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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.

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…

Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity. Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

A Professor of comparative literature at the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA), and a specialist in gender studies, Shu-mei Shih, in this new…

Kevin O’Brien and Li Lianjiang, Rightful Resistance in Rural China

Rightful Resistance in Rural China is a good example of the heuristic character of the inductive method in political sociology, that is to say, the…

Ning Wang, Making a Market Economy; Yan Sun, Corruption and Market in Contemporary China

These two works shed light on the conditions under which, in the course of the last 25 years, the command economy has been dismantled and…

Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe. Shopping for Allies

This book joins Chen Jie’s Foreign Policy of the New Taiwan: Pragmatic Diplomacy in Southeast Asia (Elgar, 2002) as a leading analysis of the foreign…

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