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Susan H. Whiting, Power and Wealth in Rural China. The Political Economy of Institutional Change

This fine book goes back over an important subject (the role played by rural industry in the extraordinary economic development of the past two decades…

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Stephen Uhalley Jr. and Wu Xiaoxin eds., China and Christianity, Burdened Past, Hopeful Future

Study of the interaction between China and Christianity is a burgeoning field which, to judge from the number of publications, is in no danger of…

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Joseph A. Camilleri, The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region—States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific

The political scientist Joseph Camilleri is the author of many publications on the transformation of both the state and the international system in the Far…

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Thomas Heberer, Xiaoming Ji and Arno Kohl, Unternehmer als strategische Gruppen: Zur sozialen und politischen Funktion von Unternehmern in China und Vietnam

Economic reforms in China and Vietnam and the drive for a “socialist market-economy” have resulted in, an in-turn been driven even further by a growing…

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Christine Chaigne, Catherine Paix and Chantal Zheng eds., Taiwan: enquête sur une identité

This is a work that in a timely way fills a gaping hole, at least in French. It is true that Taiwan’s contemporary political realities…

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Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden eds., Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance

To present all the aspects of Chinese society from the angle of change, conflict and resistance is a huge and essential task. The book edited…

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Li Ling Hin, Urban Land Reform

LI Ling Hin’s book deals with a subject that lies at the heart of the preoccupations of many Chinese: the management of land and real…

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Lau Siu-Kai ed., Social Development and Political Change in Hong Kong

In this new book, sociologist S.K. Lau has reproduced, with minor revisions, 12 Occasional Papers previously published by his Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies…

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Elisabeth Allès, Musulmans de Chine. Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan

Elisabeth Allès’ Musulmans de Chine: Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan is the first study in a Western language that focuses entirely on a Muslim…

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Hans Antlöv and Tak-Wing Ngo, The Cultural Construction of Politics in Asia

In the field of research in contemporary Asia, the question of “culture” constitutes a major methodological prerequisite. Do current events and mutations have to be…

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