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Andrew C. Mertha, China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

Andrew C. Mertha’s book takes us into the world of large-scale dam projects in southwestern Chinese rivers. His research digs into resistance movements against some…

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Yongnian Zheng, De Facto Federalism in China: Reforms and Dynamics of Central-Local Relations

The nature of China‘s intergovernmental relations is a hotly debated topic. While none of the scholars involved in this debate would deny that a significant…

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Seungho Lee, Water and Development in China. The Political Economy of Shanghai Water Policy

How to explain the evolution of water management policies in Shanghai? This is the question tackled by Seungho Lee (University of Nottingham, UK) in this…

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David Shambaugh and Gudrun Wacker, eds., American and European Relations with China: Advancing Common Agendas

This slender, compact work sets out to assess the differences and convergences between the China policies of the United States and the European Union (EU)….

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David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds

David Lampton argues that for the next 20 years, China and the United States will be engaged in a “double gamble“ in which the United…

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Louise Edwards, Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2008, xii, 334 pp.

Gender, Politics, and Democracy offers an account of Chinese women’s struggles for political suffrage from around the turn of the twentieth century to the eve…

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Cai Hua, L’homme pensé par l’homme, Du statut scientifique des sciences sociales (Man thought by Man. About the scientific status of social sciences), Paris, PUF, 2008, 214 pp. Laurent Barry, La parenté (Kinship), Paris, Gallimard, 2008, 567 pp.

Two recent works reintroduce China into the anthropology of kinship. Cai Hua and Laurent Barry are both students of Françoise Héritier, who at the Collège…

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Steve Chan, China, the U.S., and the Power- Transition Theory: A Critique, London and New York, Routledge, 2008, 197 pp.

Is a future Sino-American war probable or not? If it began, would it likely be started by China as a rising power, or by America…

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Stephen Teo, Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 294 pp.

One of the most prominent directors in Hong Kong at the moment, Johnnie To Kei-fung, has over the past few years been receiving more attention…

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Stacilee Ford, Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting’s An Autumn’s Tale, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2008, 128 pp.

During the 1980s and 1990s, major political and social events underpinned the work of a generation of young Hong Kong filmmakers. This eclectic movement made…

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