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,…
Read moreBerne, Peter Lang, 2013, 317 pp. This volume originated in a research collaboration project (2006-2009) among Chinese and French sociologists and anthropologists seeking to…
Read moreNo. 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…
Read moreDurham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp. The result of an initiative by Angela Leung and Charlotte Furth, who has written the introduction,…
Read moreParis, Karthala, 2013, 519 pp. Based on a highly detailed study of Taiwanese entrepreneurship from its origins to the present, this book seeks to examine…
Read moreHong Kong University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, xii & 164 pp. At the initiative of its mayor in 2001, Shanghai municipality launched an…
Read moreNY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 253 pp. East Asian cinemas have become increasingly visible in the West over the course of the past decade. Successful…
Read moreBerkeley, 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…
Read moreParis, 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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