MCLC: Dissertations Reviews, Oct. 2012

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Lucas Klein <LRKlein at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject: Dissertation Reviews, Oct. 2012
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Dissertation Reviews (http://dissertationreviews.org/) features friendly,
non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished dissertations,
as well as articles on archives and libraries around the world. The
following is a list of the posts related to Chinese Studies for October
2012.

[China]   VANESSA QIN FANG, ³Beauty and a Broken City: Women and Their
Publicity in Tianjin, 1898-1911² (University of Minnesota, 2011),reviewed
by Zhao Ma (Washington University in St. Louis)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1803

[Southeast Asia, China]   THUM PINGTJIN, ³Chinese Language Political
Mobilization in Singapore, 1953-63² (University of Oxford, 2011),reviewed
by Rachel Leow (Harvard University)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1590

[China]   LAWRENCE LOK CHEUNG ZHANG, ³Power for a Price: Office Purchase,
Elite Families, and Status Maintenance in Qing China²(Harvard University,
2010), reviewed by Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1844

[China]   POH YEE WONG (Dharma name: Shi Jue Wei), ³Acculturation asSeen
Through Buddha¹s Birthday Parades in Northern Wei Luoyang: A Micro
Perspective on the Making of Buddhism as a World Religion² (University of
the West, 2012), reviewed by Geoffrey Goble (DePauw University)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1854

[Asian Art, China]   LIU AI-LIAN, ³Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the Social
Art of Painting Inscriptions² (University of Kansas, 2011), reviewed by
Lei Xue (Oregon State University)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1875

[Talking Shop, China]   ANNELISE HEINZ (Stanford University), ³Mahjong,
Memory, and Hidden Histories²
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1984

[Archives Review, China]   VIVIENNE XIANGWEI GUO (King¹s College London),
review of the Republican-era Collections, Nanjing Library, China
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1845

[China, Chinese Literature]   LIANSU MENG, ³The Inferno Tango: Gender
Politics and Modern Chinese Poetry, 1917-1980² (University of Michigan,
2010), reviewed by Dun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)
URL: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1911