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…

 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…

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…

Janette Ryan (ed.), China’s Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation, London/New York, Routledge, 2011, 262 pp. As Janette Ryan says in her introduction, the mobility of the educated class…

Philippe Paquet, Madame Chiang Kai-shek – Un siècle d’histoire de la Chine (Madame Chiang Kai-shek – A century of Chinese history), Paris, Gallimard, 2010, 776 pp. +…

Andrew D. Morris, Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2010, 271 pages. American historian Andrew D….

Kevin J. O’Brien, Suisheng Zhao (eds.), Grassroots Elections in China, New York, Routledge, 2011, 235 pp. It is not only discoveries and advances – modest or…