Taking eight migrants’ stories as examples, the journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka paints a vivid and detailed picture of everyday life in one of Xi’an’s urban…

This collection of archival documents is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the Great Leap Forward famine that has appeared in the last…

With 54 countries, a land size of 30.2 million km² and a population of about one billion,  Africa is far from being a homogenous entity….

    These two works are useful additions to the growing literature on China-Africa relations and on the emergence of South-South linkages in general. Two…

Peter C.Y. Chow (ed.), National Identity and Economic Interest: Taiwan’s competing options and their implications for regional stability, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 318 pp….

Luca Gabbiani, Pékin à l’ombre du Mandat Céleste. Vie quotidienne et gouvernement urbain sous la dynastie Qing (1644-1911) (Peking in the Shade of the Mandate…

Séverine Arsène, Internet et politique en Chine (Internet and Politics in China), Paris, Karthala, 2011, 420 pp. China has already had for many years the…

Gerard Lemos, The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese people fear the future, New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 2012, ix + 301 pp….