Recently added articles from The China Journal:
EMPOWERING THE CHILD: CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE STATE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Jan 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) "Respect for the independent rights (ren de quanli ...) of children is the hallmark of any modern, civilized (wenming ...) society ... From this day onward, when parents behave in a way that violates these . . . rights, children will be ...
FORCED FLEXIBILITY: A MIGRANT WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR SETTLEMENT
Jan 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) On an early People's Congress election-day morning in November 2006, piercing cold sweeps east Harbin. Community (shequ ...) cadres are busily putting up an election placard and ribbons. The radio is turned up to draw the attention of ...
Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China, by Feng Wang. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008. xvi + 241 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). This study by Feng Wang of social inequality examines how economic and social inequality is created and maintained in ...
LOCAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESSES AND GOVERNING CHINA
Jan 01, 2009; ... Young Nam Cho, Local People 's Congresses in China: Development and Transition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 192pp. US$80.00 (hardcover). Ming Xia, The People 's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance. London: Routledge, 2007. 300pp ....
Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West
Jan 01, 2009; ... Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West, by Richard B. Harris. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2008. xxiv + 341 pp. US$74.95 (hardcover). The book is based on 4 years of fieldwork in western China by a western wildlife biologist over a period of 20 years. The ...
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN RURAL CHINA: IS QUALITY BEING COMPROMISED DURING QUANTITY EXPANSION?
Jan 01, 2009; ... By any measure, China has achieved impressive gains in the expansion of its rural infrastructure in recent years. Investment in rural roads increased rapidly between 2001 and 2004, from 35.8 billion yuan to 124.2 billion yuan, an annual growth rate of 51 per cent.1 By 2006, 61 per cent of ...
Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Jan 01, 2009; ... Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam, edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink and Futían Qu. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. xiv + 341 pp. US$95.00 (hardcover). Dragons with Clay Feet claims to present "state-of-the-art research" ...
CHINA BETWEEN REGION AND WORLD
Jan 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In its foreign relations, China is a unitary actor, but decisions taken by its leaders reflect many pressures. In this essay, I analyze the pressures that influence China's interaction with the world in terms of three spatial dimensions ....
Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective
Jan 01, 2009; ... Contextualization of Christianity in China: An Evaluation in Modern Perspective, edited by Peter Chen-main Wang. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2007. 316 pp. euro40.00 (paperback). This book provides a historical survey of the development of China's Christianity (both ...
China's Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines
Jan 01, 2009; ... China's Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines, edited by Fionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston. Fanham: Rowman & Fittlefield, 2007. xviv + 334 pp. US$80.00/£53.00/euro83.48 (hardcover), US$24.95/£15.99/euro25.18 (paperback). Following the success of the first edition of ...
CRISIS AND GOVERNANCE: SARS AND THE RESILIENCE OF THE CHINESE BODY POLITIC
Jan 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) How crisis-prone is the reform-era Chinese state? Recent scholarly contributions yield no shortage of dire predictions, ranging from the regime's imminent collapse1 to the steady deterioration of the state's extractive capacities due to ...
The China Society Yearbook (2006): China's Social Development; Analysis and Forecast
Jan 01, 2009; ... The China Society Yearbook (2006): China's Social Development; Analysis and Forecast, edited by Ru Xin, Lu Xueyi, Li Peilin, Huang Ping and Chen Guangjin. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiv + 434 pp. xiv + 434 pp. euro140.00/US$200.00 (hardcover). The China Society Yearbook series both addresses ...
Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
Jan 01, 2009; ... Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse, by John Makeham. Cambridge MA: Harvard University East Asia Center, 2008. xiv + 397 pp. US$49.95 (hardcover). This is a remarkable book about the rise of the New Confucian philosophical, social and cultural movement in ...
Critical Issues in Contemporary China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Critical Issues in Contemporary China, edited by Czeslaw Tubilewicz. New York: Routledge; Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press, 2006. xvi + 269 pp. £75.00/US$135.00 (hardcover), £20.99/US$36.95 (paperback). Critical Issues in Contemporary China presents a useful and engaging ...
Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement
Jan 01, 2009; ... Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement, by Xiaobing Tang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii + 300 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover). Interestingly, woodcut prints resonate with traditional Chinese painting. They are executed primarily in black and white, ...
Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China, by Carolyn L. Hsu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 225 pp. US$74.95 (hardcover), US$21.95 (paperback). China's continuing process of reinventing itself occurs at many levels. Many scholars have ...
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China, by Amy Hanser. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiv 235 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$21.95 (paperback). Service Encounters aptly demonstrates the virtues of the ethnographic method: it is ...
Social Policy in China: Development and Well-being
Jan 01, 2009; ... Social Policy in China: Development and Well-being, by Chak Kwan Chan, King Lun Ngok and David Phillips. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2008. xiv + 234 pp. £60.00 (hardcover), £22.99 (paperback). China's economic achievements of the past three decades have been remarkable. To accelerate ...
Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China, edited by Sherman Cochrane and David Strand. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2007. 313 pp. US$25.00 (paperback). Cities in Motion is a loose collection of essays exploring Chinese ...
Reading Christian Scriptures in China
Jan 01, 2009; ... Reading Christian Scriptures in China, edited by Chlöe Starr. London: T&T Clark, 2008. p + 229 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). Texts holding a thousand meanings still begin with single words. Reading Christian Scriptures in China is an engaging exploration of how such words have resonated in ...