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François Gipouloux, The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 13th-21st Century

translated by Jonathan Hall and Dianna Martin, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 407 pp.   In 2009, François Gipouloux published his La Méditerranée…

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David Clarke, Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World

Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 259 pp.   David Clarke is founder and scientific director of Hong Kong Art Archive, a database of…

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Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges

Judith Shapiro, China’s Environmental Challenges, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2012, 205 pp.   In the decades since the late 1970s, China has become a manufacturing powerhouse for…

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Caroline Grillot, Volées, envolées, convolées… Vendues, en fuite, ou re-socialisées: les “fiancées” vietnamiennes en Chine (Abducted, Flown, Married… Sold, escaped or rehabilitated: Vietnamese fiancés in China)

Bangkok/Paris, IRASEC/Connaissances & Savoirs, 2012, 407 pp.   Traditions of exogamy and patrilocality of marriage in Asia have long led women to leave their villages,…

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Isabelle Thireau (ed), De Proche en proche. Ethnographie des formes d’association en Chine contemporaine (Face-to-Face. An Ethnography of Forms of Association in Contemporary China)

Berne, Peter Lang, 2013, 317 pp.   This volume originated in a research collaboration project (2006-2009) among Chinese and French sociologists and anthropologists seeking to…

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“La Chine et l’ordre du monde” (China and the world order), special issue of Agone

No. 52, 2013, 232 pp.   The journal Agone‘s issue No. 52 is interesting on several counts. The collection of texts, written mainly by renowned Chinese…

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Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (eds), Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

Durham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp.   The result of an initiative by Angela Leung and Charlotte Furth, who has written the introduction,…

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Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, Hong Kong

Hong Kong University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, xii & 164 pp. At the initiative of its mayor in 2001, Shanghai municipality launched an…

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Vivian P.Y. Lee (ed), East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations

NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 253 pp.   East Asian cinemas have become increasingly visible in the West over the course of the past decade. Successful…

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