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ItemReview of: Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West, "The Generals of the Yang Family: Four Early Plays"(Nanzan University, 2015-11-30)
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ItemReview of Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters(University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
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ItemReview of The Eternal Present of the Past: Illustration, Theater, and Reading in the Wanli Period, 1573-1619(University of Hawaii, 2011)
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ItemReview of Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms(Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals, 2014-06-01)
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ItemThe Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China.(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010-05-01)
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ItemOnline intimacy in a Chinese setting(Informa UK Limited, 2007-01-01)
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ItemCompeting for Women: The Marriage Market as Reflected in Folk Performance in the Lower Yangzi Delta(AUSTRALIAN NAT UNIV, 2008-03-01)
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ItemHistory repackaged in the age of print: the 'Sanguozhi' and 'Sanguo yanyi'(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2006-01-01)For over a millennium, the issue of the Shu-Han succession during the Three Kingdoms era (220–265 CE) has served as a proxy for debates about the relative merits of territorial control, blood relationship, and moral qualifications as grounds for imperial legitimacy in China. Debate reached a new height after the fall of north China during the twelfth century, a period when a revitalization of Confucian studies led to a greater interest in the publishing of private histories. This article deals with two little-known revisions of the official history of the Three Kingdoms period, the Sanguozhi, that sought to reflect the legitimacy debate at a time of alien conquest. It is argued that revisionist historians deviated from the norms of traditional historiography by devising new narrative strategies to further their political agenda. These innovations in turn influenced the formation of a new genre of historical fiction.