... to understand his predictions” (Dong 1981 , 146; see also Wang Yan 2008 ). This introduction to Toffler piqued the interest of Dushu ’s elite readership; plans were made to translate the entire book. In the spring of 1982, the CSFS formally invited Toffler to visit Beijing and Shanghai to deliver lectures...

...Anup Grewal 1 See, e.g., Weikun Cheng , City of Working Women: Life, Space, and Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing ( Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Press , 2011 ) ; Janet Y. Chen , Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor...

...Sophie Volpp Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770–1900 . By Andrea S. Goldman . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2012 . xx, 365 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper); $24.95 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

... leaders. Part three studies the Beijing massacre, detailing the considerations of military actors and extending the traditional June Fourth account beyond Tiananmen Square to other Beijing “killing zones” (pp. 112–16) and to the days following (pp. 131–34). In part four, Brown tells the story of June...

...Fabio Lanza The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese Political Culture, 1898–1929 . By Timothy B. Weston . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2004 . xiii , 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... to student activists according to their positions in the pre-Cultural Revolution status quo. However, a closer examination of events in Beijing during the summer and early autumn of 1966—where the Red Guards and their factional divisions first emerged—suggests a different interpretation. Factions emerged...

...Sara L. Friedman Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption among Urban Chinese Muslims . By Maris Boyd Gillette . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . xii, 279 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...

... University of California, Los Angeles Political Participation in Beijing. By T I A N J I A N S H I . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xv, 322 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). For the most part, "normal science," with its characteristic attention to testing and refining existing hypotheses...

...Timothy B. Weston Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing . By Fabio Lanza . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . xiii, 299 pp. $50.00 (cloth). The advantages that Lanza gains by analyzing a narrow slice of time at a single institution, and a single demographic...

...James Mulvenon Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement . By Timothy Brook . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xiv, 269 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...R. David Arkush Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament . By Perry Link . New York : W. W. Norton . xii, 321 pp. $24.95 (cloth); $13.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 170 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Japanese market share...

...Sau Y. Chan Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera . By Elizabeth Wichmann . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1991 . xviii, 342 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 397 most valuable...

...Ashley Thorpe The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World . By Li Ruru . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2010 . xvi, 335 pp. $28.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 From at least the 1990s...

...James D. Seymour Competing Chinese Political Visions: Hong Kong vs. Beijing on Democracy . By Sonny Shui-hing Lo . Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger , 2010 . xii, 294 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The vast majority...

... Beijing in particular. It will be helpful to China scholars and non-China scholars with its rich, detailed information about suburban Beijing. The book might have better situated itself in the field of urban China if it had drawn direct comparisons and linkages to Beijing and urban China. In addition...

...Mary Backus Rankin Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s . By David Strand . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1989 . xvi, 364 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 384 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES features of Chinese...

... , Cibot Pierre-Martial et al. 1776 –91. Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mceurs, les usages, & c. des Chinois, par les missionaires de Pe-kin [Memoirs concerning the history, sciences, arts, morals, customs, etc. of the Chinese, by the missionaries of Beijing]. Paris...

...Yi-Fu Tuan The Dragons of Tiananmen: Beijing as a Sacred City . By Jeffrey F. Meyer . Columbia, S.C .: University of South Carolina Press , 1991 . xii, 208 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 149...

...Adam Liebman Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste . By Stefan Landsberger . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9789463720304 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Beijing Garbage provides a “snapshot...

... authority, and the willingness to invoke or deploy violence in the service of “revolutionary” rebellion. Zhang's understanding of Maoist principles will be discussed in more detail below, in relation to his invocation of the “Red Guard spirit.” Zhang was born in 1948 in Beijing to a poor Hui Muslim...