Book Reviews—China
Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China. By Lynette H. Ong. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. xviii, 212 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2014, pp. 222-223
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Photography and China. By Claire Roberts. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper).
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- 04 June 2014, pp. 535-537
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Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan. By Ya-Chung Chuang. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013. xx, 269 pp. $39.00 (cloth).
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- 20 November 2014, pp. 1104-1105
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The Death Penalty in Contemporary China. By Susan Trevaskes . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 312 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
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- 16 September 2014, pp. 798-799
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Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu's Poetry (752–757). By David K. Schneider. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2012. xiv, 245 pp. $109.99 (cloth).
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- 04 June 2014, pp. 537-538
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Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China. Edited by Nick Pearce and Jason Steuber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 302 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2014, pp. 223-225
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Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War. By Wang Zhenping . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xvi, 462 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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- 16 September 2014, pp. 799-801
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The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. By Ronald Egan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. ix, 422 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
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Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion. By Jodi L. Weinstein . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. xvi, 217 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
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- 16 September 2014, pp. 801-802
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Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xvii, 392 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).
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- 27 February 2014, pp. 225-227
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Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. By Rosella Ferrari. London: Seagull Books, 2012. xviii, 365 pp. $25.00 (paper).
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- 20 November 2014, pp. 1107-1108
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Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China. By Mary Tiffen. Crewkerne, U.K.: Tiffania Books in association with Queen's University Belfast, 2012. xviii, 333 pp. £14.99 (paper).
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- 04 June 2014, pp. 539-540
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Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945–80. By Richard King. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. x, 281 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.95 (paper).
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- 20 November 2014, pp. 1108-1110
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China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development? By Marcus Power, Giles Mohan, and May Tan-Mullins. London: Palgrave, 2012. xix, 329 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
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Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China: A Case Study of The Story of the Stone. By Zuyan Zhou . Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013. xi, 316 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 16 September 2014, pp. 802-804
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The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501–531) and His Circle. By Ping Wang. Leiden: Brill, 2012. x, 309 pp. €110.00 (cloth).
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- 04 June 2014, pp. 540-541
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Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire. By Pauline C. Lee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xiii, 186 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 20 November 2014, pp. 1110-1111
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Die Plünderung des Yuanmingyuan: Imperiale Beutenahme im britisch-französischen Chinafeldzug von 1860 [The plunder of the Yuanmingyuan; Imperial looting in the British-French China campaign of 1860]. By Ines Eben von Racknitz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 328 pp. €48.00 (paper).
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- 27 February 2014, pp. 228-230
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Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan. By Chün-fang Yü. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix, 243 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).
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- 04 June 2014, pp. 542-543
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Book Review—Inner Asia
The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang. By Mary Anne Cartelli . Leiden: Brill, 2013. xii, 224 pp. $122.00 (cloth).
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- 16 September 2014, pp. 804-805
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