Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Doris Sung The 2017 Guggenheim exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World was a major retrospective of…
Read moreLondon: I.B. Tauris. Sabine Chrétien-Ichikawa Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape provides knowledgeable readers and non-specialists alike with an overview…
Read moreParis: Fayard. Michel Bonnin The name of Lin Zhao 林昭, the “freedom fighter” executed in Shanghai on 29 April 1968, was never expected to…
Read moreChicago: Chicago University Press. Romain Dittgen This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of the role, place, and workings of foreign entrepreneurs involved in…
Read moreUrbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. Séverine Arsène Yu Hong’s book, Networking China, takes a clear stand in critiquing capitalism, detailing contradictions…
Read moreHong Kong: Chinese University Press. Michael Ng Conventionally portrayed by scholars as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has in…
Read moreThe notion of “soft power” sounds somewhat unusual for a field as overlooked as Hong Kong arts. Unlike Taiwan or the PRC, both of which…
Read moreBased on ethnographic fieldwork in Chinese state-run orphanages collaborating with Western NGOs in 2006 and 2007, Outsourced Children analyses the process by which the PRC…
Read moreAuthored by Yi Pan, a former senior researcher for the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, Rural Welfare in China seeks to offer a broad view…
Read more For the first time seven years after his initial fieldwork, the anthropologist returned to the people he had once worked with. “We heard that…
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