New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship

The Arrangement of Tang Mausoleums: Space and Order

The Arrangement of Tang Mausoleums: Space and Order (《唐陵的布局:空间与秩序》) , by Shen Ruiwen (沈睿文). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2009, 7+5+2+378pages.

Reviewed by Li Fangyao (PhD candidate, Department of History, Peking University; Harvard-Yenching Visiting Fellow 2011-12)

Capabilities and Poverty: Case Studies of Urban Poverty in China

Capabilities and Poverty: Case Studies of Urban Poverty in China (Ed. by Xiaojun ZHANG & Xiaomei PEI, Hong Kong Social Science Publishing House, 2007, 433 pages.) 《能力与贫困:中国城市贫困人口的个案研究》(张小军、裴晓梅主编,香港社会科学出版社有限公司,2007年,433页。)

Norman Bethune’s Children

December 12, 2011
Norman Bethune’s Children

Xue Yiwei, Norman Bethune’s Children. This novel has been published in installments in the journal New Land Literature, Taiwan, since 2011, Issue 2. The whole book will be published in Taiwan in the spring of 2012. 薛憶溈:《白求恩的孩子們》,正連載於台灣《新地》文學季刊,2011年第2期始。全書明年春天將於臺灣出版。

Reviewed by Yao Dadui (Ph.D. candidate, Literature, Zhongshan University; HYI Visiting Fellow 2011-12)

The Plight of China’s Working Class: Annals of Anyuan

The Plight of China’s Working Class: Annals of Anyuan (Yu Jianrong, in Chinese, Mirror books 2006, 496 pages) 中國工人階級狀況:安源實錄 (于建嶸著,中文版,明鏡出版社2006年版,496頁)

Reviewed by Yan Xiaojun (Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong)

Middle-Level Civilian Officials in the T’ang Dynasty

Middle-Level Civilian Officials in the T'ang Dynasty, by Lai Rui-he (Taibei: Lian jing chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2008. 624pp.)

賴瑞和著《唐代中層文官》(台北:聯經出版事業股份有限公司,2008年)

Reviewed by Siu Kam-wah, Joseph (D.Litt. Kyoto), Instructor I, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

English Literature in the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

Striving for a New Critical Approach: Rereading English Literature in the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

Nie, Zhenzhao et al. English Literature in the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism. Wuhan: Central China Normal University Press, 2007.

聂珍钊、杜鹃、唐红梅、朱卫红等著:《英国文学的论理学批评》,武汉:华中师范大学出版社2007年。

Reviewed by Yang Jincai (Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University)

Study on Bamboo and Silk Versions of Wuxing and Other Newly Unearthed Confucian Texts

Study on Bamboo and Silk Versions of Wuxing and Other Newly Unearthed Confucian Texts 竹帛《五行》與簡帛研究, by CHEN Lai 陳來 (Beijing: Sanlian Book Store北京:三聯書店, 2009)

Reviewed by PENG Guoxiang彭國翔, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Intellectual History and Religion, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University. HYI Visiting Scholar, 2007-2008.

History, Space and Identity: Cultural Discourse of Luoyang qie lan ji

History, Space and Identity: Cultural Discourse of Luoyang qie lan ji, by Wang Meixiu 王美秀 Taipei: Li ren shu ju, 2007 (臺北市:里仁書局,2007).

Reviewed by Liu Yuanju (Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia, Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2005-2006)

Japanese Culture in East Asia

Japanese Culture in East Asia, by MURAI Shosuke (Tokyo: Hoso Daigaku Kyoiku Shinkokai, 2005) 村井章介 『東アジアのなかの日本文化』(放送大学教育振興会、2005年)

Reviewed by MITANI Hiroshi, Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Archetype and Metamorphosis: The Origins of Korea's Economic Development Plans

Archetype and Metamorphosis: The Origins of Korea's Economic Development Plans (Wonhyeong gwa Byeonyong), by Park Tae Gyun, Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2007.

Reviewed by Jeong, Jong-Ho, professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.

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