Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press 2011, 241 pp. After being posted as correspondent of…

Sandrine Marchand, Sur le fil de la mémoire: littérature taïwanaise des années 1970-1990 (Down memory lane: Taiwanese literature, 1970-1990), Lyon, Tigre de Papier, 2009, 390 pp….

Chan Hing-ho, Joyce Liu Chi-hui, Peng Hsiao-yen, Angel Pino, and Isabelle Rabut (eds.), La littérature taïwanaise. État des recherches et réception à l’étranger, Paris, You…

Zha Jianying, Tide Players, New York, The New Press, 2011, 228 pp. With detailed portraits of seven Chinese – a woman and six men –…

Translated from the Chinese, texts selected and presented by Jean-Philippe Béja, preface by Vaclav Havel, Paris, Gallimard, 2011, 518 pp. It was an inspired choice…

 Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China, Basingstoke/Oxford, Picador, 2011, 458 pp. It is one of the most bandied about…

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2010, 220 pp. For…

 Jean-Philippe Béja (ed.), The Impact of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, London, Routledge, 2011. This eclectic volume of essays grew out of a conference in Hong…