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Volume 69 - November 2010

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. By Andrew Sheng. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 489 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

Book Reviews—China

State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest. By Xiaolin Guo. Leiden: Brill, 2008. viii, 346 pp. $148.00 (cloth).

Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279). By Hilde De Weerdt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xvi, 495 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain. By Eric Hayot. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii, 278 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China. By Harriet Evans. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xi, 235 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Paths to Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia. By Tuong Vu. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii, 294 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China

Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking. Edited by Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. xix, 223 pp. $42.00 (cloth).

Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842–1937. By Niv Horesh. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv, 230 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. By Jin Jiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. xix, 340 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Book Reviews—China

Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000. By Jacob Eyferth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. xv, 335 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Tzu Chi Movement. By C. Julia Huang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 341 pp. $39.90 (cloth).

Stairway to Heaven: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei. By James M. Hargett. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xvii, 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China. Edited by Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi, 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service. By Lynne Joiner. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. xvii, 402 pp. $37.95 (cloth).

Neo-Confucianism in History. By Peter K. Bol. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xi, 366 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Brill's Encyclopedia of China. Edited by Daniel Leese. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xxiii, 1110 pp. $350 (cloth).

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. By Yasheng Huang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii, 348 pp. $30.00 (cloth).

Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past. By Ronald G. Knapp, photography by A. Chester Ong. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2008. 272 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. By Timothy Brook. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 329 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

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Volume 69 - November 2010

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Book Reviews—China