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François Gipouloux (ed.), China’s Urban Century: Governance, Environment and Socio-Economic Imperatives

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…

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David Shambaugh, China’s Future

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…

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He Jiahong, Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China

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…

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Stein Ringen, The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century

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…

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Katherine A. Mason, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic

Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2016, 252 pp. Review by Justine Rochot The 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic marked a turning point in…

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Chün-fang Yü, Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, 264 pp. Review by Amandine Péronnet This is an essential publication for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding…

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Arianne Gaetano, Out to Work: Migration, Gender and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2015, 232 pp. Review by Eric Florence In this volume, by looking at domestic labour and service work in offices…

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Bill Hayton, The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia

New Haven, London, Yale University Press, 2014, 298 pp. Review by Sébastien Colin Published in 2014, Bill Hayton’s work on the South China Sea stands…

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Guobin Yang (ed.), China’s Contested Internet

Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2015, 310 pp. Review by Séverine Arsène China’s Contested Internet is a collective book composed of 10 chapters, seven of which were…

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