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…

NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 253 pp.   East Asian cinemas have become increasingly visible in the West over the course of the past decade. Successful…

Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011, 455 pp.   Gail Hershatter’s book The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past is based on more…

Paris, Fayard, 2013, 310 pages.   Over the past few years, common interpretations of the Chinese economy propounded in the West have undergone a shift…

Prognostications made by political scientists easily fall into the abyss of facile speculation, because real-life politics change constantly and may give rise to unexpected outcomes….

China’s remarkable economic performance since the late 1970s is impressive in many ways. The constant high growth rate lasting for more than three decades is…