The China Journal back issues from July 2005:
"GAMBLING FOR QI": SUICIDE AND FAMILY POLITICS IN A RURAL NORTH CHINA COUNTY *
Jul 01, 2005; ... "Now young people are too likely to gamble for qi (du qi)," an old man commented after I interviewed him about his daughter's suicide, "especially young women. Now their status is too high, and they can become angry about trivial things. You should always flatter them, or they'll gamble for qi ...
BRACING FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE: A CASE STUDY OF NEW COPING STRATEGIES OF RURAL PARENTS UNDER CHINA'S BIRTH CONTROL POLICY*
Jul 01, 2005; ... There is no doubt that in the past two decades China's birth control policy has led to new demographic realities that are redefining Chinese family life, family composition, intergenerational relationships and the traditional means of securing old age support. However, so far most studies on the ...
GLOBAL PRODUCTION, COMPANY CODES OF CONDUCT, AND LABOR CONDITIONS IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF TWO FACTORIES*
Jul 01, 2005; ... As China becomes integrated into the world economy, most of the manufacturing there of Western brand-name goods has been produced under contract by Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Korean or, increasingly, privately owned PRC companies. These, and not the brand-name Western transnational corporations ...
Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development
Jul 01, 2005; ... Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development, by Thomas Scharping. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xvi + 406 pp. £70.00 (hardcover). The two main focuses of Birth Control in China 1949-2000 are, first, to reveal how this has been shaped by social, ...
Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era
Jul 01, 2005; ... Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era, edited by Barry J. Naughton and DaIi L. Yang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 304 pp. US$80.00 (hardback). China's long-sustained economic development of the past quarter-century has often ...
A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism
Jul 01, 2005; ... A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism, by Suisheng Zhao. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi + 355 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). Suisheng Zhao explains at the outset of this well-structured and readable work that his ...
Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
Jul 01, 2005; ... Corruption and Market in Contemporary China, by Yan Sun. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii + 248 pp. US$49.95/£28.95 (hardcover), US$21.00/£11.95 (paperback). It is often assumed that studying corruption is difficult due to the clandestine nature of corrupt activities. This ...
China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable?
Jul 01, 2005; ... China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable?, edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2004. xii + 249 pp. Aus$39.50/US$30.00 (paperback). Truth in advertising is not a strength of this book's title. It is not a book about whether growth in China is sustainable or ...
Banking and Insurance in the New China: Competition and the Challenge of Accession to the WTO
Jul 01, 2005; ... Banking and Insurance in the New China: Competition and the Challenge of Accession to the WTO, by Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-Tzu Shih. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004. xiv + 166 pp. £45.00 (hardcover). It is generally accepted by observers in the West and by China's own policymakers that the ...
The Development of China's Stockmarket, 1984-2002: Equity Politics and Market Institutions
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Development of China's Stockmarket, 1984-2002: Equity Politics and Market Institutions, by Stephen Green. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 287 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). Few would have imagined when petty capitalism spilled onto the streets of China in 1979-80, with wares and ...
High-Tech Industries in China
Jul 01, 2005; ... High-Tech Industries in China, by Chien-hsun Chen and Hui-Tzu Shih. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005. xviii + 155 pp. £45.00 (web price £40.50). High-tech industries have recently become a new star growth sector in China. Even though it is difficult to find any internationally cutting-edge ...
Globalization, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry
Jul 01, 2005; ... Globalization, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry, by Huaichuan Rui. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xviii + 175 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). China's coal mining industry is much in the news, both because of its appalling safety record and because of the way ...
Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China: The Case of Large Firms in the Oil Industry
Jul 01, 2005; ... Catch-Up and Competitiveness in China: The Case of Large Firms in the Oil Industry, by Jin Zhang. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xx + 230 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). Following industry restructuring, PetroChina and Sinopec (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation) were successfully listed ...
Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development
Jul 01, 2005; ... Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development, edited by Y. M. Yeung and Shen Jianfa. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004. xx + 604 pp. US$59.00 (hardcover). This is a well-timed book, arriving five years into China's latest regional policy shift ...
China's West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications
Jul 01, 2005; ... China's West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications, edited by Ding Lu and William A. W. Neilson. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2004. xiv + 578 pp. US$64.00 (hardcover). and medical engineering, and environmental-protection products are ...
The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religion in Rural North China
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religion in Rural North China, by Thomas David DuBois. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xii + 275 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). In The Sacred Village, Thomas David DuBois provides a careful examination of religious practices and institutions ...
Religion and Chinese Society Vol. 1: Ancient and Medieval China; Vol. 2: Taoism and Local Religion in Modern China
Jul 01, 2005; ... Religion and Chinese Society Vol. 1: Ancient and Medieval China; Vol. 2: Taoism and Local Religion in Modern China, edited by John Lagerwey. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004. xxxiv + 516 pp.; vii + 411 pp. US$80.00 (hardcover). Religion and Chinese Society derives from a ...
China, Sex and Prostitution
Jul 01, 2005; ... China, Sex and Prostitution, by Elaine Jeffreys. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xii + 212 pp. US$95.00/£60.00 (hardcover). This book is entirely about voicing one person's chagrin at the current approach to research on and interpretations of prostitution and sexual behavior in China ....
The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature, by Rong Cai. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xii + 282 pp. US$25.00 (paperback). In The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Rong Cai draws our attention to the tensions between intellectuals and the ...
Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater
Jul 01, 2005; ... Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater, by Sy Ren Quah. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. x + 225 pp. US$48.00 (hardcover). Gao Xingjian advocates what he calls "cold literature", or creative writing which is personal, solitary and non-utilitarian, a rather detached ...
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
Jul 01, 2005; ... Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary, by June Yip. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 356 pp. US$89.95 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). The idea of the nation has been one of the most formative concepts in Western political thought: it is, ...
Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century
Jul 01, 2005; ... Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century, by Bonnie S. McDougall. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003. ix + 281 pp. US$35.00 (hardcover). McDougall ' s first book, The Introduction of Western Literary Theories into Modern China, ...
Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law
Jul 01, 2005; ... Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law, by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiv + 271 pp. US$36.50/£24.00 (hardcover). Literary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary developments since ...
Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity
Jul 01, 2005; ... Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity, edited by Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 288 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). This book flows from commissioned research designed to provide the evidence that culture and common ethnic identity do ...
Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues
Jul 01, 2005; ... Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues, by Tan Chee-Beng. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. x + 260 pp. HK$390/US$49.50 (hardcover), HK$170/US$21.95 (paperback). Tan Chee-Beng is a Malaysian Chinese anthropologist now teaching in Hong Kong, who is highly regarded for ...
In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World
Jul 01, 2005; ... In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World, edited by Yong Deng and Fei-Ling Wang. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. xi + 279 pp. US$82.00 (hardcover), US$34.95 (paperback). A few years ago, in a short but vituperative article highly critical of Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard?
Jul 01, 2005; ... The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard? by Wayne Bert. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xii + 272 pp. £50.00. This study focuses on the rise of China and whether China will challenge the dominant role of the US in Southeast Asia. This has ...
Domestic Politics, International Bargaining and China's Territorial Disputes/The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
Jul 01, 2005; ... Domestic Politics, International Bargaining and China's Territorial Disputes, by Chien-peng Chung. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 222 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know, edited by Francine R. Frankel and Harry Harding [A Joint ...
"One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover
Jul 01, 2005; ... "One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover, edited by Wong Yiu-Chung. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. x + 244 pp. US$75.00 (hardcover). This edited volume covers a good range of topics related to post-1997 developments in Hong Kong. These include ...
Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service
Jul 01, 2005; ... Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service, by John P. Burns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 468 pp. US$24.95/HK$195.00 (paperback). John Burns attempts to describe and analyze the context, institutional setup and policies for managing the Hong Kong civil service ....
Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security
Jul 01, 2005; ... Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security, by Harish Kapur. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2004. xvi + 249 pp. US$13.50 (paperback), US$4.95 (e-book). This inexpensive book endeavors to provide an assessment of Taiwan's foreign policy along with a review of related developments in ...
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring
Jul 01, 2005; ... In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring, by Anru Lee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xvi + 196 pp. US$45.00 (hardcover). Lee Anru's interesting and very readable book about the lives of factory women in Taiwan ...
Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary/Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War
Jul 01, 2005; ... Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. xviii + 279 pp. US$89.95/ £50.99 (hardcover). Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War, by Edwin Pak-Wah Leung. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. xli + 191 ...
The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution: G. E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1897-1920
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution: G. E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1897-1920, by Eiko Woodhouse. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xiv + 269 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). Eiko Woodhouse has written a thorough, well-documented study of AngloJapanese relations and policies in respect to ...
Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China
Jul 01, 2005; ... Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China, by Mary Rack. London: Pluto Press, 2005. vi + 166 pp. £16.99/euro85.04/US$27.50/ Aus$49.95 (paperback). Mary Rack questions the existence of the Miao as a separate and distinct ethnic minority people, and ...
Law and Investment in China: The Legal and Business Environment after China's WTO Accession
Jul 01, 2005; ... Law and Investment in China: The Legal and Business Environment after China's WTO Accession, by Vai Io Lo and Xiaowen Tian. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. x + 386 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). This is an excellent reference guide to the legal reforms that have transformed Chinese society over ...
MONASTIC POLITICS AND THE LOCAL STATE IN CHINA: AUTHORITY AND AUTONOMY IN AN ETHNICALLY TIBETAN PREFECTURE
Jul 01, 2005; ... On a November morning in 2003, several officials from the county bureau of ethnic and religious affairs paid a visit to the local Tibetan Buddhist monastery. They were there to enforce a government ruling demanding the reinstatement of an expelled lama. Angered by this interference in their ...
EVERYDAY STRATEGIES FOR TEAM FARMING IN COLLECTIVE-ERA CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM QIN VILLAGE*
Jul 01, 2005; ... The introduction of a household-based farming system in place of team production in rural China in the early 1980s has caused scholars to enquire into the reasons behind the "failure" of collective agriculture. Most explanations have focused on the problem of work incentives under the ...
China's Past, China's Future: Energy, Food, Environment
Jul 01, 2005; ... China's Past, China's Future: Energy, Food, Environment, by Vaclav Smil. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 232 pp. £20.99 (paperback). This comprehensive and highly informative volume reflects upon the author's past scholarship in light of new developments and future trends. Smil is a ...
Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China
Jul 01, 2005; ... Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China, edited by Leong H. Liew and Shaoguang Wang. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. x + 268 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). This collection of articles is the outcome of a workshop in Brisbane in January 2001, and has the strengths and weaknesses ...
The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia, edited by Flemming Christiansen and UIf Hedetoft. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. x + 282 pp. US$79.95/£45.00 (hardcover). This is an important book addressing, from various perspectives, a wide range of ...
Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras
Jul 01, 2005; ... Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras, by Elizabeth J. Remick. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. xxvi + 318 pp. US$49.50 (hardcover). This is an ambitious book, one that takes on a matrix of comparisons on a topic of real importance for an ...
New Confucianism: A Critical Examination
Jul 01, 2005; ... New Confucianism: A Critical Examination, edited by John Makeham. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vi + 262 pp. US$69.95/£42.50/Aus$ 108.00 (hardcover). In the 1980s, Confucianism returned to respectability as New Confucianism (xinruxue). It was at a time when China was opening to the ...
State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation
Jul 01, 2005; ... State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation, edited by Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 263 pp. £19.99 (paperback). The ambitious scope of this book is evident from the terms in its title-state, society, crisis, ...
From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin: Two Decades of Political Reform in the People's Republic of China
Jul 01, 2005; ... From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin: Two Decades of Political Reform in the People's Republic of China, by Yiu-chung Wong. Lanham: University Press of America, 2005. xii + 361 pp. US$46.00 (paperback). Unfortunately, this book still bears the marks of the PhD thesis on which it is based ....
À la recherche d'une ombre chinoise: Le mouvement pour la démocratie en Chine (1919-2004) [In Search of a Chinese Shadow: The Democracy Movement in China (1919-2004)]
Jul 01, 2005; ... À la recherche d'une ombre chinoise: Le mouvement pour la démocratie en Chine (1919-2004) [In Search of a Chinese Shadow: The Democracy Movement in China (1919-2004)], by Jean-Philippe Béja. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004. 262 + [iv] pp. euro21.00 paperback). In this book Jean-Philippe ...
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
Jul 01, 2005; ... Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard, by Fan Shen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xiv + 279 pp. US$24.95 (hardcover). Memoirs by former Red Guards have been appearing in the West since the early 1970s, when volumes by "Ken Ling" (The Revenge of Heaven: Journal of a Young ...
Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture and Communication
Jul 01, 2005; ... Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture and Communication, by Xing Lu. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 2004. xiv + 250 pages, US$49.95 (hardcover). In recent years, analysis of the specific language used during the Cultural ...
Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
Jul 01, 2005; ... Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China, by Xiaowei Zang. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xx + 244 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). Also available on-line at http://www.tand/jisc.com/Home/html/moreinfo,asp?etailerid=19&bookId= 536905206 In his study of the selection of China's ...
China's Scientific Elite
Jul 01, 2005; ... China's Scientific Elite, by Cong Cao. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xvi + 256 pp. £60.00 (hardcover). For China, catching up with Western science has required strong scientific research institutions with unquestionable government support. Since 1950, thousands of research centers ...
The Business of Lobbying in China
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Business of Lobbying in China, by Scott Kennedy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xx + 257 pp. US$49.95 (hardcover). Despite the recent proliferation of business firms in China and their evident economic power, surprisingly little is known about business involvement in ...