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Volume 77 - November 2018

Book Reviews—Asia Comparative and Transnational

Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life. By Aihwa Ong. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xxiv, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780822362494 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—China

Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China. By Ellen Oxfeld. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xv, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780520293519 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat. By Andrew B. Kipnis . Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xxii, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780520289710 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China. By Sarah M. Allen. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series No. 95. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xvii, 311 pp. ISBN: 9780674417205 (cloth).

The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China. By Dorothy Ko . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xii, 315 pp. ISBN: 9780295999180 (cloth).

The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today. By Kevin Carrico. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xiv, 264 pp. ISBN: 9780520295490 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang. By Bettine Birge. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. vii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780674975514 (cloth).

A Companion to Chinese History. Edited by Michael Szonyi. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. xiv, 459 pp. ISBN: 9781118624609 (cloth, also available as e-book).

A Companion to Chinese Art. Edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang . Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History, Vol. 8. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. xviii, 562 pp. ISBN: 9781444339130 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics. By Li Chen. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii, 400 pp. ISBN: 9780231173742 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China. By Wu Xiaolong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvi, 244 pp. ISBN: 9781107134027 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration. By Shelly Chan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. xiv, 264 pp. ISBN: 9780822370420 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War. By Song-Chuan Chen. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. xiv, 230 pp. ISBN: 9789888390564 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico. By Fredy González. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xiii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780520290204 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. ix, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780674971974 (cloth).

Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China. By Yulian Wu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780804798112 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937. By Maggie Clinton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780822363774 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65. Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2015. xiv, 329 pp. ISBN: 9780774827805 (cloth, also available in paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Gathering of Intentions: A History of Tibetan Tantra. By Jacob P. Dalton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xxiii, 246 pp. ISBN: 9780231176002 (cloth, also available as e-book).

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