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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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Victor Nee and Sonja Opper, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China

Cambridge, MA, and London, Harvard University Press, 2012, 431 pp. Review by Bernard Ganne This work by Victor Nee and Sonja Opper is an important…

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Jérôme Doyon, Négocier la place de l’islam chinois. Les associations islamiques de Nankin à l’ère des réformes (Negotiating the Place of Chinese Islam: Islamic Associations in Nanjing during the Reform Era)

Paris, L’Harmattan, 2014, 249 pp. Review by Rémi Castets This book is the result of research conducted by Jérôme Doyon for his Master’s thesis. The…

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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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