Aurélie Névot, Comme le sel, je suis le cours de l’eau: le chamanisme à écriture des Yi du Yunnan (Chine) (Like salt, I follow the…

Benoît Vermander, L’Enclos à moutons: un village Nuosu au sud-ouest de la Chine (The Sheepfold: A Nuosu village of South-Western China), Paris, Les Indes Savantes,…

Corrado Neri, Âges inquiets. Cinémas chinois: une représentation de la jeunesse (Uneasy ages. Chinese cinemas: A representation of youth), Lyon, Tigre de Papier, 2009, 533…

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and The Crisis with China, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, This is a weighty addition to the collection…

Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009, 406 pp. Joanna Handlin Smith is…

Rachel Murphy (ed.), Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China, London, Routledge, 2009, 204 pp. Entitled Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China,…

Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West,Taipei, Tianxia wenhua, 2009, 600 pp. How exactly did China…

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…