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MANNING, Kimberley. 2023. The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Gail Hershatter is Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at the University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United…

SU, Junjie. 2023. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China: A Critical Approach. Bristol and Jackson: Channel View Publications.

Florence Padovani is Associate Professor at Paris 1 – Sorbonne University, Laboratoire PRODIG, Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment Recherche Sud, 5 cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers, France ([email protected]). …

HONG FINCHER, Leta. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (fully updated 10th anniversary edition). London: Bloomsbury.

Harriet Evans is Emeritus Professor in Chinese cultural studies at the University of Westminster and Visiting Professor in anthropology at the London School of Economics…

SANTOS, Gonçalo. 2021. Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Valeria Lotti is an independent researcher. She obtained her PhD in Chinese Studies in 2022 from Freie Universität Berlin, Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin, Germany…

LIN, Jean Yen-Chun. 2023. A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-class Communities. New York: Columbia University Press.

Yanhua Deng is Professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University, No. 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, China…

LU, Xiaoxuan. 2023. Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China’s Contemporary Borderlands. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Kelly Shannon is Professor of urbanism at KU Leuven, Department of Architecture, Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium ([email protected]). Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities…

ALPERMANN, Björn. 2022. Le Xinjiang. La Chine et les Ouïghours. Würzburg: Würzburg University Press.

Sabine Trebinjac is Research Director at the CNRS and member of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, MSH Mondes, 21 allée de l’Université, 92023…

ZEE, Jerry C. 2022. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Frédéric Keck is Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (LAS, CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS), 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris, France ([email protected]). Princeton…

XUE, Qiuli Charlie, and Guanghui DING (eds.). 2022. Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issues and “One Belt One Road.” Cham: Springer.

Jing Yang is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. She holds a PhD in architecture at the University of…

McGRATH, Jason. 2022. Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Nathalie Bittinger is Associate Professor in cinema studies at the University of Strasbourg, and a member of the Contemporary Approaches to Creation and Artistic Thought…

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