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The article reviews the book "Rock Paper Tiger," by Lisa Brackmann.

Reviews the book `The Tiananmen Papers,' compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet," by Erik Mueggler.

The article reviews the book "For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings," by Janet Lee Scott.

The article reviews the book "China in the Tokugawa World," by Marius B. Jansen.

Reviews two books about China. 'The Tiananmen Papers,' compiled by Zhang Liang and edited by Andrew Nathan and Perry Link; 'Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or 'Evil Cult'?' by Danny Schechter.

The article reviews the book "China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism," edited by Ho-Fung Hung.

The article reviews the book "Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail," by Yongshun Cai.

Reviews the book 'Making Chinese Papercuts,' by Corinne and Robert Borja.

This article reviews the book "The China Environment Yearbook (2005): Crisis and Breakthrough of China's Environment," edited by Liang Congjie and Yang Dongping.

The article reviews the book "Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China," edited by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan.

The article reviews the book "China Statistical Abstract 1988," edited by William T. Liu.

Aloysius Siow of University of Toronto reviews 'Understanding Chinese Families: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China' by C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ruoh-Rong Yu. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins 'Analyzes the contemporary Chinese family in Taiwan and Southeast China using a study of longitudinal data. Discusses an introduction to Chinese families; social backgrounds of China and Taiwan; coresidence and family size; family fertility; marriage patterns; housework and household decisions; revealed son preferences; the role of the family in child education; intergenerational mobility; family reciprocal supports; parental transfers and child feedbacks; and changing gender preferences in Taiwan. Chu is with the Faculty of Economics at the National Taiwan University and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica. Yu is Associate Fellow with the Centre for Survey Research at Academia Sinica. Index.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States," edited by Robert Ash, David Shambaugh and Seiichiro Takagi.

Reviews the book "Contemporary China: The Dynamics of Change at the Start of the New Millennium," edited by P.W. Preston and Jurgen Haacke.

The article reviews the book "Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy, 1842-1937," by Niv Horesh.

The article reviews the book "Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality," edited by Vivienne Shue and Christine Wong.

The article reviews the book "Guangdong: China's Promised Land," edited by Brian Hook.

The article reviews the book "The Distribution of Income in China," edited by Keith Griffin and Renwei Zhao.

The article reviews several books, including "King Hu's A Touch of Zen," by Stephen Teo, "Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema," by Gary G. Xu, and "Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films," by Paul Clark.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Michael Perelman on the timing of primitive accumulation in view of industrialization, one by Charles Post on China's lack of capitalist social relations, and one by Alvin So on queries about capitalism in China.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem,' translated by Mike O'Connor.

Reviews the book 'The Coming Collapse of China,' by Gordon G. Chang.

The article reviews the book "China, Modernisation and the Goal of Prosperity: Government Administration and Economic Policy in the Late 1980s," edited by Kate Hannan.

The article reviews the book "The Chinese Economy: Fighting Inflation, Deepening Reforms."

Academics in Hong Kong universities are urged to increase their research output. This article investigates the measurement of publication outputs among the three faculties of business, education, humanities & social sciences in the six universities of Hong Kong. Data were collected from the 1990–95 annual reports of research and publication outputs of each university. In order to have a fair comparison of publication outputs of each academic, rank, faculty and university, a framework was developed from practical experience and from literature to investigate the problem. Results indicate that the publication outputs of academics in Hong Kong were about the same as other countries in many aspects. Pressing academics for more research publications may raise the figure in the start, but would not necessarily increase the output in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "The People and The Tao: New Studies in Chinese Religions in Honour of Daniel L. Overmyer," edited by Philip Clart and Paul Crowe.

The article reviews the book "Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War," by John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai.

The article reviews the book "Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism," edited by David Bandurski and Martin Hala.

The article reviews the book "China Threat? The Challenges, Myths, and Realities of China's Rise," by Lionel Vairon.

A review of the book "A Cultural History of Modern Science in China," by Benjamin A. Elman is presented.

The article reviews the book "Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation," by C. K. Lee.

The Silver Wings: Local Society and Cultural Changes in China (1920s–1980s) is a representative ethnographic work since the reconstruction of Chinese anthropology in the late 1970s. It used the perspective of cultural change to make a return visit to the field sites described in the book "The Golden Wing". What is most academic valuable about the book is its methodological implications. To be specific, the book refers to the concept of "culture" in Chinese historical documents, putting the issues examined into the framework of the relationship between state and local society in the long course of Chinese history. In the field work, the author's use of intuitive research methods and the look-back method is also commendable. If we want to understand this book exactly, it is best to combine the two films the author made, Dragon Boat Festival and winter solstice, because they form a semantic chain. In short, The Silver Wings is an excellent work of anthropology, it had lead Chinese cultural anthropology into a new historical period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review is presented of the book "China High: A Memoir," by ZZ.

The article reviews the book "A Season in Red: My Great Leap Forward into the New China," by Kirsty Needham.

A review of the book "The Invisible Valley," by Su Wei, translated by Austin Woerner, is presented.

Reviews the book, 'Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999,' by Yan Yunxiang.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'China: The Land,' revised edition, by Bobbie Kalman.