In this Issue

Table of Contents

Features

How Serious Is the Divergence between Western Liberalism and the Political Logic of Chinese Civilization?

Thomas A. Metzger
pp. 1-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0033
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How Serious Is Our Divergence?: A Reply to Thomas A. Metzger

Stephen C. Angle
pp. 20-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0043
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Resources for Textual Research on Premodern Taoism: The Taoist Canon and the State of the Field in the Early 21st Century

Russell Kirkland
pp. 33-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0053
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The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi, and: A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation, and: Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi’s Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue) (review)

Jay Goulding
pp. 61-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0002
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Reviews

Social Space and Governance in Urban China (review)

Hong Yung Lee
pp. 69-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0011
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Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China (review)

Chia Ning
pp. 73-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0020
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China’s Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects (review)

Gregory Veeck
pp. 84-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0029
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On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900 (review)

Franklin J. Woo
pp. 87-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0039
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China’s Urban Transition (review)

Nils Mevenkamp
pp. 98-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0049
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Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China (review)

Robert E. Gamer
pp. 103-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0058
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Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan Frontier (review)

Kevin Caffrey
pp. 107-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0007
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Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (review)

Wei-chin Lee
pp. 114-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0016
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Superfluous Words (review)

Ellen Huang
pp. 117-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0025
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Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel (review)

Meir Shahar
pp. 119-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0035
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Frontier People: Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China (review)

Chia Ning
pp. 122-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0045
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Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora (review)

Maria W. L. Chee
pp. 128-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0055
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Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch’an (review)

John R. McRae
pp. 132-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0004
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Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History (review)

Yu Shen
pp. 146-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0013
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Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851) und das Christentum in Ostasien: Ein Missionar zwischen den Kulturen (review)

Karin Betz
pp. 157-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0022
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Les Danses rituelles chinoises d’après Joseph-Marie Amiot: Aux sources de l’ethnochorégraphie (review)

Dorothee Schaab-Hanke
pp. 162-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0031
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Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (review)

Jens Damm
pp. 166-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0041
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The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (review)

John B. Henderson
pp. 170-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0051
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Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China (review)

Hong Xiao
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0000
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Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory (review)

Carine Defoort
pp. 179-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0009
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Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (review)

Marc L. Moskowitz
pp. 186-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0018
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Daoism in History: Essays in Honor of Liu Ts’un-yan (review)

Harold Swindall
pp. 190-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0027
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Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (review)

Jan De Meyer
pp. 194-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0037
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Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937 (review)

Tani E. Barlow
pp. 196-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0047
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Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War (review)

Pierre Asselin
pp. 198-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0057
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Contemporary Tibet: Politics,Development, and Society in a Disputed Region (review)

Ronald Schwartz
pp. 203-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0006
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Community Schools and the State in Ming China (review)

Hilde De Weerdt
pp. 209-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0015
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Chinese National Security Decisionmaking under Stress (review)

Herman F. Finley
pp. 213-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0024
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Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian ji 花間集 (Collection from among the Flowers) (review)

William H. Nienhauser Jr.
pp. 217-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0034
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Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice (review)

Alexander C. Y. Huang
pp. 226-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0044
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Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li (review)

Kate Lingley
pp. 230-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0054
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A Study of the History of Nestorian Christianity in China and Its Literature in Chinese: Together with a New English Translation of the Dunhuang Nestorian Documents (review)

Gunner Mikkelsen
pp. 232-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0003
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Advanced Chinese: Intention, Strategy, and Communication (review)

Jianhua Bai, Fengtao Wu
pp. 236-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0012
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Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History (review)

Hilde De Weerdt
pp. 239-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0021
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A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China: Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China (review)

John E. Herman
pp. 243-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0030
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If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics (review)

John F. Copper
pp. 245-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0040
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Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895–1937 (review)

Lingchei Letty Chen
pp. 247-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0050
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David Crockett Graham (1884–1961) as Zoological Collector and Anthropologist in China (review)

Nicholas Tapp
pp. 251-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0059
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Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation (review)

Erik W. Esselstrom
pp. 254-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0008
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The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China (review)

Sheldon H. Lu
pp. 257-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0017
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Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture (review)

Laurence J. C. Ma
pp. 262-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0026
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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China (review)

Ying Wang
pp. 267-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0036
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Encounters and Dialogues: Changing Perspectives on Chinese-Western Exchanges from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (review)

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
pp. 270-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0046
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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948 (review)

Rong Cai
pp. 276-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0056
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Qingchao Huangwei Jicheng Zhidu 清朝皇位继承制度 (The Institution of Qing Throne Succession) (review)

Chia Ning
pp. 280-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0005
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Chinese: An Essential Grammar (review)

John Jing-hua Yin
pp. 288-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0014
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State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives (review)

Thomas DuBois
pp. 292-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0023
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Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study (review)

Xiaorong Han
pp. 296-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0032
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China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949 (review)

Diana Lary
pp. 300-301
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0042
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张铁江. 揭开哈尔滨犹太人历史之谜—哈尔滨犹太人社区考察研究 Jiekai Harbin Youtairen lishi zhi mi: Harbin Youtairen shequ kaocha yanjiu (review)

Patrick Fuliang Shan
pp. 302-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0052
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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896–1937 (review)

Paul Clark
pp. 305-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0001
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Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History (review)

Rania Huntington
pp. 307-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0010
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Yi tuxiang yu Yi quanshi 易圖象與易詮釋 (review)

Edward L. Shaughnessy
pp. 312-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0019
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Grains in China: Foodgrain, Feedgrain, and World Trade (review)

Gregory Veeck
pp. 318-321
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0028
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The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang (review)

Haiming Wen
pp. 322-326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0038
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Books Received

Books Received

p. 327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.0.0048
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