Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011, 455 pp.   Gail Hershatter’s book The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past is based on more…

Paris, Fayard, 2013, 310 pages.   Over the past few years, common interpretations of the Chinese economy propounded in the West have undergone a shift…

Prognostications made by political scientists easily fall into the abyss of facile speculation, because real-life politics change constantly and may give rise to unexpected outcomes….

China’s remarkable economic performance since the late 1970s is impressive in many ways. The constant high growth rate lasting for more than three decades is…

This volume is part of a “blue book” (lanpishu) collection. With 19 others published in 2013 – on subjects as diverse as education, the economy,…

When the twentieth century dawned with the echoes of boots and guns, it became apparent that the national stories told in textbooks meant for innocent…

In the past two decades, interest in collective memory studies has rapidly grown and has inspired debate among historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with regard to…

Far from being yet another panoramic account of China’s economic and diplomatic breakthroughs, this latest work by François Godement takes readers (whether well-versed in contemporary…

Taking eight migrants’ stories as examples, the journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka paints a vivid and detailed picture of everyday life in one of Xi’an’s urban…