Category Archives: Publications

Chinese Society:Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd Edition

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Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

Routledge – 2010 – 344 pages Continue reading →

Featured Series | Media, Culture & Social Change in Asia

Routledge are pleased to highlight our Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia series. Continue reading →

New Book Exposes Inhuman Sexual Torture in Masanjia Labor Camp

By Lu Chen, Epoch Times | July 28, 2014Last Updated: July 27, 2014 11:19 pm
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Vaginal Coma, a new book revealing the brutal sexual torture of Continue reading →

Books to Watch Out For: August

AUGUST 1, 2014


BY RACHEL ARONS AND ANDREA DENHOED

Notes from the book closet on forthcoming titles that caught our eye.

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“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” (Knopf), by Haruki Murakami, Continue reading →

‘Good Chinese Wife’ Wrings Insight From a Bad Gig

8:00 am HKT Jul 31, 2014

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By Maura Cunningham

“I thought I knew what I was getting into,” Continue reading →

Book Excerpt: ‘I Am China’ by Xiaolu Guo

July 30th, 2014 by Asia Society

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Xiaolu Guo (R), author of “I Am China” (Doubleday, 2014). (Author photo: http://www.guoxiaolu.com)

A love story for our time, Xiaolu Guo’s new novel Continue reading →

Stop the Clocks-‘Falling Out of Time,’ by David Grossman

By EDWARD HIRSCHJULY 18, 2014
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David Grossman Credit Illustration by Peter Arkle
The emblematic Man, any man, every man Continue reading →

Padraig Reidy: When truth is stranger than fiction

By Padraig Reidy / 17 July, 2014

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Three years ago this week, David Cameron announced that a Continue reading →