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  • Books Received
Teresita Ang See, Go Bon Juan, Doreen Go Yu, and Yvonne Chua, Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life. Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, Inc., 2005.
David G. Atwill. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China 1856–1873. Stanford, 2005.
Limin Bai. Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China. Chinese University Press, 2005.
Xiaolan Ban. Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Robert Barnett. Lhasa: Streets with Memories. Columbia, 2006.
Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen. Zhou Enlai: A Political Life. Chinese University Press, 2006.
Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper. Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945. Harvard, 2006.
David A. Bello. Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850. Harvard, 2005.
Richard Belsky. Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing. Harvard, 2006.
Michael Berry. Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. Columbia, 2005.
Evelyn Nagai Berthrong. What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others. Marlow & Company, 2005.
Hans Bielenstein. Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589–1276. Brill, 2005.
Dennis J. Blasko. The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century. Routledge, 2006.
Kjeld Erik BrØdsgaard and Zheng Yongnian. The Chinese Communist Party in Reform. Routledge, 2006.
Donna Brunero. Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Service, 1854–1949. Routledge, 2006.
Yongshun Cai. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched. Routledge, 2006.
Allen Carlson. Unifying China, Integrating the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era. Stanford, 2005.
John M. Carroll. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Harvard, 2005.
Peter J. Carroll. Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937. Stanford, 2006.
Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Amy Yin Man Chow. Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience. Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
Sucheng Chan. Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era. Temple, 2005.
Kwang-chih Chang et al. Edited by Sarah Allen. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. Yale, 2005.
Shenglin Chang. The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture. Stanford, 2006.
Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China. Stanford, 2005.
Shehong Chen. Being Chinese: Becoming Chinese American. University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Chih-p’ing Chou et al. Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese. Princeton, 2006.
Lin Chun. The Transformation of Chinese Socialism. Duke, 2006.
W. South Coblin. Francisco Varo’s Glossary of the Mandarin Language Volume 1. An English and Chinese Annotation of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina.
W. South Coblin. Francisco Varo’s Glossary of the Mandarin Language, Volume 2. Pinyin and English Index of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina. Monumenta Serica, 2006.
Sherman Cochran. Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. Harvard, 2006.
Myron L. Cohen. Kinship, Contract, Community, and State: Anthropological Perspectives on China. Stanford, 2005.
Constance A. Cook. Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey. Brill, 2006.
Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China. California, 2006. [End Page 298]
Thomas D. Curran. Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation. Mellen Press, 2005.
Jim Dator, Dick Pratt, and Yongseok Seo. Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond. Hawai‘i, 2006.
Jan De Meyer. Wu Yun’s Way: Life and Works of an Eighth-Century Daoist Master. Brill, 2006.
David M. Deal and Laura Hostetler. The Art of Ethnography: A Chinese “Miao Album.” Washington, 2006.
Jean DeBernardi. The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia. Stanford, 2006.
Jean DeBernardi. Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Stanford, 2004.
Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu. China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition. Rowman...

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