Miriam Driessen’s Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia offers a nuanced ethnography of the actors involved in a road construction…
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From her 1999 benchmark book Contesting Citizenship in Urban China, States’ Gains, Labor Losses (2009), to Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged (2012), Dorothy Solinger has relentlessly…
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Luke Robinson Who am I? This simple question was the catalyst for Kiki Tianqi Yu’s first book. Compelled to reflect on…
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Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Jérémy Cheval Over the past three decades, Chinese cities have undergone transformations on a scale inviting attention from international experts in…
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Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. Zhe Ji Taiwan is a heaven of religions, for both practitioners and scholars. The island, separated from the mainland since the…
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Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Katy N. Lam “Is China the new colonial power in Africa?” is an often-asked question and attention-catching headline….
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Jessica Yeung This book is the second volume in the book series Sinotheory. The series publishes theoretical writings about China…
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Doris Sung The 2017 Guggenheim exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World was a major retrospective of…
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London: I.B. Tauris. Sabine Chrétien-Ichikawa Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape provides knowledgeable readers and non-specialists alike with an overview…
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Paris: Fayard. Michel Bonnin The name of Lin Zhao 林昭, the “freedom fighter” executed in Shanghai on 29 April 1968, was never expected to…
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