136 ___________________ The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 32(2)•2014 Reviews ___________________________________________________________________ W. Richard Scott, Institutions and Organizations: Ideas, Interests, and Identities, Fourth Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014, xiii, 345 pp., references, index, about the author. ISBN 978-1-4522-4222-4 (paperback). This fourth and updated edition of Richard Scott's book, Institutions and Organizations: Ideas, Interests, and Identities, provides the reader with a sophisticated overview of how institutional theory has evolved from the late nineteenth century, where the earliest institutional argu- ments arose in Germany and Austria as a by-product of the famous Methodenstreit, that is, a debate over scientific method in the social sciences. From there the book discusses actor-oriented institutional logics initiated in the mid-1980s, before finally moving towards a new theoretical agenda and framework for institutional theory in the early twenty-first century. Scott suggests turning our attention from the study either delaying or refusing marriage. However, the author leaves out of the discussion whether and how women, in marriage or on the way to marriage, actually fight back by taking actions to claim and defend their property rights. It is hard to imagine the absence of strategic or tactic subversion of male home ownership from women's side when a home property has become such an important source of wealth and financial security in China. To conclude, the book powerfully brings to light the mechanism of gender inequality in property rights in China. It is forceful in argument and rich and detailed in observation. The use of fresh media reports and vivid personal accounts gives the book lots of 'blood and flesh' and makes it highly readable and reader friendly. It shows how women are shut out of 'the biggest accumulation of residential real-estate wealth in history' (p. 12) and is no doubt a 'must-read' for China studies and gender studies professionals as well as anyone else who is interested in Chinese society, gender relations and, what Lydia H. Liu calls, 'the political economy of gender' in China. Qi Wang Associate Professor, PhD China Study Program Department of Design and Communication University of Southern Denmark