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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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CABESTAN, Jean-Pierre. 2021. Demain la Chine: guerre ou paix? (China tomorrow: war or peace?) Paris: Gallimard.

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…

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ANDREAS, Joel. 2019. Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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…

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GOLD, Thomas, and Sebastian VEG (eds.). 2020. Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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…

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BARNETT, Robert, Benno WEINER, and Françoise ROBIN (eds.). 2020. Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Essays and Primary Documents. Leiden: Brill.

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…

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YAPP, Hentyle. 2021. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press.

This book rethinks the relationship between the political and the aesthetic in contemporary Chinese art, against the dominant narratives that render non-Western art eligible through…

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LIU, Xiaoyuan. 2020. To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959. New York: Columbia University Press.

Using Chinese sources, some of which have never been published before, Liu Xiaoyuan (University of Iowa) explores a decisive decade extending from the foundation of…

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TSIMONIS, Konstantinos. 2021. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

With more than 81 million members, the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) is the largest youth political organisation in the world.[1] The Chinese Communist Youth…

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LAMPTON, David M., Selina HO, and Cheng-chwee KUIK. 2020. Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rivers of Iron examines China’s role in the development of railroad connectivity between China and Southeast Asia (SEA) via the Pan-Asia Railway Network (PARN). The…

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