The China Journal

No. 71, January 2014

Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University

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A Longitudinal Study of Son and Daughter Preference among Chinese Only-Children from Adolescence to Adulthood
A Longitudinal Study of Son and Daughter Preference among Chinese Only-Children from Adolescence to Adulthood (pp. 1-24)
Sung won Kim and Vanessa L. Fong
https://doi.org/10.1086/674551
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Fearless Love, Death for Dignity: Female Suicide and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural North China
Fearless Love, Death for Dignity: Female Suicide and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural North China (pp. 25-42)
Hyeon Jung Lee
https://doi.org/10.1086/674552
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Re-Writing Mythology in Xinjiang: The Case of the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu and the Kunlun
Re-Writing Mythology in Xinjiang: The Case of the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu and the Kunlun (pp. 43-64)
Alessandro Rippa
https://doi.org/10.1086/674553
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Societal Support for China’s Grass-Roots NGOs: Evidence from Yunnan, Guangdong and Beijing
Societal Support for China’s Grass-Roots NGOs: Evidence from Yunnan, Guangdong and Beijing (pp. 65-90)
Anthony J. Spires, Lin Tao and Kin-man Chan
https://doi.org/10.1086/674554
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Consensus Crisis and Civil Society: The Sichuan Earthquake Response and State–Society Relations
Consensus Crisis and Civil Society: The Sichuan Earthquake Response and State–Society Relations (pp. 91-108)
Bin Xu
https://doi.org/10.1086/674555
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Autocrats’ Dilemma: The Dual Impacts of Village Elections on Public Opinion in China
Autocrats’ Dilemma: The Dual Impacts of Village Elections on Public Opinion in China (pp. 109-131)
Xin Sun
https://doi.org/10.1086/674556
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Crisis Management, Regime Survival and “Guerrilla-Style” Policy-Making: The June 1999 Decision to Radically Expand Higher Education in China
Crisis Management, Regime Survival and “Guerrilla-Style” Policy-Making: The June 1999 Decision to Radically Expand Higher Education in China (pp. 132-152)
Qinghua Wang
https://doi.org/10.1086/674557
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“Sprinting with Small Steps” Towards Promotion: Solutions for the Age Dilemma in the CCP Cadre Appointment System
“Sprinting with Small Steps” Towards Promotion: Solutions for the Age Dilemma in the CCP Cadre Appointment System (pp. 153-171)
Chien-wen Kou and Wen-Hsuan Tsai
https://doi.org/10.1086/674558
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Societies of Senior Citizens and Popular Protest in Rural Zhejiang
Societies of Senior Citizens and Popular Protest in Rural Zhejiang (pp. 172-188)
Yanhua Deng and Kevin J. O'Brien
https://doi.org/10.1086/674559
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- No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo; Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China by Jean-Philippe Béja, Fu Hualing, Eva Pils
  
  No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Liu Xiaobo; Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China by Jean-Philippe Béja, Fu Hualing, Eva Pils (pp. 189-195)
  Review by: Tatiana Fisac
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674582
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- Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots: Chinese Village Elections in Perspective by Gunter Schubert, Anna L. Ahlers
  
  Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots: Chinese Village Elections in Perspective by Gunter Schubert, Anna L. Ahlers (pp. 195-197)
  Review by: Hiroki Takeuchi
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674887
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- Defending Rights in Contemporary China by Jonathan Benney
  
  Defending Rights in Contemporary China by Jonathan Benney (pp. 197-199)
  Review by: Thomas Heberer
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674583
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674583
  
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- The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist Party-State by Hu Ping, Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu
  
  The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist Party-State by Hu Ping, Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu (pp. 199-201)
  Review by: Merriden Varrall
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674584
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- The Evolution of Law Reform in China: An Uncertain Path by Stanley B. Lubman
  
  The Evolution of Law Reform in China: An Uncertain Path by Stanley B. Lubman (pp. 201-204)
  Review by: Elisa Nesossi
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674616
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- Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives by Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang
  
  Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives by Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang (pp. 204-206)
  Review by: John Balzano
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674617
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- Law and Fair Work in China by Sean Cooney
  
  Law and Fair Work in China by Sean Cooney (pp. 206-208)
  Review by: Hatla Thelle
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674618
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674618
  
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- China’s Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity and Disparity by Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li, Malcolm Warner
  
  China’s Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity and Disparity by Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li, Malcolm Warner (pp. 208-209)
  Review by: Yuning Gao
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674639
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674639
  
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- Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook by Stefan Al
  
  Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook by Stefan Al (pp. 210-212)
  Review by: Kaxton Siu
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674619
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674619
  
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- China as the Workshop of the World: An Analysis at the National and Industry Level of China in the International Division of Labor by Yuning Gao
  
  China as the Workshop of the World: An Analysis at the National and Industry Level of China in the International Division of Labor by Yuning Gao (pp. 212-214)
  Review by: Ivan Franceschini
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674888
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674888
  
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- China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities by Beatriz Carrillo, David S. G. Goodman
  
  China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities by Beatriz Carrillo, David S. G. Goodman (pp. 214-216)
  Review by: Björn Alpermann
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674620
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674620
  
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- The Land Development Game in China by Jianbo Ma.
  
  The Land Development Game in China by Jianbo Ma. (pp. 216-218)
  Review by: Sally Sargeson
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674621
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674621
  
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- Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism by Hou Xiaoshuo
  
  Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism by Hou Xiaoshuo (pp. 218-220)
  Review by: Thomas Boutonnet
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674622
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674622
  
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- The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy by Philip Andrews-Speed
  
  The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy by Philip Andrews-Speed (pp. 221-223)
  Review by: Joseph McCarthy
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674623
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674623
  
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- Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low Carbon Economy by Joanna I. Lewis
  
  Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low Carbon Economy by Joanna I. Lewis (pp. 223-225)
  Review by: Cong Cao
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674624
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674624
  
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- The Chinese Steel Industry’s Transformation: Structural Change, Performance and Demand on Resources by Ligang Song, Haimin Liu
  
  The Chinese Steel Industry’s Transformation: Structural Change, Performance and Demand on Resources by Ligang Song, Haimin Liu (pp. 225-227)
  Review by: Kun-Chin Lin
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674625
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674625
  
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- Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam: Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment by Andrew Wells-Dang
  
  Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam: Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment by Andrew Wells-Dang (pp. 227-228)
  Review by: Anita Chan
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674626
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674626
  
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- Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact by Chen Jie
  
  Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact by Chen Jie (pp. 229-231)
  Review by: Anthony J. Spires
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674627
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674627
  
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- Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy by Ann Anagnost
  
  Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy by Ann Anagnost (pp. 231-232)
  Review by: Alex Cockain
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674628
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674628
  
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- Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949 by Qiliang He
  
  Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949 by Qiliang He (pp. 233-235)
  Review by: Anne E. McLaren
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674629
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674629
  
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- Urban China by Xuefei Ren
  
  Urban China by Xuefei Ren (pp. 235-237)
  Review by: Jianfei Zhu
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674630
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674630
  
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- Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to China's Special Administrative Region by Chak Kwan Chan
  
  Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to China's Special Administrative Region by Chak Kwan Chan (pp. 237-240)
  Review by: Chris King-Chi Chan
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674631
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674631
  
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- A Localized Culture of Welfare: Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village by Kwok-shing Chan
  
  A Localized Culture of Welfare: Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village by Kwok-shing Chan (pp. 240-242)
  Review by: Beatriz Carrillo Garcia
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674640
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674640
  
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- Consumers and Individuals in China: Standing Out, Fitting In by Michael B. Griffiths
  
  Consumers and Individuals in China: Standing Out, Fitting In by Michael B. Griffiths (pp. 242-244)
  Review by: Gordon Mathews
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674641
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674641
  
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- Threat Talk: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction by Mary Manjikian
  
  Threat Talk: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction by Mary Manjikian (pp. 244-246)
  Review by: Jens Damm
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674642
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674642
  
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- Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche by Andrew B. Kipnis
  
  Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche by Andrew B. Kipnis (pp. 246-248)
  Review by: Teresa Kuan
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674643
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674643
  
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- Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China by Emily Chao
  
  Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China by Emily Chao (pp. 249-251)
  Review by: Xiaobo Su
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674644
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674644
  
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- Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China by Lucetta Yip Lo Kam
  
  Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China by Lucetta Yip Lo Kam (pp. 251-253)
  Review by: Sin Wen Lau
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674645
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674645
  
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- Taiwan’s Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact by Yu-Shuang Yao
  
  Taiwan’s Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact by Yu-Shuang Yao (pp. 253-255)
  Review by: Paul J. Farrelly
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674646
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674646
  
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- Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television by Ying Zhu
  
  Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television by Ying Zhu (pp. 255-257)
  Review by: Paul Clark
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674647
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674647
  
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- Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series by Florian Schneider
  
  Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series by Florian Schneider (pp. 257-259)
  Review by: Qiu Zitong
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674648
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674648
  
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- Chang’an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture by Shuishan Yu
  
  Chang’an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture by Shuishan Yu (pp. 259-261)
  Review by: Yinong Xu
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674649
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674649
  
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- China’s Design Revolution by Lorraine Justice, Xin Xiangyang
  
  China’s Design Revolution by Lorraine Justice, Xin Xiangyang (pp. 261-263)
  Review by: Lily Hope Chumley
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674650
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674650
  
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- Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China by Silvia Fok
  
  Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China by Silvia Fok (pp. 264-266)
  Review by: Carolyn M. Bloomer
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674651
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674651
  
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- The Art of Modern China by Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen
  
  The Art of Modern China by Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen (pp. 266-267)
  Review by: Stephen Goldberg
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674652
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674652
  
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- Weiwei-isms by Ai Weiwei, Larry Warsh
  
  Weiwei-isms by Ai Weiwei, Larry Warsh (p. 268)
  Review by: Winnie Wong
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674653
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674653
  
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- Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China by John A. Rapp
  
  Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China by John A. Rapp (pp. 269-270)
  Review by: Dongyoun Hwang
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674654
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674654
  
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- Thinking Through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Moral Metaphysics by Sébastien Billioud
  
  Thinking Through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Moral Metaphysics by Sébastien Billioud (pp. 270-272)
  Review by: John Berthrong
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674655
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674655
  
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- Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture by Michael Gibbs Hill
  
  Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture by Michael Gibbs Hill (pp. 272-274)
  Review by: Shih-Wen Chen
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674656
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674656
  
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- Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity by Qian Suiqiao
  
  Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity by Qian Suiqiao (pp. 275-277)
  Review by: Eva S. Chou
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674667
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674667
  
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- Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History by TJ Hinrichs, Linda L. Barnes
  
  Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History by TJ Hinrichs, Linda L. Barnes (pp. 277-279)
  Review by: Daniel Bensky
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674668
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674668
  
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- The Lius of Shanghai by Sherman Cochran, Andrew Hsieh
  
  The Lius of Shanghai by Sherman Cochran, Andrew Hsieh (pp. 279-281)
  Review by: Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674669
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674669
  
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- Shattered Families, Broken Dreams: Little-Known Episodes from the History of the Persecution of Chinese Revolutionaries in Stalin’s Gulag: Rescued Memoirs and Archival Revelations by Sin-Lin, Steven L. Levine
  
  Shattered Families, Broken Dreams: Little-Known Episodes from the History of the Persecution of Chinese Revolutionaries in Stalin’s Gulag: Rescued Memoirs and Archival Revelations by Sin-Lin, Steven L. Levine (pp. 281-283)
  Review by: Robert F. Miller
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674670
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674670
  
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- Culture and History in Post-Revolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity by Arif Dirlik
  
  Culture and History in Post-Revolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity by Arif Dirlik (pp. 283-285)
  Review by: John Fitzgerald
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674671
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674671
  
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- China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
  
  China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe (pp. 285-288)
  Review by: Wensheng Wang
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674698
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674698
  
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- Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World by Bryna Goodman, David S. G. Goodman
  
  Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World by Bryna Goodman, David S. G. Goodman (pp. 288-290)
  Review by: Brian Tsui
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674672
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674672
  
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- Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History by Wang Gungwu
  
  Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History by Wang Gungwu (pp. 290-293)
  Review by: Richard Rigby
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674673
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674673
  
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- Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History by Clara Wing-Chung Ho
  
  Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History by Clara Wing-Chung Ho (pp. 293-295)
  Review by: Robyn Hamilton
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674674
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674674
  
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- Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang
  
  Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang (pp. 295-297)
  Review by: John Y. Wong
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674675
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674675
  
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- From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China by Matthew W. Mosca
  
  From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China by Matthew W. Mosca (pp. 297-298)
  Review by: David Brophy
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674676
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674676
  
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- Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Century by John Kenneth Knaus, A. F. Tenzin Thurman
  
  Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Century by John Kenneth Knaus, A. F. Tenzin Thurman (pp. 299-300)
  Review by: Amy Mountcastle
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674677
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674677
  
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- Australia–China Relations Post 1949: Sixty Years of Trade and Politics by Yi Wang
  
  Australia–China Relations Post 1949: Sixty Years of Trade and Politics by Yi Wang (pp. 301-302)
  Review by: Jocelyn Chey
  https://doi.org/10.1086/674678
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674678
  
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Contributors to This Issue
Contributors to This Issue (pp. 303-305) https://doi.org/10.1086/674890
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674890
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The China Journal

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