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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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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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