...Evelyn S. Rawski Abstract Thirty years ago, Association for Asian Studies President Ho Ping-ti summarized the state of Qing studies in his address, “The Significance of the Ch'ing Period in Chinese History” (Ho 1967). Since that time, there have been major shifts in scholarly perceptions...

...Gertraude Roth Li Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752—1835) . (The Qing Empire as Vision and Reality: Tibet Seen Through Sung Yun's Career and Writings.) By Sabine Dabringhaus . Münchener ostasiatische Studien, Band 69. Stuttgart...

...Qitao Guo Huishang yu Ming-Qing wenxue . (Huizhou Merchants and Ming-Qing Literature) . By Zhu Wanshu . Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 2014 . 508 pp. ISBN: 7020102352 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 This is a pioneering study...

...Qitao Guo Youyou fangxiang: Ming-Qing Jiangnan chengshi de xiuxian xiaofei yu kongjian bianqian . (Urban Pleasures: Leisure Consumption and Spatial Transformation in Jiangnan Cities during the Ming-Qing Period) . Monograph Series 96. By Wu Renshu . Taipei : Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi...

...Willard Peterson Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642–1718) and Qing Learning . By On-cho Ng . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2001 . x, 258 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1224...

...Nicola Di Cosmo New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde . Edited by James A. Millward , Ruth W. Dunnell , Mark C. Elliot , and Philippe Forêt . London : RoutledgeCurzon , 2004 . xviii , 245 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...Thomas Buoye Civil Law in Qing and Republican China . Edited by Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang . Standford : Standford University Press , 1994 . xii, 340 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 528 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES CHINA...

...Dian Murray Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition . By David Ownby . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1996 . xii, 235 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

... adviser (p. 40), He Yingjin for He Yingqin as Minister of War (p. 102), and Suzhou for Xuzhou as site of the Communist victory in late 1948 (p. 151). EDWARD RHOADS University of Texas at Austin Print and Politics: Shibao and the Culture ofReform in Late Qing China. By JOAN J U D G E . Stanford, Calif...

...William C. Jones Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing . By Philip C. C. Huang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . xvi, 272 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1060 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES party...

...Ping-Ti Ho Abstract In her recent presidential address, “Reenvisioning the Qing,” Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski attacks the “sinicization” theme originally presented as one of the five major aspects of my 1967 article, “The Significance of the Ch'ing Period in Chinese History” (Ho 1967). In her...

...Theodore Huters Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849–1911 . By David Der-wei Wang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1997 . 433 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 173...

... source for this assertion may be Su Shi, "Fangsheng he wei renzhu zhushou zhenfu," reproduced in Yu Zhi [1869] 1969, 7B.2a. Here Su Shi uses the term "huifang" (meeting for the purposes of liberating [the animals referring to an annual meeting at West Lake. LIBERATING ANIMALS IN MING-QING CHINA 53 piety...

...Beatrice Bartlett Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759–1864 . By James A. Millward . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 353 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 498 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... and Commodities of the Qing Period]. Draft manuscript held at Ming-Qing Archives, National Palace Museum, Taibei. HBZL Hu bu zeli [Regulations and precedents of the Board of Revenue]. 1874 . HDSL Da Qing huidian shili [Collected statutes and precedents of the Qing dynasty]. 1886 (1899...

...R. Kent Guy Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in the Tiger's Jaws . Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve . New Haven, Conn. and London : Yale University Press , 1993 . x, 303 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... inequality, and hinders production. Scholars who have studied the Chinese peasant economy agree, by and large, that that was the nature of Chinese rural credit system. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 Rural Credit in Ming-Qing Jiangnan1 and the Concept of Peasant Petty...

...R. Bin Wong To Achieve Wealth and Security: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644–1911 . Edited by Jane Kate Leonard and John R. Watt . Cornell East Asian series, No. 56. Ithaca : Cornell University East Asia Program , 1992 . xii, 189 pp. $10.00. Copyright ©...

...Thomas Buoye The Great Qing Code . Translated by William C. Jones . New York : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xxx, 441 pp. $90.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1242 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES long-term gains from alliance outweighed the short...

...Jane Kate Leonard BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 765 Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age. A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840. By H E L E N D U N S T A N . Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 73. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1996...