Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity, translated by Janet Lloyd, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2009, 520 pp. 2008 was unquestionably Beijing’s year, in…

Lu Xun, Cris (Call to Arms), edited by Sebastian Veg, Paris, Rue d’Ulm, “versions françaises,” 2010, 304 pp. Sebastian Veg pursues his translation of the…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao and Tanzen Lhundrup, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969, Berkeley, UC Press, 2009, 236 pp….

Li Xiangping, Xinyang dan bu rentong: Dangdai zhongguo xinyang de shehuixue quanshi (Believing without Identifying: The Sociological Interpretation of Spiritual Beliefs in Contemporary China), Beijing,…

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010, 329 pp. Review by Stéphane Gros This long-awaited work by Shih Chuan-kang offers a precise ethnography and solidly researched discussion…

Michal Meidan (ed.), Shaping China’s Energy Security: The Inside Perspective, Paris, Asia Centre/Centre études Asie, 2007, 239 pp. Claude Mandil, former Executive Director of the…

Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays, Selected and Edited by Lea H. Wakeman, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009, 480…

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008, xxiii + 332 pp., illustrations. The “Incredible…

Paul Clark, The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 352 pp. In this fascinating book, Paul Clark goes against the grain…

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (eds.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London, Routledge, 2009, 308 pp. This is a timely collection…