China review international
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (US) |
| ISSN | 1069-5834 / 1527-9367 |
| OpenAlex | S111636273 |
| MAG | 111636273 |
| Website | http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cri/ |
| Total publications | 17 |
| Coverage period | 1994 - 2019 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 6 |
| Impact factor | 1 |
| h-index | 2 |
This journal focuses on China studies, providing an international review. Area studies with strong ethnographic, cultural, or social content are closely cognate to social anthropology, making this a highly relevant venue
Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Eurasian Exchange Networks
“Defending Political Equality
“Defending Political Equality: A Confucian Democratic Response to Bai Tongdong’s Proposal of Hybrid Regime” Elton Chan (bio) Tongdong Bai. Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xxiv, 315 pp. Hardcover $39.95, isbn 978-0-691-19599-5. Introduction It is an increasing consensus that liberal democracy is once again in crisis (Loughlin 2019; Rich 2017, pp. 2–25; Wike and Fetterolf 2018). Climb…
China’s Silent Army
Reviewed by: China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers, and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing’s Image by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo Franklin J. Woo (bio) Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo. China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers, and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing’s Image. Translated by Catherine Mansfield. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013. xiv, 350 pp. Hardcover $26.00, isbn 978…
Zhuangzi
Reviewed by: Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries Bryan W. Van Norden (bio) Brook Ziporyn , trans. Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2009. xviii, 238 pp. Hardcover $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87220-912-1. Paperback $14.95, ISBN 978-0-87220-911-4. Every translation is guided by previous commentaries, whether this is made explicit or not…
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity: Studies of Imperial and Republican Beijing in Perspective Yamin Xu (bio) Madeleine Yue Dong. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxiii, 380 pp. Cloth $50.00/£32.50, ISBN 0-520-23050-7. Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxxv, 816 pp. Cloth $85.00/£55.00, ISBN 0-520…
Opium and China Revisited
Opium and China Revisited:How Sophisticated Was Qing Thinking in Matters of Drug Control? Joshua A. Fogel (bio) Inoue Hiromasa 井上裕正 . Shindai ahen seisaku shi no kenkyū 清代アヘ ン政策史の研究 (Studies in the history of Qing policy toward Opium). Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2004. 328 pp. ¥5500, ISBN 4-876980-520-0. Recent years have witnessed something of a turnaround in scholarship regarding China's relationship with the outside world. During the Mao ye…
Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China
Reviewed by: Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Susan Whitfield (bio) Ning Qiang . Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xv, 178 pp. Hardcover $39.00, ISBN 0-8248-2703-1. Every so often there is an archaeological find that proves so important as to attract the attention of a body of scholars devoted to interpr…
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs
Reviewed by: Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China Yamin Xu (bio) Robert J. Antony and Jane Kate Leonard, editors. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2002. xiii, 333 pp. Hardcover $32.00, ISBN 1-885445-43-1. Paperback $19.00, ISBN 1-885445-14-8. This collection of essays i…
Effortless Action
Reviewed by: Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Erin Cline (bio) Edward Slingerland . Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 352 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-19-513899-6. In Effortless Action Edward Slingerland sets out to accomplish two goals, the first of which is to present a systematic account of the rol…
Opium, Empire, and Modern History
© 2004 by University ofHawai'i Press Opium was, in the nineteenth century, one of the most empire-friendly com modities circulating in the global economy. It had the capacity to balance impe rial books, attract a seemingly endless number of customers, and, in a world where cargo space, like time, was money, take up little if any of the room on the ships of merchant princes, smugglers, and pirates. And, like all truly empire friendly products, it …
Civil Society in China
Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study Guobin Yang (bio) Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, editors. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix, 449 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0521474108. Paperback, ISBN 0521479436. Deborah S. Davis , editor. The Consum…
Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism
Reviewed by: Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise Albert Welter (bio) Robert H. Sharf . Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 14. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xiii, 400 pp. Hardcover $47.00, ISBN 0-8248-2443-1. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is a welcome addition to the growing number of stud…
Economic Cold War
Reviewed by: Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1949-1963 Yongjin Zhang (bio) Shu Guang Zhang . Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1949-19763. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 375 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0-8047-3930-7. In Economic Cold War, Shu Guang Zhang has set out to write a definitive history of a lar…
Bird in a Cage
Human Rights and Asian Values
Human Rights and Asian Values:The Limits of Universalism Randall Peerenboom Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, editors. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii, 394 pp. Paperback $21.95, ISBN 0-521-64536-0. The swift rise of human rights as a normative benchmark for any government claiming legitimacy must surely rank as one of the most inspiring humanitarian stories of all time. Given the domi…
Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts
Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts Stanley E. Henning (bio) The Chinese martial arts are among the oldest elements of Chinese culture, tracing their origins to China's earliest recorded dynasty and still performed today in forms modified over the centuries. Originally practiced in a rough-and-tumble environment where strength and bravery were highly valued, these skills were used in hand-to-hand combat among the large infantry forces pi…
The Propensity of Things
458 China Review International: Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1996 François Jullien. The Propensity ofThings: Toward a History ofEfficacy in China. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York: Zone Books, 1995. 317 pp. Hardcover $24.95, isbn 0-942299-94-9. François Jullien is one of our most powerful interpreters of Chinese culture, and this new study, a sequel to his Procès ou création, is again a tour de force. That is, the book itselfis an object lesson in the …
Unreason within Reason
Reviews 107 some prevailing assumptions about the study of contemporary Chinese literature in these three "worlds." The greatest merits ofthe book are its comparative mode and its emphasis on the cultural elements that help shape its content. The editor as well as the contributors have certainly done a commendable job in presenting new perspectives and insightful readings of contemporary Chinese literature. Most of the contributors to the book af…
Human Rights and Asian Values
Human Rights and Asian Values:The Limits of Universalism Randall Peerenboom Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, editors. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii, 394 pp. Paperback $21.95, ISBN 0-521-64536-0. The swift rise of human rights as a normative benchmark for any government claiming legitimacy must surely rank as one of the most inspiring humanitarian stories of all time. Given the domi…
Opium, Empire, and Modern History
© 2004 by University ofHawai'i Press Opium was, in the nineteenth century, one of the most empire-friendly com modities circulating in the global economy. It had the capacity to balance impe rial books, attract a seemingly endless number of customers, and, in a world where cargo space, like time, was money, take up little if any of the room on the ships of merchant princes, smugglers, and pirates. And, like all truly empire friendly products, it …
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity: Studies of Imperial and Republican Beijing in Perspective Yamin Xu (bio) Madeleine Yue Dong. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxiii, 380 pp. Cloth $50.00/£32.50, ISBN 0-520-23050-7. Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxxv, 816 pp. Cloth $85.00/£55.00, ISBN 0-520…
Unreason within Reason
Reviews 107 some prevailing assumptions about the study of contemporary Chinese literature in these three "worlds." The greatest merits ofthe book are its comparative mode and its emphasis on the cultural elements that help shape its content. The editor as well as the contributors have certainly done a commendable job in presenting new perspectives and insightful readings of contemporary Chinese literature. Most of the contributors to the book af…
The Propensity of Things
458 China Review International: Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1996 François Jullien. The Propensity ofThings: Toward a History ofEfficacy in China. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York: Zone Books, 1995. 317 pp. Hardcover $24.95, isbn 0-942299-94-9. François Jullien is one of our most powerful interpreters of Chinese culture, and this new study, a sequel to his Procès ou création, is again a tour de force. That is, the book itselfis an object lesson in the …
Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts
Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts Stanley E. Henning (bio) The Chinese martial arts are among the oldest elements of Chinese culture, tracing their origins to China's earliest recorded dynasty and still performed today in forms modified over the centuries. Originally practiced in a rough-and-tumble environment where strength and bravery were highly valued, these skills were used in hand-to-hand combat among the large infantry forces pi…
Bird in a Cage
Human Rights and Asian Values
Human Rights and Asian Values:The Limits of Universalism Randall Peerenboom Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, editors. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii, 394 pp. Paperback $21.95, ISBN 0-521-64536-0. The swift rise of human rights as a normative benchmark for any government claiming legitimacy must surely rank as one of the most inspiring humanitarian stories of all time. Given the domi…
Civil Society in China
Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study Guobin Yang (bio) Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, editors. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix, 449 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0521474108. Paperback, ISBN 0521479436. Deborah S. Davis , editor. The Consum…
Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism
Reviewed by: Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise Albert Welter (bio) Robert H. Sharf . Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 14. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xiii, 400 pp. Hardcover $47.00, ISBN 0-8248-2443-1. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is a welcome addition to the growing number of stud…
Economic Cold War
Reviewed by: Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1949-1963 Yongjin Zhang (bio) Shu Guang Zhang . Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1949-19763. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 375 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0-8047-3930-7. In Economic Cold War, Shu Guang Zhang has set out to write a definitive history of a lar…
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs
Reviewed by: Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China Yamin Xu (bio) Robert J. Antony and Jane Kate Leonard, editors. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2002. xiii, 333 pp. Hardcover $32.00, ISBN 1-885445-43-1. Paperback $19.00, ISBN 1-885445-14-8. This collection of essays i…
Effortless Action
Reviewed by: Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Erin Cline (bio) Edward Slingerland . Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 352 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-19-513899-6. In Effortless Action Edward Slingerland sets out to accomplish two goals, the first of which is to present a systematic account of the rol…
Opium, Empire, and Modern History
© 2004 by University ofHawai'i Press Opium was, in the nineteenth century, one of the most empire-friendly com modities circulating in the global economy. It had the capacity to balance impe rial books, attract a seemingly endless number of customers, and, in a world where cargo space, like time, was money, take up little if any of the room on the ships of merchant princes, smugglers, and pirates. And, like all truly empire friendly products, it …
Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China
Reviewed by: Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Susan Whitfield (bio) Ning Qiang . Art, Religion and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xv, 178 pp. Hardcover $39.00, ISBN 0-8248-2703-1. Every so often there is an archaeological find that proves so important as to attract the attention of a body of scholars devoted to interpr…
Opium and China Revisited
Opium and China Revisited:How Sophisticated Was Qing Thinking in Matters of Drug Control? Joshua A. Fogel (bio) Inoue Hiromasa 井上裕正 . Shindai ahen seisaku shi no kenkyū 清代アヘ ン政策史の研究 (Studies in the history of Qing policy toward Opium). Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2004. 328 pp. ¥5500, ISBN 4-876980-520-0. Recent years have witnessed something of a turnaround in scholarship regarding China's relationship with the outside world. During the Mao ye…
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity
Urban Communities, State, Spatial Order, and Modernity: Studies of Imperial and Republican Beijing in Perspective Yamin Xu (bio) Madeleine Yue Dong. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxiii, 380 pp. Cloth $50.00/£32.50, ISBN 0-520-23050-7. Susan Naquin. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxxv, 816 pp. Cloth $85.00/£55.00, ISBN 0-520…
Zhuangzi
Reviewed by: Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries Bryan W. Van Norden (bio) Brook Ziporyn , trans. Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2009. xviii, 238 pp. Hardcover $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87220-912-1. Paperback $14.95, ISBN 978-0-87220-911-4. Every translation is guided by previous commentaries, whether this is made explicit or not…
China’s Silent Army
Reviewed by: China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers, and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing’s Image by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo Franklin J. Woo (bio) Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo. China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers, and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing’s Image. Translated by Catherine Mansfield. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013. xiv, 350 pp. Hardcover $26.00, isbn 978…
“Defending Political Equality
“Defending Political Equality: A Confucian Democratic Response to Bai Tongdong’s Proposal of Hybrid Regime” Elton Chan (bio) Tongdong Bai. Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xxiv, 315 pp. Hardcover $39.95, isbn 978-0-691-19599-5. Introduction It is an increasing consensus that liberal democracy is once again in crisis (Loughlin 2019; Rich 2017, pp. 2–25; Wike and Fetterolf 2018). Climb…