Qian Liqun, Jujue yiwang: “1957 nian xue” yanjiu biji (Refusal to forget: Notes for “1957 studies”), Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2007, 502 pp. Earlier…

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…

Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 230 pp. Death by a Thousand Cuts provides a sensitive…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet. Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-1955, Berkeley, university of California Press, 2007, 638 pp. Melvyn…