Anny Lazarus and Laurent Septier, Art contemporain. Pékin en 11 parcours (Contemporary art in Beijing through 11 trips), Marseille, Images En Manœuvres Éditions, 2010, 287…

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…

Alain Roux, Le singe et le tigre: Mao, un destin chinois (Monkey and tiger: Mao, a Chinese destiny), Paris, Larousse 2009, 1127 pp. We now…

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…

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…