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…

Guo Baogang, China’s Quest for Political Legitimacy: The New Equity –Enhancing Politics, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2010, 216 pp. How does the Communist Party of China…

Bernard Ganne and Yveline Lecler (eds.), Asian industrial clusters, global competitiveness and new policy initiatives, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009, 562 pp.  The clustering…

Elena Barabantseva, Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-centering China, London, Routledge, 2010, 202 pp. How has belonging to the modern Chinese nation been formulated…

Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 2011, 464 pp. Historian Vincent Goossaert and anthropologist…

Chen Lai, Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View, translated by Edmund Ryden, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2009, 386 pp. This book is the first comprehensive English-language…