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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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Pitman B. Potter, China’s Legal System

Cambridge, Malden, Polity Press, 2013, 267 pp. Review by Rogier Creemers How does one begin to understand Chinese law? How does one do justice to…

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Felix Wemheuer, Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014, XIX-325 pp. Review by Lucien Bianco After seeing the extent to which the famine remained one of the most…

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Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels

New York, Columbia University Press, 2014, 304 pp. Review by Yinde Zhang Recent years have seen an increase in the number of dystopian novels appearing in…

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