Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, Basingstoke/Oxford, Picador, 2011, 458 pp. It is one of the most bandied about…

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2010, 220 pp. For…

 Jean-Philippe Béja (ed.), The Impact of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, London, Routledge, 2011. This eclectic volume of essays grew out of a conference in Hong…

Guo Baogang, China’s Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity –Enhancing Politics, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2010, 216 pp. How does the Communist Party of China…

Bernard Ganne and Yveline Lecler (eds.), Asian industrial clusters, global competitiveness and new policy initiatives, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009, 562 pp.  The clustering…

Elena Barabantseva, Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-centering China, London, Routledge, 2010, 202 pp. How has belonging to the modern Chinese nation been formulated…

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…

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….

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…