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Louise Edwards, Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2008, xii, 334 pp.

Gender, Politics, and Democracy offers an account of Chinese women’s struggles for political suffrage from around the turn of the twentieth century to the eve…

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Cai Hua, L’homme pensé par l’homme, Du statut scientifique des sciences sociales (Man thought by Man. About the scientific status of social sciences), Paris, PUF, 2008, 214 pp. Laurent Barry, La parenté (Kinship), Paris, Gallimard, 2008, 567 pp.

Two recent works reintroduce China into the anthropology of kinship. Cai Hua and Laurent Barry are both students of Françoise Héritier, who at the Collège…

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Steve Chan, China, the U.S., and the Power- Transition Theory: A Critique, London and New York, Routledge, 2008, 197 pp.

Is a future Sino-American war probable or not? If it began, would it likely be started by China as a rising power, or by America…

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Stephen Teo, Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 294 pp.

One of the most prominent directors in Hong Kong at the moment, Johnnie To Kei-fung, has over the past few years been receiving more attention…

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Stacilee Ford, Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting’s An Autumn’s Tale, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2008, 128 pp.

During the 1980s and 1990s, major political and social events underpinned the work of a generation of young Hong Kong filmmakers. This eclectic movement made…

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Yan Lianke, Le Rêve du Village des Ding

The HIV/AIDS epidemic that spread in Henan Province (and beyond) in the 1990s through unsafe blood collection represented – in many ways – a watershed…

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Ilan Alon and John R. McIntyre (eds), Globalization of Chinese Enterprises

This book is one of the first academic contributions analysing the factors pushing Chinese firms to internationalise their activities. (1) The authors define and assess…

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Yan Song & Chengri Ding (eds), Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth

Between 1978 and 2004, the number of urban dwellers in China rose from 170 million to 540 million, that is to say, from 17.9 percent…

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Susan Mann, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

Susan Mann’s pioneering book, Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1997), was a breakthrough work by one of the late…

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Adam D. Frank, Taijiquan and the Search for the Little Old Chinese Man: Understanding Identity through Martial Arts

This book is Adam D. Frank’s anthropology doctoral thesis under Deborah Kapchan’s direction, defended in 2003 at the University of Texas at Austin. The study…

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