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Volume 56 - Issue 3 - August 1997

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Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. By Carol Benedict. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx, 256 pp. $39.50.
Marta Hanson
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The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling. By Vibeke Børdahl. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 73. Surrey, Great Britain: Curzon Press, 1996. xxx, 497 pp. $65.00.
Richard VanNess Simmons
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. By Peter Conn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvi, 468 pp. $29.95.
David D. Buck
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Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo. By Maghiel van Crevel. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1996. x, 355 pp.
Xiaobin Yang
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Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing. By Christopher Cullen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 241 pp. $69.95.
David W. Pankenier
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Martino Martini, A Humanist and Scientist in Seventeenth-Century China. Edited by Franco Demarchi and Riccardo Scartezzini. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento, 1996. xiv, 381 pp. Lit. 50,000.
Haun Saussy
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age. A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840. By Helen Dunstan. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 73. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1996. 363 pp. $50.00.
Jane Kate Leonard
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Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. $59.95 (cloth).
Andrew Wedeman
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The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xiv, 343 pp. $34.50.
Paul H. B. Godwin
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Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Ming China. By Alastair Iain Johnston. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 317 pp. $39.50.
Joseph W. Esherick
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Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang. By Paul R. Katz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xviii, 261 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
R. David Arkush
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Zhongguo nüxing de xing yu ai (Women's sexuality and love in China). By Li Yinhe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 299 pp.
Tonglin Lu
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South of the Clouds: Tales of Yunnan. Edited by Lucien Miller. Translated by Guo Xu, Lucien Miller, and Xu Kun. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1994. v, 328 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Madeline K. Spring
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Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. By Suzanne Pepper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix, 610 pp. $59.95.
Glen Peterson
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From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction. Deborah Lynn Porter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xvii, 284 pp. $24.95.
William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
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Social Control in China: A Study of Chinese Work Units. By Victor Shaw. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996. xiv, 288 pp. $59.95.
Benedict Stavis
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The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: The Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship. By Ian A. Skoggard. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. xxiii, 199 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Thomas B. Gold
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The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang. By Charles Stafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $54.95.
William Jankowiak
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Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese. By Sun Chaofen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiii, 207 pp. $39.50.
Stephen Wadley
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Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao. By Xiaobing Tang. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1996. $39.50.
Young-tsu Wong
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Book Reviews—China

Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. By Carol Benedict. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx, 256 pp. $39.50.

The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling. By Vibeke Børdahl. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 73. Surrey, Great Britain: Curzon Press, 1996. xxx, 497 pp. $65.00.

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. By Peter Conn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvi, 468 pp. $29.95.

Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo. By Maghiel van Crevel. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1996. x, 355 pp.

Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing. By Christopher Cullen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 241 pp. $69.95.

Martino Martini, A Humanist and Scientist in Seventeenth-Century China. Edited by Franco Demarchi and Riccardo Scartezzini. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento, 1996. xiv, 381 pp. Lit. 50,000.

Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age. A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840. By Helen Dunstan. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 73. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1996. 363 pp. $50.00.

Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. $59.95 (cloth).

The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xiv, 343 pp. $34.50.

Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Ming China. By Alastair Iain Johnston. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 317 pp. $39.50.

Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang. By Paul R. Katz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xviii, 261 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Zhongguo nüxing de xing yu ai (Women's sexuality and love in China). By Li Yinhe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 299 pp.

South of the Clouds: Tales of Yunnan. Edited by Lucien Miller. Translated by Guo Xu, Lucien Miller, and Xu Kun. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1994. v, 328 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. By Suzanne Pepper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix, 610 pp. $59.95.

From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction. Deborah Lynn Porter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xvii, 284 pp. $24.95.

Social Control in China: A Study of Chinese Work Units. By Victor Shaw. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996. xiv, 288 pp. $59.95.

The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: The Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship. By Ian A. Skoggard. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. xxiii, 199 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang. By Charles Stafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $54.95.

Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese. By Sun Chaofen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiii, 207 pp. $39.50.

Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao. By Xiaobing Tang. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1996. $39.50.

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