...David D. Buck New Perspectives on Chu Culture during the Eastern Zhou Period . Edited by Thomas Lawton . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1991 . xvi, 211 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... of the Rituals of Zhou. In contrast to Wang, they interpreted the text as favoring autonomous regional governments, a small staff of bureaucrats who fulfilled multiple functions through temporary assignments, and a governmental emphasis on moral edification ( jiaohua ). In his offering, Martin Kern explores...

...Peter Tsung Kei Wong Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography . By Yuri Pines . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . x, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780231196628 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Zhou...

...Xiaobing Li One reason for the limited interpretations may come from lacking primary sources, including Zhou's papers, published in Zhou Enlai's Manuscripts since the Founding of the State ( Jianguo yilai Zhou Enlai wengao , three vols., 2008) and Selected Military Works of Zhou Enlai ( Zhou...

...Lowell Dittmer To Embrace the Moon: An Illustrated Biography of Mao Zedong . By Ed Hammond . Berkeley : Lancaster-Miller , 1980 . 175 pp. Map, Photographs. $14.95 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Coming of Grace: An Illustrated Biography of Zhou Enlai . By Ed Hammond . Berkeley : Lancaster...

...Yegor Grebnev Many Worlds under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE. By Yan Sun . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xxii, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231198424 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies...

...Maria Khayutina Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China . By Paul Nicholas Vogt . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xiv, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781009042741 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Paul Nicholas Vogt's book is a highly welcomed...

...Robert L. Thorp Eastern Zhou and Qin Civilizations . By Li Xueqin . Translated by K. C. Chang . Early Chinese Civilizations Series. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1985 . xvi, 527 pp. Figures, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Timothy Cheek Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership . By Thomas Kampen . Copenhagen : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies , 2000 . xiv, 144 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 166 THE JOURNAL...

...David W. Pankenier Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing . By Christopher Cullen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xiv, 241 pp. $69.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 762 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Gideon Shelach Focusing on the Western Zhou—probably the most symbolically significant period in the history of China—this book addresses a long-standing question: why this supposedly ideal state began to decline so shortly after its establishment and what led to its final collapse. Rather...

...Yuri Pines Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou . By Li Feng . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . xv , 400 pp. $117.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Bureaucracy and the State in Early...

...Jerome Ch'en Zhou Enlai Zhuan 1898–1949 . [A Biography of Zhou Enlai, 1898–1949]. By Jin Chongji and the Central Archive Research Unit of the Chinese Communist Party Beijing : People's Publishing House and Central Archive Publishers , 1989 . 34 plates, ii, 833 pp. RMB 17.00...

...Gilbert L. Mattos Sources of Western Zhou History: Inscribed Bronze Vessels . By Edward L. Shaughnessy . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , 1992 . xix, 357 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Robin McNeal Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China: A Study of the “Neglected Zhou Scriptures” and the Grand Duke Traditions . By Yegor Grebnev . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . Tang Center Series in Early China. xii, 350 pp. ISBN: 9780231203401 . © 2023...

...Alan K. L. Chan The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan . By J. Michael Farmer . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . xviii , 246 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Taomo Zhou Abstract Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People's Republic of China's adoption of market principles...