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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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Luigi Tomba, The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2015, 225 pp. Review by Judith Audin A residential neighbourhood can appear as more of a domestic than a political…

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Yiu-Wai Chu, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2017, 256 pp. Review by Nathanel Amar Yiu-Wai Chu, director of the Hong Kong Studies Program at the University of…

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Jason Y. Ng, Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Uncovered. Richard C. Bush, Hong Kong in the Shadow of China – Living with the Leviathan.

Hong Kong, Blacksmith Books, 2016, 392 p. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2016, 400 p. Review by Éric Sautedé Judging from the coverage it received…

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Warren Sun and Frederick C. Teiwes, Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps Toward a New Chinese Countryside 1976–1981

New York, Routledge, 2016, 350 p. Review by Alexandre de Saint-Denis This work on the “Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform” constitutes another masterstroke by Warren Sun…

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Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Fung, Youth Cultures in China

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, XVII + 247 p. Review by Ling Minhua Youth Cultures in China opens with Wen Yiduo’s assumption of revolutionary zeal…

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Ming-Sho Ho, Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, XVII + 247 p. Review by Éric Florence Ming-Sho Ho’s Working Class Formation in Taiwan is a fine-grained socio-historical study…

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