Issue 51, January 2004

Articles

Luigi Tomba, Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing

Stanley Rosen, The Victory of Materialism: Aspirations to Join China's Urban Moneyed Classes and the Commercialization of Education

Ben Hillman, The Rise of the Community in Rural China: Village Politics, Cultural Identity and Religious Revival in a Hui Hamlet

Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China

Mark W. Frazier, China's Pension Reform and Its Discontents

Bruce Gilley, The "End of Politics" in Beijing

Reviews

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999, by Yunxiang Yan (Elisabeth J. Croll)

Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, by Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü (Lynette Ong)

The Promise of the Revolution: Stories of Fulfillment and Struggle in China's Hinterland, by Daniel B. Wright (Andrew Kipnis)

Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan, by Laurel Bossen (Rita S. Gallin)

The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China, by Chris Coggins (Richard Louis Edmonds)

Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China, by Gregory Fairbrother (Meiling Southwell-Lee)

Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, by Charles A. Laughlin (Bonnie S. McDougall)

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation, by Ni Zhen (translated by Chris Berry) (Stephanie DeBoer)

Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination, by Wanning Sun (Louisa Schein)

China and India Online: Information Technology Politics and Diplomacy in the World's Two Largest Nations, by Marcus Franda (Bennis Wai-yip So)

Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, by Kellee S. Tsai (Sally Sargeson)

The Heart of Economic Reform: China's Banking Reform and State Enterprise Restructuring, by Donald D. Tong (Lynette Ong)

Financial Reform and Economic Development in China, by James Laurenceson and Joseph C. H. Chai (Guonan Ma)

The Changing Face of Chinese Management, by Jie Tang and Anthony Ward (Stephen L. Morgan)

Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, by Adam Segal (Bennis Wai-yip So)

Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China, by Hongying Wang (Fu Jun)

Models of the Chinese Economy, edited by Peter Lloyd and Xiao-guang Zhang (Guanghua Wan)

China's Economy into the New Century: Structural Issues and Problems, by John Wong and Lu Ding (Yanrui Wu)

China's Transition to a Global Economy, edited by Michael Webber, Mark Wong and Zhu Ying (Sally Sargeson)

China's Entry to the WTO: Strategic Issues and Quantitative Assessments, edited by Peter Drysdale and Ligang Song, and
China 2002: WTO Entry and World Recession, edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (John Q. Tian)

Political Regime of Contemporary China, by Zhao Hongwei (Dennis Woodward)

The National People's Congress of China, by Jiang Jinsong (Michael W. Dowdle)

Kulturrevolution, Diskurs und Erinnerung: Eine Analyse lebensgeschichtlicher Erzählungen von chinesischen Frauen (Cultural Revolution, Discourse and Memory: An Analysis of Life Stories by ChineseWomen), by Nora Sausmikat (Michael Schoenhals)

Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973, edited by Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin (Robert Sutter)

The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1979-1989, edited by Ezra F. Vogel, Yuan Ming and Tanaka Akihiko (Stuart Harris)

Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century, by Greg Austin and Stuart Harris (John W. Garver)

China and Southeast Asia: Changing Socio-Cultural Interactions, edited by Melissa G. Curley and Hong Liu (Lee Lai To)

Out of the Shadow of 1997? The 2000 Legislative Council Election in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, edited by Kuan Hsin-chi, Lau Siu-kai and Timothy Ka-ying Wong (Alvin Y. So)

Between Assimilation and Independence: The Taiwanese Encounter Nationalist China, 1945-1950, by Steven E. Phillips (J. Bruce Jacobs)

Les Grands Entrepreneurs Privés à Taiwan: La Main Visible de la Prospérité (Taiwan's Large Private Entrepreneurs: The Visible Hand of Prosperity), by Gilles Guiheux (Isabelle Thireau)

Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance, by Wang Gungwu (Edmund S. K. Fung)

The West and China since 1500, by John S. Gregory (Johanna Waley-Cohen)

Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China, edited by Robert J. Antony and Jane Kate Leonard (Edward McCord)

An Intellectual History of Modern China, edited by Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-Fan Lee (Timothy Cheek)

An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1889-1975), by Geremie R. Barmé (Craig Clunas)

The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China, by Tze-lan D. Sang (Gary Sigley)

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937, by Linsun Chang (Tim Wright)

Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican China, by Brett Sheehan (Tim Wright)

Defining Modernity: Kuomintang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970, edited by Terry Bodenhorn (Robert E. Bedeski)

Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing, edited by Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella and David Liu (Herbert Bix)

Friend of China-The Myth of Rewi Alley, by Anne-Marie Brady (Stephen R. MacKinnon)