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The Yellow Emperor’S Inner Transmission Of Acupuncture By Zhenhai Yang (Review), David Luesink

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Review of The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Transmission of Acupuncture.

ISBN: 9789882371132

A Response To Professor Wu Zongjie’S ‘Interpretation, Autonomy, And Transformation: Chinese Pedagogic Discourse In A Cross-Cultural Perspective', Thomas D. Curran

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In response to an essay by Prof Wu Zongjie that was published in the Journal of Curriculum studies [43(5), (2011), 569–590], I argue that, despite dramatic changes that have taken place in the language of Chinese academic discourse and pedagogy, evidence derived from the fields of psychology and the history of Chinese educational reform suggest that patterns of Chinese thought and culture have proven resistant to change. Not only have deeply rooted tendencies to perceive the world in ways that may be distinguished from Western analogues persisted but, not unlike contemporary school reformers, educators in the early twentieth century typically …

A Study Of Modern Mass Education Bureaus (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Zhou, Huimei. 近代民众教育馆 = A Study of Modern Mass Education Bureaus. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2012. ISBN 9787303137077 (pbk.)

Prof. Zhou’s book is a general history of the Mass Education Movement that the Guomindang government conducted in the 1920s and 1930s. Topics covered include the movement’s ideological objectives, its organizational characteristics, it activities, and its reception by and impact on local communities. The work is carefully balanced between exposition and analysis, and it is supported generously by evidence drawn from a wide range of primary sources. Those sources include government publications, local gazetteers, …

Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, And The Making Of Modern China, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas Curran.

MacKinnon, Stephen R. Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. (ISBN 9780520254459)

Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Mak, Ricarado K. S., ed. Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009.

ISBN 9780761847267

The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees In Shanghai, Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Ristaino, M. R. (2008). The Jacquinot safe zone: Wartime refugees in Shanghai. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804757935

Disarming The Allies Of Imperialism: The State, Agitation, And Manipulation During China's Nationalist Revolution, 1922-1949 (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Murdock, M. G. (2006). Disarming the allies of imperialism: The state, agitation, and manipulation during China's nationalist revolution, 1922-1949. Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University.

Brokaw, Cynthia J., Commerce In Culture: The Sibao Book Trade In The Qing And Republican Periods (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Brokaw, Cynthia J. Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Cambridge:. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

ISBN 9780674024496

China And The Great War: China's Pursuit Of A New National Identity And Internationalization (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Xu, Guozt. China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Between Heaven And Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1985-1937 (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Carroll, Peter J. Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1985-1937. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Policing Chinese Politics: A History, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Dutton, Michael. Policing Chinese Politics: A History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

ISBN 9780822334774

The Power Of Position: Bejing University, Intellectuals, And Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Weston, Timothy B. The Power of Position: Bejing University, Intellectuals, And Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

ISBN 9780520237674

In The Shadow Of The Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Henriot, Christian and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds. In the Shadow of the Rising Sim: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

In War And Famine: Missionaries In China's Honan Province In The 1940s, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Christensen, Erleen J. In War and Famine: Missionaries in Chinas Honan Province in the 1940s. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-07735-28523-9.

China's Trial By Fire [And] Chinese Collaboration With Japan, 1932-1945, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Jordan, Donald A. China's trial by fire: the Shanghai War of 1932. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Barrett, David P. and Shyu, Lawrence N., eds. Chinese collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945: the limits of accommodation. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Historical Perspectives On Contemporary East Asia, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Goldman, Merle and Andrew Gordon, eds. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Colonial Modernity In Korea (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Shin, Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Area Center, 1999. ISBN 0-674-14255-1.

Culture And State In Late Choson Korea (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Haboush, JaHyun Kim and Martina Deuchler, eds. Culture and State in Late Choson Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

ISBN 0-674-17982-X.

Chen Jiongming And The Federalist Movement: Regional Leadership And Nation Building In Early Republican China, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Chen, Leslie H. Dingyan. Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement: Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1999.

Women In Republican China (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas Curran.

Lan, Hua R. and Vanessa L. Fong (eds.). Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Broadening The Horizons Of Chinese History, Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Huang, Ray. Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

Chinese Foreign Policy During The Cultural Revolution (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.Chinese Foreign Policy during the Cultural Revolution. London: Kegan Paul International, 1998. ISBN 0-7103-0580-X

From The City Inside The Red River (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Nguyen, Dinh-hoa. From the City Inside the Red River: A Cultural Memoir of Mid-Century Vietnam. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1999.

ISBN 0-7864-0498-1.

The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Domenach, J. L. (1995). The origins of the great leap forward: The case of one Chinese province. Boulder: Westview Press.

Shanghai: From Market Town To Treaty Port, 1074-1858 (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

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Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Johnson, Linda Cooke. Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8047-2294-3.