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Stanley B. Lubman, Bird in a Cage. Legal Reform in China After Mao

This is an important book, which is already well on its way to becoming a classic in the United States. Indeed, it is a long…

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Robert Benewick and Stephanie Donald, State of China Atlas

One hundred and twenty pages, 14 cm x 24, here is an atlas that is supremely easy to handle; yet, that offers a huge mass…

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Jean-Pierre Larivière ed., La Chine et les Chinois de la diaspora [China and the Chinese Diaspora]

Since the inclusion of a course on “China and the Chinese Diaspora” in the competitive French state exams (CAPES and Agrégation) for recruitment of history…

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Pierre Gentelle, Chine et “Chinois” outre-mer à l’orée du XXIe siècle [China and the “Chinese” overseas at the dawn of the twenty-first century]

Over the past academic year, the syllabus for France’s competitive examinations for high-school teachers and university professors, the CAPES and the Agrégation, required candidates in…

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Pierre Gentelle, Chine et “diaspora” [China and the “diaspora”]

Pierre Gentelle has written this book for a student readership of candidates in France’s qualifying examinations for teachers of history and geography, the CAPES and…

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Gao Xingjian, The Book of a Man Alone

It is ten years since the Chinese original of The Mountain of the Soul, Lingshan was first published. It had been written, partly in Peking,…

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Ha Jin, Waiting

Waiting is a well-titled book. It is the story of Lin Kong, who waits for eighteen years to divorce his wife and marry his girlfriend…

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Deborah S. Davis ed.: The Consumer Revolution in Urban China

This collection of articles edited and compiled by Deborah Davis, deals with the development of the consumer market in China, and fills a large gap…

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Gunter Schubert and Axel Schneider eds: Taiwan an der Schwelle zum XXI.Jahrhundert.Gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Probleme und Perspektiven eines asiatischen Schwellenlandes, and Beate Tränkmann: Demokratisierung und Reform des politischen Systems auf Taiwan

In Germany, Taiwan has for a long time been the poor relation in terms of research on China (1). The appearance of these two works…

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Eric Kit-wai Ma: Culture, Politics, and Television in Hong Kong

Several recent books on Hong Kong have precisely identified the main factors that, during the 1970s, led to the emergence of a real Hong Kong…

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