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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 REVIEWS

• 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¡V1966) (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

ARTICLES

• Urbanization in China: Processes and Policies
  Chaolin Gu and Fulong Wu
• 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

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
  
• 97 Litigating Economic Disputes in Rural China
  SHEN Mingming and WANG Yuhua
  
• 123 The Rule of Law in China: If It Has Been Built, Do People Know about It?
  Ming YANG and Juan CHEN
  
• 147 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

ARTICLES

• HONG KONG: TEN YEARS AFTER THE HANDOVER
  Roger C. K. Chan and George C. S. Lin (Guest Editors) 
• From a Colonial Outpost to a Special Administrative Region: Hong Kong's First Decade of Reunion with China
  Roger C. K. Chan and George C. S. Lin
• Structural Changes in the Economy of Hong Kong since 1997
  David R. Meyer 
• Like Sons and Daughters of Hong Kong: The Return of the Young Generation
  Janet Salaff, Angela Shik and Arent Greve
• Culture and the City: Hong Kong, 1997 • 007
  Carolyn Cartier
• One Public, Two Health Systems: Hong Kong and China, Integration without Convergence
  Kerrie L. MacPherson

OTHER ARTICLES

• Retreat of the State • Restructuring the Chinese Central Bureaucracies in the Era of Economic Globalization
  Joo-Youn Jung

RESEARCH NOTES

• The Rise of China and Soft Power: China’s Soft Power Influence in Korea
  Jung-Nam Lee

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

Contents

ARTICLES

• TEN YEARS AFTER 1997: THE LOST DECADE OF HONG KONG
  Tai-lok Lui and Stephen W. K. Chiu (Guest Editors)
• Governance Crisis in Post-1997 Hong Kong: A Political Economy Perspective
  Tai-lok Lui and Stephen W. K. Chiu
• The Hong Kong Economy under Asymmetric Integration: Structural Transformation or Dissolution
  Tsang Shu-ki 
• Neoliberalization and Privatization in Hong Kong after the 1997 Financial Crisis
  Chen Yun Chung and Pun Ngai
• Political Opportunities, Social Mobilization and Collective Action: The Re-invigorated Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong
  Joseph M. Chan and Francis L. F. Lee
• Misled Intervention by a Misplaced Diagnosis: The Hong Kong SAR Government’s Policies for Alleviating Poverty and Social Exclusion
  Wong Hung
• Grassroots Nationalism: Changing Identity in a Changing Context
  Eric Ma

OTHER ARTICLES

• Living with the State: Ambivalent Autonomy in the Yao Community in Jinxiu
  Chih-yu Shih
• Geographical Changes in Foreign Direct Investment and Impacts on Regional Economic Integration in China: The Case Study of the Pan-PRD Regionalization
  Li Zhang and Simon Xiaobin Zhao

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

Contents

ARTICLES

• The Bund and Beyond: Rethinking the Sino-Foreign Financial Grid in Pre-War Shanghai.
  Niv HORESH
• Competitive Advantage and Rural Industrial Clustering: The Case of Steel Measuring Tape Production in a Chinese Village
  Xiaojian LI and Erling LI
• WTO Accession, Financial Reform and the Rule of Law in China
  Berry F. C. HSU and Douglas W. ARNER
• Evolution of Health Provision in Pre-SARS China: The Changing Nature of Disease Prevention
  Jonathan SCHWARTZ, R. Gregory EVANS and Sarah GREENBERG
• Re-Visions of Shuihu Women in Chinese Theatre and Cinema
  Jing SHEN

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

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE

• WTO AND CHINA’S FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  

ARTICLES

• Introduction to the Special Issue: WTO and China’s Financial Development.
  Douglas W. ARNER (Guest Editor)
• Implementing China’s WTO Commitments in Chinese Financial Services Law
  Sanzhu ZHU
• Insurance in China: Assessment of the Implementation of China’s WTO Commitments
  Andreas KELLERHALS
• Managing Liberalization Risk in China’s Securities Market: Challenges from WTO Implementation
  Michael E. BURKE
• CEPA and China’s Banking Law: Conflicts and Adjustments
  Wei WANG

OTHER ARTICLES

• The Rise and Fall of the China League for Civil Rights
  Jinxing CHEN

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
  

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  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

• NETWORKS OF NEWS: POWER, LANGUAGE AND TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CHINESE PRESS, 1850–1949
  Bryna Goodman (Guest Editor)

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

• CHINESE CENSUS 2000: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
  Kam Wing Chan (Guest Editor)

ARTICLES

• China's Missing Girls: Numerical Estimates and Effects on Population Growth
  Yong Cai and William Lavely
• Mortality Analysis of China's 2000 Population Census Data: A Preliminary Examination
  Li Shuzhuo and Sun Fubin
• Urbanization in China in the 1990s: New Definition, Different Series, and Revised Trends
  Kam Wing Chan and Ying Hu
• Migration As Marketization: What Can We Learn from China’s 2000 Census Data?
  Cai Fang and Wang Dewen
• Dynamics of Family and Elderly Living Arrangements in China: New Lessons Learned from the 2000 Census
  Zeng Yi and Zhenglian Wang
• Housing Improvement and Distribution in Urban China: Initial Evidence from China's 2000 Census
  Wang Feng

RESEARCH NOTE

• Urban Labour Market Segmentation: Some Observations Based on Wuhan Census Data
  Yunyan Yang

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

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

• Nan Shui Bei Diao: Diverting Water from the South to the North in China
  Elspeth Thomson
  

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

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

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

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

• 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