Zhu Yong, Fanyuedu: Gemingshiqi de shentishi (CounterReading: A History of the Body in Revolutionary Times), Taipei, Unitas Publishing Co., 2008, 416 pp. Review by Sun…

Chloé Froissart, La Chine et ses migrants. La conquête d’une citoyenneté (China and its migrants: the conquest of a citizenship), Presse Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes,…

Leo F. Goodstadt, Poverty in the Midst of Affluence: How Hong Kong Mismanaged its Prosperity, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2013, 264 pp Review…

Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie, 2012, 588 pp.   The Drung, or Dulong, are a social group of a few thousand people living mainly in the Dulong…

New York, Springer, 2013, 297 pp.   Tami Blumenfield, a filmmaker and ethnologist who has focused on the Na people of Yunnan, teamed up with…

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2013, 376 pp.     This book proposes a history of the Chinese central bank, the People’s Bank of China…

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…