Yan Hairong, New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China, Durham, Duke Univeristy Press, 2008, 316 pp. In New Masters, New Servants…

Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, 232 pp. In Marketing Dictatorship, Anne-Marie Brady explores the…

Lung Yingtai, Da jiang da hai – 1949 (Big River, big sea. Untold stories of 1949), Hong Kong, Cosmos books, 2009, 440 pp. and Chi…

David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007, 356 pp. David A. Palmer, La fièvre du…

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang (ed.), Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, Berkeley – Los Angeles – London, University of California Press, 2008, 464 pp….

Qian Liqun, Jujue yiwang: “1957 nian xue” yanjiu biji (Refusal to forget: Notes for “1957 studies”), Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2007, 502 pp. Earlier…

Sergey Radchenko, Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967, Washington and Stanford, Woodrow Wilson Center and Stanford University Press, 2009, 316…

Angus Maddison, Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run; second edition revised and updated: 960-2030 AD, Paris OECD, 2007, 214 pp. Angus Maddison is a…

Kevin J. O’Brien (ed.), Popular Protest in China, Cambridge, Harvard Univesity Press, 2008, 278 pp. This fine collection of chronicles of what were largely short-lived…

Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Guo Yuhua, Li Peilin, Liu Shiding (eds.), La nouvelle sociologie chinoise (New Chinese Sociology), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2008, 500 pp. Banished from…