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ABSTRACT: In recent years, interest in Hong Kong poetry in English has grown remarkably. Amidst all the excitement, the question has arisen as to how to define Hong Kong poetry in English. This paper is an attempt to provide an answer from linguistics. Subsumed under this controversy are three questions: What is poetry? What is good poetry? What is Hong Kong poetry? The first question has to take into account the revived interest in relating literary English to the general use of English. The second one relates to literary standards, which are inevitably tied to cultural norms of interaction and interpretation. The last one can be answered with reference to sociolinguistic concepts of speech communities. The paper deals briefly with the first two questions and focuses on the last. It affirms the existence of Hong Kong poetry in English. Each poet writing in or for Hong Kong may identify with more than one poetic community just as many users of English in Hong Kong may communicate with more than one group of English speakers. The application of linguistics to the task of defining Hong Kong poetry should offer insights towards a framework for identifying literary communities elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 "International Business in China," edited by L. Kelley and O. Shenkar.

The article reviews the book "China's Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects," by Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, Stoyan Tenev and Yang Yao.

The article reviews the book "China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society After Communism," by Andrew Kipnis.

There is a footnote in Alfred Gell's 1992 essay "The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology" where he observes that enchantment is just as relevant to capitalist societies as it is to a place like the Trobriand Islands. Kimberly Chong's ethnography of management consultancy in China explores, in effect, a parallel magic standard in a financializing world - best practices - and some of the key players involved in producing it - management consultants. Costless production, Gell observes, "is not costless at all but [entails] the minimization of costs to the corporation by the maximization of social costs" (p. 62fn). [Extracted from the article]

Over the last decade there has been a deluge of books and articles discussing the rise of China as an economic and strategic power. But as any economist should have predicted, when in 2020 China imposed an embargo on some Australian products, China switched suppliers and Australia simply changed buyers. [Extracted from the article]

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The I Handbook on China and Globalization i is a valuable contribution to the understanding of how China has integrated and engaged with the global economy. The perspective in the book is more about how China has moved into and impacted on the global economy, and therefore is more of an outward-looking perspective from China's viewpoint. It is pointed out that for disruptive innovation or paradigm shifts to take place in China, serious efforts from all levels of government, universities, research institutions, and the business world need to occur. [Extracted from the article]

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

The article reviews the book "Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China," by Andrew B. Kipnis.

A review of the book "Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China," by Yulian Wu, is presented.

Invisible China: How the urban-rural divide threatens China's rise Second, on several occasions, the authors say things like "the entire world will be much better off with a thriving China" (p. 154) and "a growing, thriving China is good for the world" (p. 178). This status is very difficult to change, it detrimentally affects citizens with rural I hukou i status, and, most importantly, one's I hukou i status affects virtually every aspect of one's life. [Extracted from the article]

Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise The authors cite OECD data for China for 2014 that show that China has a larger proportion of 25-34-year-olds with less than upper secondary education than the other middle- and upper-income countries for which data are available (figure 3). Scott Rozelle is an American academic with long experience working in rural China. [Extracted from the article]

This article reviews the book "Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China," by John A. Donaldson.

The article reviews the book "Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics," by Yuan-kang Wang.

The article reviews the book "The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China," by James Miller.

The article reviews the book "The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- Through Tenth-Century China," by Jinhua Jia.

The article reviews the book "Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China," by Robin Visser.

The article reviews the book "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa," by Deborah Brautigam.

The article reviews the books "China's Urban Space: Development Under Market Socialism," by T.G. McGee, George C.S. Lin, Andrew M. Marlon, Mark Y. L. Wang and Jiaping Wu and "Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market and Space," by Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu and Anthony Gar-On Yeh.

Ian Rae and Morgan Witzel. 2004. Singular and Different: Business in China, Past, Present and Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 173 pages. ISBN: 1-4039-1722-1. Sheila Oakley. 2002. Labor Relations in China's Socialist Market Economy. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 231 pages. ISBN: 1-56720-589-5. Ilan Alon (Ed.). 2003. Chinese Culture, Organizational Behavior, and International Business Management. Westport, CT: Praeger. 270 pages. ISBN: 1-56720-456-1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Late Cenozoic Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang, Red River, and Dali Fault Systems of SW Sichuan and Central Yunnan, China,' by E. Wang et al.

Environmental policy is developing into one of the most pressing and critical international and domestic issues of the 1990s. The books reviewed in this article all reflect the diversity of environmental policy as rich and varied as the environment itself. This article presents a summary of a few books moving from the most theoretical and general to the most descriptive and specific. Author Lester Ross has offered, in "Environmental Policy in China," a fascinating, though somewhat outdated, book on environmental policymaking in China. In contrast to the other books reviewed in this essay, Ross has employed competing theoretical frameworks in understanding and explaining environmental policy in China.

A review of the book "Road to Governance: Building a Civil Service with Chinese Characteristics," edited by Yang Shiqiu, is presented.

The article reviews the book "China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities," by C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell.

The article reviews the book "Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space," edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu.

The article reviews the book "China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music," by Jeroen de Kloet.

The article reviews the book "Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong," by Timothy Choy.

The article reviews the book "Cosmologies of Credits: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China," by Julie Chu.

The article reviews the book "In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis," by Li Zhang.

The article reviews the book "Reducing Inequality for Shared Growth in China: Strategy and Policy Options for Guangdong Province," by The World Bank.

A review of the book "Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent," by Lisa M. Hoffman is presented.

The article reviews the book "HIV in China: Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic," edited by Jing Jun and H. Worth.

The article reviews the book "The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China," by Laikwan Pang.

This article reviews the book "Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation," edited by Ching Kwan Lee.

Reviews the book "Borrowed Gods & Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion," by Eric Reinders.

Reviews the book 'The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China,' by Charlotte Ikels.

Reviews the book "Land and Lineage in China: A Study of Tung-Cheng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties," by Hilary Beattie.

Reviews the book "Chinese Lineage and Society," by Maurice Freedman.