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Huang concludes that Hu and Chiang were anti-Communist allies, but their relationship duplicated that between emperor and minister in ancient China. Huang shows that during the period from 1918 to 1922, Liang Qichao, 18 years older than Hu Shi, engaged with the latter frequently, but Hu Shi declined Liang's invitation to launch a political party despite their shared non-revolutionary, democratic standpoint. In Chapter 2, Huang Ko-wu traces out the origins of Hu Shi's moderate liberalism to Thomas H. Huxley, whose influenced on Hu Shi had been conventionally overshadowed by John Dewey. [Extracted from the article]

Gao Village Revisited: The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China: Mobo C.F. Gao, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2019. By invoking his personal experience, Gao points out that "For all the years prior to the Cultural Revolution, there was only one Gao Village family that could afford to send a boy to study at Poyang Town", but it was during the Cultural Revolution and in 1969 that "for the first time in all of Gao Village's history that all school children went to school." The book first defends its bottom-up perspective by taking issues with many Western China's scholars' seemingly excessive interest in China's "elite politics and Chinese dissident opposition to the Chinese government.". [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "New Frontiers in Urban Analysis: In Honor of Atsuyuki Okabe," edited by Yasushi Asami, Yukio Sadahiro and Toru Ishikawa.

The article reviews the book "International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts: Towards a Socially Sensitive EIL Pedagogy," by Sandra Lee McKay and Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng.

The article reviews the book "The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History," by Paul Clark.

The article reviews the book "English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom," 2nd edition, by Barbara M. Birch.

The article reviews the book "Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education," by Ana Maria Klein.

The article reviews the book "What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy," by James Paul Gee.

The article reviews the book "Boys in children's literature and popular culture: Masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child," by Annette Wannamaker.

The article reviews the exhibition of the collection of Chinese furniture of physician Ignazio Vok at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, Germany from November 6, 2004 to March 28, 2005.

This article presents a review of "The Chronological Biography of Weng Fanggang," written by Shen Jin (sometimes pronounced Shum Chun in a non-Mandarin dialect). Weng (1733-1818) was an eminent scholar of the Qing dynasty, known for his knowledge of calligraphy, painting, and epigraphy. Shen’s biography of Weng, based mainly on two books written by the Weng himself -- a prose collection published in the 1830s and a chronological account of his life up to the year of his death -- is a "comprehensive" and definitive work on the Qing scholar’s life. Some mistakes were made, but these are a minor obstacle in light of the overall work.