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Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

crisis through the implementation of the interventionist policies. China was only in a relative decline to Japan in the East Asian order; and there were neither domestic nor external forces that seemed capable of overturning the country. Following this account, one would also have to wonder how and why the Qing dynasty collapsed in the early twentieth century. Philip Kuhn, Lin’s doctoral advisor, argued convincingly that the militarization of Chinese society following the pacification of the Taiping resulted in a weak state that could hardly gather up any effective resistance against revolutionary revolts. Lin’s work suggests, however, that a strong state enhanced central power and gained access to new financial resources (p. 278). Lin’s writing on the statecraft schools was unnecessarily long and detailed, detracting often away from economic debates, and distracting the reader. Lin could have perfected her global economic approach to the Chinese monetary crisis had she incorporated more Latin American history into her book. For instance, the year 1808 was not simply the beginning of China’s outflow of silver. It was also the beginning of the Latin American Independence movements that were inspired by the installation of Joseph Bonaparte as the king of Spain. Yet, we remain largely blinded to what happened to the silver production in Latin America throughout its revolutionary and post-revolutionary eras and how the fluctuations of its silver production influenced the global economy except for its quantitative silver supplies to the global market. Beyond the aforementioned dissatisfactions, Lin’s book is a well researched, convincing, and important work on the nineteenth-century Chinese monetary crisis.