Madness in Republican China
A review of Spits, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican Beijing, 1912-1938, by Emily Lauren Baum.…
Oil, Ore & State-building in Xinjiang 1893-1964
A review of Staking Claims to China’s Borderland: Oil, Ores, and State-building in Xinjiang Province, 1893-1964, by Judd Creighton Kinzley.…
Modern China’s Encounter with the World
A review of Internalizing the West: Qing Envoys and Ministers in Europe, 1866-1893, by Jenny Zhengzheng Huangfu. In the mid-1980s,…
Chinese POWs in the Korean War
A review of To Return Home or “Return to Taiwan”: Conflicts and Survival in the “Voluntary Repatriation” of Chinese POWs…
Communist Takeover of Hainan Island
A review of Culturing Revolution: the Local Communists of China’s Hainan Island, by Jeremy Andrew Murray. In Culturing Revolution, Jeremy…
Chinese Rule in Xinjiang, 1884-1971
A review of Empire Besieged: The Preservation of Chinese Rule in Xinjiang, 1884-1971, by Justin Jacobs. In comparison with its…
Chasing Snails in the People’s Republic
A Review of Chasing Snails: Anti-Schistosomiasis Campaigns in the People’s Republic of China, by MIRIAM GROSS. At the heart of…
Motion Pictures & the Chinese Propaganda State
A review of International and Wartime Origins of the Propaganda State: The Motion Picture in China, 1897-1955, by MATTHEW DAVID JOHNSON. …
Urban-Rural Divide in China
A review of Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide in Twentieth Century China, by JEREMY BROWN. In this well-written and extensively documented dissertation,…