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…

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…

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…

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…

The notion of “soft power” sounds somewhat unusual for a field as overlooked as Hong Kong arts. Unlike Taiwan or the PRC, both of which…

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Chinese state-run orphanages collaborating with Western NGOs in 2006 and 2007, Outsourced Children analyses the process by which the PRC…

Authored by Yi Pan, a former senior researcher for the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, Rural Welfare in China seeks to offer a broad view…

  For the first time seven years after his initial fieldwork, the anthropologist returned to the people he had once worked with. “We heard that…

Basel: Birkhäuser. Judith Audin Chinese urbanities, generally studied top-down, reveal interesting spatial configurations produced by successive reforms – from planning to market economy. Many studies…

Seattle: University of Washington Press. Aurore Dumont Shanghai Sacred offers a detailed examination of religious life in Shanghai. Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang aim…