| January 2007 | Issue 57 |
| Elizabeth J. Perry, Studying Chinese Politics: Farewell to Revolution? | 1 |
| David Shambaugh, China's Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy | 25 |
| Gloria Davis, Habermas in China: Theory as Catalyst | 61 |
| Linda Chelan Li, Working for the Peasants? Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences in Chinese Rural Tax Reform | 89 |
| Jonathan Unger, The Cultural Revolution at the Grass Roots | 109 |
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REVIEWS
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| China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, by Minxin Pei (Richard Baum) | 141 |
| Policing Chinese Politics: A History, by Michael Dutton (Klaus Mühlhahn) | 144 |
| Legitimacy: Ambiguities of Political Success or Failure in East and Southeast Asia, edited by Lynn White (Suzanne Ogden) | 146 |
| Public Opinion and Political Change in China, by Wenfang Tang (Tianjian Shi) | 149 |
| Managing Transitions: The Chinese Communist Party, United Front Work, Corporatism, and Hegemony, by Gerry Groot (Barrett McCormick) | 151 |
| The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism, by Suijian Guo (Le-Yin Zhang) | 153 |
| Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-Owned Enterprises, by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima and Dwight H. Perkins (Eric Thun) | 155 |
| China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development, by Kelly Sims Gallagher (Phillip Stalley) | 156 |
| China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private Sector,
edited by Barbara Krug (Björn Alpermann) | 158 |
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Developing a Competitive Pearl River Delta in South China under One
Country-Two Systems, edited by Anthony Gar-on Yeh, Victor Fung-
shuen Sit, Guanghan Chen and Yunyuan Zhou (Fulong Wu) | 160 |
| Critical Issues in China's Growth and Development, edited by Yum K. Kwan
and Eden S. H. Yu (Ligang Song) | 163 |
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Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China, by Paul Monk
(Stephen D. Dunn) | 165 |
| State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective
Action of the Retrenched, by Yongshun Cai (Anita Chan) | 166 |
| Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China, edited by Li Shi and
Hiroshi Sato (Chris Bramall) | 168 |
| La condition chinoise: la mise au travail capitaliste à l'âge des réformes
(1978–2004), by Jean-Louis Rocca (Lucien Bianco) | 170 |
| Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms: Individual Pathways from Plan
to Market, edited by Dorothy J. Solinger (Nanlai Cao) | 171 |
| Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century, by
Jie Fan, Thomas Heberer and Wolfgang Taubmann (Graeme Smith) | 173 |
| Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space,
edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu (Beibei Tang) | 175 |
| Globalization and the Chinese City, edited by Fulong Wu (Him Chung) | 176 |
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Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China, edited by Dudley |
| L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben
and Carol S. Walther (Zhongwei Zhao) | 178 |
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Die Todesstrafe in der VR China [The Death Penalty in the People's Republic
of China], by Astrid Maier (Børge Bakken) | 180 |
| Chinese Capitalism and the Modernist Vision, by Satyananda J. Gabriel
(Michael Webber) | 183 |
| Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority, by Pál Nyíri
(Quanmin Li) | 185 |
| Obedient Autonomy: Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life,
by Erika E. S. Evasdottir (Lisa Hoffman) | 186 |
| Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion, by Nie Jing-Bao. Foreword
by Arthur Kleinman (Delia Davin) | 189 |
| Chinese Youth in Transition, edited by Jieying Xi, Yunxiao Sun and Jing Jian
Xiao (Elisabeth J. Croll) | 191 |
| Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern
China, by Sara L. Friedman (Tamara Jacka) | 193 |
| Looking Through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic
Domination, by Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray (Joseph Bosco) | 195 |
| Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan:
Bentuhua, edited by John Makeham and A-Chin Hsiau (David C. Schak) | 198 |
| Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern
China, edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu and Donald S.
Sutton (Antonella Diana) | 201 |
| Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists, by Morris
Rossabi (Caroline Humphrey) | 203 |
| Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora, edited by Kun Eng
Kuah-Pearce and Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Philip A. Kuhn) | 205 |
| Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia, edited by Jomo
K. S. and Brian C. Folk (Michael Jacobsen) | 207 |
| Competition Policy and Law in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, by Mark
Williams (Scott Kennedy) | 210 |
| China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China,
by David Faure, and
Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies, by Gary Hamilton
(Donald DeGlopper) | 212 |
| Chinese Corporate Identity, by Peter J. Peverelli (Morris L. Bian) | 215 |
| China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History, by Dong Wang
(Samuel Chan) | 217 |
| The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making,
by Lydia H. Liu (Haiyan Lee) | 219 |
| Jacqueries et Révolution dans la Chine du XXe siècle, by Lucien Bianco with
Hua Chang-ming (Steven A. Smith) | 221 |
| Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and
Public Culture, by Fran Martin (Peter A. Jackson) | 223 |
| Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation, by Li-Hsiang Lisa
Rosenlee (Karyn Lai) | 226 |
| Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking
Literature, by Mark Leenhouts (Yiyan Wang) | 228 |
| China's American Daughter: Ida Pruitt (1888–1985), by Marjorie King
(Karen Garner) | 231 |
| Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett, edited
by George Burchett and Nick Shimmin (Anne-Marie Brady) | 233 |
| Zhou Enlai: A Political Life, by Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen
(Ronald C. Keith) | 234 |
| China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas, edited by
Tun-jen Cheng, Jacques deLisle and Deborah Brown (Alfred Chan) | 236 |
| International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon, by
Katherine Morton (Judith Shapiro) | 239 |
| China's Nuclear Future, edited by Paul J. Bolt and Albert S. Willner
(Andrew S. Erickson) | 241 |
| China and the Challenge of Economic Globalization: The Impact of WTO Membership, edited by Hung-Gay Fung, Changhong Pei and Kevin
H. Zhang (Hui Feng) | 243 |
| China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to Global Power, by
Marc Lanteigne (Allen R. Carlson) | 245 |
| Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, by William A. Callahan (Jean-Pierre Cabestan) | 247 |
| Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila, by Timothy Kendall
(Edmund S.K. Fung) | 249 |
| US–China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace, by
Zhiqin Zhu (Stuart Harris) | 251 |
| Normalization of U.S.–China Relations: An International History, edited by
William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li (Stuart Harris) | 253 |
| La Chine en quête de ses frontières: La confrontation Chine–Taiwan, by
Jean-Pierre Cabestan and Benoît Vermander (François Godement) | 255 |
| The Struggle Across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem, by
Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang (J. Bruce Jacobs) | 256 |
| Japan's Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power, edited by Lam Peng
Er (Qingguo Jia) | 258 |
| China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry, by Brantly Womack
(Ben Kerkvliet) | 260
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