Translated from the Chinese, texts selected and presented by Jean-Philippe Béja, preface by Vaclav Havel, Paris, Gallimard, 2011, 518 pp. It was an inspired choice…

 Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, Basingstoke/Oxford, Picador, 2011, 458 pp. It is one of the most bandied about…

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2010, 220 pp. For…

 Jean-Philippe Béja (ed.), The Impact of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, London, Routledge, 2011. This eclectic volume of essays grew out of a conference in Hong…

Guo Baogang, China’s Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity –Enhancing Politics, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2010, 216 pp. How does the Communist Party of China…