Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West,Taipei, Tianxia wenhua, 2009, 600 pp. How exactly did China…

Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009, xiii + 722pp. This book is noteworthy for…

Pallavi Aiyar, Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, New Delhi, Fourth Estate, 2008, 274 pp. Pallavi Aiyar’s book, a combination of memoirs, journalistic reportage,…

Yan Hairong, New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China, Durham, Duke Univeristy Press, 2008, 316 pp. In New Masters, New Servants…

Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, 232 pp. In Marketing Dictatorship, Anne-Marie Brady explores the…

Lung Yingtai, Da jiang da hai – 1949 (Big River, big sea. Untold stories of 1949), Hong Kong, Cosmos books, 2009, 440 pp. and Chi…