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Sherman Cochran, Encountering Chinese Networks-Western, Japanese and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937

Readers of Sherman Cochran will already be familiar with several of China’s major corporations from the first half of the twentieth century. His works in…

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Timothy Brood and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi eds., Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan 1839-1952

This collective work arises out of a conference held in Toronto in May 1997 entitled “Opium in East Asian History”. The book’s editors state in…

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Terry Cannon ed., China’s Economic Growth: The Impact on Regions, Migration, and the Environment

This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…

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Michael Leifer ed., Asian Nationalism

Now that regional studies seem to have acquired permanent status and while nationalism and nationhood, despite their detractors, are still very much in being, the…

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Lau Chung-ming and Jianfa Shen eds., China Review 2000

Decked out in ochre and purple, 100,000 people, both civilian and military, march in procession to the greater glory of the communist state; a 50-gun…

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Lü Xiaobo, Cadres and Corruption – The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party

The publication of Lü Xiaobo’s book could not have been timelier. Indeed, its appearance coincided with the launch of Peking’s anti-corruption drive early last year,…

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Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China

If the performance of a legal system is dependent in part at least on popular attitudes, then we perhaps can learn about the prospects for…

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Ka-ho Mok, Social and Political Development in Post-Reform China

The beginner in Chinese studies or the Sinologist lacking specialist knowledge on a given subject will often find acquiring the right books to provide that…

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Jean Charbonnier, Les 120 martyrs de Chine canonisés le 1er Octobre 2000

October 1st 2000 will remain in the memory as an illustration of how persistent and how profound cultural misunderstandings can be. In Rome on that…

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Feng Chongyi and David Goodman, eds, North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-1945

During the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese revolution was a many-sided, fragmented and chaotic process, deeply affected by the variegated social structure of Northern China. It…

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