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Beijing Time

by Michael Dutton

Reviewed by Nicholas Frisch

May 2008

As a non-expert in urban theory, I can hardly presume to marshal a surefooted command of postmodern and postcolonial analysis in critiquing Michael Dutton’s elaborate theoretical edifice. One thing, however, is certain: Beijing Time is a terrible read. Since misery loves company, perhaps I should inflict a bit of the prose upon our readers.

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China Modernizes

by Randall Peerenboom

Reviewed by Nicholas Bequelin

February 2008

Is China proving that developing countries are better off under an authoritarian regime that focuses on developing the economy, rather than under a democratic regime that gives emphasis to political participation? And if the enjoyment of human rights improves with economic prosperity, isnt it wiser to restrict them in the short term and allow them only once income levels take off?

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Billions of Entrepreneurs

by Tarun Khanna

Reviewed by Salil Tripathi

Mr. Khanna adopts a sober tone in this work, maintaining steadfast neutrality in analyzing the astonishing growth of the two countries, which will surely do much to reshape the way the world looks in the coming years. Besides neutrality, Mr. Khanna combines limpid prose and a sound evidence-based approach to make the book a refreshing alternative to many arcane, elliptical academic tracts on the subject.

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Eating India: Exploring a Nation's Cuisine

by Chitrita Banerji

Reviewed by Samanth Subramanian

April 2008

While the old cliché that one can never judge a book by its cover holds true, it is occasionally possible to make some accurate judgements based on how far apart the book’s covers are. In the case of Chitrita Banerji’s Eating India: Exploring a Nation’s Cuisine, the covers are separated by 329 pages – which either indicates that the sheer ambition of this project will have proved foolhardy, or that the book is printed in microscopic print.

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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

by Jonathan Chamberlain

Reviewed by Paul Mozur

April 2008

The short story In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (the basis of Akira Kurosawa’s movie Rashomon) tells the tale of a murder through three conflicting accounts of the crime, one told by the deceased victim, one by the victim’s wife and the third by the accused criminal. Each account is very different and the reader can easily see the ways each narrator attempts to cast him or herself in a certain light. But each is also consistent with corroborating stories and the physical evidence at the scene of the crime. At the end of the story, one is left with the hopeless task of cobbling together some semblance of truth from the three narratives.

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Rising Star

by Bates Gill

Reviewed by Arthur Waldron

February 2008

The argument of this well-researched and useful volume is that since the middle of the last decade, Beijings foreign and security policy have shifted away from previous unilateralism toward cooperation, consultation and the playing of a responsible and constructive role with respect to areas ranging from regional security to nuclear proliferation.

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