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Elizabeth C. Economy, The River Runs Black : The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004, 368 pp. and Kristen A. Day (ed.), China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, New York, M.E. Sharpe,

Document sans nom Both these works, as suggested by their titles, focus on the environmental challenges confronting China and raise the issue of the sustainability…

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Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge. China’s Grand Strategy and International Security, Stanford, Stanford University Press, Studies in Asian Security, 2005, 274 pp

Document sans nom T he central thesis of this book is that beginning in 1996 China put in place a grand strategy designed to create an…

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Barry Sautman, June Teufel Dreyer (éd.), Contemporary Tibet : Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region

      This book, with fourteen analyses based on Chinese and Tibetan interpretations of political theories and facts, gives us a contemporary history of Tibet on the themes…

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Aurore Merle et Michaël Sztanke, Etudiants chinois, qui sont les élites de demain ?

    Aurore Merle and Michael Sztanke, Etudiants Chinois: qui sont les élites de demain ? Paris, Autrement, 2006, 109 pp.   Karine-Hinano GUERIN  …

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Thomas David Dubois, The Sacred Village. Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China

Examining the varied expressions of religious life in a rural district of North China, the historian Thomas David Dubois, in The Sacred Village, gives us…

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Elise Anne DeVido, Benoît Vermander (éd.), Creeds, Rites and Videotapes : Narrating Religious Experience in East Asia

In the introduction to this volume collecting contributions to a colloquium held at Fu Jen university (Taipei) in 2001, the editors propose the study of…

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Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, Zheng Yongnian (éd.), The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

Although China has undergone profound changes since economic reforms and marketisation were introduced in the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still represents a…

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Daniel Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy, Political Thinking for an East Asian Context

This work by Daniel A. Bell can be seen as a provocative attempt to show that there are morally legitimate alternatives in East Asia to…

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Susan Hunter, AIDS in Asia. A Continent in Peril

At a moment when the centre of gravity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic that is affecting over 40 million people worldwide is gradually shifting towards Asia,…

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Isabelle Attané & Jacques Véron (eds), Gender Discriminations Among Young Children in Asia

Since the alarm signal was first sounded by professor Amartya Sen in 1990[1] works have appeared on the growing imbalances between the sexes in East…

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