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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, 287 pp. Review by Nicolas Douay François Gipouloux, director of research emeritus at CNRS (National Centre for…

Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2016, 224 pp. Review by Alexandre de Saint-Denis Many observers are rightly concerned and also divided over the issue…

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2016, xxvi, 236 pp. Review by Stanley Lubman In 1987, Teng Xingshan was sentenced to death for raping a woman…

Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2016, 193 pp. Review by David Bartel With The Perfect Dictatorship, Stein Ringen proposes to explain how a regime built on…