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Max Ko-wu Huang, The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism, Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. Since…

Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chul Shin, eds., How East Asians View Democracy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008, xv +…

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…