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The following is a list of the posts for March 2013 related to China Studies.

[Chinese Lit]   ESTHER KLEIN, The History of a Historian: Perspectives
on the Authorial Roles of Sima Qian (Princeton University, 2010),
reviewed by Vincent Leung (University of Pittsburgh)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2279

[Archives Review, Inner Asia, China]   RIAN THUM (Loyola University,
New Orleans), review of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer
Kulturbesitz. Berlin, Germany, and the Bibliothek der Deutsche
Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Sachsen – Anhalt, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle,
Germany
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2007

[Archives Review, China, Asian Art]   APRIL HUGHES (Princeton
University), review of the Oriental Manuscripts Reading Room of the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2344

[Korea, Chinese Lit]   JEONGSOO SHIN, From Bewitching Beauty to Effete
King: Transgendering of King Peony in Medieval Chinese and Korean
Literature (University of Washington, 2011), reviewed by Sixiang Wang
(Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2281

[China]   GERALD ROCHE, Nadun: Ritual and the Dynamics of Cultural
Diversity in Northwest China’s Hehuang Region (Griffith University,
2010), reviewed by Timothy Thurston (The Ohio State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2216

 [Tibetan Himalayan, Med Anthro]   STEPHAN KLOOS, Tibetan Medicine in
Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival
(University of California, Berkeley, 2010), reviewed by Theresia Hofer
(University of Oslo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2282

[China, Science Studies]   NICOLE BARNES, Protecting the National
Body: Gender and Public Health in Southwest China during the War with
Japan, 1937-1945 (University of California, Irvine, 2012), reviewed by
M. Colette Plum (Johns Hopkins University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2415

 [Chinese Lit, Science Studies]   NATHANIEL ISAACSON, Colonial
Modernities and Chinese Science Fiction (University of California, Los
Angeles, 2011), reviewed by Paola Iovene (University of Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2458

[Japan, Chinese Lit]   FUMIKO JŌO, “The Peony Lantern” and Fantastic
Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History,
Religion, and Gender (University of Chicago, 2011), reviewed by
Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2757

[China, Science Studies]   DANIEL ASEN, Dead Bodies and Forensic
Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949 (Columbia
University, 2012), reviewed by Fabien Simonis (Independent scholar)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2239

 [Archives Review, China, Asian Art]   VIVIAN LI (University of
Michigan), review of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Library,
Beijing, China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2430

[Inner Asia]   SUNMIN YOON, Chasing the Singers: The Transition of
Long-Song (Urtyn Duu) in Post-Socialist Mongolia (University of
Maryland, College Park, 2011), reviewed by Andrew Colwell (Wesleyan
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2197

[Inner Asia]   DANIEL MURPHY, Going on Otor: Disaster, Mobility, and
the Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Uguumur (University of
Kentucky, 2011), reviewed by Jonathan Schlesinger (Indiana University,
Bloomington)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2242

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