Yan Hairong, New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China, Durham, Duke Univeristy Press, 2008, 316 pp. In New Masters, New Servants…

Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, 232 pp. In Marketing Dictatorship, Anne-Marie Brady explores the…

Lung Yingtai, Da jiang da hai – 1949 (Big River, big sea. Untold stories of 1949), Hong Kong, Cosmos books, 2009, 440 pp. and Chi…

Sergey Radchenko, Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967, Washington and Stanford, Woodrow Wilson Center and Stanford University Press, 2009, 316…

Angus Maddison, Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run; second edition revised and updated: 960-2030 AD, Paris OECD, 2007, 214 pp. Angus Maddison is a…

Kevin J. O’Brien (ed.), Popular Protest in China, Cambridge, Harvard Univesity Press, 2008, 278 pp. This fine collection of chronicles of what were largely short-lived…

Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Guo Yuhua, Li Peilin, Liu Shiding (eds.), La nouvelle sociologie chinoise (New Chinese Sociology), Paris, CNRS Editions, 2008, 500 pp. Banished from…

Su Chi, Taiwan’s Relations with Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xix + 342 pp. Who hasn’t heard…

Richard Madsen, Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 207, 192 pp. Democracy’s Dharma is a study of…

Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank (eds), Making Religion, Making the, State. The Politics of Religion in Modern China, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 294…