Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao and Tanzen Lhundrup, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969, Berkeley, UC Press, 2009, 236 pp….

Li Xiangping, Xinyang dan bu rentong: Dangdai zhongguo xinyang de shehuixue quanshi (Believing without Identifying: The Sociological Interpretation of Spiritual Beliefs in Contemporary China), Beijing,…

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010, 329 pp. Review by Stéphane Gros This long-awaited work by Shih Chuan-kang offers a precise ethnography and solidly researched discussion…

Alain Roux, Le singe et le tigre: Mao, un destin chinois (Monkey and tiger: Mao, a Chinese destiny), Paris, Larousse 2009, 1127 pp. We now…

Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity, translated by Janet Lloyd, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2009, 520 pp. 2008 was unquestionably Beijing’s year, in…

Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays, Selected and Edited by Lea H. Wakeman, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009, 480…

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008, xxiii + 332 pp., illustrations. The “Incredible…

Paul Clark, The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 352 pp. In this fascinating book, Paul Clark goes against the grain…

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (eds.), Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London, Routledge, 2009, 308 pp. This is a timely collection…

Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces, Armonk-London, ME Sharpe, 2008, ix +275 pp. The study of associational life in China has…