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The article reviews the book "For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings," by Janet Lee Scott.

With democratization, the Taiwanese were able to freely express their Taiwanese identity, especially in opposition to efforts to bring Taiwan closer to China. This book derives from a wide-ranging conference on Taiwan at the University of Alberta from which the editors chose papers dealing with democratization and nation building. Ashley Esarey examines relevant events in the creation of the nation from the Japanese colonial period, through authoritarian Kuomintang (KMT) rule, and the democratization process up to the 2018 elections. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction Into the 21st Century," edited by Colin Mackerras and Michael Clarke.

This article reviews the book "The China Environment Yearbook (2005): Crisis and Breakthrough of China's Environment," edited by Liang Congjie and Yang Dongping.

The article reviews the book "Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China," edited by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan.

The article reviews the book "Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China," edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson and Jakob Klein.

The article reviews the book "Chinese Youth in Transition," edited by Jieying Xi, Yunxiao Sun and Jing Jian Xiao.

When developing this argument, Keen Fan Lim acknowledges the impacts of globalization on China's institutional changes, but his analytical gaze is more endogenous than exogenous, choosing to expose the forces stemming from within China that have (re)shaped policy experimentation. Lim's challenge to the dichotomous treatment of China's socioeconomic transformation - from the Mao era to a decentralized and unevenly developed society in post-Mao China - is refreshing. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World," by David Clarke.

The article reviews the book "The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts," by Meir Shahar.

This article reviews the book "China-ASEAN Relations: Economic and Legal Dimensions," edited by John Wong, Zou Keyuan, and Zeng Huaqun.

The article reviews the book "China's Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects," edited by Xiao-yuan Dong, Shunfeng Song and Xiaobo Zhang.

The article reviews the book "Globalization and the Chinese City," edited by Fulong Wu.

Reviews the book "Challenges for China's Economic Development: An Enterprise Perspective," edited by David H. Brown and Alasdair MacBean.

Three years later, however, during the Dalai Lama's yearlong visit to inland China, Mao told the Dalai Lama at their first meeting on September 11, 1954, that he now agreed with him that the military committee was inappropriate. For Mao, incorporating Tibet in the best, not the quickest, way was a strategic imperative aimed at gradually creating a peaceful and loyal Tibet, while internationally taking the question of Chinese sovereignty/Tibetan independence off the table. Instead, Mao suggested it would be better if Tibet created a Tibet Autonomous Region. [Extracted from the article]

This tech-moral contestation between generations takes place in discussions before births, and when the state limits cesarean quotas, the contestation becomes more severe. In the discourse of professional childbirth, cesarean delivery rates have grown rapidly. For Santos, these studies help us to understand a more complex process in China's reform era, but he prefers to draw on the framework of "epistemologies of the South" proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China," by Jay Taylor.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region," edited by Barry Sautman and June Teufel Dreyer.

The article reviews the book "China: New Engine of World Growth," edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song.

Russo claims, regarding Peng's famous letter to Mao: "The letter showed (...) that there was a fundamental disagreement about the essence of the Great Leap. His goal is to question the post-Mao negation of the Cultural Revolution as a political project by Western mainstream research and also by official post-1978 Party historians. Russo argues convincingly that Mao did not foresightedly plan out the founding of the Red Guards, the emergence of rebel worker organizations, the intervention of the PLA, or the "power seizures by the left.". [Extracted from the article]

The book is organized around three key episodes of macro-violence in twentieth-century China and the contemporary photo-forms that have emerged around them: the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. In the book's most utopian moments, Hillenbrand calls these photo-forms "objects of heightened agency" and the communities they create "coalitions of solidarity" (211). Chapter 1 examines the ways declassified atrocity photographs of the Nanjing Massacre have turned the event from a once exclusive form of knowledge among China's political elite into a wide-scale, state-driven memory campaign. [Extracted from the article]

This article reviews the book "Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam," edited by Max Spoor.

Vogel pays particular attention to the periods AD 600-838, when Japan learned from China, and 1895-1937 and 1972-1992, when China learned from Japan. With recorded contacts spanning 1,500 years, compared with interactions lasting merely two centuries between China and the United States, Japan-China relations are shadowed by history. As Vogel states in the preface, "I see myself as a friend of both China and Japan. [Extracted from the article]

Through ethnographically and textually based research, Kendall deftly points out the conflicting aspects of Kaili's image. Anyone who has resided in or passed by Kaili during their travels would find Kendall's depictions relatable: the ethnically themed architecture and spatial landmarks, as well as the cacophony of high decibel traffic and piped music. Besides participant observation and ethnographic interviews, Kendall conducted research in newspaper archives and did sound recordings that help in understanding historical and contemporary Kaili. [Extracted from the article]

Liu's survey analysis finds that in all five countries, Chinese migrants situated in bridging Mandarin networks are more likely than their counterparts in bonding networks to engage with the political institutions and the locals. According to these criteria, bonding networks were largely found among Zhejiang and Fujianese migrants, while other Chinese migrants were in Mandarin-speaking bridging networks. Here Amy Liu chooses migrants' language(s) as the defining characteristic of their migrant networks. [Extracted from the article]

State actors in these accounts are just as diverse, including official agencies at the local, provincial, and central government levels, but also government-organized NGOs and mass organizations like the Women's Federation. The bulk of the book's chapters are empirical case studies that employ the "evolutionary governance" perspective and various configurations of the soft-hard approaches to make sense of changes in interactions between the state and social groups over time. Detailing the plethora of adjectives that have been used to describe and distinguish authoritarianism in China - for example, "fragmented" and "resilient" authoritarianism - Tsai makes a cogent argument for taking a longer-term view of state-society interactions. [Extracted from the article]

Here, Wang is much more ambivalent about fiction, first suggesting that it can bring out and address a truth that is too complex to be apprehended by reason alone and then arguing against the "conventional wisdom" that fiction can become history's substitute (159). In I The Fat Years i (2009), Hong Kong's Chan Koon-chung imagines a massive amnesia that Wang sees as prescient to Xi Jinping's China Dream campaign. [Extracted from the article]

Chinese IR scholars instead foresee China becoming a hegemon in Asia and a powerful state vis-à-vis developing nations, but they do not envisage China changing the existing world order. To the extent that their views may represent or influence government perspectives, it creates a window for scholars and policy makers to appreciate "how China thinks and what China wants". [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 4 investigates the relationships and conduct between Chinese firms, African managers, and African workers. Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments Are Shaping Relations with China, edited by Aleksandra W. Gadzala. Overall, Gadzala has done a remarkable job as editor in bringing together diverse authors on Africa-China business relations who address aspects of agency from a range of perspectives. [Extracted from the article]

I Take Back Our Future i is a must-read collection of empirically based and theoretically rich studies of this movement, recommended for anyone interested in the events of 2014, Hong Kong's protest culture, or Hong Kong politics in general. Samson Yuen's "Transgressive Politics in Occupy Mongkok" draws attention to a more militant approach in the Kowloon district of Mongkok that has had a lasting impact on Hong Kong activism. [Extracted from the article]