The China Journal back issues from July 2006:
"WRAPPED UP IN COTTON WOOL": POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF PRIVATE ENTREPRENEURS IN RURAL CHINA
Jul 01, 2006; ... The emergence of private entrepreneurs as a new social stratum during the reform era has received considerable scholarly and political attention in China as well as abroad. The growing importance of the private sector in the economy may well be considered a challenge to a Party-state which still ...
MOUNTING CHALLENGES TO GOVERNANCE IN CHINA: SURVEYING COLLECTIVE PROTESTORS, RELIGIOUS SECTS AND CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS
Jul 01, 2006; ... Social discontents and public disorder are not new to post-1978 China. The Tiananmen tragedy of June 1989 demonstrates how social forces can pose a formidable challenge, both spontaneous and organized, to the Leninist state. With the further intensification of transitional reforms, the level of ...
WHO ADOPTS GIRLS AND WHY? DOMESTIC ADOPTION OF FEMALE CHILDREN IN CONTEMPORARY RURAL CHINA
Jul 01, 2006; ... The number of domestic adoptions of girls in rural China has been rising since the inauguration of the one-child policy in 1979. On the one hand, this rise reflects the increasing availability of girls for adoption, as some parents who desire a son abandon baby girls, but it also relates to the ...
THE YELLOW MAN'S BURDEN: CHINESE MIGRANTS ON A CIVILIZING MISSION
Jul 01, 2006; ... In the aftermath of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, both the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and "ordinary people" pledged donations to the afflicted regions.1 Triumphant headlines in the People's Daily likewise made a statement about China's rise from aid recipient to aid donor ....
CHALLENGING STATE CORPORATISM: THE POLITICS OF TAIWAN'S LABOR FEDERATION MOVEMENT
Jul 01, 2006; ... Taiwan's authoritarian postwar regime instituted numerous legal and extralegal restrictions to ensure labor quiescence. The right of workers to strike and other forms of collective bargaining were highly proscribed, and a system of extensive state-corporatist control emerged.1 According ...
MAINTAINING MARGINS: THE POLITICS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK IN CHINESE CENTRAL ASIA
Jul 01, 2006; ... Introduction In contemporary China, conditions for doing fieldwork are increasingly dependent on locality. The sensitive border region of Xinjiang, historically dominated by minority nationalities resistant to incorporation within the Chinese polity, has long been difficult.' Researchers ...
Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics
Jul 01, 2006; ... Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics, by Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. xvi + 394 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). China has experienced one of the world's most rapid fertility declines: ...
Translocal China: Linkages, Identities, and the Reimagining of Space
Jul 01, 2006; ... Translocal China: Linkages, Identities, and the Reimagining of Space, edited by Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 194 pp. £65.00 (hardcover), £18.99 (paperback). This is an excellent collection of essays on the translocal flows of people and images within China, ...
Non-Governmental Organisations in Contemporary China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Non-Governmental Organisations in Contemporary China, by Qiusha Ma. London: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 241 pp. £65.00/US$115.00 (hardcover), US$45.95 (paperback). Much has already been published about civil society and NGOs in China. It therefore comes as a pleasant surprise that this book ...
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China
Jul 01, 2006; ... From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, by Merle Goldman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 286 pp. US$39.95 (hardcover). This book promises to be something of a departure for Merle Goldman. Hitherto, her oeuvre has been largely concerned with ...
Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979
Jul 01, 2006; ... Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979, by Hatla Thelle. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2004. xiv + 353 pp. US$66.00/£40.00 (hardcover). Hatla Thelle's book Better to Rely on Ourselves sets out to investigate different ways in which human rights can be ...
China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society
Jul 01, 2006; ... China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society, by Cao Jinqing. With an introduction by Rachel Murphy. Translated by Nicky Harman and Huang Ruhua. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. xii + 254 pp. £75.00/US$135.00 (hardcover). In 1996 Cao Jinqing traveled through rural Henan ...
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Jul 01, 2006; ... Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers, edited by Morris Rossabi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. viii + 296 pp. US$50.00 (hardcover). This book, a product of a 2001 UCLA conference entitled "China's Management of its National Minorities", is jam-packed with interesting ...
China's Campaign to "Open Up the West": National, Provincial and Local Perspectives
Jul 01, 2006; ... China's Campaign to "Open Up the West": National, Provincial and Local Perspectives, edited by David S. G. Goodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 204 pp. AUS$59.95 (paperback). This book on China's campaign to "open up the west" (xibu da kaifa, henceforth "the ...
Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins
Jul 01, 2006; ... Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 194 pp. £65.00 (hardcover). This volume provides fresh insights into some fascinating questions. Through a wide assortment of rich case-studies, it sheds new light on ...
Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
Jul 01, 2006; ... Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars, by Hanchao Lu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 269 pp. US$45.00 (hardcover). As the subtitle notes, Street Criers is written as a cultural history; 1 review the book as a social scientist who has also written a book ...
Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, by Adam Yuet Chau. PaIo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 317 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover). Adam Y. Chau's Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China presents a critical view of reform-era ...
Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society
Jul 01, 2006; ... Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society, by Yuehping Yen. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xii + 221 pp. £60.00/US$ 104.95 (hardcover). Calligraphy has long been considered a cornerstone of Chinese culture. It is used to inscribe architectural wonders and famous sites of ...
The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event
Jul 01, 2006; ... The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event, edited by Joseph Y. S. Cheng. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2005. xvi + 603 pp. US$34.00 (paperback). On 1 July 2003, half a million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to demand democracy and to protest ...
Zhongguo shui weiji
Jul 01, 2006; ... Zhongguo shui weiji, by Ma Jun. Beijing: China Environment Press, 1999. 434pp. RMB25.00 (paperback). Interpreted by Nancy Yang Liu and Lawrence R. Sullivan as China's Water Crisis, by Ma Jun. Norwalk: EastBridge, 2004. xi + 242pp. US$44.95 (hardcover), US$34.95 (paperback). The threat of ...
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China, by Mark Elvin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xxviii + 564 pp. US$39.95 (hardcover), US$22.00 (paperback). In the first lecture of an environmental geology course at the University of New South Wales in 1974, Dr ...
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World
Jul 01, 2006; ... A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World, by Rana Mitter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx + 357 pp. £18.99/US$30.00/AUS$65.00 (hardcover), £9.99/US$16.95/AUS$32.95 (paperback). China's tumultuous twentieth century is not easy to comprehend, and it may be too ...
Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, by Theodore Huters. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. x + 370 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). In Bringing the World Home, Theodore Huters shows how certain writers in China around a century ago ...
China in War and Revolution 1895-1949
Jul 01, 2006; ... China in War and Revolution 1895-1949, by Peter Zarrow. London: Routledge, 2005. ? + 411 pp. US$132.00 (hardcover), £21.99/US$39.95 (paperback). The story of the Chinese revolution has been told and retold by several generations of journalists and academic experts, but Peter Zarrow takes ...
A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Economy
Jul 01, 2006; ... A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Economy, edited by David Faure and Lee Pui-tak. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. x + 368 pp. HK$220.00/US$29.95 (paperback). Business and economic historians of China and Hong Kong will welcome the publication of this collection of ...
Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution
Jul 01, 2006; ... Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution, by Kim Taylor. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xii + 236 pp. £60.00/US$105.00 (hardcover). How did Chinese medicine, which first partially lost official patronage during the Qing dynasty and then was accused of ...
Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
Jul 01, 2006; ... Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai, by Ellen Johnston Laing. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xii + 297 pp. US$45.00 (hardcover). This is a terrific addition to the small but quickly growing body of scholarship on the ...
Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937
Jul 01, 2006; ... Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937, by Jing Tsu. PaIo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2005. xiv + 329 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). This is an important book which should be of considerable interest to all scholars and students of modern ...
Narrating China: Defunct Capital and the Fictional World
Jul 01, 2006; ... Narrating China: Defunct Capital and the Fictional World, by Yiyan Wang. London: Routledge, 2006. ? + 318 pp. £70.00 (hardcover). Author studies are quite rare in research on Chinese fiction of the post-Mao period. The predominance of socio-political motivations in literary scholarship, ...
House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese
Jul 01, 2006; ... House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese, edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xxii + 453 pp. US$29.00 (paperback). House Home Family is an extraordinary collection of essays addressing the culture of Chinese vernacular architecture ...
A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today
Jul 01, 2006; ... A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today, by Thomas A. Metzger. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005. xxviii + 816 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover). The volume under review consists of 800 pages of richly detailed, tightly ...
The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture, edited by Christopher Lupke. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xii + 377 pp. US$48.00 (hardcover). A potential reader perusing this book's title on a bookshop or library shelf and not getting to its more ...
Cultural Studies in China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Cultural Studies in China, edited by Tao Dongfeng and Jin Yuanpu. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2005. vi + 209 pp. S$29.00/US$22.00 (paperback). In applying a Cultural Studies lens to a range of issues, including disciplinary shifts in academia, the rise of global tourism and the ...
Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary China, by Shujie Yao. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xxviii + 271 pp. £75.00 (hardcover). China's unexpectedly swift rise as an economic superpower at the beginning of the twenty-first century urgently calls for ...
China: New Engine of World Growth
Jul 01, 2006; ... China: New Engine of World Growth, edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2003. xx + 480 pp. AUS$48.00 (paperback). With China's rapid GDP growth now surging past the decade's midpoint, it is important to answer a few questions. Just what is going on with ...
Financial Sector Reform in China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Financial Sector Reform in China, edited by Yasheng Huang, Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Centre, 2005. xi + 250 pp. (Online publication: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/publications/pdfs/ Huang%20et%20al.pdf, accessed 16 May 2006). This edited ...
Industrial Relations in China
Jul 01, 2006; ... Industrial Relations in China, by Bill Taylor, Chang Kai and Qi Li. Cheltenham: Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2003. x + 267 pp. £59.95/595.00 (hardcover). Labor-related news reports are abundant in today's media coverage of China. As the dominant manufacturer in the world, ...
Making a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
Jul 01, 2006; ... Making a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community, by Ning Wang. Foreword by Ronald Coase. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiv + 195 pp. US$70.00/£45.00 (hardcover). This neatly-organized volume holds promise for China studies readers: a ...
Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region
Jul 01, 2006; ... Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region, edited by Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2006. viii + 360 pp. US$84.95 (hardcover), US$29.95 (paperback). This is a very uneven collection of research papers. Nevertheless, it is ...
Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study
Jul 01, 2006; ... Hu Jintao and the Ascendancy of China: A Dialectical Study, by Peter Yu KienHong. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005. xiv + 240 pp. S$29.00/US$22.00 (paperback). This title is a misnomer, because the book has virtually nothing to do with either Hu Jintao or the ascendancy of ...
The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress
Jul 01, 2006; ... The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress, edited by Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo and Ramon H. Myers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 256 pp. AUS$59.95 (paperback). Twelve noted scholars in this book explore the implications ...
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century, by Dennis J. Blasko. London: Routledge, 2006. xviii + 228 pp. £70.00 (hardcover), £20.99 (paperback). The Chinese Army Today is an excellent, contemporary study of the ground forces associated with the Chinese ...
A Poverty of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research
Jul 01, 2006; ... A Poverty of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research, by James Mulvernon and Andrew Yang. Santa Monica: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2003. xiv + 208 pp. US$25.00 (paperback). The chapter authors in this edited volume have presented a comprehensive analysis ...
Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait
Jul 01, 2006; ... Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait, by Richard C. Bush. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. xiv + 416 pp. US$32.95/£24.00 (hardcover). Richard Bush is a well-known Taiwan specialist. His latest book, Untying the Knot, is a genuine tour de force. It makes a ...
China's Foreign Policy Making: Societal Force and Chinese American Policy
Jul 01, 2006; ... China's Foreign Policy Making: Societal Force and Chinese American Policy, edited by Yufan Hao and Lin Su. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xiv + 230 pp. £50.00/US$99.95 (hardcover). Calling into question the traditional view that China's foreign-policymaking is highly centralized and ...
ASEAN-China Relations: Realities and Prospects
Jul 01, 2006; ... ASEAN-China Relations: Realities and Prospects, edited by Saw Swee-Hock, Sheng Lijun and Chin Kin Wah. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005. xx + 375 pp. US$34.90/S$49.90 (paperback). The global implications of China's rise are nowhere more evident than in its relations ...
China and Southeast Asia: Global Changes and Regional Challenges
Jul 01, 2006; ... China and Southeast Asia: Global Changes and Regional Challenges, edited by Ho Kaho Leong and Samuel C. Y. Ku. Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies; Taiwan: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 2005. xxviii + 327 pp. S$49.90/US$32.90 (paperback). This book is the result of a ...
Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics
Jul 01, 2006; ... Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics, edited by David Shambaugh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xx + 383 pp. US$60.00/£38.95 (hardcover), US$24.95/£15.95 (paperback), downloadable eBook version US$15.95. Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics is a collaborative ...
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era
Jul 01, 2006; ... Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era, by Alien Carlson. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2005. xvi + 301 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover). In recent years, analysts of Chinese foreign policy have begun to ask if China's stance on ...
Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security
Jul 01, 2006; ... Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International security, by Avery Goldstein. PaIo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2005. xiv + 274 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$22.95 (paperback). Much recent literature on Chinese strategic studies has dealt with how Beijing will adapt ...
China in World Politics: Policies, Processes, Prospects
Jul 01, 2006; ... China in World Politics: Policies, Processes, Prospects, by Judith F. Kornberg and John R. Faust. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005 (2nd edition), x + 294 pp. US$55.00 (hardcover), US$22.50 (paperback). China's remarkable economic transition and its emergence to international ...
Kitai: ugrozy, riski, vyzovy razvitiu
Jul 01, 2006; ... Kitai: ugrozy, riski, vyzovy razvitiu (China: Threats, Risks and Challenges to Development) (in Russian), edited by Vasily Mikheev et al. Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 2005. 647 pp. Price not known. The eleven contributors to the seventeen chapters of this monograph on the dangers and ...