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Estelle Lau, Paper Families. Identity, Immigration Administration and Chinese Exclusion

The U.S. Chinese exclusion laws enforced from 1882 to 1943 are proving to be a nearly bottomless source of scholarly inspiration. Not only is exclusion…

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Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome. The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic; Thomas Abraham, Twenty-First Plague. The Story of SARS.

The SARS crisis in 2003 very quickly gave rise to a number of analyses on its consequences in terms of public health by setting China…

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Jean Ruffier, Faut-il avoir peur des usines chinoises? Compétitivité et pérennité de “l’atelier du monde”

Industrial sociologist Jean Ruffier offers us an important book on his Chinese experience that begins at the end of the 1980s in Guangzhou and in…

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Hélène Piquet, La Chine au carrefour des traditions juridiques

Is law a transferable technology? This is in essence the question posed by the work of Hélène Piquet, Professor at the Faculty of Law and…

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David Faure, Emperor and ancestor: State and lineage in South China

For thirty years, David Faure has been deconstructing our image of an “eternal” and timeless China. According to this image, China was a society dominated…

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Erik Mueggler, The Age of Wild Ghosts. Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China

A revised edition of a doctoral thesis presented at the University of Michigan, The Age of Wild Ghosts is the result of over a year’s…

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Lan Peichia, Global Cinderellas. Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan

The international migration of labour has become a burning issue with multi-dimensional implications that are attracting wide attention, at local, national and transnational levels. Wherever…

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Song Geng (ed), Quanqiuhua yu “Zhongguoxing” – Dangdai wenhua de houzhimin jiedu (Globalization and “Chineseness”: Postcolonial readings of contemporary culture)

This collaborative work gathers fourteen articles written by Chinese academics and/or young researchers spread throughout China, the United States, Hong Kong, Macao, England and Australia….

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EURASFI (Europe- Asia Finance), La Chine: Un colosse financier? Le système financier chinois à l’aube du XXIe siècle

This book is a collective work written by members of EURASFI (Europe-Asia Finance), an association founded in June 2003 that brings together students and young…

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Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz and Mark Selden, Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

The previous book written by these three authors generated considerable enthusiasm. However, it was an enthusiasm I did not share, and while this current volume…

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