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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

Three years after Demain la Chine: démocratie ou dictature? (China tomorrow: democracy or dictature?), a work that analysed the developments in Chinese domestic policy, Jean-Pierre…

Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China asks “why the twentieth-century Communist project to rule out class distinctions failed” (p. vii). By bringing…

Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong is a fascinating collection of essays edited by Thomas Gold…

With 13 chapters featuring 15 illustrations (excerpts from books, film dialogues, interviews, etc., translated from Tibetan or Chinese), the book focuses on three events marking…