New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 274 pp. Review by Jean-Paul Maréchal In the first decade of the twenty-first century, China acquired the world’s…
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Paris, L’Harmattan, 2015, 329 pp. Review by Nicole Khouri Wenjing Guo belongs to the so-called post-1980 generation, that of young Internet users on whom she…
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Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013, 304 pp. Review by Nicole Khouri When discussing the emergence of civil society in Guangzhou, one must first take into account the…
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Shanghai, Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2014, 312 pp. Review by Benoît Vermander This work discusses the make-up of civil society in Shanghai in the time…
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London, Routledge, 2013, 264 pp. Review by Yves Russell Celebrations marking 70 years since Japan’s capitulation in the summer of 1945, featuring a major military…
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London, New York, Routledge, 2013, xvi & 192 pp. Review by Martin Minost The Chinese middle classes – and the question of their definition –…
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Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2014, 436 pp. Review by Ji Zhe This book, which has been recently translated into English,[1] sets out a new paradigm for…
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Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2015, 296 pp. Review by Ming-sho Ho China watchers generally agree that successful economic development through low-wage export has shown…
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Paris, Seuil, 2014, 319 pp. Review by Fanny Fontaine After publishing many works on contemporary Chinese literature, such as Le monde romanesque chinois au XXe…
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