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…

No. 52, 2013, 232 pp.   The journal Agone‘s issue No. 52 is interesting on several counts. The collection of texts, written mainly by renowned Chinese…

Durham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp.   The result of an initiative by Angela Leung and Charlotte Furth, who has written the introduction,…

Paris, Karthala, 2013, 519 pp. Based on a highly detailed study of Taiwanese entrepreneurship from its origins to the present, this book seeks to examine…

Hong Kong University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, xii & 164 pp. At the initiative of its mayor in 2001, Shanghai municipality launched an…