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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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Lucien Bianco, La Récidive. Révolution russe et révolution chinoise (Recurrence: Russian Revolution and Chinese Revolution)

Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2014, 528 pp. Review by Marie-Claire Bergère This book studies and compares the Russian and Chinese revolutions, which occurred at…

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Michael T. Rock and Michael A. Toman, China’s Technological Catch-Up Strategy: Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions

New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 274 pp. Review by Jean-Paul Maréchal In the first decade of the twenty-first century, China acquired the world’s…

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Wenjing Guo, Internet entre État-parti et société civile en Chine (The Internet between the Party-State and Civil Society in China)

Paris, L’Harmattan, 2015, 329 pp. Review by Nicole Khouri Wenjing Guo belongs to the so-called post-1980 generation, that of young Internet users on whom she…

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Monique Selim, Hommes et femmes dans la production de la société civile à Canton (Chine) (The Role of Men and Women in Creating Civil Society in Guangzhou, China)

Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013, 304 pp. Review by Nicole Khouri When discussing the emergence of civil society in Guangzhou, one must first take into account the…

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