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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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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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