"... most of the information and data used in the essays is current, this volume provides an appropriate spectrum of aspects related to the social protection of rural-to-urban migrant workers in China. It includes a number of surveys and quantitative data on migrant workers' social conditions and their participation in social security programs ... This data and tables will be very useful for graduate students and scholars specializing in this area. This is undoubtedly a reasonably well-focused book for an edited volume."

"Only a tiny corpus of the Judge Bao story and dramatic cycle is available in English translation. For this reason, Judge Bao and the Rule of Law will be widely welcomed by those with an interest in Chinese popular culture, Chinese fiction, Chinese understandings of the law in the premodern era, and the recycling of traditional tales in the present day. The translations are highly readable with helpful notes on items of cultural knowledge. Teachers will find in these stories attractive material useful for courses on Chinese popular culture. Scholars of the history of Chinese popular literature will appreciate the author's insights into likely borrowings from antecedent texts and parallels with other fictional or dramatic traditions."

"The essays in this book ... describe and analyze past urbanization patterns and performance and attempt to understand whether government policies have made that performance more or less efficient. They also suggest issues that need to be dealt with going forward and offer possible solutions. The book is thus designed for both outsiders interested in understanding China's urbanization challenges and Chinese planners searching for solutions to those challenges."

"... Beijing Record is handsomely illustrated with rare photos of Beijing during its destruction in the 1950s."

"This is a timely book with fresh insights and recommendations which reframe policy issues in key areas. The bold proposals are a valuable contribution to the debate on the future of Singapore in general and its economy in particular"

"Kerry Brown has written an outstandingly insightful book on Hu Jintao. This is not only the first English-language biography of one of the most powerful and also most enigmatic political leaders in the world today, but also an invaluable guide to contemporary China and its prospects."

"In a clear and coherent manner, each chapter of this brilliant book focuses on a policy domain (e.g. traffic, health, the environment) to illustrate how the design and implementation of public policy can be made more effective by applying insights from behavioural economics. This book will provide a springboard for future collaborations between researchers and policymakers in the Singapore Civil Service, and it is a ¡®must read¡¯ for anyone interested in Singapore's public policies."

"The great achievement of the two authors of this long, dense, and sophisticated study is to have made this complex and often volatile situation — this 'inseparable separation' — clear and comprehensible to a wide set of audiences ¡­ The book provides a crystal-clear picture of one of the great intra-national and international dramas of the past sixty years — a drama not yet in its final act — that centers on the attempt of two different Chinas to again become one."