Recently added articles from The China Journal:
Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
Jul 01, 2009; ... Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937, by Xiaoping Cong. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xii + 304 pp. US$85.00 (hardcover), US$32.95 (paperback). Xiaoping Cong addresses a lacuna in English-language scholarship on the history of Chinese education ...
The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895-1919
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895-1919, by Elisabeth Kaske. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xx + 537 pp. euro139.00/US$195.00 (hardcover). Vernacular languages have been fundamental to modern nationalism, but they have emerged in distinct ways in different national contexts. In ...
True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China
Jul 01, 2009; ... True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China, by Weijing Lu. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008. xviii + 345 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover). Weijing Lu's True to Her Word does an excellent job of placing the phenomenon of faithful maidenhood (zhennu) in its ...
The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult, by Brigitte Baptandier, translated by Kristin Ingrid Fryklund. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xvi + 374 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover). Combining close text-based reading with in-depth ethnographic accounts, this remarkable book provides ...
The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, by Larissa N. Heinrich. Durham NC; London: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi + 222 pp. US$79.95 (hardcover), US$22.95 (paperback). The Afterlife of Lmages presents a unique approach to the study of late ...