Writing Geography in Early Medieval China
A review of Patterns of the Earth: Writing Geography in Early Medieval China, by David Jonathan Felt. In hardly any other period was China more...
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A review of Gold and Silver Production in Imperial China: Technological choices in their social-economic and environmental settings, by Liu Siran. Liu Siran’s thesis presents...
View ArticleA History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China
A review of Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China, by Norman Apter. The following review of Norman Apter’s...
View ArticleSketching & Socialist Realist Painting in the Early People’s Republic of China
A review of Drawing from Life: Mass Sketching and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua in the Early People’s Republic of China (1949-1965), by Christine...
View ArticlePastoral Adaptations in Northern Mongolia
A review of Modeling Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Pastoral Adaptations in Northern Mongolia’s Darkhad Depression, by Julia K. Clark. Mongolia has long proved fertile...
View ArticleExperimental Photography of Ruins in China
A review of Building a History of Experimental Photography of Ruins in Chinese Demolition, by Xavier Ortells-Nicolau. “A philosopher who has evolved his entire thinking...
View ArticleNetworks and Nomadism in Present-Day Inner Mongolia: The Evenki of China
A review of Échanges marchands, réseaux relationnels et nomadisme contemporain chez les Evenk de Chine (Mongolie-Intérieure) (Trade exchanges, relation networks and contemporary nomadism among the...
View ArticleFinding a Place Called Home in Contemporary Hong Kong Activist Theatre
A review of Performing the City: Finding a Place Called Home in Contemporary Hong Kong Activist Theatre, by Linda Lau Linda Lau’s thesis, Performing the...
View ArticleTracing Visions
Tracing Visions In June 1936, on an overcast day in Hebei, North China, a small group of American Presbyterian missionaries gathered for a photograph. They...
View ArticleSexuality, HIV/AIDS, and Civil Society in China
A Review of Inside the Circle: Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and Civil Society in Post-Socialist Northwest China, by Casey J. Miller. Although gays and lesbians in the...
View ArticleWhy Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How?
Why Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How? Maps show historical continuity. Here is a map of high speed railways in China...
View ArticleRed Tourism in China
A review of Production, Transmission, and Consumption of Red Tourism in China: A Model of the Circuit of Red Heritage and Tourism, by Shengnan Zhao....
View ArticleDHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals
DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central...
View ArticleCommodifying Religion in the People’s Republic of China
A review of Commodifying Mount Putuo: State Nationalism, Religious Tourism, and Buddhist Revival, by Courtney Bruntz. In this dissertation, Courtney Bruntz analyzes the contemporary tourism...
View ArticleYoung Women’s Migration in Modern China
A review of Young Women’s Migration in Modern China: From Rural Villages to Factories in Urban Cities, by Juan Zhong. The present dissertation by Juan...
View ArticlePaintings of Zhong Kuai and Demons in 11th to 14th Century China
A Review of Imagining the Supernatural Grotesque: Paintings of Zhong Kui and Demons in the Late Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties, by Chun-yi...
View ArticleThe Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
A review of The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia). In July 2013, I embarked on a PhD research on...
View ArticleEducating the Masses in China
A review of The Politics of Education: Popular Education, Quotidian Experience, and Contention over the Masses in China, 1927–1937, by Miao Feng. During the “Nanjing...
View ArticleJapanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan
A review of Marshaling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan, by Winifred Kai-wen Chang. Winifred Chang’s dissertation is a reexamination of the centrality...
View ArticleState-Building and Smuggling in Republican China
A review of Smuggling, State-Building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1927-1949, by Philip Thai. The history of smuggling in China offers an intriguing window...
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