...Susan Mann Jones Shanghai Old-Style Banks (Ch'ien-Chuang), 1800–1935 . By Andrea Lee McElderry . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , 1976 . 230 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary. $3.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK...

...Charles K. Mann The Silent Revolution: The Informal Sector in Five Asian and Near Eastern Countrie . Edited By A. Lawrence Chickering and Mohamed Salahdine . An International Center for Economic Growth Publication. San Francisco : ICS Press , 1991 . Copyright © The Association...

...Susan Mann Researching the Fragments: Histories of Women in the Asian Context . Edited by Carolyn Brewer and Anne-Marie Medcalf . Quezon City, Philippines : New Day Publishers , 2000 . xvi , 276 pp. $36.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...Susan Mann Body, Subject, and Power in China . Edited by Angela Zito and Tani E. Barlow . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1994 . vii, 307 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Susan Mann Abstract Salman rushdie calls mythology “the family album or storehouse of a culture's childhood, containing [its] … future, codified as tales that are both poems and oracles” (1999, 83). Myths are, in his words, “the waking dreams our societies permit” that celebrate “the non-belongers...

...Susan Mann The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China . By Philip C. C. Huang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . xii, 369 pp. Tables, Maps, Appendixes, Character List, References Cited, Index. $38.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

...Susan Mann Jones The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China . By John R. Watt . New York : Columbia University Press , 1972 . x, 340 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 317...

...Susan Mann Jones Modern Chinese Economic History: Proceedings of the Conference on Modern Chinese Economic History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, August 26–29, 1977 . Edited by Chi-ming Hou and Tzong-shian Yu . Taipei : Institute of Economics , 1979 . xvi, 678 pp...

...Gurinder Singh Mann Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case Study of the Punjab . By Gurharpal Singh . London : Macmillan , 2000 . xv, 231 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 593 agency of a genteel upper-caste Hindu wife...

...Gurinder Singh Mann Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age . By Giorgio Shani . New York : Routledge , 2008 . xvi , 198 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 A revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation...

...Susan Mann Jones Abstract Four recent studies of the modern Chinese economy show how the disciplines of economics and history have produced different judgments about the economic changes of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. These differences are overridden, however, by shared...

...Susan Mann Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods . By Cynthia J. Brokaw . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2007 . xxiii , 673 pp. $44.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Cynthia...

...Susan Mann Abstract In 1934 Liu Jihua, a classically trained feminist at Yanjing University, published an article on the history of the concept of chastity in China. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with quotations from the classics (beginning with the Book of Changes ), her long...

...Susan Mann The Modernization of China . Edited by Gilbert Rozman . New York : The Free Press , 1981 . xv , 551 pp. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Bibliography of C.I.S. Books, Index. $22.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 146 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Cynthia Brokaw Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century . By Susan Mann . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1997 . xiv, 326 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Chinese have met...

...Benjamin Fleming The Rise of Mahāsena: The Transformation of Skanda-Kārttikeya in North India from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta Empires . By Richard D. Mann . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . x, 282 pp. $144.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 The Hindu deity...

... to understand how deeply entrenched ideas around gender and sexuality in China have evolved will be able to turn to this book for insight. In her afterword, Susan Mann (citing Stephen West and Wilt Idema) suggests that the delicate topic of sex in China has been neglected by researchers (p. 199). While...

...Hu Ying The Talented Women of the Zhang Family . By Susan Mann . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2007 . xvi , 322 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Susan Mann's book concerns three...