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List of books available for review 

Göran AIJMER & Virgil K. Y. HO, Cantonese Society in a Time of Change. Hong
Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2000. 302 pp., with index. ISBN:
962-201-832-7 (pbk). Price: US$25.00.

Hans ANTLÖV and Tak-wing NGO, eds., The Cultural Construction of Politics in
Asia. Richmond, UK: Curzon  and Copenhagen: NIAS 2000. 263 pp., with
bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-7007-0612-7 (hc).   

Gang BAI, Xiaojuan FAN, Jingxuan LEI, Baohua LI-TAO, and Weimin SHI, eds.,
Analysis of Public Policies of China 2001. (In traditional Chinese
characters) Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2000. 380 pp.
ISBN: 962-937-037-9. Price: $15.00.

Paul J. BAILEY, China in the Twentieth Century. Historical Association
Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001 (second edition). 294 pp., with
maps, bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0-631-20328-1 (pbk),
0-631-23030-0 (hc). Price: £13.99 (pbk), £50.00 (hc).

David P. BARRETT and Larry N. SHYU, eds., Chinese Collaboration with Japan,
1932-1945: The Limits of Accommodation. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2001. 304 pp., with maps and index. ISBN: 0-8047-3768-1 (hc). Price:
£35.00/$45.00.

Daniel A. BELL, East Meets West. Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 369 pp., with index and
bibliography. ISBN: 0-691-00507-9 (hc), 0-691-00508-7 (pbk). Price: $65.00
(hc), $19.95 (pbk).

Lucien BIANCO, Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in
Twentieth-Century China. An East Gate Book. New York and London: M. E.
Sharpe, 2001. 340 pp., with glossary and index. ISBN: 1-56324-839-5 (hc),
1-56324-840-9 (pbk). Price: $64.95 (hc), $26.95 (pbk).

Kjeld Erik BRØDSGAARD and Mads KIRKEBÆK, China and Denmark, Relations since
1674. Copenhagen: NIAS, 1999. 368 pp., with photographs, bibliography and
index. ISBN: 87-87062-71-2 (pbk). Price: $24.95.

Alfred L. CHAN, Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's
Great Leap Forward. Studies on Contemporary China. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2001. 330 pp., with bibliography, glossary and index. ISBN:
0-19-924406-5 (hc). Price: £45.00.

Anita CHAN, China's Workers under Assault. The Exploitation of Labor in a
Globalizing Economy. Asia and the Pacific Series. Armonk, N.Y. and London:
M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 266 pp., with photographs, bibliographical references
and index. ISBN: 0-7656-0357-8 (hc), 0-7656-0358-6 (pbk). Price: $58.95
(hc), $22.95 (pbk).

Maria Hsia CHANG, The Labors of Sisyphus. The Economic Development of China.
New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2000. 259 pp., with index.
ISBN: 0-7658-0661-4 (pbk). Price: £18.95.

Joseph Y. S. CHENG, ed., Guangdong in the Twenty-First Century: Stagnation
or Second Take-off. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2000. 484
pp., with index. ISBN: 962-937-066-2 (pbk). Price: HK$ 220.

Yung-chen CHIANG, Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China,
1919-1949. Cambridge Modern China Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001. 313 pp., with glossary, bibliography and index. ISBN:
0-521-77014-9 (hb). Price: £37.50/$59.95.

Leo T. S. CHING, Becoming "Japanese". Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of
Identity Formation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 2001. 263 pp., with notes, bibliography and index. ISBN:
0-520-22551-1 (cloth), 0-520-22553-8 (pbk). Price: $48.00 (cloth), $18.95
(pbk).

Nelson W. S. CHOW, Socialist Welfare With Chinese Characteristics: The
Reform of the Social Security System in China. Centre of Asian Studies
Occasional Papers and Monographs No. 141. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian
Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2000. 163 pp., with references. ISBN:
962-8269-28-3. Price: HK$ 80.00.

Rey CHOW, ed., Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of
Theory: Reimagining a Field. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000.
344 pp., with index. ISBN: 0-8223-2597-7 (pbk). Price: £14.50.

Allen CHUN, Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice
and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. 359 pp., with tables, maps,
bibliography, appendix and index. ISBN: 90-5702-450-0. Price: $62.00/£42.00.

John CLEVERLEY, In the Lap of Tigers. The Communist Labor University of
Jiangxi Province. Lanham etc.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 247 pp., with
index. ISBN: 0-8476-9936-6 (hc), 0-8476-9937-4 (pbk). Price: £52.00 (hc),
£16.95 (pbk).

Ian G. COOK and Geoffrey MURRAY, China's Third Revolution: Tensions in the
Transition to Post-Communism. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001. 296 pp., with
maps, illustrations, references, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-7007-1307-7
(hc). Price: £45.00.

Yijiang DING, Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC
Press, 2001. 184 pp., with glossary, bibliography and index. ISBN:
0-7748-0838-1 (hc). Price: $75.00.

Ryan DUNCH, Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China, 1857-1927.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. 314 pp., with glossary,
bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-300-08050-6 (hc). Price: £27.50.

Richard Louis EDMONDS, ed., The People's Republic of China after 50 Years.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 178 pp., with index. ISBN:
0-19-924065-5 (pbk). Price: £14.99.

Grant EVANS, Christopher HUTTON and Khun Eng KUAH, eds., Where China Meets
Southeast Asia. Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions. Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. Bangkok: White Lotus, 2000. 346
pp., with index. ISBN: 981-230-040-6 (hc), 981-230-071-6 (pbk). Price:
$42.90 (hc), $28.90 (pbk).

Stephan FEUCHTWANG, Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor.
Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. xii + 283 pp., with references, glossary and
index. ISBN: 0-7007-1421-9 (hc), 0-7007-1385-9 (pbk). Price: £45.00 (hc),
£16.99 (pbk).

Jocelyne FRESNAIS, La Protection du Patrimoine en République Populaire de
Chine 1949-1999. Paris: C.T.H.S., 2001. 653 pp., with maps, bibliography,
appendices and index. ISBN: 2-7355-0460-3 (pbk). Price: Fr 124.65.

Stefan FRIEDRICH, China und die Europäische Union. Europas weltpolitische
Rolle aus chinesischer Sicht. Mitteilungen No. 321. Hamburg: Institut für
Asienkunde, 2000. 279 pp., with glossary and bibliography. ISBN:
3-88910-235-2. Price: DM 44.00.

Sivaguru GANESAN, Employment, Technology and Construction Development. With
Case Studies In Asia and China. Aldershot, UK etc.: Ashgate, 2000. 392 pp.,
with appendix, bibliography and index. ISBN: 1-84014-862-4 (hc). Price:
£52.50.

Monika GÄNSSBAUER, ed., Christsein in China: Chinesische Stimmen aus Kirche
und Forschung. Hamburg: EMW and China Infostelle, 2000. 127 pp., with
bibliography and addresses. ISSN: 1436-2058.

Ross GARNAUT and Yiping HUANG, eds., Growth Without Miracles: Readings on
the Chinese Economy in the Era of Reform. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001. 524 pp., with index. ISBN: 0-19-924059-0. Price:
£20.00.

Bruce GILLEY, Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village.
Berkely: The University of California Press, 2001. 235 pp., with
illustrations, tables, references and index. ISBN: 0-52022532-5 (hc),
0-520-22533-3 (pbk). Price: $45.00 (hc), $15.95 (pbk).

Xiaoming GUO and Changwen ZHAO, In the Name of Peasant Cooperation: The
Course of Life and Death of Sichuan Province Rural Cooperation Foundation,
1986-1999. (In traditional Chinese characters) USC Seminar Series No.16.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2000. ISBN: 962-441-716-4. Price: HK$ 30.00.

Michel HOCKX, The Literary Field of Twentieth-Century China. Richmond, UK:
Curzon, 1999. 252 pp., with bibliography, glossary and index. ISBN:
0-7007-1073-6 (hc). Price: £25.00.

Weixing HU, Gerald CHAN and Daojiong ZHA, eds., China's International
Relations in the 21st Century: Dynamics of Paradigm Shifts. Lanham, New York
and Oxford: University Press of America, 2000. 248 pp., with tables,
bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-7618-1831-6 (hc), 0-7618-1832-4 (pbk).
Price: $56.00 (hc), $36.50 (pbk).

Shiping HUA, ed., Chinese Political Culture 1989-2000. Studies on
Contemporary China. An East Gate Book. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe,
2001. 352 pp., with tables, figures and index. ISBN: 0-7656-0565-1 (hc).
Price: $68.95.

Graham HUTCHINGS, Modern China: A Companion to a Rising Power. London:
Penguin Books, 2000. 553 pp., with maps, illustrations, chronology, selected
recommended reading and index. ISBN: 0-14-027739-0 (hc). Price: £20.00.

Azizur Rahman KHAN and Carl RISKIN, eds., Inequality and Poverty in China in
the Age of Globalization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 184 pp.,
with bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0-190513649-7 (hc). Price:
£34.99.

Jeffrey C. KINKLEY, Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in
Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. 497 pp.,
with index. Distributed outside North-America by Cambridge University Press.
ISBN: 08047-3443-7 (hc). Price: £40.00/$69.50.

P. R. KUMARASWAMY, ed., China and the Middle East: The Quest for Influence.
New Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Publications, 1999. 228 pp., with
bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-7619-9361-4.   

David M. LAMPTON, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations
1989-2000. Berkely, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press,
2001. 510 pp., with bibliographical references and index. ISBN:
0-520-21590-7. Price: $35.00/£22.00.

Chung-ming LAU and Jianfa SHEN , eds., China Review 2000. Hong Kong: The
Chinese University Press, 2000. 627 pp., with index. ISBN: 962-201-945-5
(hc). Price: $55.00.

Peter Nan-Shong LEE and Carlos Wing Hung LO, eds., Remaking China's Public
Management. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2001. Distributed by Eurospan. xi
+255 pp., with notes, references and index. ISBN: 1-56720-337-X (hc). Price:
£48.95.

Marilyn A. LEVINE and San-ching CHEN, The Guomindang in Europe. A Sourcebook
of Documents. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000. 303
pp., with glossary, bibliography and index. ISBN: 1-55729-068-7 (pbk).   

Xiaohong LIU, Chinese Ambassadors. The Rise of Diplomatic Professionalism
since 1949. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 282 pp., with
notes, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-295-98028-1 (hc). Price: £35.50.

Xiaobo LÜ, Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the
Chinese Communist Party.Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. 383 pp.,
with bibliography, glossary and index. ISBN: 08047-3958-7 (hc). Price:
£35.00.

Colin MACKERRAS, ed., Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5918924. Price:
£12.99.

Eric MUEGGLER, The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in
Southwest China. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California
Press, 2001. xv + 360 pp., with references and index. ISBN:0-520-22631-3
(pbk). Price: £12.95.

James MULVENON, Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese
Military-Business Complex, 1978-1998. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe,
2001. 283 pp., with bibliographical references and index. ISBN:
0-7656-0579-1 (hc), 0-7656-0580-5 (pbk). Price: $69.95 (hc), $27.95 (pbk).

James C. MULVENON and Richard H. YANG , eds., The People's Liberation Army
in the Information Age. Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand 1999. 288 pp. ISBN:
0-8330-2716-6 (pbk). Price: $25.00.

Andrew J. NATHAN, Zhaohui HONG and Steven R. SMITH, eds., Dilemmas of Reform
in Jiang Zeming's China. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
x + 235 pp., with bibliography and index. ISBN: 1-55587-851-2 (hc).    

Katherine PALMER KAUP, Creating the Zhuang. Ethnic Politics in China.
Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 220 pp., with
bibliography and index. ISBN: 1-55587-886-5 (hc).   

Carl RISKIN, Renwei ZHAO, and Shi LI, eds., China's Retreat from Equality:
Income Distribution and Economic Transition. An East Gate Book. New York and
London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 376 pp., with figures, tables and index. ISBN:
0-7656-0690-9 (hc), 0-7656-0691-7 (pbk). Price: $85.00 (hc), $32.95 (pbk).

Xinbang RUAN and Peilin LUO, eds., Modern China Rural Studies (Part I): A
Theoretical Exploration. River Edge: Global Publishing Co. Inc., 2000. ISBN:
1-879771-47-0 (pbk).

Vilma SEEBERG, The Rhetoric and Reality of Mass Education in Mao's China.
Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. xvi + 562 pp., with
appendices, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0-7734-7638-5 (hc). Price:
$119.95.

Lijun SHENG, China's Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue. Singapore: Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, 2001. 240 pp., with index. ISBN: 981-230-077-5
(hc), 981-230-076-7 (pbk). Price: $44.90 (hc), $28.90 (pbk).

Chih-yu SHIH, Collective Democracy. Political and Legal Reform in China.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2000. 365 pp., with bibl. and
index. ISBN: 962-201-827-0. Price: $32.00.

Wenfang TANG and William L. PARISH, Chinese Urban Life under Reform. The
Changing Social Context. Cambridge Modern China Series. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. xi + 388 pp., with appendices, tables, references
and index. ISBN: 0-521-77865-4 (pbk).   

Hung-mao TIEN and Tun-jen CHENG, eds., The Security Environment in the
Asia-Pacific. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Distributed in Europe by
Eurospan, London. 355 pp., with index. ISBN: 0-7656-0539-2 (hc),
0-7656-0540-6 (pbk). Price: $72.95 (hc), $24.95 (pbk).

Hung-mao TIEN and Yun-han CHU, eds., China under Jiang Zemin. Boulder and
London: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 277 pp., with bibliography and index. ISBN:
1-55587-844-X (hc), 1-55587-927-6 (pbk). Price: £41.50 (hc), £16.50 (pbk).

Henk VAN GEMERT, ed., Financial Reform in China: bridging the Gap between
Plan and Market. Joint Volume. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, 2001. 247 pp.
ISBN: 90-423-0114-7 (hc). Price: NLG 79.00.

Liming WANG and John DAVIS, China's Grain Economy. The Challenge of feeding
more than a Billion. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 256 pp., with bibliography
and index. ISBN: 1-85521-957-3 (hc). Price: £45.00.

Robert WARDY, Aristotle in China. Language, Categories and Translation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 170 pp., with index. ISBN:
0-521-77118-8 (hc). Price: £35.00/$54.95.

Timothy B. WESTON and Lionel M. JENSEN , eds., China Beyond the Headlines.
Lanham etc.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 366 pp., with index. ISBN:
0-8476-9854-8 (hc), 0-8476-9855-6 (pbk). Price: £44.00 (hc), £16.95 (pbk).

Young-tsu WONG, A Paradise Lost: The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. 245 pp., with maps and
bibliographical references. ISBN: 0-8248-2226-9 (cloth), 0-8248-2328-1
(pbk).  

Ming XIA, The Dual Developmental State. Development Strategy and
Institutional Arrangements for China's Transition. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
263 pp., with index. ISBN: 1-84014-833-0. Price: £42.50.

Jingming XIONG, ed., Enter the Chinese Countryside of the Twenty-First
Century. (In simplified Chinese characters) Beijing: Guangming Ribao
Publishing House, 2000. ISBN: 7-80145-282-8/C.10. Price: RMB 26.00.

Shanhua YANG and Peilin LUO, eds., Modern China Rural Studies (Part II): A
Verifying Investigation. River Edge: Global Publishing Co. Inc., 2000. ISBN:
1-879771-48-9 (pbk).

Weili YE, Seeking Modernity in China's Name. Chinese Students in the United
States 1900-1927. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 330 pp.,
with photographs, bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0-8047-3696-0
(hc).   

Wen-hsin YEH, ed., Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness. Narratives,
Images, and Interpretations of the 1990s. Berkeley, Calif.: The Institute of
East Asian Studies, 2000. In the series China Research Monograph, No. 51.
158 pp. ISBN: 1-55729-064-4 (pbk). Price: $15.00.

David ZWEIG, Distortions in the Opening. "Segmented Deregulation" and Weak
Property as Explanations for China's "Zone Fever" of 1992-1993. Hong Kong:
Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies 1999. USC Seminar Series, No.
14. 24 pp., with notes. ISBN: 962-441-714-8. Price: HK$15.00.

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