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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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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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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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Yu Zhejun, Shenming yu shimin. Minguo shiqi Shanghai diqu yingshen saihui yanjiu (Deities and City Dwellers: Research on Popular Processions in Shanghai during the Republican Era)

Shanghai, 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…

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Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, and Edward Vickers (eds.), Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture

London, 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…

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Hai Ren, The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

London, 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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