Cambridge, MA, and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011, 876 pp.   Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel is one of the few…

Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 2010, 416 pp.   Shanghai New Towns, edited by the Dutch architect Harry den Hartog, is interesting on two counts. To begin…

Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, Collection Mondes Autochtones, 2012, 252 pp. + xv.   As the book’s back cover blurb notes, few ethnographic works in…

Paris, La Découverte, 2012, 284 pp.   As with any study purporting to deal with “the Chinese,” “Chinese women,” or for that matter “China,” the…

New York, Routledge, 2011, 312 pp. Since the publication of History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia in 2011, territorial and historical disputes among China, Japan, and…

translated by Jonathan Hall and Dianna Martin, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 407 pp.   In 2009, François Gipouloux published his La Méditerranée…

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 259 pp.   David Clarke is founder and scientific director of Hong Kong Art Archive, a database of…

Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2012, 205 pp.   In the decades since the late 1970s, China has become a manufacturing powerhouse for…

Bangkok/Paris, IRASEC/Connaissances & Savoirs, 2012, 407 pp.   Traditions of exogamy and patrilocality of marriage in Asia have long led women to leave their villages,…

Berne, Peter Lang, 2013, 317 pp.   This volume originated in a research collaboration project (2006-2009) among Chinese and French sociologists and anthropologists seeking to…