Reviews

Yangzhou finally has received the extensive academic treatment of its social and economic history that it so clearly deserves...Finnane has spent many years investigating the city's alleys and canals and exploring its vast textual record. She is thus an eminently qualified guide to the city's past, as is evidenced by a bibliography that includes nearly every well-known work about the city or by a Yangzhou author written during or after the long period covered by her study...[I]t is a highly readable, beautifully illustrated, and sometimes surprising account of a fascinating place that we all thought we knew.--Tobie Meyer-Fong"Chinese Historical Review" (04/01/2005)