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Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges

Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2012, 205 pp.   In the decades since the late 1970s, China has become a manufacturing powerhouse for…

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Caroline Grillot, Volées, envolées, convolées… Vendues, en fuite, ou re-socialisées: les “fiancées” vietnamiennes en Chine (Abducted, Flown, Married… Sold, escaped or rehabilitated: Vietnamese fiancés in China)

Bangkok/Paris, IRASEC/Connaissances & Savoirs, 2012, 407 pp.   Traditions of exogamy and patrilocality of marriage in Asia have long led women to leave their villages,…

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Isabelle Thireau (ed), De Proche en proche. Ethnographie des formes d’association en Chine contemporaine (Face-to-Face. An Ethnography of Forms of Association in Contemporary China)

Berne, Peter Lang, 2013, 317 pp.   This volume originated in a research collaboration project (2006-2009) among Chinese and French sociologists and anthropologists seeking to…

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“La Chine et l’ordre du monde” (China and the world order), special issue of Agone

No. 52, 2013, 232 pp.   The journal Agone‘s issue No. 52 is interesting on several counts. The collection of texts, written mainly by renowned Chinese…

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Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (eds), Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

Durham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp.   The result of an initiative by Angela Leung and Charlotte Furth, who has written the introduction,…

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China’s New Rural Land Reform? Assessment and Prospects

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The Construction by Chinese Players of Roads and Housing in Nairobi: The transfer of town planning practices between China and Kenya

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Mormonism and the Chinese State: Becoming an official church in the People’s Republic of China?

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Fading Opportunities: Hong Kong in the context of regional integration

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China as “Other”: Resistance to and ambivalence toward national identity in Hong Kong

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