MCLC BOOK REVIEWS
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MCLC BOOK REVIEWS
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Once on a Moonless Night. By Dai Sijie. Tr. by Adriana Hunter. Reviewed by Cecile Lagesse (Yale University)
Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity. By Steven G. Yao. Reviewed by Dian Li (University of Arizona)
New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record. Edited by Chris Berry, Lu Xinyu, and Lisa Rofel. Reviewed by Matthew D. Johnson (Grinnell College)
Brothers: A Novel. By Yu Hua. Trs. by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas. Reviewed by Christopher Rea (University of British Columbia)
Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity. By Peter Button. Reviewed by Thomas Moran (Middlebury College)
Such Is This World@sars.come. By Hu Fayun. Tr. A. E. Clark. Reviewed by Brian Bernards (University of Southern California)
Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future. By Yibing Huang. Reviewed by Darryl Sterk (National Chung Cheng University)
Five Spice Street. By Can Xue. Trs. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Reviewed by Rosemary Haddon (Massey University)
Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. By Haiyan Lee. Reviewed by Charles Laughlin (University of Virginia)
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora. By Jing Tsu. Reviewed by Andrea Bachner (Pennsylvania State University)
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money. By Maghiel van Crevel. Reviewed by Christopher Lupke (Washington State University)
Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media. By Christopher Bush. Reviewed by Andrea Bachner (Pennsylvania State University)
Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. By Shuang Shen. Reviewed by Samuel Y. Liang (MIT)
Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan. By Andrew D. Morris. Reviewed by Kristin Stapleton (University of Buffalo)
Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology. Edited and translated by Julia C. Lin. Reviewed by Yanhong Zhu (Washington and Lee University)
Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, edited by Maghiel van Crevel, Tian Yuan Tan, and Michel Hockx. Reviewed by Jie Guo (University of South Carolina)
Copyright Matters: Imitation, Creativity and Authenticity in Contemporary Chinese Literature, by Lena Henningsen. Reviewed by Krista Van Fleit Hang (University of South Carolina)
Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre: From the Word to the Image, by Izabella Labdezka. Reviewed by Mary Mazzilli (SOAS, University of London)
Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange, by Alexander C. Y. Huang. Reviewed by Colin Mackerras (Griffith University)
Literary Societies of Republican China, edited by Kirk A. Denton and Michel Hockx. Reviewed by John Christopher Hamm (University of Washington).
Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform, by Ying Ruocheng and Claire Conceison. Reviewed by Ross Terrill.
The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain, by Eric Hayot. Reviewed by Yingjin Zhang (University of California, San Diego)
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing, by Zhang Guixing; trs. Valerie Jaffee. Reviewed by Pei-Yin Lin (University of Cambridge)
Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997, by Howard Y. F. Choy. Reviewed by Andrew Stuckey (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp, by Yang Xianhui; trs. Wen Huang. Reviewed by Paul Foster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978-2000: Resistance and Exile, by Dian Li. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, by Wang Anyi; trs. Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan. Reviewed by Michel Hockx (SOAS, University of London)
Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990, by Margaret Hillenbrand. Reviewed by Bert Scruggs (University of California, Irvine)
Beijing Coma, by Ma Jian; trs. by Flora Drew. Reviewed by Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University)
Cultural Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai, by Mark Swislocki. Reviewed by Jin Feng (Grinnell College)
Banished! A Novel, by Han Dong; trs. by Nicky Harman. Reviewed by Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)
Running Mother and Other Stories, by Guo Songfen; trs. by John Balcom. Reviewed by Chien-hsin Tsai (University of Texas-Austin)
Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong; trs by Howard Goldblatt. Reviewed by Howard Y. F. Choy (Wittenberg University)
Red-light Novels of the Late Qing, by Chloe F. Starr. Reviewed by John Christopher Hamm (University of Washingtion)
China's Second World of Poetry: The Sichuan Avant-garde, 1982-1992, by Michael Day. Reviewed by Heather Inwood (The Ohio State University)
Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production, by Alexander Des Forges. Reviewed by Chris Berry (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement, by Xiaobing Tang. Reviewed by James Flath (Western Ontario University)
New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry, edited by Christopher Lupke. Reviewed by Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)
The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture, by Richard Curt Kraus. Reviewed by Matthew D. Johnson (University of Oxford)
Shanghai and the Edges of Empire, by Meng Yue. Reviewed by Alexander Des Forges (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature, by Hong Zicheng. Tr. by Michael M. Day. Reviewed by Edward Gunn (Cornell University)
Fragmentary Modernism: Amie Parry and Jiayan Mi on Modernism in Chinese Poetry and Beyond. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific, by Shu-mei Shih. Reviewed by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu (University of California, Davis).
Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation, by Norman Smith. Reviewed by Heng hsing Liu (National Chi Nan University)
Wang in Love and Bondage: Three Novellas by Wang Xiaobo, trs. by Hongling Zhang and Jason Sommer. Reviewed by Wendy Larson (University of Oregon)
Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History, ed. by David Der-Wei Wang and Carlos Rojas. Reviewed by Pei-Yin Lin (Cambridge University)
Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, by Wu Hung. Reviewed by Robin Visser (University of North Carolina)
Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island, by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis. Reviewed by James Tweedie (University of Washington)
Buiding a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, by Laikwan Pang. Reviewed by Shaoyi Sun (Shanghai University)
Zhou Mengdie's Poetry of Consciousness, by Lloyd Haft. Reviewed by Christopher Lupke (Washington State University)
Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema. By Laikwan Pang. Reviewed by Shujen Wang (Emerson College)
Sherlock in Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing. Tr. by Timothy C. Wong. Reviewed by Alexander Des Forges (University of Massachusetts--Boston)
Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories, by Madeleine Yue Dong. Reviewed by Timothy B. Weston (University of Colorado)
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China, by Zhu Wen; tr. by Julia Lovell. Reviewed by Jason McGrath (University of Minnesota)
"From Wenhua to Wenhua Chanye: A Review of Culture in the Contemporary PRC," by Hai Ren (University of Arizona)
Significant Other: Staging the American in China, by Claire Conceison. Reviewed by Siyuan Liu (University of Pittsburgh)
"Eileen Chang's Poetics of the Social: Review of Love in a Fallen City." Tr. by Karen Kingsbury. Reviewed by Haiyan Lee (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren. Tr. by David E. Pollard. Reviewed by Georges Bê Duc (INALCO, Paris)
Orphan of Asia, by Wu Zhuoliu. Tr. by Ioannis Mentzas. Reviewed by Leo Ching (Duke University)
"Between Discourse and Social Reality: The Early Chinese Press in Recent Publications: Review Essay," by Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg). Reviews of Xiaoqing Ye, The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898 (2003); Andrea Janku, Nur leere Reden. Politischer Diskurs und die Shanghaier Press im China des späten 19. Jahrhunderts (2003); and Natascha Vittinghoff, Die Anfänge des Journalismus in China (1860-1911) (2002).
Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, by Theodore Huters. Reviewed by Bonnie S. McDougall (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice, by Jerome Silbergeld. Reviewed by Robert Chi (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, by Yiyan Wang. Reviewed by Robin Visser (University of North Carolina).
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation, by Ni Zhen. Tr. by Chris Berry. Reviewed by Michael Berry (University of California, Santa Barbara)
My Life as Emperor, by Su Tong. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt. Reviewed by Rong Cai (Emory University)
War Trash: A Novel, by Ha Jin. Reviewed by Timothy C. Wong (Arizona State University)
The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China, by David Der-wei Wang. Reviewed by C. D. Alison Bailey (University of British Columbia)
The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp in Contemporary Fiction and Reportage, by Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu. Reviewed by Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)
Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles, by Li Yung-p'ing. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Columbia University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Lingchei Letty Chen (Washington University)
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, by Tani E. Barlow. Duke Univesity Press, 2004. Reviewed by Megan M. Ferry (Union College)
One China, Many Paths, edited by Chaohua Wang. Verso, 2003. Reviewed by Ban Wang (Rutgers University)
Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel, by John Christopher Hamm. University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Reviewed by Paul B. Foster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Invention of a Discourse: Women's Poetry from Contemporary China, by Jeanne Hong Zhang. CNWS Publications, 2004. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Projecting a Nation: Chinese National Cinema Before 1949, by Jubin Hu. Hong Kong University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Zhen Zhang (New York University)
Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time, by Wimal Dissanayake. Hong Kong University Press, 2003. Reviewed by John Christopher Hamm (University of Washington)
A Bilingual Edition of Poetry out of Communist China, by Huang Xiang. Tr. by Andrew Emerson. Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. Reviewed by Dian Li (University of Arizona)
Big Breasts and Wide Hips, by Mo Yan. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt. Arcade Publishing, 2004. Reviewed by Kenny Ng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Stone Turtle, by Mai Mang. Tr. by Mai Mang. Godavaya, 2005. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet, by Alai, Tr. by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Houghton Miflin, 2002. Reviewed by Gang Yue (University of North Carolina)
Figments of the Supernatural, by Chi Zijian. Tr. by Simon Patton. James Joyce Press, 2004. Reviewed by Wang Ping (University of New South Wales)
The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Rey Chow. Columbia University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Sean Metzger (Duke University)
The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing, by Anne-Marie Broudehoux. Routledge Press, 2004. Reviewed by Daniel Benjamin Abramson (University of Washington)
"Good-bye Mr. Nixon: A Review of A Private Life," by Chen Ran. Tr. by John Howard-Gibbon. Columbia University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Larissa Heinrich (University of Michigan)
Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, by Dai Jinhua. Eds. Jing Wang and Tani E. Barlow. Verso, 2002. Reviewed by Megan Ferry (Union College)
Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural Asia. Ed. Jenny Kwok Wah Lau. Temple University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Joelle Collier (College of Santa Fe)
Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China, by Andrew D. Morris. University of California Press, 2004. Review by Denise Gimpel (University of Denmark)
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937, by Christopher A. Reed. University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Reviewed by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) [Response to Wagner's review by Christopher A. Reed]
Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937, by Michel Hockx. Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. Reviewed by Edward M. Gunn (Cornell University)
Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, by Charles Laughlin. Duke University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Susan Daruvala (Cambridge University).
Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction, edited and translated by Timothy C. Wong. University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Reviewed by John Christopher Hamm (University of Washington).
The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction, by Xiaobin Yang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Reviewed by Wendy Larson (University of Oregon).
China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender and Politics, 1978-1997, by Nimrod Baranovitch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Reviewed by Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg).
Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China, by Xiaomei Chen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Reviewed by Ruru Li (University of Leeds).
The True Story of Lu Xun, by David E. Pollard. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Nick Kaldis (Binghamton University).
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, edited by Joshua Mostow; associate editors Kirk A. Denton, Bruce Fulton, Sharalyn Orbaugh. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Margaret Hillenbrand (SOAS, University of London).
To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, by Yua Hua. To Live. Tr. by Michael Berry (New York: Anchor Books, 2003); Chronicle of a Blood Merchant. Tr. Andrew F. Jonese (New York: Pantheon Books, 2004). Reviewed by Richard King (University of Victoria).
Reading the Right Text: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama, edited by Xiaomei Chen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. Reviewed by John Yu Zou (Bates College).
The Chinese Essay, edited and translated by David E. Pollard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Charles Laughlin (Yale University).
