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Angela Zito. Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 311. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95.

Angela Zito's Ph.D. dissertation has been cited more often than many books, and its publication has been widely anticipated. Now that it is here, the book exemplifies the achievements and problematics of the turn toward critical cultural studies of China that occurred in the early 1990s—a trend in which Zito herself was a key participant, as co-editor (with Tani Barlow) of Body, Subject and Power in China (1994) and as a member of the editorial collective of positions: east asia cultures critiques. . . .

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