CEFC https://www.cefc.com.hk French Centre for Research on Contemporary China Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:10:09 +0000 ENH hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 China Perspectives 145 https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-145/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:10:09 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=issue&p=100090505 SPECIAL FEATURE 2026 Taiwan at the Centre of Twenty-first-century Global Geopolitics

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]]> Steering Capital Through Financial Fiefdoms: China’s Emerging State Business Oligopoly in Xi-era China https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/steering-capital-through-financial-fiefdoms-chinas-emerging-state-business-oligopoly-in-xi-era-china/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:23:04 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090611 Jiwon Baik is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland (baikj@tcd.ie). After Xi Jinping came...

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]]> What is Driving the US and China to Compete – and Potentially Fight – Over Taiwan: A Neo-offensive Realist Analysis https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/what-is-driving-the-us-and-china-to-compete-and-potentially-fight-over-taiwan-a-neo-offensive-realist-analysis/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:22:15 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090609 Brian C. H. Fong is Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (brian.fong@mail.nsysu.edu.tw). Where do...

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]]> THURSTON, Timothy. 2025. Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo. Seattle: University of Washington Press. https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/thurston-timothy-2025-satirical-tibet-the-politics-of-humor-in-contemporary-amdo-seattle-university-of-washington-press/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:50:46 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090603 Xénia de Heering is a contractual research engineer affiliated with the CESSMA (UMR245), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France (xenia.de-heering@u-pariscite.fr). Satirical Tibet, the first book-length study...

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]]> JIA, Ruixue, and Hongbin LI, with Claire COUSINEAU. 2025. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/jia-ruixue-and-hongbin-li-with-claire-cousineau-2025-the-highest-exam-how-the-gaokao-shapes-china-cambridge-the-belknap-press-of-harvard-university-press/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:46:48 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090595 Siyu Li is Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France (siyu.li@univ-amu.fr). Written with Claire Cousineau, The Highest Exam offers an elegant public-facing synthesis of Ruixue Jia...

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]]> LIU, Jieyu. 2025. Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China. Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/liu-jieyu-2025-embedded-generations-family-life-and-social-change-in-contemporary-china-princeton-princeton-university-press/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:42:14 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090587 Jiahao Zhao is a PhD researcher from Loughborough University, United Kingdom (j.zhao1101@outlook.com). Liu Jieyu’s Embedded Generations sets itself a deceptively simple task: to ask what...

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]]> ROSENBERG, Lior. 2024. Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-first Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation. Canberra: ANU Press. https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/rosenberg-lior-2024-redeveloping-chinas-villages-in-the-twenty-first-century-the-dilemmas-of-policy-implementation-canberra-anu-press/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:38:15 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090579 Susan H. Whiting is Professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle, United States (swhiting@uw.edu). Lior Rosenberg’s Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-first...

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]]> XIE, Zhuoxiao. 2024. Chinese Daigou: An Ethnography of Brokerage Practices and Mobility Politics in Globalized China. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/xie-zhuoxiao-2024-chinese-daigou-an-ethnography-of-brokerage-practices-and-mobility-politics-in-globalized-china-singapore-palgrave-macmillan/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:31:13 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090567 Meina Jia Sandal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (mjs@hum.ku.dk). Daigou 代購, literally meaning “buying...

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]]> The Wall Rises: Growing Inequality and Social Differentiation along the Sino-Vietnamese Border in the Post-pandemic Era https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/the-wall-rises-growing-inequality-and-social-differentiation-along-the-sino-vietnamese-border-in-the-post-pandemic-era/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:19:54 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090537 Gangcheng Xu is a master’s student at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (felixxu777@gmail.com). In academia, borders have been...

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]]> Taiwan’s Economic Nexus in US–China Competition: An Economic Interest Perspective https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/taiwans-economic-nexus-in-us-china-competition-an-economic-interest-perspective/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:27:21 +0000 https://www.cefc.com.hk/?post_type=theme&p=100090525 Ian Tsung-yen Chen is Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ianchen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw). Alan Hao Yang is Professor...

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