Below are a list of reviews from the January 2021 edition of The China Journal, including reviews of “Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis”, by Jiwei Ci and “Handbook on Human Rights in China”, edited by Sarah Biddulph and Joshua Rosenzweig.
| Everyday Masculinities in Twenty-First-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men, by Magdalena Wong |
| Kam Louie |
| Residency, Class, and Community in the Contemporary Chinese City, edited by William Hurst |
| Beibei Tang |
Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China, by Charlotte Bruckermann Yi Wu
The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development, by Shaohua Zhan Wuna Reilly
Activating China: Local Actors, Foreign Influence, and State Response, by Setsuko Matsuzawa Peter Harris
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China, by Martin T. Fromm Felix Wemheuer
China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial, by Gordon C. K. Cheung Zhiqun Zhu
The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, by Nicholas R. Lardy Dwight H. Perkins
Understanding Corporate Governance in China, by Bob Tricker and Gregg Li Peter J. Peverelli
Politics in China: An Introduction, edited by William A. Joseph Lucien Bianco
Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis, by Jiwei Ci Barrett L. McCormick
The Private Sector in Public Office, by Yue Hou Meg Rithmire
Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia, by William Hurst Pitman B. Potter
Chinese Legal Culture and Constitutional Order, by Shiping Hua Samuli Seppänen
Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History, edited by Sebastian Veg Kimberley Ens Manning
Handbook on Human Rights in China, edited by Sarah Biddulph and Joshua Rosenzweig Anita Chan
The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and the Power among Tibetans in China, by Charlene Makley Robert Barnett
Religion in China: Ties That Bind, by Adam Yuet Chau Nanlai Cao
Fate Calculation Experts: Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China, by Geng Li Ole Bruun
Radio and Social Transformation in China, by Wei Lei Byron Hauck
China—Art—Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day, by David Clarke Julia F. Andrews
China’s Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market, by Jiawen Han Xiang Ren
China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status, by Courtney J. Fung Marc Lanteigne
Economic Security and Sino-American Relations: Progress under Pressure, by Kenneth Boutin Robert Sutter
The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China, 1998–2018, by Min Ye Xiao Alvin Yang
Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia, by Enze Han Ian Tsung-yen Chen
Dependency in the Twenty-First Century? The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations, by Barbara Stallings Alvaro Mendez
The New Silk Road: Challenge and Response, by Richard T. Griffiths Linda Yin-nor Tjia
China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era, edited by Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim and Frank Cibulka Robert Sutter
The Belt and Road Initiatives: ASEAN Countries’ Perspectives, edited by Yang Yue and Li Fujian Alan Chong
China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road Is Transforming Global Politics, by Robert R. Bianchi Andrew Scobell
A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976, by Felix Wemheuer Brian DeMare
Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao, by Yang Kuisong, Gregor Benton, and Ye Zhen James D. Seymour
State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance, by Julia C. Strauss James D. Seymour
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China, by Arunabh Ghosh Carsten A. Holz
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification, by Eddy U Yidi Wu
Mao Zedong, a Biography: Volume 1, 1893–1949, edited by Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji Tony Saich
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism, by Robert Culp Joseph P. McDermott
Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China, by Mary Augusta Brazelton Fan Ka Wai
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940, by Eugenia Lean Tim Wright
The East Turkestan Independence Movement: 1930s–1940s, by Wang Ke and Carissa Fletcher David Brophy
Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933, by Torsten Weber Craig A. Smith
Hong Kong Soft Power: Art Practices in the Special Administrative Region, 2005–2014, by Frank Vigneron Carolyn Cartier
Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, by Au Loong-Yu Shui-yin Sharon Yam
The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, edited by Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng Agnes S. Ku
Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, by Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan Gary Tang
