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SIU, Kaxton. 2020. Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam. London: Palgrave Macmillan

In this volume, Kaxton Siu sets out to investigate whether “China’s export-led industrialisation” (p. 14) provides a unique pattern of economic development. Bringing together more…

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SZABLEWICZ, Marcella. 2020. Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

As its title suggests, Mapping Digital Game Culture in China is an ambitious book that tells a story of Chinese gamers via “a situational analysis”…

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LING, Minhua. 2019. The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

The Inconvenient Generation paints the portrait of the children of internal migrants (nongmingong 農民工) in the period between their secondary education and the start of…

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FANG, Qiang, and Xiaobing LI (eds). 2019. Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Since Xi Jinping launched a major anticorruption campaign after coming to power in late 2012, corruption and efforts at combatting it have become a prominent…

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GAFFRIC, Gwennaël. 2019. La Littérature à l’ère de l’Anthropocène. Une étude écocritique autour des œuvres de l’écrivain taïwanais Wu Ming-yi (Literature in the Anthropocene Era. An Ecocritical Study of the Works of Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-yi). Paris: L’Asiathèque.

The recent global public health crisis has seen the emergence of a #TaiwanCanHelp campaign, aimed at highlighting Taiwan’s contribution to the fight against Covid-19. But…

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LEE, Ching Kwan and Ming SING, (eds). 2019. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Take Back Our Future offers a detailed account of the 79-day Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong’s contemporary political history. Using an interdisciplinary approach of social…

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BONINO, Michele, Francesca GOVERNA, Maria Paola REPELLINO, and Angelo SAMPIERI (eds.). 2019. The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Since the mid-2000s, the development of Chinese towns has brought about radical change not only to urban and rural spaces but also to temporalities and…

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CHOW, Yiu Fai. 2019. Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Single women in China, socially stigmatised and marginalised as shengnü (剩女, literally, leftover women), are popular subjects of cultural productions that deserve but are yet…

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VANDENABEELE, Valérie. 2019. La société d’après : politique sino-tibétaine et écologie au Yunnan (Society Post-Pudacuo: Sino-Tibetan politics and ecology in Yunnan). Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre

This book is the fruit of a thesis defended at the University of Paris X-Nanterre in 2014. Valérie Vandenabeele studied Pudacuo 普達措, China’s first national…

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EISENMAN, Joshua. 2018. Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune. New York: Columbia University Press

In this book, Joshua Eisenman presents a revisionist approach to the Chinese People’s Communes era (1958-1983). One of his main goals is to question common…

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