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…

Sebastian Veg, Fictions du pouvoir chinois : Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XXe siècle, Paris, Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences…

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…