Call for contributions for Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review 2012 issue

The Bijiao editorial team has a number of books still available for review and inclusion in the second issue of the online journal Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review.

The next issue is due in June 2012 (please note that the journal will be published annually from now on, rather than bi-annually as previously announced). Deadline for submission of reviews is 31^st March 2012.
If you are interested in reviewing one of the titles listed below, please get in touch with the Editor, Dr Geoffrey Gowlland (g.k.gowlland@lse.ac.uk). In your email, please let her know in a couple of sentences why you are interested in the book, and how it is related to your research or studies.

If you are interested in reviewing a title not listed above, you may also get in touch with your suggested title and say a few words about why you think the publication would be of interest to readers of the JCCP, and we might be able to order a review copy for you.

For more information please contact the Editor or editorial team (jccp@lse.ac.uk), or refer to CCPN website for details of the journal and style for the review articles: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/CCPN/publications/Journals/bookReview/bookReview.aspx

A list of books to be reviewed

· Gaston, N. & Khalid, A. M. 2010. Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific. Edward Elgar Publishing.

· Hua, Shiping, 2009, Chinese utopianism - A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought with Japan and Russia, 1898-1997, Woshinton, D. C. Woodrow Wilson Centre Press

· Horesh, N. 2009, Shanghai’s Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937. Yale Univ Press

· Leon, Arnoldo De, 2002, Racial Frontiers - Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America 1848-1890, Albuqerque: University of New Mexico

· Mendes, E., and S. Srighanthan. 2009, Confronting discrimination and inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian perspectives. Univ of Ottawa Press

· Özbilgin, M. & Syed, J. 2010. Managing cultural diversity in Asia. Edward Elgar Publishing.

· Scotton, J. F, and W. A Hachten. 2010. New media for a new China. Wiley-Blackwell

· Standaert, N. 2008. The interweaving of rituals: funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe. Univ of Washington Press

· Wu, D. & Cheung, S. C. H. 2002. The Globalization of Chinese food. Richmond: Curzon.

· Xiang Biao. 2007. Global“ body shopping”: an Indian labor system in the information technology industry. Princeton University Press.