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The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in. Chinese Village 1949–1999. Yan Yunxiang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 289 pp. Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One‐Child Policy. Vanessa Fong. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 242 pp. On the Move: Women in Rural‐to‐Urban Migration in Contemporary China. Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 355 pp.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a gentleman in Xiaolan having the Mai surname wrote in his memoir:Age eighteen, the forty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign [1782], there was a chrysanthemum festival. Each major surname group put on floral displays, and six platforms were set up throughout the town. There were scores of theatrical troupes whose performance brought together kinsmen and friends. The tradition of the festival started that year.

SARS : reception and interpretations in three Chinese cities / Deborah Davis and Helen Siu -- Global connectivity and local politics : SARS, talk radio, and public opinion / Eric Kit-Wai Ma and Joseph Man Chan -- SARS, avian flu, and the urban double take / John Nguyet Erni -- Eulogy and practice : public professionals and private lives / Helen Siu and Jane Chan -- Artistic responses to SARS : footprints in the local and global realms of cyberspace / Abbey Newman -- SARS humor for the virtual community : between the Chinese emerging public sphere and the authoritarian state / Hong Zhang -- The weakness of a post-authoritarian democratic society : reflections upon Taiwan's societal crisis during the SARS outbreak / Yun Fan and Ming-chi Chen.

SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from the global media. Written by a team of contributors from a wide variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. Multidisciplinary in its approach, SARS explores the epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies and popular culture, and raises a number of important issues such as the political fate of the new democracy, spatial governance and spatial security, public health policy making, public culture formation, the role the media play in social crisis, and above all the special relations between the three countries in the context of globalization and crisis. It provides new and profound insights into what is still a highly topical issue in today's world.

SARS: reception and interpretations / Deborah Davis and Helen Siu -- Global connectivity and local politics: SARS, talk radio, and public opinion / Eric Kit-Wai Ma and Joseph Man Chan -- SARS, avian flu, and the urban double take / John Nguyet Erni -- Eulogy and practice: public professionals and private lives / Helen Siu and Jane Chan -- Artistic responses to SARS: footprints in the local and global realms of cyberspace / Abbey Newman -- SARS humor for the virtual community / Hong Zhang -- Taiwan's social crisis during the SARS outbreak: legacy of authoritarianism / Yun Fan and Ming-chi Chen.

This review uses multilingual sources to illuminate China–Africa encounters in historical, socialist, and postsocialist contexts. It emphasizes interregional connections over time and uses nuanced ethnographic accounts to complement macrogeopolitical analyses. The article focuses on mutual stereotypes as well as on the negotiation of social and cultural barriers in everyday life. It challenges static, bounded conceptual categories in social science and policy research. The ethnographic studies cited highlight the complexities of human agency and historical legacies on the ground and show the contested democratization of space and opportunities that ensue both when Africans enter Chinese social fields and vice versa. In the process, these examples force us to rethink analytical assumptions about mobility, hierarchy, and political economy in ways that complicate Cold War–derived understandings of both China and Africa.