DISSERTATION REVIEWS
Dissertation Reviews ( http://dissertationreviews.org/ ) features
friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished
dissertations, as well as articles on archives and libraries around
the world. The following is a list of the posts related to CHINESE
STUDIES for October 2012.
[Archives Review, China, Japan] KELLY HAMMOND (Georgetown
University), review of five Tokyo archives: National Diet Library,
Waseda University Library, Toyo Bunko/The Oriental Library, Diplomatic
Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and National
Archives of Japan
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1885
[China] VANESSA QIN FANG, “Beauty and a Broken City: Women and Their
Publicity in Tianjin, 1898-1911” (University of Minnesota, 2011),
reviewed by Zhao Ma (Washington University in St. Louis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1803
[Southeast Asia, China] THUM PINGTJIN, “Chinese Language Political
Mobilization in Singapore, 1953-63” (University of Oxford, 2011),
reviewed by Rachel Leow (Harvard University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1590
[China] LAWRENCE LOK CHEUNG ZHANG, “Power for a Price: Office
Purchase, Elite Families, and Status Maintenance in Qing China”
(Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1844
[China] POH YEE WONG (Dharma name: Shi Jue Wei), “Acculturation as
Seen Through Buddha’s Birthday Parades in Northern Wei Luoyang: A
Micro Perspective on the Making of Buddhism as a World Religion”
(University of the West, 2012), reviewed by Geoffrey Goble (DePauw
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1854
[Asian Art, China] LIU AI-LIAN, “Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the
Social Art of Painting Inscriptions” (University of Kansas, 2011),
reviewed by Lei Xue (Oregon State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1875
[Talking Shop, China] ANNELISE HEINZ (Stanford University),
“Mahjong, Memory, and Hidden Histories”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1984
[Bioethics, Medical Anthropology] CHEN-I KUAN, “Debates on Gender
and Technology: Cesarean Births in Taiwan” (Syracuse University,
2011), reviewed by Nathan Emmerich (Queen’s University Belfast)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1822
[Archives Review, China] VIVIENNE XIANGWEI GUO (King’s College
London), review of the Republican-era Collections, Nanjing Library,
China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1845
[China, Chinese Literature] LIANSU MENG, “The Inferno Tango: Gender
Politics and Modern Chinese Poetry, 1917-1980” (University of
Michigan, 2010), reviewed by Dun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1911
For a complete list of ALL September and October 2012 posts, please visit:
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1829
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2035
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