China

Peter Thilly. The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xii + 298 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-2886-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3410-7. 

Daniel Leonhard Purdy. Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 420 pp. Free (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5975-8; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5974-1; $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5973-4.

Reviewed by Irmy Schweiger (Stockholm University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao

Nagatomi Hirayama. The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918-1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv +296 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-00-909871-7; $99.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-911631-2. 

Robert Haddick. Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific, Second Edition. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022. 320 pp. $3p.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-676-5.

Reviewed by Lewis Vaughn (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (May, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58482

Yue Du. State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xv + 295 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83835-1.

Reviewed by Mark Czellér (University of Oxford) Published on H-Asia (May, 2023) Commissioned by Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58875

Eyck Freymann. One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World. Harvard East Asian Monographs Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xx + 333 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24795-6; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-24796-3.

Reviewed by Thomas Lee (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (April, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Omolade Adunbi. Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Illustrations. xv + 231 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-05958-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-05957-4.