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Volume 174 - June 2003

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The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality. By Lung-kee Sun. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xx+300 pp. $65.95. ISBN 0-7656-0826-X.]
Arif Dirlik
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21 July 2003, pp. 534-535
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Readers of The Chinese National Character may well wonder if there is any book or article on the subject that the author has not consulted. This is not an easy book to read, partly because it is packed with information and partly because of the form in which the author presents the subject matter. But it should be required reading for every graduate class in Chinese history/studies not only for its bibliographical coverage but also for the insights into the subject that Sun provides.

Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan. Edited by Stéphane Corcuff. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xxvi+285 pp. Hard cover $64.95, ISBN 0-7656-0791-3; paperback $24.95, ISBN 0-7656-0792-1.]
Thomas B. Gold
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21 July 2003, pp. 535-537
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The French Taiwan expert, Stéphane Corcuff, has assembled a group of mainly younger scholars, including many from Taiwan, to discuss, from different disciplinary perspectives and employing a range of methodologies, the politically sensitive and fascinating subject of Taiwan's identity.

Democratization and Welfare State Development in Taiwan. By Christian Aspalter. [Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002. xii+171 pp. ISBN 0-7546-1603-7.]
Dafydd Fell
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21 July 2003, pp. 537-538
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Taiwan studies suffer from an overemphasis on cross-straits relations and national identity, making Christian Aspalter's Democratization and Welfare State Development in Taiwan a refreshing change. After his previous comparative publication, Conservative Welfare States in East Asia, Aspalter offers readers the first English language book-length publication explaining the development of Taiwan's welfare state.

Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China. By Adam Segal. [Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xiii+184pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-3985-X.]
Cong Cao
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21 July 2003, pp. 538-539
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Digital Dragon claims to be “the first detailed look at a major Chinese institutional experiment and at high-tech endeavors in China” (inside book jacket). In fact, the book is more about the Chinese government's policies towards high-tech enterprises than about high-tech enterprises themselves. In particular it examines how four Chinese cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xi'an – have differed in implementing such policies, and how policy variations have impacted on the nation's high-tech development trajectories in different localities.

China Human Development Report 2002: Making Green Development a Choice. Produced by Stockholm Environment Institute in collaboration with UNDP. [Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002. 152 pp. ISBN 0-19-593603-5.]
Fran Monks
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21 July 2003, pp. 539-541
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The 2002 China Human Development Report explores the interaction between Chinese society and the environment, and the responses of government and the people to the challenge of finding a more sustainable development path. It states that “China is at a juncture of increased scarcity of natural resources with declining environmental quality and intensified social pressures.”

One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities. By James Z. Lee and Wang Feng. [Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii+248 pages. £12.95. ISBN 0-674-0709-3.]
Stevan Harrell
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21 July 2003, pp. 541-544
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This short, provocative, and important book makes two major claims: first, that the low fertility that is well documented for historical Chinese populations is due to rational demographic decision-making rather than to environmental stress; and secondly, that the source of this rational decision-making is the fundamental prevalence of collective authority in China, as opposed to the fundamental emphasis on individual rights in the West.

The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Edited by Lau Siu-kai. [Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. xxxiv+430 pp. ISBN 962-996-015-X.]
Leo F. Goodstadt
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21 July 2003, pp. 544-545
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Why has Hong Kong's experience as a Special Administrative Region proved so disappointing? Since 1997, the government has become more unpopular than at any time since regular opinion polls began two decades ago. The public has responded with disquiet to changes in long-established housing, educational, hospital and welfare programmes because the new policies are perceived as very often ill-conceived and poorly co-ordinated.

The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Edited by Poshek Fu and David Desser. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-77602-3.]
Joshua Goldstein
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21 July 2003, pp. 545-546
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This edited volume of 14 essays is an aptly titled and useful resource, particularly for anyone interested in the first of its three themes, the history of Hong Kong film from the 1920s up to the present. Like most such volumes, the essays are of uneven quality and the editors could have done a bit more to fix some awkward writing and iron out some grammatical wrinkles and typos.

Consuming Hong Kong. Edited by Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui. [Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001. 340 pp. ISBN 962-209-536-4.]
Hugh D. R. Baker
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21 July 2003, pp. 546-547
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In 1997 James Watson edited and published Golden Arches East, a labour of love on manifestations of McDonald's in East Asia, which by focusing on differences of usage and acceptance in various countries threw some light on nuances of consumerism.

Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Edited by Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid. [Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1997. 335 pp. ISBN 0-295-97613-6.]
Zhou Xun
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21 July 2003, pp. 547-549
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Xenophobic nationalism and ethnic conflict have been major features of modern times. As Daniel Chirot rightly points out about Jews in Europe and Chinese in South-East Asia in his introduction, “information about these two successful but often persecuted minorities offers insights about the very formation of ethnic and nationalist identities, and clues about when such a process is more or less likely to lead to either violent social separation and conflict or peaceful accommodation” (p. 3).

Innovation in Chinese Medicine. Edited by Elisabeth Hsu. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 426 pp. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-80068-4.]
Hsiung Ping-chen
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21 July 2003, pp. 549-550
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Innovation can be of crucial concern to the development of any medical tradition. It is of particular importance for a proper understanding of Chinese medical developments, in part because of the long-held misgivings about traditional therapies as an unchanging heritage, which has led to an insistent differentiation between medicine and Chinese medicine, especially at the time when Lu Gwei-Djen (1904–1991) lived.

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21 July 2003, pp. 551-555
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Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation

Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation (January–March 2003)
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22 July 2003, pp. 556-606
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21 July 2003, pp. 607-610
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Glossary of Chinese Terms

Glossary of Chinese Terms
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21 July 2003, pp. 611-622
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Book Review

The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality. By Lung-kee Sun. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xx+300 pp. $65.95. ISBN 0-7656-0826-X.]

Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan. Edited by Stéphane Corcuff. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xxvi+285 pp. Hard cover $64.95, ISBN 0-7656-0791-3; paperback $24.95, ISBN 0-7656-0792-1.]

Democratization and Welfare State Development in Taiwan. By Christian Aspalter. [Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002. xii+171 pp. ISBN 0-7546-1603-7.]

Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China. By Adam Segal. [Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xiii+184pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-3985-X.]

China Human Development Report 2002: Making Green Development a Choice. Produced by Stockholm Environment Institute in collaboration with UNDP. [Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002. 152 pp. ISBN 0-19-593603-5.]

One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities. By James Z. Lee and Wang Feng. [Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii+248 pages. £12.95. ISBN 0-674-0709-3.]

The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Edited by Lau Siu-kai. [Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. xxxiv+430 pp. ISBN 962-996-015-X.]

The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Edited by Poshek Fu and David Desser. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-77602-3.]

Consuming Hong Kong. Edited by Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui. [Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001. 340 pp. ISBN 962-209-536-4.]

Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Edited by Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid. [Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1997. 335 pp. ISBN 0-295-97613-6.]

Innovation in Chinese Medicine. Edited by Elisabeth Hsu. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 426 pp. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-80068-4.]

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Books Received (January–March 2003)

Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation

Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation (January–March 2003)

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Glossary of Chinese Terms

Glossary of Chinese Terms

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