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VICKERS, Edward, and Xiaodong ZENG. 2017. Education and Society in Post-Mao China. Abingdon, London: Routledge.

In Education and Society in Post-Mao China, Vickers and Zeng present readers with a well-researched and thorough overview of the post-Mao era education system, paying…

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DRIESSEN, Miriam. 2019. Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Miriam Driessen’s Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia offers a nuanced ethnography of the actors involved in a road construction…

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SOLINGER, Dorothy J. (ed.). 2018. Polarized Cities. Portraits of the Rich and Poor in Urban China. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman and Littlefield.

From her 1999 benchmark book Contesting Citizenship in Urban China, States’ Gains, Labor Losses (2009), to Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged (2012), Dorothy Solinger has relentlessly…

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YU, Kiki Tianqi. 2019. ‘My’ Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualizing China

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Luke Robinson Who am I? This simple question was the catalyst for Kiki Tianqi Yu’s first book. Compelled to reflect on…

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VALJAKKA, Minna, and Meiqin WANG (eds). 2018. Urbanized interface: Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Jérémy Cheval Over the past three decades, Chinese cities have undergone transformations on a scale inviting attention from international experts in…

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JAGOU, Fabienne (ed.). 2018. The Hybridity of Buddhism: Contemporary Encounters between Tibetan and Chinese Traditions in Taiwan and the Mainland.

Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. Zhe Ji Taiwan is a heaven of religions, for both practitioners and scholars. The island, separated from the mainland since the…

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LEE, Ching Kwan. 2018. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Katy N. Lam “Is China the new colonial power in Africa?” is an often-asked question and attention-catching headline….

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DAI, Jinhua. 2018. After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Jessica Yeung This book is the second volume in the book series Sinotheory. The series publishes theoretical writings about China…

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WELLAND, Sasha Su-Ling. 2018. Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Doris Sung The 2017 Guggenheim exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World was a major retrospective of…

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LING, Wessie, and Simona SEGRE-REINACH. 2018. Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape.

London: I.B. Tauris. Sabine Chrétien-Ichikawa   Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape provides knowledgeable readers and non-specialists alike with an overview…

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