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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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KERLAN, Anne. 2018. Lin Zhao, « combattante de la liberté » (Lin Zhao: “Freedom fighter”).

Paris: Fayard. Michel Bonnin   The name of Lin Zhao 林昭, the “freedom fighter” executed in Shanghai on 29 April 1968, was never expected to…

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MATHEWS, Gordon, Linessa Dan LIN, and Yang YANG. 2017. The World in Guangzhou. Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace.

Chicago: Chicago University Press. Romain Dittgen   This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of the role, place, and workings of foreign entrepreneurs involved in…

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HONG, Yu. 2017. Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy.

Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. Séverine Arsène   Yu Hong’s book, Networking China, takes a clear stand in critiquing capitalism, detailing contradictions…

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CHENG, Edmund 鄭煒 and Samson YUEN 袁瑋熙 (eds.). 2018. 社運年代, 香港抗爭政治的軌跡 (Sheyun niandai, Xianggang kangzheng zhengzhi de guiji, An Epoch of Social Movements: The Trajectory of Contentious Politics in Hong Kong)

Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Michael Ng Conventionally portrayed by scholars as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has in…

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