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Roberta Zavoretti, Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China

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…

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Lucien Bianco, Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions

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…

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Wang Simeng, Illusions et souffrances: Les migrants chinois à Paris (Illusions and suffering: Chinese migrants in Paris)

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…

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Mary Ann O’Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach (eds.), Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

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…

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Jean-François Huchet, La crise environnementale en Chine. Evolutions et limites des politiques publiques (Environmental crisis in China: Evolutions and limits of public policies)

Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2016. Review by Sandra Poncet Jean-François Huchet is a professor at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, Paris),…

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Yukon Huang, Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong

New York, Oxford University Press, 2017. Review by Dmitriy Plekhanov   Contemplating the future of a country as vast and diverse as China has never…

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Katy N. Lam, Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in West Africa: Triple-embedded Globalization. Abderrezak Adel, Thierry Pairault, and Fatiha Talahite (eds.), La Chine en Algérie. Approches socio-économiques (China in Algeria: Socio-economic approaches).

Abingdon, Oxon & New York, Routledge, 2017. Paris, MA Editions – ESKA, 2017. Review by Jean-Pierre Cabestan These are two quite different books on a now…

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David S. G. Goodman, Class in Contemporary China

Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2014, 233 pp. Review by Gilles Guiheux Needless to say, one of the most important consequences of China’s economic reforms is the…

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Ruoyun Bai, Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2015, 276 pp. Review by Qian Gong Reading Bai Ruoyun’s book Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics is even more…

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Ji Zhe, Religion, modernité et temporalité. Une sociologie du bouddhisme Chan contemporain (Religion, modernity and temporality: A sociology of contemporary Chan Buddhism)

Paris, CNRS Editions, 2016, 348 pp. Review by Sébastien Billioud For several years now and through a number of books and articles, Ji Zhe, professor at…

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