trafficking of women as brides, prostitutes, and mistresses between the Mainland and wealthy male patrons in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The writers' examples of masculine domination in the media include the reformulation of Chinese women in Fifth Generation films for a transnational Western male film audience and the portrayal of Mainland women in Taiwanese and Hong Kong media. The contributors also consider male nationalism as it is revealed through both international sports coverage on television and in a Chinese television drama. Other works examine a women's museum, a telephone hotline in Beijing, the films of Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, the transnational contacts of a Taiwanese feminist organization, the diaspora of Mainland women writers, and the differences between Chinese and Western feminist themes. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With wonderfully readable essays by scholars from China, Taiwan, and the United States, Spaces of Their Own makes a much needed contribution to our understanding of the complex workings of power relations in contemporary China. --  Hu Ying, University of California, Irvine This is a timely and thoughtful volume, an essential contribution to the debate on the notion of the 'public sphere' in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and Hong Kong. --  Gina Marchetti, University of Maryland Mayfair Yang's book sheds fascinating new light on a region of public space that has to this point remained obscure. The result will make us rethink our understanding of public spheres in apparently