Jean-Yves Heurtebise’s essay explores various aspects of the crossed history of intellectual and cultural relations between European and Chinese worlds since the Renaissance. It is…

Charlotte Bruckermann’s book is set in Sweeping Cliff, a village that has been developed into a tourist site in the mountainous Shanxi countryside. As the…

Li Jie’s new book is an intriguing study of a series of objects that can be understood as cultural texts in a broad sense, spanning…

Marriage is one of the social institutions that is still playing an important role in many Asian countries. At least, that is what is shown…

Reviewing research whose subjects echo one’s own work is a fascinating and stimulating exercise. Des lieux en commun resonates in fact with two ethnographic studies…

Since Hegel’s theorisation of China as a state without society, the debate surrounding China’s state-society relationship has been centred on crafting a definition of civil…

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…

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”…

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…

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…