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ZHOU, Mujun. 2026. The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Clyde Yicheng Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, United States (cwang2@wlu.edu). Zhou Mujun’s The Death…

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UPTON, J. Christopher. 2026. Justice at the Boundaries: Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan’s Indigenous Courts. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Scott E. Simon is Full Professor in the Sociology of Development and Globalisation at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of…

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HEGER-LAUBE, Isabel. 2025. China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability. Würzburg: Würzburg University Press.

Andrew B. Kipnis is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (abkipnis@cuhk.edu.hk). This book examines state-led urbanisation in the model town…

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FRANCESCHINI, Ivan, Ling LI, and Mark BO. 2025. Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds. New York: Verso Books.

Éric Florence is Associate Professor at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, the University of Liège, Belgium (eric.florence@uliege.be). In this pathbreaking volume, the authors…

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RICHAUD, Lisa. 2026. Casual Assemblies: Afterlives of Maoist Performance Culture in Beijing’s Public Parks. London: Routledge.

Chayma Boda is a postdoctoral researcher, affiliated with the Centre Chine Corée Japon, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France (bodachayma@gmail.com)….

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THURSTON, Timothy. 2025. Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Xénia de Heering is a contractual research engineer affiliated with the CESSMA (UMR245), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France (xenia.de-heering@u-pariscite.fr). Satirical Tibet, the first book-length study…

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JIA, Ruixue, and Hongbin LI, with Claire COUSINEAU. 2025. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Siyu Li is Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France (siyu.li@univ-amu.fr). Written with Claire Cousineau, The Highest Exam offers an elegant public-facing synthesis of Ruixue Jia…

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LIU, Jieyu. 2025. Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Jiahao Zhao is a PhD researcher from Loughborough University, United Kingdom (j.zhao1101@outlook.com). Liu Jieyu’s Embedded Generations sets itself a deceptively simple task: to ask what…

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ROSENBERG, Lior. 2024. Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-first Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation. Canberra: ANU Press.

Susan H. Whiting is Professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle, United States (swhiting@uw.edu). Lior Rosenberg’s Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-first…

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XIE, Zhuoxiao. 2024. Chinese Daigou: An Ethnography of Brokerage Practices and Mobility Politics in Globalized China. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Meina Jia Sandal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (mjs@hum.ku.dk). Daigou 代購, literally meaning “buying…

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