The notion of “soft power” sounds somewhat unusual for a field as overlooked as Hong Kong arts. Unlike Taiwan or the PRC, both of which…

Based 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…

Authored by Yi Pan, a former senior researcher for the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, Rural Welfare in China seeks to offer a broad view…

  For the first time seven years after his initial fieldwork, the anthropologist returned to the people he had once worked with. “We heard that…

Basel: Birkhäuser. Judith Audin Chinese urbanities, generally studied top-down, reveal interesting spatial configurations produced by successive reforms – from planning to market economy. Many studies…

Seattle: University of Washington Press. Aurore Dumont Shanghai Sacred offers a detailed examination of religious life in Shanghai. Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang aim…

New York: Cambridge University Press. Peifan Li Since Reform and Opening in the 1980s, the judiciary in China has experienced significant development alongside the country’s…

Berlin: Lit Verlag. Justine Rochot In examining the experiences of ageing in Tuan 143 of the bingtuan[1]兵团 in Xinjiang, this first work by ethnic Kazakh…

New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, 222 pp. Étienne Monin Chinese farming investments in Africa have made the headlines following the 2008 global food crisis,…

New York, Columbia University Press, 2017, 304 pp. Krista Van Fleit The past decade has seen a marked increase in English language studies of literature…