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Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012 .NIV HORESH.Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press,2014. xii + 364 pp. $65.00. ISBN978-0-8047-8719-2

Wealth will indeed stand apart. But whether he is as distinctive in placing gender at the heart of his analysis, some will take exception. While there is a chapter on female entrepreneurs and comparisons between women who get ahead through the “beauty economy” (chapter five) and those who do not, neither women entrepreneurs nor women in the entertainment venues occupy a central role. Nevertheless, Osburg’s inability to give equal attention to male and female voices does not refute nor diminish the validity of his central claim about the centrality (and corrosiveness) of networks built through shared consumption between officials and private businessmen in contemporary China. Moreover, to capture the emic world and sensibilities of all participants in this complex social landscape would require a Rashomon style narrative that is beyond conventional academic ethnography.