Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

上海、香港、東京における独身女性、機会、家族
Nakano, Lynne Y., Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. 256 pp. 2022:3 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <672-729>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8996-8 hard ¥14,137.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

In East Asia's largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. Labeled in the media as "loser dogs" and "parasites" in Japan and "leftover women" in mainland China and Hong Kong, single women in East Asia are criticized for being choosy, selfish, and overly independent. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, Making Our Own Destiny is the first study to comprehensively compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities-cities that stand at the forefront of the region's movement toward later marriage and rising singlehood.This well-researched book explores how single women attempt to take advantage of unprecedented opportunities for success in education and work while navigating marriage and family expectations. Unlike their counterparts in Europe and North America, many do not have romantic partners and most do not have children. What do these women want? How do they see themselves and their place in society? What are their values, goals, and dreams? As they work to balance opportunities with expectations, single women in urban East Asia find themselves deeply embedded in the caregiving systems of their societies. In Shanghai, author Lynne Nakano finds single women rushing to marry to enter intergenerational relationships of care. In Hong Kong, they consider the risks of marriage as they tend to the needs of natal and extended families. In Tokyo, many single women hope to marry to have children while others find a place for themselves in their families as elder caregivers.Nakano's intimate portrayals not only expose meticulously planned family strategies gone awry, engagements broken, and careers abandoned, but also highlight the experiences of women embracing the joys of remaining single. Hers is a fascinating study of modern women finding meaning in their lives while offering an insightful glimpse into the future of urban families in an age of low fertility and long transitions into adulthood.

Barbieri-Low, Anthony J., The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. 376 pp. 2022:9 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-735>
ISBN 978-0-295-75022-4 hard ¥13,513.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of the warring states of ancient China, creation of an imperial system that endured for two millennia, and unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single writing system.Only one biased historical account, written a century after his death in 210 BCE, narrates his biography. Recently, however, archaeologists have revealed the lavish pits associated with his tomb and documents that demonstrate how his dynasty functioned. Debates about the First Emperor have raged since shortly after his demise, making him an ideological slate upon which politicians, revolutionaries, poets, painters, archaeologists, and movie directors have written their own biases, fears, and fantasies.This book is neither a standard biography nor a dynastic history. Rather, it looks historically at interpretations of the First Emperor in history, literature, archaeology, and popular culture as a way to understand the interpreters as much as the subject of their interpretation.

Chan, Kelly Kar Yue / Garfield Lau, Chi Sum (eds.), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality. (Chinese Culture 3) 199 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-736>
ISBN 978-981-16-8374-9 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue. The assessment of cultural exchange in the East-West context involves the original source, the adapted text, and other enigmatic extras incurred during the process. It aims to evaluate the linkage among, but not limited to, literature, film, music, art, and performance. The sections unpack how canonical texts can be read anew in modern society; how ideas can be circulated around the world based on translation, adaptation, and reinvention; and how the global networks of circulation can facilitate cultural interaction and intervention. The authors engage discussions on longstanding debates and controversies relating to Chinese literature as world literature; reconciliations of cultural identity under the contemporary waves ofglobalization and glocalization; Chinese-Western film adaptations and their impact upon cinematic experiences; an understanding of gendered roles and voices under the social gaze; and the translation of texts from intertextual angles. An enriching intellectual, intertextual resource for researchers and students enthusiastic about the adaptation and transformation process of different genres, this book is a must-have for Sinophiles. It will appeal to world historians interested in the global networks of connectivity, scholars researching cultural life in East Asia, and China specialists interested in cultural studies, translation, and film, media and literary studies.

Chiu, Stephen WK / Siu, Kaxton YK, Hong Kong Society: Our Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West. (Hong Kong Studies Reader Series) 404 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-737>
ISBN 978-981-16-5706-1 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book borrows the concept of "high-definition" from digital broadcasting to highlight our unique approach to Hong Kong society, which gives a sharper image than analyses. It intends to highlight contrasts with many common and taken-for-granted stories, myths and representations of Hong Kong- which often presented with a low level of detail, lacking proper connections between grounded personal experiences and the macro social context. With chapters covering various salient dimensions of Hong Kong's society, including migration, economy, inequality, identity and social movements, our "high-definition" approach presents images with high enough "resolution" to match multiple layers of experiences from walks of life of Hong Kong people, contributing to an understanding of how global transformation impacts local people's experiences, as well as Hong Kong's significance in the regional and global system.

Fiskesjoe, Magnus, Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture. (Asian Anthropologies 12) 414 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-739>
ISBN 978-1-78920-887-0 hard ¥31,185.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own, and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. Their mythology suggests their land is the first place inhabited by humans, which they care for on behalf of the world. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world's troubles and the lessons others might learn from it. It also presents a new interpretation of Wa headhunting, questioning explanations that see it as a primitive custom, and instead placing it within the fraught history of the last few centuries.

中国の極右の形成と解体　1918～51年
Hirayama, Nagatomi, The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918-1951. 275 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <672-742>
ISBN 978-1-009-09871-7 hard ¥22,050.- (税込) GB￡ 78.00 *

Utilising archives in mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and the USA, Nagatomi Hirayama examines the pivotal role of the Chinese Youth Party in China in the transformative years 1918-51. Tracing the party's birth in 1923 during the May Fourth movement, its revolutionary path to the late 1930s, and its de-radicalization in the 1940s, Hirayama discusses the emergence of the Chinese Youth Party as a robust revolutionary movement on the right, characterized by its cultural conservatism, political intellectualism, and national socialism. Although its history is relatively unknown, Hirayama argues that the Chinese Youth Party represented a serious competitor to the Chinese Communist Party and Guomindang, and proved to be of particular significance during World War II and China's Civil War. Shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party provides a significant lens through which to view the Chinese radical right in the first half of the twentieth century.

Liu, Yihong, Crisis Rhetoric and Policy Change in China. (Governing China in the 21st Century) 253 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-745>
ISBN 978-981-16-7762-5 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book explores how China's political system responds to crisis. A crisis is an episode whose impact cannot be controlled merely by astute on-the-ground incident management, particularly in cases involving widespread doubt about the legitimacy of established policy paradigms or the political order as a whole. Crisis can create "political windows" for advocacy groups challenging established policies in pluralist democracies. The political battle between competing definitions of an uncertain and ambiguous situation among the various actors provides them with crisis-induced opportunity space for dramatic policy change. However, the process of crisis-induced policy change, mainly by crisis framing, in non-west regimes like China has not been adequately addressed. As China's leadership foregrounds legitimacy in "victory" over COVID-19, and a new era of climate change disasters begins, this dynamic model of crisis and recuperation will offer food for thought for scholars of Chinese andglobal politics.

Lu Rong, A Ming Confucian's World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden. Tr. & intro. by M. Halperin. 200 pp. 2022:5 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-746>
ISBN 978-0-295-74992-1 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-74993-8 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A forgotten century marks the years between the Ming dynasty's (1368-1644) turbulent founding and its sixteenth-century age of exploration and economic transformation. In this period of social stability, retired scholar-official Lu Rong chronicled his observations of Chinese society in Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden (Shuyuan zaji). Openly expressing his admirations and frustrations, Lu provides a window into the quotidian that sets Bean Garden apart from other works of the biji genre of "informal notes."Mark Halperin organizes a translated selection of Lu's records to create a panorama of Ming life. A man of unusual curiosity, Lu describes multiple social classes, ethnicities, and locales in his accounts of political intrigues, farming techniques, religious practices, etiquette, crime, and family life. Centuries after their composition, Lu's words continue to provide a richly textured portrait of China on the cusp of the early modern era.The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

Rogaski, Ruth, Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland. 440 pp. 2022:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <672-751>
ISBN 978-0-226-80965-6 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Making sense of nature in one of the world's most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War, Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of a little-known but historically important Asian landscape. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria's multiple environments. Covering more than 500,000 square miles, Manchuria's landscapes include temperate rainforests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. With analysis spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, Ruth Rogaski reveals how an array of historical actors-Chinese poets, Manchu shamans, Russian botanists, Korean mathematicians, Japanese bacteriologists, American paleontologists, and indigenous hunters-made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge, and thus the nature of Manchuria itself, changed over time, from a sacred "land where the dragon arose" to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic "wasteland" to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation.

Song, Geng, Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity. (China Understandings Today) 240 pp. 2022:5 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <672-755>
ISBN 978-0-472-07529-4 hard ¥15,592.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05529-6 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment industry and a new symbol and carrier of China's soft power. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society. Using first-hand data collected through interviews and focus group discussions with audiences comprising viewers of different ages, genders, and educational backgrounds, Televising Chineseness sheds light on how television culture relates to the power mechanisms and truth regimes that shape the understanding of gender and the construction of gendered subjects in postsocialist China.

Song, Jianzhong, Shipwreck Archaeology in China Sea. (The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation 5) 277 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-756>
ISBN 978-981-16-8674-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book initiatively and systematically presents the latest discoveries in the context of shipwreck archaeology in China, telling the exciting story of the wrecks' distribution, connotation and the research advances and empirically reconstructing the development of overseas trade and maritime cultures along the Maritime Silk Road, which flourished for more than 2000 years. The book features numerous high-quality images and comprehensively describes and reviews the development of the methodologies and technologies used in China's underwater archaeology and underwater cultural heritage administration in recent decades.

Swancutt, Katherine (ed.), Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling. (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 11) 240 pp. 2021:10 (Berghahn, US) <672-757>
ISBN 978-1-80073-237-7 hard ¥28,066.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

Wang, Ban, China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision. (Sinotheory) 232 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-758>
ISBN 978-1-4780-0980-1 hard ¥21,402.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1084-5 paper ¥5,602.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning "all under heaven," has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as key to overcoming interstate conflict, social fragmentation, and ethnic divides. Instead of geopolitical dominance, China's worldviews stem as much from the age-old desire for world unity as from absorbing the Western ideas of the Enlightenment, humanism, and socialism. Examining political writings, literature, and film, Wang presents a narrative of the country's pursuits of decolonization, national independence, notions of national form, socialist internationalism, alternative development, and solidarity with Third World nations. Rather than national exceptionalism, Chinese worldviews aspire to a shared, integrated, and equal world.

Xu, Fuguan, The Chinese Liberal Spirit: Selected Writings of Xu Fuguan. Ed. & tr. by D. Elstein. (SUNY series, Translating China) 304 pp. 2022:4 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-759>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8717-5 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Zhang, Charlie Yi, Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China. (Thought in the Act) 280 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-760>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1537-6 hard ¥21,402.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1799-8 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China's place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires-as circulated in performance in the nationalistic ceremony, same-sex romantic fan fiction, the wildly popular reality television dating show If You Are the One, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping-are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing. By outlining how state-framed forms of love create desires that cannot be fulfilled, Zhang places China at the forefront of using affective attachments to nation, leader, and family in the global shifts toward exploitation and authoritarianism.

Zhang, Xiping, A Study on the Influence of Ancient Chinese Cultural Classics Abroad in the 20th Century. 318 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-761>
ISBN 978-981-16-7935-3 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to East Asian countries or regions very early on; furthermore, after the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese "knowhow" and ideas increasingly made inroads into the West. In particular, the translation of and research on Chinese classics around the world have enabled Chinese culture to take root and blossom on an unprecedented scale. In addition to offering a valuable resource for readers interested in culture, the social sciences, and philosophy, the book blazes new trails for the study of ancient Chinese culture.

Shirk, Susan, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. 320 pp. 2022 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-641>
ISBN 978-0-19-006851-6 hard ¥7,066.- (税込) US$ 33.99 *

For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat to their power, and that of the Chinese Communist Party, came not from abroad but from within-a conclusion cemented by the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows in this illuminating, disturbing, and utterly persuasive new book, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, threatening Taiwan as well as its neighbors in the South China Sea, tightening its grip on Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence not just economically and technologically but militarily. China began to overreach. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war. To explain what happened, Shirk pries open the "black box" of China's political system and looks at what derailed its peaceful rise. As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao, first among equals in a collective leadership. As China's economy boomed, especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, Hu and the other leaders lost restraint, abetting aggression toward the outside world and unchecked domestic social control. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. In the decade following, and to the present day-the eve of the 20th CCP Congress when he intends to claim a third term-he has accumulated greater power than any leader since Mao. Those who implement Xi's directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Shirk's extensive interviews and meticulous analysis reveal the dynamics driving overreach. To counter it, she argues, the worst mistake the rest of the world, and the United States in particular, can make is to overreact. Understanding the domestic roots of China's actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.

米中の戦略的関係と競技スポーツ
Lai, David (ed.), U.S.-China Strategic Relations and Competitive Sports: Playing for Keeps. 263 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-667>
ISBN 978-3-030-92199-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book investigates cultural influences of competitive sports on U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking and tactical behavior. Most competitive sports owe their origins to human fighting. Although they are "ritualized contests," competitive sports have retained many aspects of human warfare, especially the use of strategy and tactics that moves human contest beyond military clashes to the subjugation of opponents without bloodshed. Cultural influences usually go unnoticed. Indeed, Washington often conducts foreign affairs like football games without knowing that is the case. Likewise, Beijing moves in Weiqi style subconsciously. This book uncovers these influences.

R.N.ルボウ他著　正義と国際秩序－東洋と西洋
Lebow, Richard Ned / Zhang, Feng, Justice and International Order: East and West. 304 pp. 2022:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-668>
ISBN 978-0-19-759839-9 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-759840-5 paper ¥7,274.- (税込) US$ 34.99 *

A comparative exploration of Western and Chinese understandings of justice and their possible use to reframe Sino-American relations and international governance. The concept of justice is central to politics: it justifies the ordering of society and the distribution of rewards. In Justice and International Order, Richard Ned Lebow and Feng Zhang compare and contrast Western and Chinese conceptions of justice. They argue that justice can almost invariably be reduced to the principles of fairness and equality, although they are developed and expressed differently in the two cultures. Lebow and Zhang show that there has been a noticeable shift in both in favoring equality over fairness in the modern era. They analyze the growing conflict between China and the West in the light of these conceptions of justice and show how they might be deployed to ameliorate it. The authors also offer a critique of what passes for global order and explore ways in which fairness and equality, and trade-offs between them, offer pathways to better and more peaceful worlds.

Shih, Chih-yu, Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations. (SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics) 336 pp. 2022:3 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-673>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8771-7 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Ghazi-Tehrani, Adam K. / Pontell, Henry N., Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China. (Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research) 188 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-518>
ISBN 978-3-030-90703-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity. The text begins with an introduction to the topic placing it in global perspective, followed by chapters examining the importance of comparative study, corruption as a major crime in China, case studies and etiology, domestic, regional and global consequences, and concluding theoretical and policy issues that can inform future research.

Shiming, Zhang, Law, Resources and Time-Space Constructing: Internal Evolutionary Logic for Chinese Judiciary during the 19th Century. 230 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <672-472>
ISBN 978-981-16-8054-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book studies the judicial evolution of the Qing Dynasty. It sums up the changes from six major aspects: 1. Banfang（班房）emerged in the late Qianlong period; 2. The opening of capital appeals（京控）early in Jiaqing’s reign; 3. The consular jurisdiction was established during Daoguang’s reign; 4. The execution on the spot （就地正法）was started in Daoguang and Xianfeng periods; 5. The introduction of fashenju (??局，a interrogatory court) happened during Tongzhi’s reign; 6. Late in Guangxu’s reign, banishment was abolished, and reforms were made for prisons. In the past, people did not have a comprehensive understanding of these big changes. From the perspective of legal culture, scholars often criticize traditional Chinese law focuses on criminal law while ignores civil law in terms of legal culture, but this situation can be explained in part by the inadequate allocation of resources and authoritarian resources in traditional societies. Using a large number of archives and precious materials such as private notes that were not noticed by academics in the past, this book adopts the research path of new historical jurisprudence to explore the inner logic of judicial evolution in the Qing Dynasty, focusing on the triangular connection between legal rules, resources, and temporal and spatial constructions, which is an important contribution to the study of traditional Chinese law.

Moazzin, Ghassan, Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919. (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise) 310 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <672-360>
ISBN 978-1-316-51703-1 hard ¥22,050.- (税込) GB￡ 78.00 *

In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China's financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history.

Ma, Xiao, Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program. 248 pp. 2022 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-296>
ISBN 978-0-19-763891-0 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-764822-3 paper ¥7,274.- (税込) US$ 34.99 *

Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's unprecedented high-speed railway program. Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities-whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projects-shaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on how the nation's massive bureaucracy actually functions.

Melnick Dyer, Alison, The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldroen: A Woman of Power and Privilege. 300 pp. 2022:8 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-188>
ISBN 978-0-295-75035-4 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75036-1 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindroeling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldroen (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurme OEsel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur Peldroen's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both masked and asserted in the search for authority-operations that have wider implications for religious and political developments in eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history, this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century.The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

Fischer, Paul, Self-Cultivation in Early China. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) 272 pp. 2022:5 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-21>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8833-2 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Geaney, Jane, The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China: Normative Models for Words. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) 208 pp. 2022 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-22>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8893-6 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *