Recently added articles from China Review International:
Dorothy Ko. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Ropp, Paul S. ... Dorothy Ko. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xix, 332 pp. Hardcover $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21884-1. Dorothy Ko's new history of footbinding is a wonderfully imaginative, wide-ranging, ...
Sun Hongkai [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], editor. Zhongguo xin faxian yuyan yanjiu congshu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Chirkova, Katia ... Sun Hongkai [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], editor. Zhongguo xin faxian yuyan yanjiu congshu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [New Found Minority Languages in China Series], 31 Volumes. Beijing [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ...
David C. Yu, translator. History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Sellmann, James D. ... David C. Yu, translator. History of Chinese Daoism, Volume 1. Lanham, MD; New York; Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. xxii, 611 pp. Hardcover $62.00, ISBN 0-7618-1868-5. Until recently there were only a few book chapters and journal articles in English that even ...
Bob Adamson. China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Swindall, Harold ... Bob Adamson. China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education. Hong Kong University Press, 2004. v, 241 pp. Hardcover $39.50, ISBN 962-209-663-8. This volume recounts the varying fortunes of English teaching (and teachers) in China from the 1950s to the 1990s. Bob ...
Ellen Bangsbo. Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research and Policy Publications.(State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Tuttle, Gray ... Ellen Bangsbo. Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research and Policy Publications, NIAS Report no. 46. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2004. vii, 150 pp. Paperback 12.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 87-91114-30-6. E-book 6.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 87-91114-31-4 ....
David Barker. Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Brokaw, Cynthia J. ... David Barker. Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking. Printmaking Handbook. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paperback $20.00, ISBN 0-8248-2992-3. Scholars of Chinese woodblock printing technology, art history, and the history of the book ...
Robert Barnett. Lhasa: Streets with Memories.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Grunfeld, A. Tom ... Robert Barnett. Lhasa: Streets with Memories. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xli, 264 pp. Cloth $24.50, ISBN 0-231-13680-3. For centuries Tibet, and particularly its heart, Lhasa, symbolized the epitome of the mystical and exotic for travelers the world over. ...
Richard Belsky. Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Chang, Michael G. ... Richard Belsky. Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 258. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xii, 309 pp. Hardcover $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01956-3. This comprehensive and empirically rich ...
Friedrich Alexander Bischoff. San tzu ching Explicated: The Classical Initiation to Classic Chinese, Couplet I to XI.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Schneider, David Kenneth ... Friedrich Alexander Bischoff. San tzu ching Explicated: The Classical Initiation to Classic Chinese, Couplet I to XI. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005. 310 pp. Paperback $53.00, ISBN 3-7001-3397-9. The traditional Chinese literati were capable of great ...
Dennis J. Blasko. The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Bitzinger, Richard A. ... Dennis J. Blasko. The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century. London & New York: Routledge 2006. xvii, 228 pp. Paperback, $34.95, ISBN 0-415-77003-3. Hardcover $125.00, ISBN 0-415-77002-5. Basically, there are two kinds of books being written about ...
Donna Brunero. Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Harris, Lane J. ... Donna Brunero. Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 36. London & New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi, 200 pp. Hardcover $120.00, ISBN 0-415-32619-2. In the 1950s John King Fairbank ...
Yongshun Cai. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Holmes, Joshua Leran ... Yongshun Cai. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched. New York & Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2006. xiii, 193 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0-415-36888-x. The number 724 weighs throughout Yongshun Cai's State and Laid-Off ...
Tianyu Cao, editor. The Chinese Model of Modern Development.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Flynn, Dave ... Tianyu Cao, editor. The Chinese Model of Modern Development. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. xi, 323 pp. Hardcover $132.00, ISBN 0-415-34518-9. This publication is the result of a symposium on the Chinese Model of Modern development that was held in Hangzhou, China, July ...
Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Amy Yin Man Chow, editors. Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Kohn, Livia ... Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Amy Yin Man Chow, editors. Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xxv, 357 pp. Paperback $32.50, ISBN 962-209-787-1. Edited by two professors at the Department of Social Work and Social ...
K. C. Chang and P. Xu, editors; Introduction by S. Allan. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Indrisano, Gregory G. ... K. C. Chang and P. Xu, editors; Introduction by S. Allan. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. New Haven, CT, and Beijing: Yale University Press and New World Press, 2005. xiv, 384 pp. Cloth $65.00, ISBN 0-300-09382-9. The Formation of Chinese ...
Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Palmer, David A. ... Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii, 317 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-8047-5160-9. More than an ethnographic case study on the revival of a local temple cult in Northern China, ...
Chih-p'ing Chou, Hua-Hui Wei, Kun An, and Wei Wang. Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Hayden, Jeffrey J. ... Chih-p'ing Chou, Hua-Hui Wei, Kun An, and Wei Wang. Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xi, 553 pp. Paperback U.S. $45.00, ISBN 0-691-12766-2. Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese ([TEXT NOT ...
Mark Csikszentmihalyi. Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Behuniak, James, Jr. ... Mark Csikszentmihalyi. Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 66. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004. vi, 410 pp. Hardcover $175.00, ISBN 90-04-14196-0. These are exciting times to be engaged in the study of Warring States thought. Over the past ...
Thomas D. Curran. Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Liu, Judith ... Thomas D. Curran. Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation. Chinese Studies Volume 40. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. viii, 494 pp. Hardcover $139.95, ISBN 0-7734-5952-9. Chinese Studies Series, ISBN 0-88946-076-0. ...
Barbara Davis. The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2006; Henning, Stanley E. ... Barbara Davis. The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003. xxi, 212 pp. Soft cover $16.95, ISBN 1-55643-431-6. Taijiquan, as we see it today, did not develop in a vacuum, but reflects developments in one style of Chinese boxing ...