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Book Reviews : Lisa ROFEL, Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 330 pp., with bibliography and in dex. ISBN: 0-520-21079-4 (pbk). Price: $16.95

Other Modernities is a beautifully written text-a simple but effective weaving of words that are in no way simplistic. The author, a respected scholar in the field of Chinese gender studies, deals with some critically important issues facing us in the era of globalization. The book is based on her field research in Hangzhou, in Zhejiang, first in 1986 and then in the early 1990s. The arguments that Rofel sets out to rethink are often rehearsed: modernity and modernization as &dquo;Western&dquo; products imposed through globalizing regimes on victim (however willing) states of the South. The implicated nature of these narratives and processes, the untidiness and internal yearnings/nurturings of the discourses and even the ethics of development as modernity are not often allowed to disturb the dominant discourse of modernity/modernization as Westernization. Lily Ling’s continuing