvi, 430 pp. $179.50.

Unstately Power, Volume II. Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Governmental Reforms. By Lynn T. WhiteIII. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1998. xxii, 765 pp.

Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors. By Sow-Theng Leong. Edited by Tim Wright. Introduction and maps by G. William Skinner. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix, 234 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911. By David Der-wei Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 433 pp. $49.50.

Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. By Lisa Raphals. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xxiii, 348 pp. $21.95.

Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China; A Study and Translation. Volume II. By W. Allyn Rickett. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 578 pp. $99.50.

“Silk and Bamboo” Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. By J. Lawrence Witzleben. Kent, Oh. and London: The Kent State University Press, 1995. xxi, 197 pp.

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. By Susan Mann. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 326 pp. $49.50.

No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843–1943. By Frances Wood. London: John Murray, 1998. xiii, 368 pp. £25.00.

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