Recently added articles from The China Journal:
SOCIAL CONFLICTS AND MODES OF ACTION IN CHINA
Jan 01, 2008; Cai, Yongshun ... (ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Chinese society today is characterized by the coexistence of numerous social conflicts and social stability. This coexistence reveals the resilience of the Chinese political system.1 A resilient political system allows its ...
Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State
Jan 01, 2008; Benton, Gregor ... Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State, by Elizabeth J. Perry. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii + 359 pp. US$39.95 (hardcover). This excellent and readable book, written from archives in Shanghai, Beijing and Taibei, analyzes ...
FROM LOCAL EXPERIMENTS TO NATIONAL POLICY: THE ORIGINS OF CHINA'S DISTINCTIVE POLICY PROCESS
Jan 01, 2008; Heilmann, Sebastian ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) To explain the capability of China's Party-state to generate institutional and policy innovations for economic reform and to adapt to a rapidly changing economic environment, many studies ...
Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949
Jan 01, 2008; Goodman, David S G ... Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949, by Chang Liu. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 258 pp. £80.00/US$145.00 (hardcover). Until the late 1980s the history of Communist success during the War of ...
WEIQUAN (RIGHTS PROTECTION) LAWYERING IN AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE: BUILDING A CULTURE OF PUBLIC-INTEREST LAWYERING
Jan 01, 2008; Fu, Hualing; Cullen, Richard ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) One of the boldest initiatives in the PRC during the last decade has been the reform of the legal profession. A little over a decade ago, all lawyers were civil servants, but now the PRC has a rapidly growing private legal sector. Though ...
REPRESENTING CORPORATE CULTURE IN CHINA: OFFICIAL, ACADEMIC AND CORPORATE PERSPECTIVES
Jan 01, 2008; Hawes, Colin ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Over the past two decades, and particularly since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, there has been an explosion of interest in the concept of "corporate culture" (qiye wenhua ...) among large Chinese corporations. As ...
Revolution in the Highlands: China's Jinggangshan Base Area
Jan 01, 2008; Ferlanti, Federica ... Revolution in the Highlands: China's Jinggangshan Base Area, by Stephen C. Averill. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xxxii + 451 pp. US$69.00 (hardcover). To those who may think that the history of the early Communist rural revolution has little left to unveil, Stephen Averill's ...
JOURNALISTS' REFLECTIONS ON CHINA'S FUTURE
Jan 01, 2008; Lubman, Stanley ... China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power, by Rob Gifford. New York: Random House, 2007. The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, by James Mann. New York: Viking Press, 2007. The rate and pace of China's unparalleled economic growth since ...
BOSS CHRISTIANS: THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION IN THE "WENZHOU MODEL" OF CHRISTIAN REVIVAL
Jan 01, 2008; Cao, Nanlai ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In the last quarter-century the southeast coastal city of Wenzhou has become the largest urban Christian center in China. Popularly known as "China's Jerusalem" {Zhongguo de Yelusaleng ...), Wenzhou is home to an estimated ...
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
Jan 01, 2008; Duara, Prasenjit ... Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China, by Timothy Brook. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiv + 288 pp. US$18.95/£12.95/euro17.50 (paperback). Timothy Brook has produced a superb book about the vexed problem of collaboration. The study of ...
The Boxers, China, and the World
Jan 01, 2008; Wong, J Y ... The Boxers, China, and the World, edited by Robert Bickers and R. G. Tiedemann. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xxviii + 231 pp. US$75.00/£49.00/euro77.18 (hardcover), US$28.95/£18.99/euro29.91 (paperback). This is an important book, representing the latest state of the art on ...
Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China
Jan 01, 2008; Schneewind, Sarah ... Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China, by David Faure. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi + 464 pp. US$50.00 (hardcover). David Faure's rich and maddening magnum opus brings together new research and material published over two decades. Everyone interested in ...
Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China
Jan 01, 2008; Fung, Edmund S K ... Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China, by Margherita Zanasi. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006. xii + 320 pp. US$55.00/£35.00 (hardcover). This book examines economic policies and their implementation in the Nanjing Decade. Economic modernity was seen by the ...
Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism
Jan 01, 2008; Andreas, Joel ... Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism, by Eddy U. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 276 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). Eddy U sets out to demonstrate that China during the Mao Zedong era was not too bureaucratic, as is often asserted, but ...
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
Jan 01, 2008; Heberer, Thomas ... Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China, edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 402 pp. US$24.95/£38.96/euro55.30 (paperback). It is frequently argued that China has changed economically and socially, but not ...
Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950
Jan 01, 2008; Larson, Wendy ... Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950, by Haiyan Lee. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv + 364 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover). Basing her study on the claim that the modern subject is a sentimental subject, Haiyan Lee explores the relationship between ...
Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China
Jan 01, 2008; McLaren, Anne E ... Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China, by Liu Binyan, edited by Perry Link. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv + 304 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$21.95 (paperback). The name of Liu Binyan will be very familiar to anyone who has been watching China in recent ...
The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976
Jan 01, 2008; Chan, Alfred L ... The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics During the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976, by Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. xxii + 705 pp. US$98.95 (hardcover). Complexity was the hallmark of élite politics during Mao's last years. The ...
Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Jan 01, 2008; Hung, Eva P W ... Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation, by Liu Jieyu. London: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 178 pp. £70.00/US$125.00 (hardcover). Based on the life histories of 33 laid-off women workers in Nanjing, this book studies the gendered consequences of economic reforms ...
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality
Jan 01, 2008; Hurst, William ... Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality, edited by Vivienne Shue and Christine Wong. London: Routledge, 2007. xii + 195 pp. £70.00/US$125.00 (hardcover). In this timely and well-crafted set of essays, 14 bona fide experts take on a ...