Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 2011, 464 pp. Historian Vincent Goossaert and anthropologist…

Chen Lai, Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View, translated by Edmund Ryden, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, 386 pp. This book is the first comprehensive English-language…

Janette Ryan (ed.), China’s Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation, London/New York, Routledge, 2011, 262 pp. As Janette Ryan says in her introduction, the mobility of the educated class…

Philippe Paquet, Madame Chiang Kai-shek – Un siècle d’histoire de la Chine (Madame Chiang Kai-shek – A century of Chinese history), Paris, Gallimard, 2010, 776 pp. +…

Andrew D. Morris, Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2010, 271 pages. American historian Andrew D….

Kevin J. O’Brien, Suisheng Zhao (eds.), Grassroots Elections in China, New York, Routledge, 2011, 235 pp. It is not only discoveries and advances – modest or…

Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62, London, Berlin, New York, Bloomsbury, 2010. Frank Dikötter’s work, appearing half a…

Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011, 256 p. China’s ethnic classification…

Ilan Alon, Julian Chang, Marc Fetscherin, Christoph Lattemann, and John R. McIntyre (eds.), China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke and New York,…

Gladys Chicharro, Le fardeau des petits empereurs: Une génération d’enfants uniques en Chine (The burden of little emperors: A generation of single children in China),…