Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity, translated by Janet Lloyd, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2009, 520 pp. 2008 was unquestionably Beijing’s year, in…

Lu Xun, Cris (Call to Arms), edited by Sebastian Veg, Paris, Rue d’Ulm, “versions françaises,” 2010, 304 pp. Sebastian Veg pursues his translation of the…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao and Tanzen Lhundrup, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969, Berkeley, UC Press, 2009, 236 pp….

Li Xiangping, Xinyang dan bu rentong: Dangdai zhongguo xinyang de shehuixue quanshi (Believing without Identifying: The Sociological Interpretation of Spiritual Beliefs in Contemporary China), Beijing,…

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010, 329 pp. Review by Stéphane Gros This long-awaited work by Shih Chuan-kang offers a precise ethnography and solidly researched discussion…