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Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China

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…

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Rachel Murphy (ed.), Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

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,…

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Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

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…

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Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern 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…

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Pallavi Aiyar, Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China

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,…

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Yan Hairong, New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

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…

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Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China

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…

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Lung Yingtai, Da jiang da hui – 1949 (Big River, big sea. untold stories of 1949) and Chi pang-yuan, Ju liu he (The River of Big Torrents)

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

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David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China

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…

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Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang (ed.), Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation

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

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