Past Issues

Volume 9, Number 1 (July 2019)

The journal is now the British Journal of Chinese Studies, and may be found here.

 

Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2019)

Editors’ Introduction – Gerda Wielander and Heather Inwood

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Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2018)

Editors’ Introduction – Sarah Dauncey and Gerda Wielander

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Book Reviews:

  • Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates, Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China  (Lin Jiao)
  • Michelle Tien King, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China  (Ying-kit Chan)
  • Lawton Robert Burns and Gordon G. Liu (eds.), China’s Healthcare System and Reform  (Pia Eskelinen)
  • Steve Lau and John De Lucy (eds.), Chinese Labour Corps: Photographs from the WJ Hawkings Collection  (Craig Barclay & Rachel Barclay)
  • Kristin Stapleton, Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family  (Ronald Torrance)
  • Bret Hinsch, Women in Imperial China  (Hang Lin)
  • James C.S. Lin and Xiuzhen Li, China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors  (Craig Barclay)

 

Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2018)

Editors’ Introduction – Gerda Wielander and Sarah Dauncey

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  • Chun-yi Lee, Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset? A Changing Pattern of Interaction between Taiwanese Businesses and Chinese Governments  (Kerry Brown)

 

Volume 7 (July 2017)

Editors’ Introduction – Sarah Dauncey and Gerda Wielander

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Book Review:

  • Howard Y.F. Choy, Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China  (Sarah Dauncey)

 

Volume 6 (December 2016)

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Book Reviews:

  • Ifan Williams, Created in Canton: Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith  (Craig Barclay)
  • Yang Chia-Ling and Roderick Whitfield, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture  (Marjorie Dryburgh)
  • Peter Kitson and Robert Markley (eds), Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations  (Cheng Jin)

 

Volume 5 (January 2016)

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Book Reviews:

  • Huang Xuelei, Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, connecting to the globe, 1922-1938  (Jeremy E. Taylor)
  • Joanne Smith Finley, The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur–Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang  (Mamtimyn Sunuodula)
  • Van de Ven, Hans J., Diana Lary, and Stephen R. MacKinnon, eds., Negotiating China’s Destiny in World War II  (Maria-Caterina Bellinetti)

 

Volume 4 (August 2014)

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Book Reviews:

  • Kenneth Edward Brashier, Ancestral Memory in Early China  (Michael Hoeckelmann)
  • Chihyun Chang, Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China. The Maritime Customs Service and its Chinese staff  (Thoralf Klein)
  • Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey (eds), Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010: Histories of the Elusive Self  (Frances Weightman)
  • Colin Mackenzie, Masterworks of Chinese Art: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
  • John Johnston and Chan Lai Pik, 5,000 years of Chinese Jade: featuring selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
  • Liu Yang, China’s Terracotta Warriors: the First Emperor’s Legacy  (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
  • Yuri Pines, The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy  (Hang Lin)

 

Volume 3 (December 2013)

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  • Sam Geall ed. China and the Environment: The Green Revolution  (Agnes Khoo)
  • Cal Clark ed. The Changing Dynamics of the Relations Among China, Taiwan, and the United States  (Ghulam Ali)

 

Volume 2 (July 2013)

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Book Reviews:

  • Scott Waldron, Modernising Agrifood Chains in China: Implications for Rural Development  (Kathleen Buckingham)
  • Naomi Standen, Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History  (Pierre Fuller)
  • Amy Tak-tee Lai, Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora: Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah  (Valerie Pellatt)
  • Lili Hernandez, China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Art, Politics and Everyday Life  (Mengyu Luo)

 

Volume 1 (December 2011)

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