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Lucien Bianco, Les Origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949

It is rare that a first work of synthesis on a period close to contemporary history survives the test of historical review that comes with…

Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, 326 pp.

He Qinglian, Wusuo Zhongguo. Zhongguo dalu kongzhi meiti celüe da jiemi (China locked in mist: Revelations on the Mainland’s policy to control the media), Taipei, Liming wenhua chubanshe, 2006, 462 pp.

Leo Suryadinata (ed.), Southeast Asia’s Chinese Businesses in an Era of Globalization: Coping with the rise of China, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006, 374 pp.

Thomas J. Berghuis, Performance Art in China, Hong Kong, Timezone 8 Limited, 2006, 310 pp.

Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, 305 pp.

Alan Baumler, The Chinese and Opium under the Republic: Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2007, 298 pp.

Huaiyin Li, Village Governance in North China 1875-1936, Stanford University Press, 2005, 325 pp.

Estelle Lau, Paper Families. Identity, Immigration Administration and Chinese Exclusion

The U.S. Chinese exclusion laws enforced from 1882 to 1943 are proving to be a nearly bottomless source of scholarly inspiration. Not only is exclusion…

Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome. The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic; Thomas Abraham, Twenty-First Plague. The Story of SARS.

The SARS crisis in 2003 very quickly gave rise to a number of analyses on its consequences in terms of public health by setting China…