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Online Reviews

We are sometimes asked for our opinion of a book, or encounter one that invites comment. Most of the resulting comments are online. Here is a selection of these online reviews, grouped by subject, from the Sinological and Biblical fields. They typically focus on one aspect of a book, and are not offered as balanced evaluations of the whole.

• Historiography, Chinese and Other
  • Levenson. China: An Interpretive History (1969)
  • Tainter. Collapse in Complex Societies (1988)
  • Henige. Historical Evidence and Argument (2005)
  • C S Chang. The Rise of the Chinese Empire (2007)
• The Classical Chinese Philosophers
  • Dubs. Hsuntze, Moulder of Confucianism (1927)
  • de Bary et al. Sources of Chinese Tradition (2ed 1999)
  • Schaberg. A Paterned Past:Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (2001)
  • Pines. Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period (2002)
  • Graham. The Jwangdz Inner Chapters (2002)
  • Roth. A Companion to Graham (2003)
• On The Need for an Adult Populace
• Hansen. The Open Empire (2000)
• Watson. The Analects of Confucius (2007)
• Law and Statecraft
• Vandermeersch. La Formation du Légisme (1965)
• K C Chang. Shang Civilization (1980)
• Skosey. The Legal System and Legal Tradition of the Western Zhou (1996)
• War
  • Tarver. The Art of War (2002)
  • Gagliardi. The Art of War (2003)
• Confucianism as a Religion
  • Freedman and McClymond (ed). The Rivers of Paradise (2001)
• Primitive and Later Christianity
  • Metzger and Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament (4ed 2005)
  • Snodgrass. Stories With Intent (2008)
  • Ferguson. Baptism in the Early Church (2009)

For some published reviews, see instead the Others section on this site.

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