Recently added articles from China Review International:
Urban communities, state, spatial order, and modernity: studies of imperial and Republican Beijing in perspective.('Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories', 'Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900', 'Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911')(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Madeleine Yue Dong. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxiii, 380 pp. Cloth $50.00/32.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0-520-23050-7. Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. Berkeley: University of California ...
JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xviii, 434 pp. Hardcover $84.95, ISBN 1-4051-2949-2. Paperback $34.95, ISBN 1-4051-2950-6. No one history of the early Chinese "Masters" can ...
Philip L. Wickeri. Reconstructing Christianity in China: K.H. Ting and the Chinese Church.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Philip L. Wickeri. Reconstructing Christianity in China: K.H. Ting and the Chinese Church. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008. xxv, 516 pp. Paperback $50.00, ISBN 978-1-57075-751-8. After more than a decade of reviewing books for China Review International at "the interface ...
Daniel L. Bell and Hahm Chaibong, editors. Confucianism for the Modern World.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Daniel L. Bell and Hahm Chaibong, editors. Confucianism for the Modern World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii, 383 pp. Hardcover $80.00, ISBN 0-521-82100-2. Paperback $33.00, ISBN 0-521-52788-0. Confucianism for the Modern World grew out of the "Confucian ...
E. N. Berthrong. What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... E. N. Berthrong. What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others. New York: Marlowe and Company, 2005. xviii, 212 pp. Paperback $14.94, ISBN 1-56924-349-2. The scholar's professional hazard is becoming a pedantic pain in the ...
History and Identity in Hong Kong: Resisting China's Political Control; Embracing China as the Motherland.(Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... John M. Carroll. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv, 260 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Hardcover $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01701-3. Several recent publications related to the history of Hong Kong ...
Bruce Gilley. China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Bruce Gilley. China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi, 297 pp. Paper $20.00, ISBN 0-231-13085-6. A long-time resident of Hong Kong and reporter of Far Eastern Economic Review Magazine, Gilley has ...
Yufan Hao and Lin Su, editors. China's Foreign Policy Making: Societal Force and Chinese American Policy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Yufan Hao and Lin Su, editors. China's Foreign Policy Making: Societal Force and Chinese American Policy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. xi, 230 pp. Hardcover $99.95, ISBN 0-7546-4607-6. In recent years, a complex relationship between China and the United States has developed, a ...
James M. Hargett. Stairway to Heaven: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... James M. Hargett. Stairway to Heaven: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xvii, 294 pp. Hardcover $75.00, ISBN 0-7914-6681-7. An increasingly common approach to the study of Chinese religion is to explore local manifestations ...
Laura Hostetler. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Laura Hostetler. Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xx, 257 pp. Paperback, ISBN 0-226-35420-2. Both in China and in the West, much work has been done in the past to examine visual ...
Martin W. Huang. Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Martin W. Huang. Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. vii, 284 pp. Hardcover $57.00, ISBN 0-8248-2896-8. Martin W. Huang has made a tremendous effort to analyze in depth the construction and negotiation of masculinity ...
Christopher Hutton and Kingsley Bolton. A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Christopher Hutton and Kingsley Bolton. A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2005. xxiv, 492 pp. Hardcover 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1-85065-419-0. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xxiv, 492 ...
Zhong Jian, director. Try to Remember.(Video recording review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Zhong Jian, director. Try to Remember. New York: First Run/Icarus Films release (www.frif.com), 2005. 90 mins. In Mandarin with English subtitles, color, video. Sale video/DVD $440.00. Rental video $100.00. Official selection of the 2005 Yamagata International Documentary ...
Lee Seung-hwan. A Topography of Confucian Discourse: Politco-philosophical Reflections on Confucian Discourse since Modernity.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Lee Seung-hwan. A Topography of Confucian Discourse: Politco-philosophical Reflections on Confucian Discourse since Modernity. Translated by Jaeyoon Song and Lee Seung-hwan. Paramus, NJ: Homa and Sekey Books, 2006. xii + 256 pp. Hardcover $49.95, ISBN 1-931907-27-7. Paperback $29.95. ISBN ...
Mark Edward Lewis. The Flood Myths of Early China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Mark Edward Lewis. The Flood Myths of Early China. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x, 248 pp. Hardcover $70.00, ISBN 0-7914-6663-9. Mark Edward Lewis's The Flood Myths of Early China (hereafter Flood Myths) is one ...
Chun Lin. The Transformation of Chinese Socialism.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Chun Lin. The Transformation of Chinese Socialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xi, 384 pp. Paperback $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3785-1. Cloth $84.95, ISBN 0-8223-3798-3. Chun Lin's The Transformation of Chinese Socialism is an apologia for Chinese socialism from the 1949 ...
Xiaoqing Diana Lin. Peking University: Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898-1937.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Xiaoqing Diana Lin. Peking University: Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898-1937. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xi, 232 pp. Hardcover $75.00, ISBN 0-7914-6322-2. Paperback $24.95, ISBN 0-7914-6322-2. In her book on Peking University, Xiaoqing Diana Lin ...
Zwia Lipkin. Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927-1937.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Zwia Lipkin. Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927-1937. Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard East Asian Monographs, 259. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xxii, 420 pp. Hardcover $49.95, ISBN 0-674-02132-0. ...
Suping Lu. They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals.(Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Suping Lu. They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. ix, 398 pp. Hardback $35.00, ISBN 962-209-685-9. Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu, eds. Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing ....
Roman Malek, editor. The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Roman Malek, editor. The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ, vol. 3a. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica and China-Zentrum. Germany, 2005. xvi, 466 pp. 60.00 [euro], ISBN 3-8050-0524-5. This is a new book that adds substantially to the ongoing ...