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…

Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 230 pp. Death by a Thousand Cuts provides a sensitive…

Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration and Social Change, NY, M. E. Sharpe, 20005, 344 pp. China’s “urban revolution” has become the…

Lai Hongyi, Lim Tin Seng (eds.), Harmony and Development: ASEAN-China Relations, Singapore, World Scientific, 2007, 164 pp.&John Wong, Zou Keyuan, Zeng Huaqun (eds.), China-ASEAN Relations:…

Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, and Paul-François Tremlett (eds.), Re-writing Culture in Taiwan, London-New York, Routledge, 2009, 224 pp. This volume on Taiwanese culture, edited by…

History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build Our Future, Macau, The Macau Ricci Institute (Macau Ricci Institute Studies no. 5), 2008, 550…