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The China Review, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2014)

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • Urban and Regional Governance in China: Introduction
    Xiaolong Luo, Jianfa Shen, and Chaolin Gu (Guest Editors)

ARTICLES

  • Planning Intercity Railways in China’s Mega-City Regions: Insights from the Pearl River Delta
    Jiang Xu and Yanyan Chen
  • Pseudo-urbanization or Real Urbanization? Urban China's Mergence of Administrative Regions and Its Effects: A Case Study of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province
    Yungang Liu, Zhigang Li, and Jie Jin
  • The Incident of Tieben: Social Capital and Local Governance in Post-Socialist China
    Titan Bo-xiu Jian
  • Rescaling as a Leading National Transformation Project: Decoding State Rescaling in China's Changing Central State-Led Regional Planning
    Hao Chen, Jingxiang Zhang, Xiangyu Li, and Zhao Zhang
  • Province-Leading-County as a Scaling-Up Strategy in China: The Case of Jiangsu
    Xiaolong Luo, Yeqing Cheng, Jie Yin, and Ying Wang
  • Reconstructing Urban Scale: New Experiments with the "Provincial Administration of Counties" Reform in China
    Yi Li and Fulong Wu
  • Reconsidering the Controversial Land Use Policy of "Linking the Decrease in Rural Construction Land with the Increase in Urban Construction Land": A Local Government Perspective
    Xianjin Huang, Yi Li, Ran Yu, and Xiaofeng Zhao

STATE-OF-THE-FIELD-REVIEW

  • The Emergence of Radical Politics in Hong Kong: Causes and Impact
    Joseph Yu-shek Cheng

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History. By Wang Gungwu
    Cho-yun Hsu
  • China or Japan: Which Will Lead Asia? By Claude Meyer
    David Arase
  • Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900. By Andrea S. Goldman
    Liang Luo
  • Zhongguo nongmin fanxingwei yanjiu (1950-1980) (Counteractions of Chinese Peasants, 1950-1980). By Gao Wangling
    Isabelle Thireau
  • Lishi de guanxing: weilai shinian de zhongguo yu shijie (Inertia of History: China and the World in the Next Ten Years). By Yan Xuetong
    Yang Li
  • Daguo quanli zhuanyi yu jishu bianqian (Power Transition among Great Powers and the Transformation of Technology). By Huang Qixuan
    Jing Ye
  • Gongren zhengzhi (Labor Politics). By Chen Zhouwang and Wang Shikai
    Zhang Xiaofang

The China Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 2013)

Contents

ARTICLES

  • The Historical Origins of the Nationalization of the Newspaper Industry in Modern China: A Case Study of the Shanghai Newspaper Industry, 1937–1953
    Sei Jeong Chin
  • Power Transition, Balance of Power, and the Rise of China: A Theoretical Reflection about Rising Great Powers
    Shih-yueh Yang
  • Disability Service Organizations and Their Relationship with the Chinese Government: A Case Study in Beijing
    Li Ying
  • Policy Entrepreneurship, Institutional Constraints, and Local Policy Innovation in China
    Yapeng Zhu

STATE-OF-THE-FIELD-REVIEW

  • China ICT Studies: A Review of the Field, 1989–2012
    Jack Linchuan Qiu and Wei Bu

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam: Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment, by Andrew Wells-Dang
    G. Shabbir Cheema
  • Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia, bySteve Chan
    Ming Wan
  • Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History, edited by T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes
    Daniel Asen
  • Big Construction Site: Rural Migrant Workers’ Life in the Building and Construction Industry, by Ngai Pun, Huilin Lu, and Huipeng Zhang
    Yue Ray Gong
  • China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC, by Daniel F. Vukovich
    Perry Johansson
  • People’s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet, by Katrien Jacobs
    Earl Jackson

The China Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 2013)

Contents

ARTICLES

  • Sources of Regime Legitimacy and the Debate over the Chinese Model
    Yun-han Chu
  • The Emerging New Middle Class and the Rule of Law in China
    Xiaogang Wu and Jinhua Cheng
  • What Analyses of Factional Politics of China Might Miss When the Market Becomes a Political Battlefield: The Telecommunication Sector as a Case in Point
    Wing-Chung Ho
  • Inhabiting the City: Tropes of “Home” in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
    Haiping Yan
  • The Political Logic of Changes in Local Fiscal Capacity in China
    Jing Ye

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Democratizing Taiwan. By J. Bruce Jacobs
    James D. Seymour
  • Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China. Edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow
    Yusheng Yao
  • China 2012: Strategizing Sustainable Growth. Edited by Hu Shuli
    Yan Zhang and Zhongfa Ma
  • Feichang yu zhengchang: Shanghai wenge shiqi de shehui shenghuo (Abnormality and Normality: Social Life during the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai). By Jin Dalu
    Fei Yan
  • Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change. Edited by Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning, and Peter Post
    Chang-Yau Hoon

The China Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 2012)

Contents

ARTICLES

  • Do Severe Penalties Deter Corruption? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Chinese Case
    Jiangnan Zhu
  • The Rise and Decline of the Reversal of the Burden of Proof in China’s Medical Negligence Law: A Political Economy of Lawmaking Perspective
    Lixin Yang and Chao Xi
  • Enhancing China–India Trade Cooperation: Complementary Interactions?
    Evelyn S. Devadason
  • TPP versus ECFA: Similarities, Differences, and China’s Strategies
    Jie Huang

STATE-OF-THE-FIELD REVIEW

  • Chinese Civil Society Research in Recent Years: A Critical Review
    Jianxing Yu and Jun Zhou

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China: Methodology, Theories, and Findings, edited by Fenggang Yang and Graeme Lang
    Anna Sun
  • Political Pursuit and Political Inclusion: Studies of Political Participation by Early-Prosperous Groups in Zhejiang (in Chinese), by Xingyou Lang
    Jing Ye
  • Daxue and Zhongyong (bilingual edition), translated and annotated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping
    Thierry Meynard
  • East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, by David C. Kang
    Hang Lin
  • Allies at Swords’ Points: The Sino–US Military Cooperative Relationship during the Pacific War Period (1941–1945) (in Chinese), by Qi Xisheng
    Lv Xun

The China Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

Contents

ARTICLES

  • The Evolvement of the Chinese Communist Party Discipline Inspection Commission in the Reform Era
    Guo Yong
  • Return Migration from Canada to Hong Kong
    Eric Fong
  • Hong Kong's Diaspora, Networks, and Family Business in the United Kingdom: A History of the Chinese "Food Chain" and the Case of W. Wing Yip Group
    Gordon C. K. Cheung and Edmund Terence Gomez
  • Is It Really Just a Rational Choice? The Contribution of Emotional Attachment to Temporary Migrants' Intention to Stay in the Host City in Guangzhou
    Huimin Du and Si-ming Li

STATE-OF-THE-FIELD REVIEW

  • Policymaking in China: A Review of Chinese Scholarship
    Jun Ma and Muhua Lin

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Beijing Record: A Physical and Political History of Planning Modern Beijing. By Wang Jun
    Sheng ZHONG
  • The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. By Jay Taylor
    SO Wai Chor
  • Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics. By Yuan-kang Wang
    David Curtis WRIGHT
  • Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia. Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang
    VOON Phin Keong
  • Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou. By Nanlai Cao
    Brent WHITEFIELD

The China Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2011)

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • Chinese Migrants and Circular Mobility: Introduction
    Jianfa Shen and Lan-Hung Nora Chiang (Guest Editors)

ARTICLES

  • Settlement Intention and Split Households: Findings from a Survey of Migrants in Beijing's Urban Villages
    C. Cindy Fan
  • Chinese Diaspora "at Home": Mainlander Taiwanese in Dongguan and Shanghai
    Ping Lin
  • In the Name of Legitimacy: Taiwan and Overseas Chinese during the Cold War Era
    Joan S. H. Wang
  • Return Migration: The Case of the 1.5 Generation of Taiwanese in Canada and New Zealand
    Lan-Hung Nora Chiang

OTHER ARTICLES

  • China's Land Tenure Reform: Time for a New Direction?
    Yongjun Zhao
  • The Emergence of Cyber Society and the Transformation of the Public Policy Agenda-Building Process in China
    Zhu Yapeng and Joseph Y. S. Cheng
  • "Obamania" in China and Its Yielding to Nationalism: Quantitative Responses from Elitist Chinese Students in Beijing toward the 2008 U.S. Election and Structural Analysis
    Simon Shen

STATE-OF-THE-FIELD REVIEW

  • Establishing a New Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System in China: The State of the Field, 1994–2010
    Yilin Hou

BOOK REVIEWS

  • The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. By Jane Duckett
    Alex HE Jingwei
  • Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic. By Chang-tai Hung
    Lijun YANG
  • Macau: History and Society. By Zhidong Hao
    CHAN Kwok Shing
  • Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China. By Liu Shao-hua
    HO Wing Chung

The China Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2011)

Contents

ARTICLES

  • A Rising Unknown: Rediscovering China in Japan's East Asia
    Chih-yu Shih
  • Performance, Meaning, and Ideology in the Making of Legitimacy: The Celebrations of the People's Republic of China's Sixty-Year Anniversary
    Yih-Jye Hwang and Florian Schneider
  • Fiscal Transfer and Local Public Expenditure in China: A Case Study of Shanxi Province
    Haiyan Duan and Jing Vivian Zhan
  • Staging Spatial Conflicts and Affect in Emotional Postsocialism: Meng Jinghui's Theater
    Jing Nie

RESEARCH NOTE

  • Study of the Diaoyu Islands: A Continuation of Document-Based Research in the Style of Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
    Zhijian Liang

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan. Edited by Fang-long Shih et al.
    Pei-yin LIN
  • Negotiating Cultural Change: The Discourse of Art in 1980s China. By Eduardo Welsh
    Maria GALIKOWSKI
  • China's Hong Kong Transformed: Retrospect and Prospects beyond the First Decade. Edited by Ming K. Chan
    Maurice COPITHORNE
  • China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know. By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
    Non ARKARAPRASERTKUL and Jacob DRYER
  • The New Imperialism in China I & II (in Chinese). By Larry H. P. Lang
    ZHONG Yurou
  • Revolution/Narration: The Socialist Imagination in Chinese Literature & Culture (1949–1966) (in Chinese). By Cai Xiang
    YAO Dan
  • A Critical History of New Music in China. By Liu Ching-chih
    Ou-fan LEE
  • Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World. By Mark Elliott
    JIA Jianfei
  • Where Is Jiangnan? Establishment of Qing Dynasty Orthodoxy and the Changing Inner World of Intellectuals (in Chinese). By Yang Nianqun
    XIE Maosong
  • Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World. By Haiming Wen
    Marianna BENETATOU

The China Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall 2010)

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • Transnationalism and Glocalization in Chinese Language and East Asian Cinemas
    Lu Tonglin (guest editor)

ARTICLES

  • Introduction: Transnationalism and Glocalization in Chinese Language and East Asian Cinemas
    Lu Tonglin

I. HISTORICAL EAST ASIA

  • Japanese Cinema in the Global System: An Asian Classical Cinema
    Catherine Russell
  • The Ambivalence of the Nationalist Struggle in Deterritorialized Space: The Case of South Korea's Manchurian Action Film
    Jinsoo An
  • When China Encounters Asia Again: Rethinking Ethnic Excess in Some Recent Films from the PRC
    Kwai-Cheung Lo

II. TRANSBORDER REGIONALIZATION

  • Remapping Contemporary Chinese Cinema Studies
    Chris Berry and Laikwan Pang
  • Of the East Asian Cultural Sphere: Theorizing Cultural Regionalization
    JungBong Choi
  • Children Caught in Crossfire: John Woo and a Global Affective Cinema
    Gary G. Xu

III. THE GLOBAL WITHIN THE LOCAL, THE TRANSNATIONAL WITHIN THE NATIONAL

  • The World without Future: Stage as Entrapment in Jia Zhangke's Film
    Erik Bordeleau
  • Fruit Chan's Dumplings¢wNew "Diary of a Madman" in Post-Mao Global Capitalism
    Lu Tonglin

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Footprints of the Missing: Trends of Thought of Young People during the Cultural Revolution (in Chinese). By Yin Hongbiao
    Anita CHAN
  • Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China. By Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
    P. Richard BOHR
  • Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. By Zhang Yingjin
    Chris BERRY

The China Review, Vol. 10, No.1, Spring 2010

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • URBANIZATION IN CHINA: PROCESSES AND POLICIES
    Chaolin Gu and Fulong Wu (Guest Editor)

ARTICLES

  • Land Property Rights and Urbanization in China
    Li Xun, Xu Xianxiang and Li Zhigang
  • Growth Politics in Urban China: A Case Study of Jiangsu's Jiangyin-Jingjiang Industrial Park
    Luo Xiaolong
  • Fundamentals of China's Urbanization and Policy
    Kam Wing Chan
  • Regional Governance, Local Fragmentation, and Administrative Division Adjustment: Spatial Integration in Changzhou
    Feng Zhen, Qing Shen, Boxiu Jian and Jun Zheng

OTHER ARTICLES

  • The Right to the Entrepreneurial City in Reform-Era China
    Li Zhang
  • Patronage or Prebendalism? The Mishu/Shouzhang Relationship and Corruption in Chinese Politics
    Xia Li Lollar and Anne Wing Hamilton
  • The Hidden Rules Governing China's Unregistered NGOs: Management and Consequences
    Guosheng Deng
  • Environmental Governance in China: Weakness and Potential from an Environmental Policy Integration Perspective
    Olivia Bina

BOOK REVIEWS

  • China and the New International Order. Edited by Wang Gongwu and Zheng Yongnian
    Richard BAUM
  • The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai: A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong. By Michael Sullivan
    Katharine P. BURNETT
  • Popular Protest in China. Edited by Kevin O’Brien
    Gunter SCHUBERT
  • State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the people. Edited by Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh
    Joe LEUNG
  • China's Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects. Edited by Dali L. Yang and Litao Zhao
    Yue-man YEUNG
  • Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s−1990s. By Lillian M. Li
    Andrea JANKU

The China Review, Vol. 9, No.2, Fall 2009

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • RELIGIOUS STUDIES IN CHINA
    Peter Tze-ming NG (Guest Editor)

ARTICLES

  • American Public Discourse on the Church in China
    Daniel H. BAYS
  • Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province
    Joseph Tse-Hei LEE
  • Protestant Christianity in China: Perspectives from the History of Chinese Religions and Early Christianity in the Roman World
    Daniel L. OVERMYER
  • The Regional Development of Protestant Christianity in China: 1918, 1949 and 2004
    Fuk-tsang YING


OTHER ARTICLES

  • Relegitimation through New Patterns of Social Security: Neighbourhood Communities as Legitimating Institutions
    Thomas HEBERER
  • Bureau Chiefs and Policy Experts in the Chinese Policy Decision-making Process: Making Guanxi More Influential
    ZHU Xufeng
  • China's Openness and Reform at 30: Retrospect and Prospect
    Yue-man YEUNG
  • Africa-China Relations: Symmetry, Soft Power and South Africa
    Adams BODOMO

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City. By Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey and Haili Kong
    Richard BELSKY
  • The "Chinese Century"? The Challenge to Global Order. By David Scott
    Edward FRIEDMAN
  • Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. By Paul A. Cohen
    Colin MACKERRAS
  • War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China 900–1795. By Peter Lorge
    Arthur WALDRON
  • Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform. By Jennifer Rudolph
    Joanna WALEY-COHEN
  • Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China. By Wang Feng
    WU Xiaogang
  • China's Urbanization: Pattern, Process and Mechanism. Edited by Gu Chaolin, Yu Taofang and Li Wangming
    Yue-man YEUNG

The China Review, Vol. 9, No.1, Spring 2009

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • MARKETS, COURTS AND LENINISM
    Pierre F. LANDRY, Yanqi TONG and SHEN Mingming (Guest Editors)
  • Introduction: Markets, Courts and Leninism
    Pierre F. LANDRY, Yanqi TONG and SHEN Mingming
  • Dispute Resolution Strategies in a Hybrid System
    Yanqi TONG
  • Does the Communist Party Help Strengthen China’s Legal Reforms?
    Pierre F. LANDRY
  • Rule of Law and Dispute Resolution in China: Evidence from Survey Data
    Wenfang TANG
  • Litigating Economic Disputes in Rural China
    SHEN Mingming and WANG Yuhua
  • The Rule of Law in China: If It Has Been Built, Do People Know about It?
    Ming YANG and Juan CHEN
  • GPS in China Social Surveys: Lessons from the ILRC Survey
    Yan Jie, Pierre F. LANDRY and Liying REN

BOOK REVIEWS

  • The Analects of Confucius. Translated by Burton Watson
    E. Bruce and A. Taeko BROOKS
  • A Rejoinder to Professor Brook’s Book Review on the Analects
    Burton WATSON
  • A Reply to Professor Watson
    E. Bruce and A. Taeko BROOKS
  • Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions. Edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille
    A. Tom GRUNFELD
  • The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. By Joan Judge
    Yuen Ting LEE
  • The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai. By Marcia R. Ristaino
    R. Keith Schoppa
  • China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the Household.By C. Cindy Fan
    SHEN Jianfa
  • Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. By Suzanne Pepper
    Edward VICKERS
  • Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Edited by Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang
    Peter ZARROW
  • Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song. By Hugh R. Clark
    Harriet ZURNDORFER

The China Review, Vol. 8, No.2, Fall 2008

Contents

ARTICLES

  • How Can Government Become Responsible? Trajectories, Meanings and Intentions
    Linda Chelan Li (Guest Editor)
  • The Genesis of Responsible Government under Authoritarian Conditions: Taiwan during Martial Law
    Tak-Wing Ngo and Yi-Chi Chen
  • Contractual Thinking and Responsible Government in China: A Constructivist Framework for Analysis
    Chengxin Pan
  • Objective Responsibility vs. Subjective Responsibility: A Critical Reading of the CCP’s Internal Supervision Regulation
    Ting Gong
  • Failing to Treat: Why Public Hospitals in China Do Not Work
    Wai-keung Tam
  • Regulating Decentralization in China
    Shiufai Wong and Martin Painter (Guest Editors)
  • The Role of Provincial Policies in Fiscal Equalization Outcomes in China
    Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Baoyun Qiao and Li Zhang
  • One Country, Diverse Systems: Politics of Educational Decentralization and Challenges for the Regulatory State in Post-Mao China
    Mok Ka-ho and King Lun NGOK
  • State Regulation and China’s Administrative System: A Spatial Perspective
    Him CHUNG
  • Regulating Decentralized State Industries: China’s Auto Industry
    Yukyung Yeo and Margaret Pearson
  • Central-local Relations and Pricing Policies for Wind Energy in China
    Daphne Ngar-yin Mah and Peter Hills

BOOK REVIEWS

  • A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s. Edited by Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn
    James M. Hargett
  • The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: Shaping the Reforms, Academia and China (1997–2003). By Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
    Ann Kent
  • Education and Reform in China. Edited by Emily Hannum and Albert Park
    Stanley Rosen
  • Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation. By Gordon Mathews, Eric Kit-wai Ma, and Tai-lok Lui
    Edward Vickers

The China Review, Vol. 8, No.1, Spring 2008

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

ARTICLES

OTHER ARTICLES

RESEARCH NOTES

BOOK REVIEWS

The China Review, Vol. 7, No.2, Fall 2007

Contents

ARTICLES

OTHER ARTICLES

The China Review, Vol. 7, No.1, Spring 2007

Contents

ARTICLES

The China Review, Vol. 6, No.2, Fall 2006

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

ARTICLES

OTHER ARTICLES

The China Review, Vol. 6, No.1, Spring 2006

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

ARTICLES

  • Introduction: Mediating State and Market in China¡¦s Competitive High Technology Industry.
    Yu ZHOU and Yifei SUN
  • Promoting Indigenous Capability: The Chinese Government and the Catching-Up of Domestic Telecom-Equipment Firms
    Peilei FAN
  • State and Commercial Enterprises in China¡¦s Technical Standard Strategies
    Yu ZHOU
  • Foreign R&D in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Shanghai, China
    Yifei SUN, Debin DU and Li HUANG
  • Market Transition, State Connections and Internet Geography in China
    Jun ZHANG

OTHER ARTICLES

  • Chinese Ocean Policies towards the South China Sea in a Transitional Period, 1946¡V1952.
    Ulises GRANADOS
  • TV Romance and Popular Cultural Mood: The Chi Li Phenomenon
    Hongwei LU

The China Review, Vol. 5, No.2, Fall 2005

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution

ARTICLES

  • Introduction: Gilded-Age Memories of the Cultural
    Revolution
    Guobin YANG and Ming-Bao YUE (Guest Editors)
  • Days of Old Are Not Puffs of Smoke: Three Hypotheses on
    Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution
    Guobin YANG
  • Nostalgia for the Future: Cultural Revolution Memory in
    Two Transnational Chinese Narratives
    Ming-Bao YUE
  • "Playing in the Dirt": Plays about Geologists and Memories of
    the Cultural Revolution and the Maoist Era
    Xiaomei CHEN
  • Old Zhiqing Photos: Nostalgia and the "Spirit" of the
    Cultural Revolution
    David J. DAVIES
  • Revolution Is a Dinner Party: Cultural Revolution Restaurants
    in Contemporary China
    Jennifer HUBBERT
  • Music, Memory, and Nostalgia: Collective Memories of
    Cultural Revolution Songs in Contemporary China
    Lei Ouyang BRYANT

BOOK REVIEWS

  • From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional
    Enterprises in Modern China. By Elisabeth K?ll
    David D. BUCK
  • Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese
    Cinemas. By Poshek Fu
    Paul CLARK
  • Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox
    of Activism and Depoliticization. By Lam Wai-man
    Michael E. DEGOLYER
  • Sights of Contestation: Localism, Globalism and Cultural
    Production in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Kwok-kan Tam,
    Wimal Dissanayake and Terry Siu-han Yip
    Poshek FU
  • Labor Dispute Resolution in China: Implications for Labor Rights
    and Legal Reform. By Virginia Harper Ho
    Mary E. GALLAGHER
  • Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History.
    Edited by Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng
    Yuen Ting LEE
  • Influence, Translation, and Parallels: Selected Studies on the Bible
    in China. By Mari?n G?lik
    LIAO Weichun
  • Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in
    Modern China. By Ban Wang
    LIU Yan
  • The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in
    American Culture. By John R. Eperjesi
    Hoang Gia PHAN
  • Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader. Edited by Corinne
    H. Dale
    Ban WANG
  • A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese
    Nationalism. By Zhao Suisheng
    Michael YAHUD

    The China Review, Vol. 5, No.1, Spring 2005

    Contents

    SPECIAL ISSUE

    • Chinese Education

    ARTICLES

    • Resource Utilization and Disparities in Compulsory Education in China.
      Mun C. TSANG and Yanqing DING
    • Issues in the Expansion of Higher Education in the People¡¦s Republic of China
      Henry M. LEVIN and Zeyu XU
    • Trust, Ownership, and Autonomy: Challenges Facing Private Higher Education in China
      Jing LIN, Yu ZHANG, Lan GAO and Yan LIU

    OTHER ARTICLES

    • Marxist Maternalism, Memory, and the Mobilization of Women in the Great Leap Forward.
      Kimberley Ens MANNING
    • Examining the Connection Between Temporary Migration and the Spread of STDs and HIV/AIDS in China
      Christopher J. SMITH and Xiushi YANG

The China Review, Vol. 4, No.2, Fall 2004

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

  • CORRUPTION IN CHINA :Great Disorder under Heaven: Endemic Corruption and Rapid Growth in Contemporary China:
    Andrew Wedeman

ARTICLES

  • Dependent Judiciary and Unaccountable Judges: Judicial Corruption in Contemporary China.
    Ting Gong
  • An Empirical Study of Corruption within China¡¦s State-owned Enterprises
    Wenhao Cheng
  • Lessons for Mainland China from Anti-corruption Reform in Hong Kong
    Melanie Manion
  • Regime and Curbing Corruption
    Shang Ying

OTHER ARTICLES

  • Domestic Support Ratios in Two-Level Bargaining: The US-China WTO Negotiations
    Albert S. Yee
  • National Development and Individual Trauma in Wushan yunyu
    Nick Kaldis

The China Review, Vol. 4, No.1, Spring 2004

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

ARTICLES

  • Transnationalism, the Press, and the National Imaginary in Twentieth Century China
    Arif Dirlik
  • “British Barbarians” and “Chinese Pigtails”? Translingual Practice in a Transnational Environment in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong and Shanghai
    Natascha Vittinghoff
  • Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Networks and News Flows in Early Republican Shanghai
    Bryna Goodman
  • Beyond Tianxia: The Zhongwai Xinwen Qiribao (Hong Kong 1871–1872) and the Construction of a Transnational Chinese Community
    Elizabeth Sinn
  • Qiaokan and the Transnational Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1882–1943
    Madeline Y. Hsu
  • Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Transnational Networks: The Chenbao Fujuan, 1921–1928
    Xiaoqun Xu

OTHER ARTICLES

  • On Taiwan’s Missing Crime and Mystery Fiction: Zhang Dachun’s Postmodern Transformation of the Taiwan Whodunit
    Jeffrey C. Kinkley
  • Pink Pills and Black Hands: Women and Hygiene in Republican China
    Sylvia Li-chun Lin

The China Review, Vol. 3, No.2, Fall 2003

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

ARTICLES

RESEARCH NOTE

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927.
    By S. A. Smith
    R. David Arkush
  • The Yale-China Association: A Centennial History.
    By Nancy E. Chapman, with Jessica C. Plumb
    Suzanne Wilson Barnett
  • China in the Post-Utopian Age.
    By Christopher J. Smith
    Ming K. Chan
  • Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping.
    By Bonnie S. McDougall
    Chiu-yee Cheung
  • Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation.
    By Ni Zhen. Translated by Chris Berry
    Paul Clark
  • The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform.
    By Justin Yifu Lin, Fang Cai, and Zhou Li
    Carsten A. Holz
  • Obscene Things: Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei.
    By Naifei Ding
    Karl Kao
  • China's Leadership in the Twenty-first Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation.
    Edited by David M. Finkelstein and Maryanne Kivlehan
    Hongyi Lai
  • Internationalizing China, Domestic Interests and Global Linkages.
    By David Zweig
    Ying Lin
  • Like Froth Floating on the Sea The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China.
    By Robert J. Antony
    Dian Murray
  • Chinese Feminities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader.
    Edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
    Janet W. Salaff
  • A Rainbow over the Pacific: American Writers and Chinese Culture (in Chinese).
    By Zhang Hong, et al.
    Guohe Zheng
  • "Pen Units" and the Invasion of China: A Critical Study of Japanese Literature Devoted to the Invasion of China (in Chinese).
    By Wang Xiangyuan
    Guohe Zheng
The China Review, Vol 3, No.1
Contents and Abstracts

SPECIAL ISSUE

THE CULTURAL CONFIGURATION OF LITERATURE AND FILM IN THE 1990'S CHINA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Hong Jiang (Guest Editor)

ARTICLE

  1. The Cultural Configuration of Literature and Film in 1990s China: A New Perspective
    Hong Jiang
  2. The Personalization of Literature: Chinese Women's Writing in the 1990s
    Hong Jiang
  3. Okay, Whatever: Intellectuals, Sex, and Time in Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Years
    Wendy Larson
  4. Music and Noise: Independent Film and Globalization
    Tonglin Lu
  5. Tropes of "Home": The Gender of Globalizing Market in Chinese Urban Culture
    Haiping Yan

RESEARCH NOTE

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth.
    By Joe Studwell
    Cheng Yuk-shing
  2. Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere: Struggles over Political Reform in the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-1994).
    By Agnes S. M. Ku
     Michael DeGolyer
  3. Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China.
    Edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow
    Roger Des Forges
  4. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
    By Rebecca E. Karl
    Edward Friedman
  5. Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society.
    Edited by Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen and Paul G. Pickowicz
    Laura W. Geller
  6. Creating a Chinese Harbin: Nationalism in an International City, 1916-1932.
    By James H. Carter
    Kwan Man-bun
  7. Xiao Hong. The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River. Translated by Howard Goldblatt
    Lily Lee
  8. Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong.
    Edited by Ming K. Chan and Alvin Y. So
    Li Pang-kwong
  9. The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction.
    By Xiaobin Yang
    Bonnie S. McDougall
  10. The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang.
    Edited by Jonathan Unger
    Jeremy Paltiel
  11. Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan.
    Edited by Stephane Corcuff
    Chih-yu Shih
  12. China's Economic Challenge °V Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl.
    By Neil C Hughes
    Lina Song
  13. Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility Since 1949.
    By Zhiyue Bo
    Andrew Wedeman
  14. The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan.
    By Jay Taylor
    Allen S. Whiting
The China Review, Vol 2, No.2
Contents and Abstracts

ARTICLES

  1. Anticipating Community, Producing Dissent: The Politics of Recent Chinese Intellectual Praxis
    Gloria Davies
  2. Imagining the People: Yellow Earth and the Enigma of Nationalist Consciousness
    W. K. Cheng
  3. The Development of Private Enterprise in Contemporary China: Institutional Foundations and Limitations
    Sun Wen-bin and Wong Siu-lun
  4. The Life Span of Unified Regimes in China
    Hongyi Harry Lai

BOOK REVIEWS

  • China's Integration in Asia: Economic Security and Strategic Issues,
    edited by Robert Ash.
    Joseph Y. S. Cheng
  • Modern China and Opium: A Reader,
    edited by Alan Baumler
    R. Bin Wong
  • Building in China: Henry K. Murphy's "Adaptive Architecture," 1914-1935,
    by Jeffrey W. Cody
    Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
  • Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen,
    by Yijiang Ding
    Shi Tianjian
  • Some Did It for Civilization; Some Did It for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War,
    by Jane E. Elliott
    Joseph W. Esherick
  • Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions.
    Edited by Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton, and Kuah Khun Eng.
    James K. Chin
  • Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China,
    by Judith Farquhar
    Tan Chee-Beng
  • Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age.
    By Andrew F. Jones
    Yu Siu Wah
  • Integrating China into the Global Economy,
    by Nicholas R. Lardy
    Yin-Ping Ho
  • Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing,
    edited by Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella and David Liu
     Charles W. Hayford
  • Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880,
    by Christopher Munn
     Jung-fang Tsai
  • Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China,
    by Elizabeth J. Perry
     Diana Lary
  • The Boxer Rebellion. The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900,
    by Diana Preston
     Jane Elliott
  • The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality,
    by Sun Lung Kee
    Chung-fang Yang
  • The Transformation of Rural China,
    by Jonathan Unger
     Chong-Chor Lau
  • Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China,
    edited by Xudong Zhang
     Colin Mackerras
The China Review, Vol 2, No.1
Contents and Abstracts

ARTICLES

  1. Locating Globalization: The Changing Role of the City-state in Post-Handover Hong Kong
    Pun Ngai and Lee Kim Ming
  2. Re-engineering the Developmental State in an Age of Globalization: Taiwan in Defiance of Neo-liberalism
    Yun-han Chu
  3. Globalization, Governance and Development of the Pearl River Delta Region
    Yan Hu and Roger C. K. Chan
  4. Is China Following the East Asian Model? A "Comparative Institutional Analysis" Perspective
    Keun Lee, Donghoon Hahn and Justin Lin

RESEARCH NOTES

  1. Gender Inequality in Access to Knowledge in China
    Danke Li
  2. Weak Links within a Centralized National System: Inter-Provincial Relations vis-a-vis News Coverage from 1955 to 1996
    Jonathan J. H. Zhu and Yu Huang

BOOK REVIEWS
The China Review, Vol 1, No.1
Contents and Sample Chapters
  1. National and Chinese Foreign Policy
    Tianbiao Zhu, Australian National University
  2. Pitfalls of China's Industrial Statistics: Inconsistencies and Specification Problems
    Carsten A. Holz and Yi-min Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  3. Determinants of Employee Salary Growth in Shanghai: An Analysis of Formal Education, On-the-job Training, and Adult Education with a Three-level Model
    Jin Xiao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  4. Entrepreneurs and Politics in Chinese Transitional Economy: Political Connections and Rent-seeking
    Eun Kyong Choi, Princeton University and Kate Xiao Zhou, University of Hawaii
  5. The Chinese Cultural Revolution Revisited
    Xing Li, Aalborg University
Book Reviews
  • China Along the Yellow River: A Scholar’s Observations
    and Reflections on Rural Society (in Chinese).
    By Cao Jinqing
    David Cowhig
  • China Along the Yellow River: A Scholar’s Observations
    and Reflections on Rural Society (in Chinese).
    By Cao Jinqing
    Wang Xi
  • Why Do We Have to Abolish the Province?: An Assessment andAdjustment of Administrative Division in Taiwan (in Chinese).
    By Liu Tao-yi
    Jianfa Shen
  • Studies on Spatial Agglomeration and Dispersal in the
    Coastal Urban Areas in China (in Chinese).
    By Hu Xuwei, Zhou Yixing, Gu Chaolin, et al.
    Yue-man Yeung
  • American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of
    Minnie Vautrin.
    By Hua-ling Hu
    Guohe Zheng
  • Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity,
    1900–1950.
    Edited by Joseph W. Esherick
    Chang-tai Hung
  • Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900.
    By Susan Naquin
    Ronald Suleski