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…
Read moreIthaca 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…
Read moreParis, 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…
Read moreNew 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…
Read moreParis, 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…
Read moreParis, 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…
Read moreShanghai, Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2014, 312 pp. Review by Benoît Vermander This work discusses the make-up of civil society in Shanghai in the time…
Read moreLondon, Routledge, 2013, 264 pp. Review by Yves Russell Celebrations marking 70 years since Japan’s capitulation in the summer of 1945, featuring a major military…
Read moreLondon, New York, Routledge, 2013, xvi & 192 pp. Review by Martin Minost The Chinese middle classes – and the question of their definition –…
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