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friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished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 Editor-in-Chief is Thomas Mullaney, Associate Professor
of History at Stanford University, and the Managing Editor is Leon
Rocha, Research Fellow at University of Cambridge.
The following is a list of the posts related to CHINA, TIBET, ASIAN
ART and others, for January 2013.
[China] JUSTIN JACOBS, "Empire Besieged: The Preservation of Chinese
Rule in Xinjiang, 1884-1971" (University of California, San Diego,
2011), reviewed by Benno Weiner (Appalachian State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2177
[China, Inner Asia, Tibetan Himalayan] WEN-SHING CHOU, "The
Visionary Landscape of Wutai Shan in Tibetan Buddhism from the
Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century" (University of California,
Berkeley, 2011), reviewed by Aurelia Campbell (Lake Forest College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1898
[China, Print Media] HSIAO-WEN LEE, "The Public and the Popular
Media in China" (University of Westminster, 2010), reviewed by Mareike
Ohlberg (University of Heidelberg)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2221
[China] QUINN JAVERS, "Conflict, Community and Crime in
Fin-de-siecle Sichuan" (Stanford University, 2012), reviewed by Daniel
Asen (University of Pittsburgh)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2187
[Chinese Lit, Talking Shop] LI GUO (Utah State University), "The
Promise and Perils of Feminist Criticism in Chinese Studies"
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1849
[China] TIE XIAO, "In the Name of the Masses: Conceptualizations and
Representations of the Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China"
(University of Chicago, 2011), reviewed by Roy Chan (The College of
William and Mary)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1891
[Chinese Lit] YIJU HUANG, "Wounds in Time: The Aesthetic Afterlives
of the Cultural Revolution" (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
2011), reviewed by Yiching Wu (University of Toronto)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2249
[Asian Art, China, Inner Asia, Tibetan Himalayan] AURELIA CAMPBELL,
"The Impact of Imperial and Local Patronage on Early Ming Temples in
the Sino-Tibetan Frontier" (University of Pennsylvania, 2011),
reviewed by Wen-Shing Chou (Hunter College, CUNY)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1871
[Asian Art, China] LESLIE WALLACE, "Chasing the Beyond: Depictions
of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs (25-220 CE) from
Shaanxi and Shanxi" (University of Pittsburgh, 2010), reviewed by
Vincent Leung (University of Pittsburgh)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2174
[Tibetan Himalayan] JOSHUA SCHAPIRO, "Patrul Rinpoche on
Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist
Spiritual Advice" (Harvard University, 2012), reviewed by Rachel Pang
(University of Toronto)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1878
[China] GEOFFREY GOBLE, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra and
the Ruling Elite" (Indiana University, 2012), reviewed by Shi Jue Wei
(Poh Yee Wong) (International Buddhist Progress Society)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1977
[Tibetan Himalayan] DANIEL HIRSHBERG, "Delivering the Lotus-born:
Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance" (Harvard University, 2012),
reviewed by Lewis Doney (LMU Munich)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1896
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