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2024
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation, by Sheldon H. Lu. Reviewed by Chuanhui Meng (Brown University)
One Man Talking: Selected Essays by Shao Xunmei, 1929-1939, by Shao Xunmei; edited and translated by Paul Bevan and Susan Daruvala. Reviewed by Charles Laughlin (University of Virginia).
Finding Asia and the Concrete Universal: A Review Essay (treating How Asia Found Herself, by Nile Green, and Asia after Europe, by Sugata Bose). Reviewed by Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Shifts of Power: Modern Chinese Thought and Society, by Luo Zhitian; translated by Lane J. Harris and Mei Chun. Reviewed by Theodore D. Huters (UCLA).
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everday China, 1900-1945, by Di Luo. Reviewed by Frederik H. Green (San Francisco State University).
Shanghai Urban Life and Its Heterogeneous Cultural Entanglements, by Xiong Yuezhi; translated by Lane J. Harris and Mei Chun. Reviewed by Andrea Janku (SOAS).
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality, edited by Jamie J. Zhao and Hongwei Bao. Reviewed by Chris Berry (King’s College London).
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker’s Studio: Essays on China and the World, by Liang Qichao; edited and translated by Peter Zarrow. Reviewed by Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics).
When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature, by Hui-Lin Hsi. Reviewed by Robin L. Visser (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
Hong Kong Media and Asia’s Cold War, by Po-Shek Fu. Reviewed by Man-Fung Yip (University of Oklahoma).
Theater and Politics in Socialist China: A Revew Essay (treating Resisting Spirits, by Maggie Greene, Transforming Tradition, by Siyuan Liu, and Performing the Socialist State, by Xiaomei Chen). Reviewed by Letizia Fusini (SOAS).
Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations, by Jay Ke-Schutte. Reviewed by Ruodi Duan (Haverford College).
Utopian Fiction in China: Genre, Print Culture and Knowledge Formation, 1902-1912, by Shuk Man Leung. Reviewed by Hang Tu (National University of Singapore).
Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture, by Magnus Fiskesjö. Reviewed by Mark Bender (The Ohio State University).
Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature, by Cheow Thia Chan. Reviewed by Carlos Rojas (Duke University).
Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, by Zhiyi Yang. Reviewed by Haihong Yang (University of Deleware).
Zodiac, a Graphic Memoir, by Ai Weiwei, with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini. Reviewed by Sean Macdonald (Huron University College).
Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. Reviewed by Melody Yunzi Li (University of Houston).
A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature, by Wu Fuhui; tr. by Rui (Myra) Ma. Reviewed by Thomas Moran (Middlebury College).
2023
I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo, by Perry Link and Wu Dazhi. Reviewed by Jeffrey C. Kinkley (St. John’s University).
Shakespeare and East Asia, by Alexa Alice Joubin. Reviewed by Yu Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales, by Vasily Eroshenko; translated by Adam Kaplowsky. Reviewed by Roy Chan (University of Oregon).
Hospital, by Han Song; translated by Michael Berry. Reviewed by Mingwei Song (Wellesley College).
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu. Reviewed by Gina Anne Tam (Trinity University).
States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century, by Adhira Mangalagiri. Reviewed by Wenjin Cui (University of New Hampshire).
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination, by Haiyan Lee. Reviewed by Paul Katz (Academia Sinica).
Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere, edited by Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau. Reviewed by Kyle Shernuk (Georgetown University).
Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, by Thomas Chen. Reviewed by Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University).
Taiwanese Literature as World Literature, edited by Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li. Reviewed by Lingchei Letty Chen (Washington University in St. Louis).
Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age, by Jason McGrath. Reviewed by Victor Fan (King’s College).
32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema, edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin. Reviewed by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley (SOAS).
Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation, by Carles Prado-Fonts. Reviewed by Miaowei Weng (Southern Connecticut State University).
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus, by Petrus Liu. Reviewed by Wenqing Kang (Cleveland State University).
Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959, by Mingwei Song. Reviewed by Pu Wang (Brandeis University).
A History of Taiwan Literature, by Ye Shitao; translated and edited by Christopher Lupke. Reviewed by Po-hsi Chen (University of Cambridge).
Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature, by Jiwei Xiao. Reviewed by Paola Iovene (University of Chicago).
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang. Reviewed by Virginia L. Conn (Stevens Institute of Technology).
Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity, by Theodore Huters. Reviewed by Nathaniel Isaacson (North Carolina State University).
Arise, Africa! Roar China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century, by Gao Yunxiang. Reviewed by Emily Wilcox (William & Mary)
Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962, by Gal Gvili. Reviewed by Adhira Mangalagiri (Queen Mary University of London)
Rebel Men: Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, by Pamela Hunt. Reviewed by Jun Lei (Texas A&M)
New World Orderings: China and the Global South, edited by Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas. Reviewed by Kelly A. Hammond (University of Arkansas)
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic, by Xu Xu; translated with commentary by Frederik H. Green. Reviewed by Chris Song (University of Toronto)
Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture, edited by Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang. Reviewed by Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University)
2022
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke, edited by Riccardo Moratto and Howard Yuen Fung Choy. Reviewed by Martina Codeluppi (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria)
Literary Information in China: A History, edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk. Reviewed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution, by Karl Gerth. Reviewed by Ruksana Kibria (University of Dhaka)
Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age, by Shuangyi Li. Reviewed by Robert Moore.
China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision, by Ban Wang. Reviewed by Julia Keblinska (The Ohio State University)
The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, edited by Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang. Reviewed by Dylan Suher (University of Hong Kong)
The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic, by Bryna Goodman. Reviewed by Joan Judge (York University)
Feminism with Chinese Characteristics, edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao. Reviewed by Lina Qu (Michigan State University)
Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn, by John A. Crespi. Reviewed by Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
Realism and Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Fiction: Hu Feng and Lu Ling, by Xiaoping Wang. Reviewed by Yunzhong Shu (Queens College, CUNY)
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943, by Katerina Clark. Reviewed by Xiaolu Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction in 1970s China, by Lena Henningsen. Reviewed by Richard King (University of Victoria)
Urban Horror: Neoliberal Postsocialistm and the Limits of Visibility, by Erin Y. Huang. Reviewed by Hongwei Thorn Chen (Tulane University)
Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China: Learning from the Masses, by Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten. Reviewed by Fa-ti Fan (Binghamton University, SUNY
Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era, edited by Xiaomei Chen, Tarryn Li-min Chun, and Siyuan Liu. Reviewed by Rosemary Roberts (University of Queensland)
Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism: Renaissance or Rehabilitation?, by Wang Xiaoping. Reviewed by Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
2021
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s, by Andrew F. Jones. Reviewed by Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam / Communication University of China).
Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times, By Hui Faye Xiao. Reviewed by Liang Luo (University of Kentucky).
Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities, by Carla Nappi. Reviewed by Lucas Klein (Arizona State University).
Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Yu Zhang. Reviewed by Nicolai Volland (Pennsylvania State University)
Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary Historical Reevaluation, by Hongjian Wang. Reviewed by Nan Hu (Fudan University)
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw, by Hua Li. Reviewed by Yingying Huang (Lafayette College)
Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays, by Liu Zaifu; edited by Howard Y. F. Choy and Liu Jianmei. Reviewed by Carlos Rojas (Duke University)
Contending for the “Chinese Modern”: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949, by Wang Xiaoping. Reviewed by Christopher Rosenmeier (University of Edinburgh)
The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906, by Shaoling Ma. Reviewed by Xuenan Cao (Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Yale University)
Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs, edited by Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein. Reviewed by Michel Hockx (University of Notre Dame)
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chinese Poets since 1949, edited by Christopher Lupke and Thomas Moran. Reviewed by Jenn Marie Nunes (The Ohio State University)
Information Fantasies: Perilous Mediation in Postsocialist China, by Xiao Liu. Reviewed by Rui Kunze (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China, by Christine I. Ho. Reviewed by Alfreda Murck (independent scholar)
Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era, by Jie Li. Reviewed by Kirk A. Denton (The Ohio State University)
A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature, by Fan Boqun. Translated by Dong Xiang and Jihui Wang. Reviewed by John A. Crespi (Colgate University)
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan, by Kirk A. Denton. Reviewed by James Flath (Western University)
On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China, by Emily Sun. Reviewed by Daniel Dooghan (The University of Tampa)
Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Pacific, by Clara Iwasaki. Reviewed by Kyle Shernuk (Yale University)
A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919-2019): English Publication and Reception, edited by Leah Gerber and Lintao Qi. Reviewed by Haiyan Xie (Central China Normal University)
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical: Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices, edited by Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela. Reviewed by Ashley Liu (University of Maryland).
A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune: Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers, by Haosheng Yang. Reviewed by Brian Skerratt (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University)
Remembering and Forgetting the Traumatic Past: A Review Essay. Reviews of The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years, by Lingchei Letty Chen, and Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China, by Margaret Hillenbrand. Reviewed by Kirk A. Denton (The Ohio State University)
Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture, by Shengqing Wu. Reviewed by Jiangtao Gu (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
2020
Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949), by Yan Wei. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kinkley (Portland State University)
The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness, by Lucas Klein. Reviewed by Benjamin Ridgway (Swarthmore College)
Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey, by Chunmei Du. Reviewed by Kristin Stapleton (University of Buffalo)
The Condition of Music and Anglophone Influences in the Poetry of Shao Xunmei, by Tian Jin. Reviewed by Nick Admussen (Cornell University)
China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power, by Gregory B. Lee. Reviewed by Sean Macdonald (SUNY Buffalo)
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City, by Fang Fang; translated by Michael Berry. Reviewed by Howard Y. F. Choy (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989, by Els van Dongen. Reviewed by Brian Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
New Studies in Socialist Performance: A Review Essay. Reviews of Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution, by Xing Fan; and Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy, by Emily Wilcox. Reviewed by Xiaomei Chen (University of California, Davis)
Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People’s Republic of China, by Daniel F. Vukovich. Reviewed by Gabriele De Seta (University of Bergen)
Animation in the Sinosphere: A Revew Essay. Review of Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan, by Teri Silvio, and Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s, by Daisy Yan Du. Reviewed by Evelyn Shih (University of Colorado, Boulder)
After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformaton of Sex in Modern China, by Howard Chiang. Reviewed by Elise Huerta (Stanford University)
Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production, edited by Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith. Reviewed by Pei-Yin Lin (Hong Kong University)
Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958, by Yurou Zhong. Reviewed by Shuheng (Diana) Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body, by Ari Larissa Heinrich. Reviewed by Howard Y. F. Choy (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification, by Eddy U. Reviewed by Sebastian Veg (EHESS)
The Unworthy Scholar of Pingjiang: Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction, by Christopher John Hamm. Reviewed by Roland Altenburger (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism, by Robert Culp. Reviewed by Yue Du (Cornell University)
2019
Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals, by Sebastian Veg. Reviewed by Els van Dongen (Nanyang Technological University)
Chinese Poetic Modernisms, edited by Paul Manfredi and Christopher Lupke. Reviewed by Joanna Krenz (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics, edited by Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei. Reviewed by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk (The Open University of Hong Kong)
Fu Ping, by Wang Anyi. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt. Reviewed by Elena Martín Enebral (Pompeu Fabra University)
Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World, eds. Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky. Reviewed by Anne Witchard (University of Westminster)
The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture, by Pu Wang. Reviewed by Yi Zheng (The University of New South Wales)
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, by Max Oidtmann. Reviewed by Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
Experimental Chinese Literature: Translation, Technology, Poetics, by Tong King Lee. Reviewed by Jacob Edmond (University of Otago)
Mouse vs Cat in Chinese Literature: Tales and Commentary, translated and introduced by Wilt Idema. Reviewed by Xiaorong Li (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities, by Wen Yuan-ning and others, edited by Christopher Rea. Reviewed by Li Guo (Utah State University)
Waste Tide, by Chen Qiufan, tr. by Ken Liu. Reviewed by Cara Healey (Wabash College)
Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family, by Kristin Stapleton. Reviewed by Johanna S. Ransmeier (University of Chicago)
I Love XXX and Other Plays, by Meng Jinghui, edited by Claire Conceison. Reviewed by John B. Weinstein (Bard College)
Boy’s Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, edited by Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao. Reviewed by Shana Ye (University of Toronto)
Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian: A Chinese Perspective on Contemporary Western Scholarship, by Li Xiaojiang; translated by Edward M. Gunn. Reviewed by Yiyan Wang (Victoria University of Wellington)
Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media, by Sean Macdonald. Reviewed by Li Guo (Utah State University)
Fascism in Republican China: A Review Essay. Review of Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937, by Maggie Clinton, and China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New World Order, 1927-1949, by Brian Tsui. Reviewed by Jeremy Tai (McGill University)
Mystifying China’s Southwestern Ethnic Borderlands: Harmonious Heterotopia, by Yuqing Yang. Reviewed by Yanshuo Zhang (Stanford University)
2018
On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s, by Christopher Rosenmeier. Reviewed by Angie Chau (University of Victoria)
Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation, by Lena Scheen. Reviewed by Andrew David Field (Duke Kunshan University)
Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry, by Nick Admussen. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Imagining a Postnational World: Hegemony and Space in Modern China, by Marc Andre Matten. Reviewed by Ban Wang (Stanford University)
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality, by Ling Hon Lam. Reviewed by Haiyan Lee (Stanford University)
A Hero Born: Legends of the Condor I, by Jin Yong; tr. by Anna Holmwood. Reviewed by David Hull (Washington College)
The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection, by Zhang Yingyu; trs. by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk. Reviewed by Yinghui Wu (UCLA)
Writing Beijing: Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films, by Yiran Zheng. Reviewed by Lena Scheen (NYU Shanghai)
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China, by Hongwei Bao. Reviewed by Ari Larissa Heinrich (University of California, San Diego)
Little Reunions. By Eileen Chang. Trs. Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz. Reviewed by Roy Chan (College of William and Mary)
The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry, introduced and edited by Mark Bender. Reviewed by Wei-chieh Tsai (National Chengchi University)
Reading Lu Xun through Carl Jung, by Carolyn T. Brown. Reviewed by Paul B. Foster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Beyond the Iron House: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Literary Field, by Saiyin Sun. Reviewed by Kirk A. Denton (The Ohio State University)
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness, by Lily Wong. Reviewed by Sijia Yao (University of Nebraska)
Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, tr./ed. by Aili Mu and Mike Smith. Reviewed by Yan Liang (Grand Valley State University)
Socialist Consmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965, by Nicolai Volland. Reviewed by Tie Xiao (Indiana University)
Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond, by Chia-rong Wu. Reviewed by Alvin K. Wong (Yonsei University)
The Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics”: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture, edited by Rosemary Roberts and Li Li. Reviewed by Yizhong Gu (University of Washington)
Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture, by Wendy Larson. Reviewed by Chris Berry (King’s College London)
The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China, by Christopher Rea. Reviewed by David Moser (Yenching Academy at Peking University)
Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics, edited by Ban Wang. Reviewed by Salvatore Babones (University of Sydney)
Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China, by Carlos Rojas. Reviewed by Lei Qin (University College Cork)
Hollywood Made in China, by Aynne Kokas. Reviewed by Darrell William Davis (Lingnan University)
2017
Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture, by Haomin Gong and Xin Yang. Reviewed by Jamie J. Zhao (University of Warwick)
Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection, by Aina the Layman, ed. by Robert E. Hegel. Reviewed by S. E. Kile (University of Michigan)
Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics, by Gladys Pak Lei Chong. Reviewed by Wendy Larson (University of Oregon)
The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four, by Alexander C. Cook. Reviewed by Man He (Williams College)
How the Chinese Fell in Love with Love, Caveats and All: Review of When True Love Came to China, by Lynn Pan. Reviewed by Haiyan Lee (Stanford University)
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, by Petrus Liu. Reviewed by Jia Tan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, by Cai Xiang, edited and translated by Rebecca Karl and Xueping Zhong. Reviewed by Nicolai Volland (Pennsylvania State University)
Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution, edited by Jie Li and Enhua Zhang. Reviewed by Xing Fan (University of Toronto)
The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature, by Roy Bing Chan. Reviewed by Laurence Coderre (New York University)
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Migrant Worker Poetry, edited by Qin Xiaoyu, tr. by Eleanor Goodman, and Iron Moon (the film), directed by Qin Xiaoyu and Wu Feiyue. Reviewed by Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)
Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture, by Ping Zhu. Reviewed by Yi Zheng (The University of New South Wales)
Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium, by Jin Liu. Reviewed by Lauren Gorfinkel (Macquarie University)
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China, by Shuyu Kong. Review by Hui Faye Xiao (University of Kansas)
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature, by Brian Bernards. Review by Alison M. Groppe (University of Oregon)
2016
A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature, edited by David Jasper, Geng Youzhuang, and Wang Hai. Review by Joshua Fogel (York University)
The Chinese Political Novel: Migrations of a World Genre, by Catherine Vance Yeh. Review by Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng (City University of Hong Kong)
Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination, by Paize Keulemans. Review by Mengjun Li (University of Puget Sound)
China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters, edited by Christopher Rea. Review by Inhye Han (Humanities Korea Research Professor, Ewha Womans University)
Chen Hengzhe: A Life between Orthodoxies, by Denise Gimpel. Review by Megan M. Ferry (Union College)
The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion, by Christopher Lupke. Reviewed by Frederik H. Green (San Francisco State University)
Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema, by Jean Ma. Reviewed by Victor Fan (King’s College London)
A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938, by Paul Bevan. Reviewed by John A. Crespi (Colgate University)
Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts, by Xiaobing Tang. Reviewed by Wendy Larson (University of Oregon)
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Kirk A. Denton. Reviewed by Edward Mansfield Gunn (Cornell University)
Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature, by Liu Jianmei. Reviewed by Carlos Yu-Kai Lin (University of Pennsylvania)
The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren: The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China, by Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng. Reviewed by Yuehtsen Juliette Chung (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)
Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China, by Rossella Ferrari. Reviewed by Claire Conceison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination, by Haiyan Lee. Reviewed by Jonathan C. Stalling (University of Oklahoma)
Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre, by Mary Mazzilli. Reviewed by Todd J. Coulter (Colby College)
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border, by Tenzin Jinba. Reviewed by Timothy Thurston (Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage)
Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949, edited by Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai. Reviewed by Bert Scruggs (University of California, Irvine)
“Eileen Chang’s Journey into Darkness: A Review of Naked Earth,” by Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University)
Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945, by Weihong Bao. Reviewed by Jean Ma (Stanford University)
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, by Rey Chow. Reviewed by Andrea Riemenschnitter (University of Zurich)
Directory of World Cinema, China 2, edited by Gary Bettinson. Reviewed by Hongmei Yu (Luther College)
Last Words from Montmartre, by Qiu Miaojin, tr. by Ari Larissa Heinrich. Reviewed by Petrus Liu (Yale-NUS)
Li Ang’s Visionary Challenge to Gender, Sex, and Politics, edited by Yenna Wu. Reviewed by Chia-lan Sharon Wang (Feng Chia University)
“Gao Xingjian’s Theatrical Portrayals of the Female Psyche: A Review of City of the Dead and Song of the Night.” Reviewed by Jianmei Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China, by Alison M. Groppe. Reviewed by Tzu-hui Celina Hung (NYU Shanghai)
2015
The Three-Body Trilogy: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End, by Liu Cixin. Reviewed by Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)
Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China, by Zhiguang Yin. Reviewed by Liang Luo (University of Kentucky)
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone, by Naktsang Nulo. Translated by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo. Reviewed by Kevin Carrico (University of Oklahoma)
Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong, by Jeremy Ingalls. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Tapestry of Light: Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution, by Yiju Huang. Reviewed by Rebecka Eriksson (Lund University)
Memory, Subjectivity, and Independent Chinese Cinema, by Qi Wang. Reviewed by Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)
Cultural and Social Transformations: Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context, edited by Cao Tianyu, Zhong Xueping, Liao Kebin, and Ban Wang. Reviewed by Xiaoning Lu (SOAS, University of London)
“Modern “Archaics”: A New Look at the Poets of the “Old Schools” and their Successor: a review essay of Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900-1937,” by Shengqing Wu. Reviewed by Jon Eugene von Kowallis (University of New South Wales)
Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun’s Refusal to Mourn, by Eileen J. Cheng. Reviewed by Yiju Huang (Fordham University)
From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China, by Wendy Larson. Reviewed by Ban Wang (Stanford University)
Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China, by Kirk A. Denton. Reviewed by Joseph R. Allen (University of Minnesota)
Translating Feminism in China: Gender, Sexuality and Censorship, by Zhongli Yu. Reviewed by Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979, by Zhuoyi Wang. Reviewed by Jessica Ka Yee Chan (University of Richmond)
“Rethinking the Zombie: Response to Joshua Fogel,” by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider.
Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels, by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Reviewed by Michael S. Duke (emeritus University of British Columbia)
The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia. Edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider. Reviewed by Joshua Fogel (York University)
Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 / 1950-2000 (Dictionary of Literary Biography). Edited by Thomas Moran / Thomas Moran and Ye (Dianna) Xu. Reviewed by Michael Hill (University of South Carolina)
Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, by Hui Faye Xiao. Reviewed by Yipeng Shen (Trinity College)
Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China, edited by Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang. Reviewed by Jie Lu (University of the Pacific)
Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism, by Ming Dong Gu. Reviewed by Gang Zhou (Louisiana State University)
Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria, by Ying Xiong. Reviewed by Norman Smith (University of Guelph)
The Avant-garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics, by Liang Luo. Reviewed by Rossella Ferrari (SOAS, University of London)
Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over Modernity in China, by Sean Hsiang-lin Lei. Reviewed by Emily E. Wilcox (University of Michigan)
The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao), by Nicholas A. Kaldis. Reviewed by John Crespi (Colgate University)
Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence, by Gloria Davies. Reviewed by Eileen J. Cheng (Pomona College)
2014
Tales of Future Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China, by Paola Iovene. Reviewed by Nathaniel Kenneth Isaacson (North Carolina State University)
The Man with the Compound Eyes, by Wu Ming-yi. Reviewed by Corey Byrnes (Northwestern University)
From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan, by Zhong Lihe. Reviewed by John Balcom (Monterey Institute for International Studies)
Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalism, by Wen Jin. Reviewed by E. K Tan (Stony Brook University)
劉以鬯與香港現代主義 (Liu Yichang and Hong Kong Modernism), edited by Leung Ping-kwan et al. Reviewed by Au Chung-to (The Hong Kong Institute of Education)
Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, by Jin Feng. Reviewed by Heather Inwood (University of Manchester)
Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist. New Translations and an Appreciation, edited and translated by Andrew David Field. Reviewed by Frederik H. Green (San Francisco State University)
Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Socialism, 1945-80, by Richard King. Reviewed by Roy Bing Chan (University of Oregon)
Modern Poetry in China: A Verbal-Visual Dynamic, by Paul Manfredi. Reviewed by Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)
A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture, by Barbara Mittler. Reviewed by Xueping Zhong (Tufts University)
Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture, by Andrea Bachner. Reviewed by Edward McDonald (University of Sydney)
A Phone Call from Dalian, by Han Dong. Edited by Nicky Harmon. Trs. Nicky Harman, Maghiel van Crevel, Yu Yan Chen, Naikan Tao, Tony Prince, and Michael Day.Reviewed by Lucas Klein (The University of Hong Kong)
Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China, by Siyuan Liu. Reviewed by John B. Weinstein (Bard College at Simon’s Rock / Dean of Bard High School Early College—Newark)
寫在窗框的詭話 / The Uncanny on the Frame, by Esther M. K. Cheung. Reviewed by Lucas Klein (The University of Hong Kong)
Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, edited by W. N. Herbert and Yang Lian, with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu. Reviewed by Liansu Meng (University of Connecticut)
Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of the Modern Chinese Culture, by Michael Gibbs Hill. Reviewed by Denise Gimpel (University of Copenhagen)
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, by Kwai-Cheung Lo. Reviewed by Liansu Meng (University of Connecticut)
Modernity with a Cold War Face: Remimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide, by Xiaojue Wang. Reviewed by Jeffrey C. Kinkley (St. John’s University, New York)
Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China, by Yui-Wai Chu. Reviewed by David Desser (Chapman University)
On Literary Worlds, by Eric Hayot. Reviewed by Nick Admussen (Cornell University)
2013
Zhong Biao: The Universe of Unreality, by Gary Gang Xu. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University)
Restless China, edited by Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz. Reviewed by R. Bin Wong (UCLA)
Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation, translated by Mabel Lee. Reviewed by Kwok-kan Tam (Open University of Hong Kong)
Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842-1943, by Emma Jinhua Teng. Reviewed by Beth Lew-Williams (Northwestern University)
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, edited by Lydia Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. Reviewed by Tani Barlow (Rice University)
“Literary Identity/Cultural Identity: Being Chinese in the Contemporary World.” Review essay by Arif Dirlik (Independent Scholar, Eugene, Or)
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, edited by Lydia Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. Reviewed by Shaoling Ma (Penn State University)
Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World, by E. K. Tan. Reviewed by Karen Thornber (Harvard University)
Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History, by Petrus Liu. Reviewed by Paul B. Foster (Georgia Institute of Technology)
An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics, by Perry Link. Reviewed by David Porter (University of Michigan)
China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions, edited by Ban Wang and Jie Lu. Reviewed by Xiaobing Tang (University of Michigan)
Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts in the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966), by Krista Van Fleit Hang. Reviewed by Richard King (University of Victoria)
Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China’s Path to Modernity, 1905-1911, by Tze-ki Hong. Reviewed by Peter Zarrow (Institute of Modern History, Academica Sinica)
Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception, by Gloria Bien. Reviewed by Nick Admussen (Cornell University)
Putting Hong Kong’s New Cultural Activism on the Literary Map: Review Essay (review of books by Dung Kai-cheung and Leung Ping-kwan). Reviewed by Sebastian Veg (French Centre of Research on Contemporary China)
A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Translation, by Jacob Edmond. Reviewed by Jonathan Stalling (University of Oklahoma)
The Flower Princess: A Cantonese Opera by Tong Dik Sang, translated by Bell Yung, with assistance from Sonia Ng and Katherine Carlitze. Reviewd by Liana Chen (George Washington University)
Human, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays, edited by Christopher Rea. Reviewed by Shuang Shen (Penn State University)
Winter Sun: Poems, by Shi Zhi. Tr. Jonathan Stalling. Reviewed by Birgit Linder (City University of Hong Kong)
Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China, by Rui Kunze. Reviewed by Lucas Klein (City University of Hong Kong)
Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres, edited by Kam Louie. Reviewed by Rui Kunze (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C., by Daniel Vukovich. Reviewd by Maggie Clinton (Middlebury College)
2012
The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness, by Viren Murthy. Reviewed by Hung-yok Ip (Oregon State University)
Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa, by Ufrieda Ho. Reviewed by Tu Huynh (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rhodes University)
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction, by Sabina Knight. Reviewed by Li-Hua Ying (Bard College)
The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature: Three Studies / The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice. By Mark Gamsa. Reviewed by Roy Chan (The College of William and Mary)
The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in a Changing World, by Ruru Li. Reviewed by Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia)
Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature, by Gang Zhou. Reviewed by Jon Eugene von Kowallis (University of New South Wales/University of Georgia)
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China, edited and translated by Shouhua Qi. Reviewed by Jennifer Feeley (University of Iowa)
The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism, by Yachen Chen. Reviewed by Ming-Bao Yue (University of Hawaii)
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, by Liu Xiaobo; edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia. Reviewed by Julia Lovell (University of London)
Translation Zones in Modern China: Authoritarian Command versus Gift Exchange, by Bonnie S. McDougall. Reviewed by Douglas Robinson (Lingnan University)
Over Autumn Rooftops: Poems of Haizi. Tr. Dan Murphy. Reviewed by Michelle Yeh (Univesity of California, Davis)
Touches of History: An Entry into ‘May Fourth’ China, by Chen Pingyuan. Trs. Michel Hockx, Maria af Sandeberg, Ugana Sze Pui Kwan, Christopher Neil Payne, and Christopher Rosenmeier. Reviewed by Tze-ki Hon (State University of New York at Geneseo)
Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-era China, by Xueping Zhong. Reviewed by Wei Yang (University of the South)
The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity, by Charles Laughlin. Reviewed by John A. Crespi (Colgate University)
Once on a Moonless Night. by Dai Sijie. Tr. by Adriana Hunter. Reviewed by Cecile Lagesse (Yale University)
2011
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)
2010
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)
2009
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)
2008
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).
2007
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, edited 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).
2006
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)
2005
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 byMegan Ferry (Union College)
Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural Asia, edited 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]
2004
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 Yu Hua. To Live. Tr. by Michael Berry (New York: Anchor Books, 2003); Chronicle of a Blood Merchant. Tr. Andrew F. Jones (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).