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Yongshun Cai, State and Agents in China: Disciplining Government Officials

Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2015, 264 pp. Review by Jérôme Doyon This book by Yongshun Cai, professor at the Hong Kong University of Science…

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Steven M. Goldstein, China and Taiwan

Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2015, 228 pp. Review by Jean-Pierre Cabestan This is a very useful overview of both the history and…

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Teresa Wright, Party and State in Post-Mao China

Malden, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015, 200 pp. Review by Émilie Tran Party and State in Post-Mao China is one of 15 or so titles thus…

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Eilo W. Y. Yu and Ming K. Chan (eds), China’s Macao Transformed: Challenge and Development in the 21st Century

Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong Press, 2014, 412 pp. Review by Éric Sautedé Books dealing with current affairs in Macao, whatever the language,…

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Joe C. B. Leung and Yuebin Xu, China’s Social Welfare

Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2015, 224 pp. Review by Carine Milcent Written by Joe C. B. Leung and Yuebin Xu, China’s Social Welfare:…

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Pun Ngai, Migrant Labor in China: Post-Socialist Transformations

Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2016, 204 pp. Review by Eric Florence Noting in the very first chapter that China’s socialist development model was…

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Michel Hockx, Internet Literature in China

New York, Columbia University Press, 2015, 251 pp. Review by Shuang Xu Internet Literature in China is the fruit of Michel Hockx’s work over the…

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Zhaohui Hong, The Price of China’s Economic Development: Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights

Lexington, The University of Kentucky Press, 2015, 296 pp. Review by Benoît Vermander The author of this work, an expert in economic history, takes an…

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Emily T. Yeh, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2013, 344 pp. Review by Valentina Punzi Studies about the economic development of China’s western regions have mainly focused…

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