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…

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…

Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces, Armonk-London, ME Sharpe, 2008, ix +275 pp. The study of associational life in China has…

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…

Wright, Teresa, Accepting Authoritarianism: State-society Relations in China’s Reform Era, Stanford, Stanford UP, 2010, 254 pp. Teresa Wright contends that all China’s diverse economic strata…

Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009, 224 pp….

Wu Hung, Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Time Zone 8, 2008.andWu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists, Hong Kong, Time Zone 8,…