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Volume 75 - November 2016

Book Reviews—China

Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China. By Michael Hathaway. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xi, 258 pp. ISBN 9780520276208 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book).

Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination. By Paize Keulemans . Harvard East Asian Monographs 369. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674417120 (cloth).

Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals. By Koichi Shinohara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780231166140 (cloth).

Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China. By Teresa Kuan . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780520283480 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County. By Toby Lincoln . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780824841003 (cloth).

Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. By Wai-yee Li . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 92. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. vii, 638 pp. ISBN: 9780674492042 (cloth).

Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China. By Sukhee Lee. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 347 pp. ISBN 9780674417144 (cloth).

Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. By Lisa Raphals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvii, 470 pp. ISBN 9781107287624 (cloth; also available as e-book).

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics. By Liang Luo . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xviii, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780472072170 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China. By Manling Luo . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780295994147 (cloth, also available in paper).

China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower. By Linda Yueh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xviii, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780199205783 (cloth).

China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. By Daniel C. Lynch . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. 252 pp. ISBN: 9780804794190 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule. By Hiroki Takeuchi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xix, 234 pp. ISBN 9781107056848 (cloth; also available as e-book).

The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. By Joseph P. McDermott . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 466 pp. ISBN: 9781107046221 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. By Lu Zhang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781316500569 (cloth).

Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900–1937. By Shengqing Wu. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. xviii, 437 pp. ISBN 9780674726673 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Writing Travel in Central Asian History. Edited by Nile Green. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 220 pp. ISBN: 9780253011350 (paper).

Book Reviews—China

The Rise of Cantonese Opera. By Wing Chung Ng . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780252039119 (cloth, also available as e-book).

China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing. By Charles D. Musgrove . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix, 316 pp. ISBN: 9780824836283 (cloth).

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