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Caroline Grillot, Volées, envolées, convolées… Vendues, en fuite, ou re-socialisées: les “fiancées” vietnamiennes en Chine (Abducted, Flown, Married… Sold, escaped or rehabilitated: Vietnamese fiancés in China)

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,…

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Isabelle Thireau (ed), De Proche en proche. Ethnographie des formes d’association en Chine contemporaine (Face-to-Face. An Ethnography of Forms of Association in Contemporary China)

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…

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“La Chine et l’ordre du monde” (China and the world order), special issue of Agone

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…

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Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (eds), Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

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

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Françoise Mengin, Fragments d’une guerre inachevée. Les entrepreneurs taiwanais et la partition de la Chine (Fragments of an unfinished war: Taiwanese entrepreneurs and China’s partition)

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…

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Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, Hong Kong

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…

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Vivian P.Y. Lee (ed), East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations

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

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Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

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…

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Marie-Claire Bergère, Chine: le nouveau capitalisme d’État (China: The New State Capitalism)

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

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