Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009, xiii + 722pp. This book is noteworthy for…

Pallavi Aiyar, Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, New Delhi, Fourth Estate, 2008, 274 pp. Pallavi Aiyar’s book, a combination of memoirs, journalistic reportage,…

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…

Richard Madsen, Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 207, 192 pp. Democracy’s Dharma is a study of…

Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank (eds), Making Religion, Making the, State. The Politics of Religion in Modern China, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 294…

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…