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...William T. Rowe The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China . By Kwan Man Bun . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . viii, 240 pages. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Ann Waltner Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 . By Elizabeth LaCouture . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . 376 pp. ISBN: 9780231181792 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Elizabeth...

...William T. Rowe Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949 . By Gail Hershatter . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1986 . viii, 313 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $37.50. 396 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Another...

...Mary Backus Rankin Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-kai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901–1908 . By Stephen R. MacKinnon . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . xii, 260 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $23.50. Copyright © Association...

... in Tianjin. TheJournal of Asian Studies 61, no. 2 (May 2002):381-4l5. © 2002 by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 381 382 RUTH ROGASKI yundong). The goal of the campaign was nothing less than the annihilation (xiaomie) of all the flies, mosquitoes, rats, and fleas in the entire county. Villagers...

..., and lobby for policies that favored their interests. Dongya, located in the safety of the British concession in Tianjin, manufactured wool yarn made with imported raw material and machinery and marketed it as part of the patriotic “Buy Chinese” ( Guohuo ) movement, under suggestive labels such as Butting...

... (Shanghai years, memoirs of a journalist). Vol. 1 : 310 –25. Tokyo : Chūō kōronsha . Mitsumasa Katsuragawa . 1994 . “Sokai zaijū Nihonjin no Chūgoku ninshiki, Tenshin o ichirei to shite” (The perception of China by Japanese residents in the concessions, the case of Tianjin). In Kindai Nihon...

... is a defining feature of modern politics and social life. Ruth Rogaski provides us with a critical study of this process in China, particularly in Tianjin from the period when the city became a treaty port in the 1860s to the Korean War in the 1950s. By taking on an issue that that was central...

... context. Otte places British concerns in China within a complicated equation that involved a changing terrain for imperialist expansion at the turn of the century, which led to a shift away from the British policy of isolation. Bernstein examines the rebuilding of Tianjin as part of an international...

... and Xiao Cheng . 1985 . Yihetuan wenxian jizhu yu yanjiu [Explications and studies of Boxer writings]. Tianjin : Tianjin Renmin Chubanshe . Xiao Cheng . 1983 . “ Minjian zongjiao yu Yihetuan jietie ” [Popular religion and Boxer posters]. Lishi yanjiu [Historical studies] No. 2: 147 –63...

... works from Zhili Province Village Maps of Qing County (Qing xian cuntu, 1877) and Explanation for the Baojia Maps of Tianjin County (Jinmen baojia tushuo, 1846). Rozman is well aware of the problems of data quality: throughout the work he keeps the reader aware of the problem, and it is no small problem...

... . Pinhua baojian (Precious mirror for judging flowers). Reprint, Shanghai : Shanghai guji chubanshe . Cheng Weikun . 1996 . “ The Challenge of the Actress: Female Performers and Cultural Alternatives in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing and Tianjin .” Modern China 22 ( 2 ): 199 – 227 . Chow...

... and radical reform movements and their influence on both family and state after 1900. A third arises with the emergence of a new generation of Ye siblings from Tianjin into a world of war and revolution in the 1930s. With our eyes focused on the interactive influences of family life and political events...

... barometer of BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1159 many of the great issues of the day: social structure, government, the exercise of imperial authority, and the philosophy of life and death in Ming and Qing China. JEFFREY F. MEYER University of North Carolina, Charlotte The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State Making...

..." of Russian fiction. Perhaps future research will turn to other such grass-roots comparisons between East Asian and Western literary practice as a way of filling in the large outlines of discussion that this stimulating volume has laid down. ELLEN WIDMER Wesleyan University T h e Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949...

... separated family from company funds, financial ruin developed as the family company faced generational change and infighting. Linda Grove's chapter examines the rapidly evolving trading networks in Tianjin. In I860, as the center of the transit trade on the Grand Canal, Tianjin was commercially significant...

.... : Princeton University Press . Young Louise . 1998 . Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Zhang Daxiang . 1983 . “Bai Jianwu qi ren” [Bai Jianwu, the man]. In Tianjin wenshi ziliao [Cultural...

... and Tokugawa Japan . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Shuntian fuzhi [Gazetteer of Shuntian prefecture]. 1885 . Strand David. 1989 . Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Tianjin fuzhi [Gazetteer...