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Lucien Bianco, Les Origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949

It is rare that a first work of synthesis on a period close to contemporary history survives the test of historical review that comes with…

Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, 326 pp.

He Qinglian, Wusuo Zhongguo. Zhongguo dalu kongzhi meiti celüe da jiemi (China locked in mist: Revelations on the Mainland’s policy to control the media), Taipei, Liming wenhua chubanshe, 2006, 462 pp.

Leo Suryadinata (ed.), Southeast Asia’s Chinese Businesses in an Era of Globalization: Coping with the rise of China, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006, 374 pp.

Thomas J. Berghuis, Performance Art in China, Hong Kong, Timezone 8 Limited, 2006, 310 pp.

Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, 305 pp.

Alan Baumler, The Chinese and Opium under the Republic: Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2007, 298 pp.

Huaiyin Li, Village Governance in North China 1875-1936, Stanford University Press, 2005, 325 pp.

Térence Billeter, L’Empereur jaune, Paris, Les Indes savantes, 2007, 549 pp.

In this book on Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, the mythical patron figure of Chinese civilization, Térence Billeter presents a meticulously documented study on the Chinese…

Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, China on Screen: Cinema and Nation

During the last decade, books and papers on Chinese cinema have multiplied almost exponentially. One of the major problems engaged in those writings has been…