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Hu Angang, China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower

Washington D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2011, 213 pp. Review by Maoliang Bu The economic rise of China has not only inspired new books on how…

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Greg Austin, Cyber Policy in China

Cambridge & Malden, Polity Press, 2014, 203 pp. Review by Séverine Arsène In Cyber Policy in China, Greg Austin traces the evolution of China’s informatisation…

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Ernest P. Young, Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 383 pp. Review by Pierre Vendassi Ernest P. Young’s book considers “the conjuncture of the catholic immersion in imperialism as…

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John Osburg, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013, 248 pp. Review by Émilie Tran John Osburg’s work was published at a time when China was engaging in an…

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Ya-Chung Chuang, Democracy on Trial: Social movements and cultural politics in postauthoritarian Taiwan

Hong Kong, CUHK Press, 2013, 269 pp. Review by Gunter Schubert The “Sunflower Movement” of spring 2014 has re-activated much scholarly interest in the world…

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Gotelind Müller, Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC: Global Rise in Chinese Eyes

London, New York, Routledge, 2013, XII+252 pp. Review by Yves Russell Gotelind Müller has for a number of years been studying the formation of Chinese…

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Christophe Falin, Shanghai – Hong Kong, villes de cinéma (Shanghai – Hong Kong, cities of cinema)

Paris, Armand Colin, 2014, 168 pp. Review by Luisa Prudentino This work is dedicated to Shanghai and Hong Kong, two cities that occupy a mythical…

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Han Dongfang (in collaboration with Michaël Sztanke), Mon combat pour les ouvriers chinois (My struggle for Chinese workers)

Paris, Michel Lafon, 2014, 290 pp. Review by Chloé Froissart Published in 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of China Labour Bulletin (CLB), the book…

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Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds), The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China’s International Monetary Relations

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2014, 288 pp. Review by Adrien Faudot This collection is edited by two experts in international political economy, their…

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