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BYLER, Darren. 2022. Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Durham: Duke University Press.

Andrew B. Kipnis is Professor of anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong ([email protected]). Darren Byler has written a moving, powerful,…

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AMAR, Nathanel. 2022. Scream for Life: L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

  Grégoire Bienvenu is a doctoral candidate at the IRMECCEN of the Sorbonne Nouvelle and LabEx ICCA, and at the ICS of the Communication University…

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HSIAU, A-chin. 2021. Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Tanguy Lepesant is Associate Professor at the National Central University (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Associate Researcher at the CEFC Taipei. No. 300, Jhongda Rd, Jhongli City,…

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ZHU, Qian. 2022. River-sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China. Leiden: Brill

Jing Vivian Zhan is a professor specialising in comparative political economy and contemporary Chinese politics. Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of…

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ZHOU, Chenshu. 2021. Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Xiaoning Lu is Reader in modern Chinese culture and language at SOAS, University of London. Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, SOAS University of…

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CHIU, Stephen W. K., and Kaxton Y. K. SIU. 2022. Hong Kong Society: High-definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-meets-West. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

While Hong Kong has always garnered international attention, especially in recent years when protests seemingly paralysed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Stephen W….

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GERTH, Karl. 2020. Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The third book in what is a very intriguing trilogy exploring consumerism in China over the decades, Karl Gerth’s Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s…

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PLÜMMER, Franziska. 2022. Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

The last decade has witnessed growing interest in and new scholarship on Asian borderlands; much of this work has been informed by fieldwork in or…

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CHAN, Jenny, Mark SELDEN, and Pun NGAI. 2020. Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

This volume on the Foxconn-Apple-state nexus and the lives of rural workers originates from a remarkable initial cross-border collaboration in the summer of 2010 between…

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HSU, Szu‑chien, Kellee S. TSAI, and Chun‑chih CHANG (eds.). 2021. Evolutionary Governance in China: State‑society Relations under Authoritarianism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

In the book Evolutionary Governance in China: State-society Relations under Authoritarianism, the authors address the question of the sources of authoritarian resilience in China by…

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