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Reviews the book `The Tiananmen Papers,' compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link.

In "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations," Pete Millwood argues that the rapprochement between the United States and China in the 1970s involved more than just high-level diplomacy. Millwood explores the role of non-governmental organizations and people-to-people exchanges in shaping and maintaining the relationship between the two countries. The book highlights the contributions of organizations like the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, as well as the experiences of individuals involved in exchange visits. Millwood's research challenges the traditional focus on official diplomacy and offers a more comprehensive understanding of US-China relations during this period. [Extracted from the article]

China's increasingly global orientation as it enters the 2020s, marking seventy years since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), forms a critical historical context. Through sixteen chapters, the book explores enduring and emerging questions surrounding the PRC's foreign relations, covering the drivers, dimensions, and implications of China's global engagement. Editor David Shambaugh's I China and the World i is a comprehensive study of China's international relations from the perspectives of leading China scholars. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism," edited by David Bandurski and Martin Hala.

A review of the book "A Cultural History of Modern Science in China," by Benjamin A. Elman is presented.

Giersch first turns his attention to the growth of the commercial economy in the nineteenth century, when a significant number of Yunnan-based institutionalized trading firms appeared on the scene. Lineage organizations had been much weaker in Yunnan than in eastern China, but Giersch argues that these became formalized among merchant families in an effort to maintain control when male members often sojourned for years at a time in foreign lands. But one thing remained constant - whether state-run, private, or mixed - the enterprises enriched the Han and marginalized the Tai, Tibetans, and other minorities of Yunnan and the borderlands, Giersch maintains. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940,' edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and James L. Watson.

By Li Zhang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. By Karl Gerth. [Extracted from the article]

Scholarship on China's internet governance has focused largely on China's strict regulatory environment and pervasive content censorship.[1] Yet, despite these restrictions, various internet sectors in China have taken off spectacularly. I Zoning China i 's chapters are organized chronologically based on China's cultural governance policy and recent developments in its television and online video sectors. Cultural zoning, Li demonstrates, allows the state to leave highly marketized sectors such as online video more leniently managed than television, creating a dual cultural sphere that is both economically beneficial and politically manageable in China's tightly controlled media landscape. [Extracted from the article]

In part two, Fearnley examines how scientific models of viral origins justified interventions into Chinese agriculture, focusing on biosecurity programs advanced by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and PRC. Its relevance to our present condition would be obvious even without the epilogue, which explicitly places the book's analysis of influenza research in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the context of COVID-19. Fearnley suggests that these programs intersected with the rural and agricultural transformations that China underwent in the post-Mao era in unexpected ways, translating pandemic preparation into the "idiom of rural development" (p. 67). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea," by Caren Freeman.

The article reviews the book "Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China," by Andrew Wedeman.

A review of the book "Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei," by Benjamin L. Read, is presented.

A review of the book "Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy: From 'Tribute System' to 'Peaceful Rise'," edited by John E. Wills, Jr. is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Culture," edited by Vibeke Børdahl and Margaret B. Wan.

A review of the book "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text & Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries" by Christian De Pee is presented.

A review of the book "Chinese Religious Life," edited by David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, and Philip L. Wickeri is presented.

The article reviews the book "Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China," by Koen Wellens.

A review of the book "Buddhism & Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual & Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China," by Christine Mollier is presented.