Timothy Cheek
"The New Chinese Intellectual: Globalized, Disoriented, Reoriented" in China's Transformations: The stories beyond the headlines.

Lionel M. Johnson and Timothy B. Weston, eds.
(New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007)

“Seeking to bridge the gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes, the contributors [to China’s Transformations] challenge readers to move past the usual images of China presented by the media and to think about shared problems.”

– Rowman and Littlefield Publishers

Neil Diamant, Stanley Lubman, and Kevin O’Brien, eds.
Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice
(Stanford University Press, 2005)

"This remarkable, perspective-setting study of the evolutions in Chinese law and its place in a changing society [is] highly beneficial. One can only strongly encourage this type of research, whose multidisciplinary ambitions allow us to grasp, if not in its entirety, at least certain important aspects of a process that tends to make the law the best ally of an emerging social justice."

—China Perspectives

Elizabeth Economy
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future
(Cornell University Press, 2005)

"Elizabeth C. Economy captures extraordinarily well the complex historical, systemic, political, economic, and international forces that are shaping China’s environmental outcomes. No other volume on this enormously important issue is as comprehensive, balanced, and incisive.”

– Kenneth Lieberthal

Merle Goldman
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China
(Harvard University Press, 2005)

“This book is the best that has been published in English on the subject to this day, and whoever wants to understand Chinese politics during the reform era must read it.”
--Jean-Philippe Béja, The China Quarterly

Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds.
State and Society in 21st-century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation
(RoutledgeCurzon, 2004)

“The chapters mix fresh research with bold new interpretations. Most of these authors show China's regime type as incoherent, neither residual-revolutionary nor transitional-liberal. The editors have thus unified the book around a theme that contributes to comparative politics. Everyone who is interested in contemporary China needs to read this book. I will certainly use it in courses.”
–Lynn T. White III, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Jason Kindopp and Carol Lee Hamrin, eds.
God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions
(The Brookings Institution Press, 2004)

“God and Caesar in China examines China's religion policy, the history and growth of Catholic and Protestant churches in China, and the implications of church-state friction for relations between the United States and China, concluding with recommendations for U.S. policy.”

– Brookings Institution

W.O. Lee, David L. Grossman, Kerry J. Kennedy, and Gregory P. Fairbrother, eds.
Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific Concepts and Issues
(CERC Studies in Comparative Education, Springer, 2004)

“This book is a landmark in citizenship and citizenship education discourse.”

– Springer Press
 

Cheng Li, ed.
Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003
(New York: Lexington Books, 2005)

“…reinterprets many of the important topics that are of importance to investigators of contemporary Chinese society and its efforts at modernization. Given the breadth of topics and wealth of information it covered, Li’s book serves as good source for students and scholars in education, IR Studies, and other relevant areas.”

– Education Review

Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li
Rightful Resistance in Rural China
(Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2006)

"To the study of resistance, this superb book, is akin to the discovery of a major 'new species.' 'Rightful resistance' may well be the most significant form of popular protest in quasi-authoritarian systems. This closely-reasoned, broadly comparative and innovative book will inspire many new research programs in its wake."

- James C. Scott, Yale University

Gerard A. Postiglione
Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy
(M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2006)

“...this volume offers a clear, considered and much-needed reminder of the scale of the challenge confronting educators and policymakers, and will be essential reading not only for those researching education, but also for scholars and students from whatever disciplinary background who are concerned with the broader issue of social inequality in China.”

- The China Quarterly

Gerard A. Postiglione and Jason Tan
Going to School in East Asia (The Global School Room)
(Greenwood Press, 2007)

“The history of the educational philosophies, systems, and curricula of seventeen East Asian countries are described here, with a timeline highlighting educational developments, and a special "day in the life" feature, a personal account of what it is like for a student to attend school in that country.”

– Greenwood Press

Sheridan Prasso
The Asian Mystique
(Public Affairs, 2005)

“…a compelling study… Prasso is realistic about the dynamics of power and sensitive to the vagaries of culture and sexuality. Her energetic reporting and depth of experience in Asia enable her to identify the superficial cultural practices that generate misunderstandings…”

– The Los Angeles Times

Mark Sidel
More Secure, Less Free? Antiterrorism Policy and Civil Liberties after September 11
(University of Michigan Press, 2004)

“More Secure, Less Free? is essential reading for anyone interested in a concise analysis of American antiterror policy and civic freedom since September 11.”

– University of Michigan Press
 

Dali L. Yang
Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China
(Stanford University Press, 2004)

“This is an important book that anyone interested in the role of the state in development and the politics of transition in China should read.”

– Tony Saich

Suisheng Zhao
A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism
(Stanford University Press, 2004)

"Suisheng Zhao's book is the new standard in the field for studies of Chinese nationalism, is a very important contribution to the comparative politics' nationalism literature in general, and should be a part of the discussion about China's rise given the role of nationalism in debates about Chinese foreign policy."

—Journal of Asian Studies