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Reviews - Pre-1949 China
Keliher, The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, 2019
November 4, 2021
This review by Jennifer H. Day was published on H-Asia and is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
Chou, Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain, 2018
September 29, 2021
Wen-shing Chou's study of Mount Wutai was reviewed by Yong Cho for the History of Buddhism discussion list and is republished here by Creative Commons license.
Burton-Rose on Dai, The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, 2019
December 31, 2019
Yingcong Dai. The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China. seattle University of Washington Press, 2019. 664 pp.
Nakajima, Body, Society, and Nation: The Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 2018.
December 16, 2019
Chieko Nakajima's book was reviewed by John Knight for the History of Socialisms discussion list. It is reprinted here by Creative Commons license.
Mühlhahn, Making China Modern - From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, 2019
October 23, 2019
David Buck reviewed Klaus Mühlhahn's book for the History of Asia discussion list. The review is republished here via Creative Commons license.
Yang and Sheel and Sheel, Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World, 2017
September 26, 2019
This review by Emily Whewell was originally published on the History of Asia discussion list and is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
Wang, In the Wake of the Mongols - The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600, 2018
December 1, 2018
Jinping Wang's book was reviewed by Timothy May for the History of Asia discussion list and is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
Davis, Imperial Bandits - Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands, 2017
December 31, 2017
Bradley Camp Davis's book was reviewed for the History of Asia network by Joshua Herr. It is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
Xu, Asia and the Great War, 2017
January 24, 2017
Xu Guoqi's book was reviewed for the history of war discussion list by Joseph Fonesca. It is reprinted via Creative Commons.
Zhang, The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128, 2016.
December 31, 2016
Mahesh Rangarajan reviewed Ling Zhang's book for the History of Asia discussion list. It is republished here via Creative Commons license.
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