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Patricia Sieber ed., Red Is Not The Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women

This book is a touching co-operative product among the editor and women writers and translators. The stories are well chosen, with a cultural complexity and…

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Catherine Keyser, Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China—The System Reform Institute and Policy Making

This book provides an illuminating insight into the rise and demise of a Chinese think tank that played an important role during that part of…

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Joe Studwell, The China Dream. The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth

In twelve clear, concise and well argued chapters, Joe Studwell delivers a methodical deconstruction of the myth surrounding the China market that haunts the minds…

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Mary-Françoise Renard ed., China and its Regions. Economic Growth and Reform in Chinese Provinces

The articles collected in this volume analyse the relationship between the global economic growth and the dynamics taking place at the regional level in China…

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Donald D. Tong, The Heart Of Economic Reform: China’s Banking Reform and State Entreprise Restructuring

This book’s argument is well summed up in its title, namely that the restructuring of the banking system is inseparably linked with that of the…

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Gordon G. Chang, The Coming Collapse of China

This work by Gordon Chang devotes its twelve chapters to dealing with a question that has obsessed observers of political developments in China for more…

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Randall Peerenboom, China’s Long March Toward Rule of Law

If one is to believe the proponents of relativism, any moral philosophy with a universalist claim would be both unrealistic and intolerant. They alone would…

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Vincent Gossaert ed., « L’anticléricalisme en Chine », Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident

The journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident has brought out a stimulating issue on the theme of anticlericalism in China. In the introduction, Vincent Gossaert and Valentine Zuber…

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Judith Farquar, Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China (Body, Commodity, Text, Studies of Objectifying Practice)

A Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Judith Farquar has up to now focused mainly on research into medical thinking and practice…

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Frank Dikötter, Crime, Punishmennt and the Prison in Modern China

Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens’ terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault’s work….

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