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Stefan Al (ed.), Mall City, Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2016, 234 p. Review by Nicolas Douay Stefan Al, professor of urban design at the University of Pennsylvania, presents…

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Mick Atha and Kennis Yip, Piecing Together Sha Po: Archaeological Investigations and Landscape Reconstruction

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2017, 260 p. Review by Maxime Decaudin Piecing Together Sha Po is an archaeological publication that traces the 6,500-year-old…

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Hongmei Li, Advertising and Consumer Culture in China

Malden, MA, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2016, 280 p. Review by Ruoyun Bai Advertising and Consumer Culture in China is an excellent survey of Chinese advertising…

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Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder, with Hongwei Bao (eds), Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures

Copenhagen, Nias Press, 2015, 274+xiii pages. Review by Tiantian Zheng This edited volume collects works from activists, scholars, and artists from China and beyond to address…

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Cai Fang, China’s Economic Growth Prospects: From Demographic Dividend To Reform Dividend

Cheltenham (UK), Northampton (MA, USA), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, 234+xii pages. Review by Sandra Poncet Cai Fang is a demographer and economist, currently director of the…

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John Donaldson (ed.), Assessing the Balance of Power in Central-Local Relations in China

London, New York, Routledge, 2017, 234 pages. Review by Camille Boullenois Drawing upon the scholarship on “decentralised authoritarianism” (Landry 2008), this collection conducts a comparative…

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Tom McDonald, Social Media in Rural China. Wang Xinyuan, Social Media in Industrial China.

London, UCL Press, 2016. Review by Séverine Arsène These two books resulted from a comparative research project on the use of social networks entitled Why We…

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Carolyn L. Hsu, Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China: The Rise of NGOs in the PRC

Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2017, 176 pages. Review by Virginie Arantes Carolyn Hsu’s Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China: The rise of NGOs in…

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Gunter Schubert (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan

Abingdon, Oxon & New York, Routledge, 2016, 570 pp. Review by Saša Istenič Increasingly overshadowed by China, whose long-term objective for Taiwan is well known,…

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Chang P’eng-yüan (Zhang Pengyuan), Cong minquan dao weiquan. Sun Zhongshan di xunzheng sixiang yu zhuanzhe jian lun dangren jizhi shushi (From tutelage to authoritarianism: Sun Yat-sen’s thoughts on tutelage, its transformation, and the accomplishment of his project by Guomindang members)

Taipei, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, 2015, VII + 184 pp. Review by Marie-Claire Bergère At age 80, a reputed historian with Taiwan’s Academia Sinica,…

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