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…

Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2017, xi + 202 pp. Éric Florence Based on the author’s 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the…

Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press, 2018, xxv + 448 pp. Igor Iwo Chabrowski Lucien Bianco’s newly translated book Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of…

Paris, Editions Rue d’Ulm, 2017. Review by Emilie Tran Rare is an academic work that can be devoured in one sitting like a novel. Illusions…

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017. Review by June Wang Naming the volume Learning from Shenzhen, Mary Ann O’Donnell, Winnie Wong and Jonathan Bach make…