BOOK REVIEWS

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

1 Xiaofei Tian, Tao Yuanming & Manuscript Culture: The Records of a Dusty Table (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005); Christopher M. B. Nugent, Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011).

2 Peter K. Bol, “This Culture of Ours:” Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998); Ari Daniel Levine, Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008).

3 See, for example, Yuming He, Home and the World: Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013) for an excellent investigation of the interactions between printing, consumption, and textual editing in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

1 Recent studies of Liu Hongsheng’s business empire include: Kai Yiu Chan, Business Exchange and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Sherman Cochran, “China Match Company,” in Encountering Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 147–76.

2 The period under the People’s Republic of China has appeared in Sherman Cochran, “Capitalists Choosing Communist China: The Liu Family of Shanghai, 1948–1950,” in Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China, edited by Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), 359–85.

1 Dai Sijie, Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Paris: Gallimard, 2000); translated from the French by Ina Rilke as Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (New York: Anchor 2001), quote at pp. 5–6.

2 Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).