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_________________________________________________________ The China Journal July 2010 Issue 64 ____________________________________________________________ Ben Hillman, Factions and Spoils: Examining Political Behavior within the Local State in China 1 Sally Sargeson and Yu Song, Land Expropriation and the Gender Politics of Citizenship in the Urban Frontier 19 Lianjiang Li, Rights Consciousness and Rules Consciousness in Contemporary China 47 Ling Chen, Playing the Market Reform Card: The Changing Patterns of Political Struggle in China’s Electric Power Sector 69 Xuehua Zhang and Leonard Ortolano, Judicial Review of Environmental Administrative Decisions: Has it Changed the Behavior of Government Agencies? 97 Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Eugenic Birth and Fetal Education: The Friction between Lineage Enhancement and Premarital Testing Among Rural Households in Mainland China 121 PUN Ngai and LU Huilin, A Culture of Violence: The Labor Subcontracting System and Collective Action by Construction Workers in Post-Socialist China 143 Geng Song and Tracy K. Lee, Consumption, Class Formation and Sexuality: Reading Men’s Lifestyle Magazines in China 159 Shi-Chi Mike Lan, The Ambivalence of National Imagination: Defining “The Taiwanese” in China, 1931–1941 179 REVIEW ESSAY Jonathan Unger, The Cultural Revolution Warfare at Beijing’s Universities 199 REVIEWS Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward: Two Stories, edited by Richard King. (Felix Wemheuer) 213 Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008, by Huaiyin Li. (Pauline Keating) 214 The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation, by Prasenjit Duara. (Justin Tighe) 216 A History of the Modern Chinese Army, by Xiaobing Li. (David M. Finkelstein) 218 East River Column: Hong Kong Guerillas in the Second World War and After, by Chan Sui-jeung. (Parks Coble) 220 Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese, by Law Wing Sang. (Gordon Mathews) 222 Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots, by Gary Ka-wai Cheung. (Alan Smart) 224 China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900–1950, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer. (Joseph Tse-Hei Lee) 225 Chinese Utopianism: A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought with Japan and Russia, 1898–1997, by Shiping Hua. (John A. Rapp) 228 Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine Through Transnational Frames, by Mei Zhan. (James Flowers) 229 Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China, by Susan K. McCarthy. (James Leibold) 231 China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music, by Jeroen de Kloet. (Marc Moskowitz) 233 Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China, by Tiantian Zheng. (James Farrer) 235 Communities, Crime and Social Capital in Contemporary China, by Lena Y. Zhong. (Shumei Hou) 237 Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China, edited by Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank. (Thomas Heberer) 239 The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society, by Bryan Tilt. (Anna Lora-Wainwright) 241 The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, by Guobin Yang. (Colin Hawes) 243 Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China, by Yingjin Zhang. (Niv Horesh) 245 Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity, edited by Xiangming Chen. (Lisa Hoffman) 247 China: The Pessoptimist Nation, by William A Callahan. (Kerry Brown) 249 Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China. Band I: Der urbane Raum (Political Participation and Regime Legitimacy in the PRC. Vol. I: Urban China), by Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert; and Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China. Band II: Der ländliche Raum (Political Participation and Regime Legitimacy in the PRC. Vol. II: Rural China), by Gunter Schubert and Thomas Heberer. (Björn Alpermann) 252 Government and Policy-Making Reform in China: The Implications of Governing Capacity, by Bill K. P. Chou. (Yu Zheng) 254 China’s Great Economic Transformation, edited by Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski. (Carl Riskin) 256 Chinese Capitalisms: Historical Emergence and Political Implications, edited by Yin-wah Chu. (Christopher A. McNally) 258 The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, by Minqi Li. (Christopher A. McNally) 260 Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China, edited by Deborah S. Davis and Feng Wang. (PUN Ngai) 262 Inequality and Public Policy in China, edited by Björn A. Gustafsson, Li Shi and Terry Sicular. (Sarah Cook) 263 States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000, by Dorothy J. Solinger. (William Hurst) 265 The Rise of China and India: A New Asian Drama, by Lam Peng Er and Lim Tai Wei. (Louise Merrington) 267 Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context, by Charles Horner. (Peter Ditmanson) 269 China 2020: How Western Businesses Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade, by Michael A. Santoro. (King Chi Chris Chan) 270 Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy, by Tai Ming Cheung. (William A. Fischer) 272 Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power and Politics, by Robert S. Ross. (Robert Bedeski) 274 China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, by Sophie Richardson. (Kerry Brown) 275 China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores, by R. Evan Ellis. (Merriden Varrall) 277 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Ling Chen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include the political economy of China and East Asia. She has published articles in Review of International Political Economy and New Political Economy. She is currently working on a research project that examines industrial upgrading and innovation in China’s coastal localities. Ben Hillman is Lecturer in Political Science at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, where he teaches graduate courses on comparative government and democracy. His current research focuses on local governance and ethnic conflict. Other recent publications can be viewed at http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/staff/bhillman.php. Shi-Chi Mike Lan is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Tracy K. Lee is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong, and a PhD candidate with The Australian National University. Her research focuses on gender and mass media in China. Lianjiang Li is a professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work focuses on village elections, collective action and political trust in rural China. His articles have appeared recently in China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Modern China and Political Behavior. He is the author, with Kevin J. O’Brien, of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge, 2006). LU Huilin is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University. His primary research and teaching interests are historical sociology, rural social change in modern China and class formation of peasant workers. Leonard Ortolano is UPS Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford University. He is a specialist in environmental and water resources planning, with a focus on the implementation of environmental policies and programs in the United States and several other countries, including China. He and his students have engaged in research activities related to a variety of environmental issues in China for over two decades. PUN Ngai is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her current research interests include labor, gender, socialist theory and history. Sally Sargeson is a Fellow of the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. Her research interests centre on the local politics of rural property reforms, and gender and rural development. With Tamara Jacka, she is currently co-editing a book on Women, Gender and Development in Rural China. Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on processes of nation-state building in China and Japan and on biotechnology and society in Asia (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ anthropology/profile192052.html). Geng Song is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Australian National University. He has published five books, including The Fragile Scholar (2004) and Globalization and Chineseness (2006), and is currently working on a book- length project on men and masculinities in contemporary China. Yu Song is a Lecturer in the School of Economics and Management at Zhejiang Sci- tech University. Her current research focuses on gender, rural development and internal migration in China. Jonathan Unger, a sociologist, is a professor in The Australian National University’s Department of Political and Social Change. He has published more than a dozen books about China, the most recent of which is, as co- author, Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (2009). Unger co-edited The China Journal for 18 years from 1987 through 2005. Xuehua Zhang is an independent consultant on environmental, energy and climate issues in developing countries. She received her PhD from Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
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