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The article reviews the book "Worries Nearby: Cultural Politics and the Future of China," by Wenming Tang.

The article reviews the book "China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security," edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne.

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.

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 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 To be specific, the book refers to the concept of "culture" in Chinese historical documents, putting the issues examined into the framework of the relationship between state and local society in the long course of Chinese history.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]

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The article reviews the book "Yesterday's China. A Photographic Essay and Drawings," by Leonard Kahan.

The article reviews the book "China's New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies, & Significance," by Zhu Zhiqm.

This article reviews the book "Accountability Without Democracy: Solidarity Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China," by Lily L. Tsai; "Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics," by William H. Overholt; "New Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Policy," Sujian Guo and Shiping Hua.

This article reviews the books "A History of Modern Tibet: The Calm Before the Storm, 1951 to 1955," by Melvyn C. Goldstein; "Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979," by Guangqiu Xu; and "China's Foreign Trade Policy: The New Constituencies," edited by Ka Zeng.

The article analyzes an essay examining the literature of the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" in early twentieth-century China. According to the author of the essay, in the Butterfly literature there is reaffirmation of the traditional Confucian ideology, but there is also a rupture and points of departure for a different discourse, a subversion caused by repetition, exaggeration and improbability. She also asserts that the suppression of women is maintained and even reinforced by many performative literary texts in history, as can be seen by the melodramatic deaths of many women characters in the Butterfly literature.

The article reviews the book "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers," by Scott Carney.

The article reviews the book "New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy," edited by Alistair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross.

The article reviews the book "The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China," by Frank N. Pieke.

The article reviews the book "The Politics of Imagining Asia," by Wang Hai.

A review of the book "China: Fragile Superpower," by Susan L. Shirk is presented.

A review of the book "Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes," by M. Taylor Fravel is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds," by David M. Lampton.

The article reviews the book "Flora of China. Hippocastanaceae Through Theaceae," Vol. 12, edited by Zheng-yi Wu, Peter H. Raven and Deyuan Hong.

The article reviews the book "China Candid: the People of the People's Republic," edited by Sang Ye.

The article reviews the book "WTO, Internationalization and the Intellectual Property Rights Regime in China," by Qingjiang Kong.

The article reviews the exhibition "Qiu Zhijie: Breaking Through the Ice," which is showing at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China until May 25, 2009.

The article reviews the book "Flora of China: Illustrations of Poaceae," Vol. 22, edited by Zheng-yi Wu, Peter H. Raven and Deyuan Hong.