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Volume 67 - February 2008

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Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China. By Anne Gerritsen. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xvi, 264 pages. $155.00 (cloth).
Beverly Bossler
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23 July 2008, pp. 1053-1055
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Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man's Journey. By Constance A. Cook. Leiden: Brill, 2006. viii, 296 pp. $146.00 (cloth).
Colin Mackenzie
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01 May 2008, pp. 683-685
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Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv, 324 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
Georgia A. Mickey
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13 February 2008, pp. 261-263
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Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. By Susan D. Blum. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. vii, 233 pp. $58.65 (cloth); $23.76 (paper).
Jennifer Hubbert
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10 November 2008, pp. 1411-1412
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Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry. By Gloria Davies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Haun Saussy
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01 May 2008, pp. 685-686
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The Politics of Mourning in Early China. By Miranda Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv, 205 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Andrew Chittick
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10 November 2008, pp. 1412-1414
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The Rise of the Chinese Empire. 2 vols. By Chun-shu Chang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Vol. 1, 506 pp., $90.00 (cloth); Vol. 2, 352 pp., $85.00 (cloth).
Nicola Di Cosmo
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13 February 2008, pp. 263-266
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Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment. Edited by Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv, 343 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Jennifer M. Neighbors
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23 July 2008, pp. 1055-1056
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Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China. By Carolyn L. Hsu. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 225 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Ching Kwan Lee
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23 July 2008, pp. 1057-1058
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The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949. By Vincent Goossaert. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xv, 395 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Xun Liu
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01 May 2008, pp. 687-689
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Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility. By Rey Chow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xii, 263 pp. $69.50 (cloth), $22.50 (paper).
Sheldon Lu
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13 February 2008, pp. 266-268
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Some Assembly Required: Work, Community and Politics in China's Rural Enterprises. By Calvin Chen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xii, 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Marc Blecher
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10 November 2008, pp. 1414-1416
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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics. By Ming Dong Gu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xiv, 334 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Karin Myhre
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01 May 2008, pp. 689-690
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Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Edited by Yuko Kikuchi. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. ix, 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
John Clark
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23 July 2008, pp. 1058-1060
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Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History. Edited by Charlotte Furth, Judith T. Zeitlin, and Ping-chen Hsiung. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xi, 331 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Maram Epstein
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10 November 2008, pp. 1416-1418
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Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. By C. Patterson Giersch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvii, 308 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Mark C. Elliott
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13 February 2008, pp. 268-270
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Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. By Ching Kwan Lee. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 325 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Calvin Chen
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01 May 2008, pp. 691-692
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Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. By Amy Hanser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. viii, 235 pp. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Tiantian Zheng
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10 November 2008, pp. 1418-1420
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Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy. By Bates Gill. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. xii, 267 pp. $28.95 (cloth).
Robert Sutter
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13 February 2008, pp. 270-272
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Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. By Anne Behnke Kinney. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 294 pp. $63.00 (cloth).
Hans van Ess
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23 July 2008, pp. 1060-1062
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Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China. By Anne Gerritsen. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xvi, 264 pages. $155.00 (cloth).

Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man's Journey. By Constance A. Cook. Leiden: Brill, 2006. viii, 296 pp. $146.00 (cloth).

Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv, 324 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. By Susan D. Blum. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. vii, 233 pp. $58.65 (cloth); $23.76 (paper).

Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry. By Gloria Davies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

The Politics of Mourning in Early China. By Miranda Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv, 205 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

The Rise of the Chinese Empire. 2 vols. By Chun-shu Chang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Vol. 1, 506 pp., $90.00 (cloth); Vol. 2, 352 pp., $85.00 (cloth).

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China: Crime, Conflict, and Judgment. Edited by Robert E. Hegel and Katherine Carlitz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv, 343 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China. By Carolyn L. Hsu. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 225 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949. By Vincent Goossaert. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xv, 395 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility. By Rey Chow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xii, 263 pp. $69.50 (cloth), $22.50 (paper).

Some Assembly Required: Work, Community and Politics in China's Rural Enterprises. By Calvin Chen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xii, 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics. By Ming Dong Gu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xiv, 334 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Edited by Yuko Kikuchi. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. ix, 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History. Edited by Charlotte Furth, Judith T. Zeitlin, and Ping-chen Hsiung. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xi, 331 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier. By C. Patterson Giersch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvii, 308 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. By Ching Kwan Lee. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 325 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. By Amy Hanser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. viii, 235 pp. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy. By Bates Gill. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. xii, 267 pp. $28.95 (cloth).

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. By Anne Behnke Kinney. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 294 pp. $63.00 (cloth).

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