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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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Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China

Readers in the China field will eagerly turn to Susan Greenhalgh’s latest work for an indepth treatment of the formation of China’s one-child policy, but…

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Jiang Rong, Le Totem du loup, (Wolf Totem) translated by Yan Hansheng and Lisa Carducci

Published in China in 2004 by Changjiang wenyi chubanshe, Jiang Rong’s novel Lang tuteng (Wolf Totem) was immediately a phenomenal success. I myself witnessed this…

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Carolyn Chen, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience

Derived from a doctoral thesis, this book tells us about Taiwanese emigrants to the United States of America and the way that they become American,…

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Alan M. Wachman, Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity

Sixty years after the retreat to Taiwan of the Nationalist army, the question of Taiwan still remains important and has even, on various occasions, been…

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Louis Augustin- Jean and Florence Padovani (ed.), Hong Kong Économie, société, culture

Ten years after the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, this collective work, under the direction of Louis Augustin-Jean and Florence Padovani, sets out…

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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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