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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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Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval, Le Sage et le peuple. Le renouveau confucéen en Chine (The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China)

Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2014, 436 pp. Review by Ji Zhe This book, which has been recently translated into English,[1] sets out a new paradigm for…

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Anita Chan (ed.), Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective

Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2015, 296 pp. Review by Ming-sho Ho China watchers generally agree that successful economic development through low-wage export has shown…

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Yinde Zhang, Mo Yan, le lieu de la fiction (Mo Yan, the Place of Fiction)

Paris, Seuil, 2014, 319 pp. Review by Fanny Fontaine After publishing many works on contemporary Chinese literature, such as Le monde romanesque chinois au XXe…

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Fulong Wu, Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China

New York & London, Routledge, RTPI Library Series, 2015, 248 pp. Review by Nicolas Douay Fulong Wu, professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at…

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Michael Tai, US-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century: A Question of Trust

Abingdon, Oxon & New York, Routledge, 2015, xviii, 206 pp. Review by Jean-Pierre Cabestan This book is not just another analysis of Sino-American relations. It…

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