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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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Lu Xun, Nouvelles et poèmes en prose (Short Stories and Prose Poems), translated and edited by Sebastian Veg

Paris, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, “Versions françaises” series, 2015, 664 pp. Review by Yinde Zhang David Damrosch attaches great importance to translation in his definition of…

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Nicole Constable, Born out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2014, 260 pp. Review by Siumi Maria Tam This book is a recent addition to Constable’s series of research…

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Ian Aitken and Michael Ingham, Hong Kong Documentary Film

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2014, 237 pp. Review by Judith Pernin Until recently, even the best informed cinephiles and scholars would have been hard pressed…

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Nina Hachigian (ed.), Debating China: The US-China Relationship in Ten Conversations

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 272 pp. Review by Hugo Meijer During the 1970s, diplomatic interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of…

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