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Judy Chung Chuihua, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas & Sze Tsung Leong eds., Great Leap Forward

The Pearl River Delta is without any doubt the region that has undergone the most radical transformation as a result of the past twenty years…

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Catherine Capdeville-Zeng, Rites et rock à Pékin. Tradition et modernité de la musique rock dans la société chinoise

Catherine Capdeville-Zeng’s book, an ethnography of the world of Chinese rock in the 1980s and early 1990s in Peking, throws us into the heart of…

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Jocelyne Fresnais, La protection du patrimoine en République populaire de Chine 1949-1999

At the present moment, the title of this book on the protection of China’s cultural heritage almost sounds like a provocation, in view of the…

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Gregory B. Lee, La Chine et le spectre de l’Occident: contestation poétique, modernité et métissage

The sheer number of signifiers in this book’s double title shows us straight away that the author of this work is dealing with a very…

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Leung Ping-kwan, Travelling with a Bitter Melon. Selected Poems (1973-1998)

This collection brings together poems written over 25 years and serves to illuminate the contrasts and the development of the poet’s thought. Most of the…

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Grant Evans, Christopher Hutton and Kuah Khun Eng eds., Where China Meets Southeast Asia. Social and Cultural Changes in the Border Regions

The approach taken in this volume to the complex ongoing processes of change in the border regions where “China meets Southeast Asia” is definitely from…

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Huang Yunte, Transpacific Displacement. Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth Century American Literature

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Isabelle Thireau and Wang Hangsheng eds., Disputes au village chinois. Formes du juste et recompositions locales des espaces normatifs

This book, edited by Isabelle Thireau (CNRS / EHESS, Paris) and Wang Hansheng (Department of Sociology, Peking University), is the fruit of several years of…

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Philip C.C. Huang, Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China. The Qing and the Republic Compared

Philip Huang set up a Los Angeles-based study group to examine Chinese law, and has created a collection with Stanford University Press, this being the…

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Umberto Bresciani, Reinventing Confucianism

Having represented state ideology from one end of eastern Asia to the other for two thousand years, Confucianism today is no more than a mark…

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