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China Perspectivesis a quarterly academic journal published in English, which was created in 1995 by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) based in Hong Kong. It was initially the sister publication of the French version Perspectives chinoises (1992-2022). An interdisciplinary publication, China Perspectives focuses on the social, political, economic, and cultural evolutions of contemporary China and the Sinophone world since 1949.
Issues dating from before 2010 are available on Persée.
Latest issue
146 | 2026
Rethinking Southwest China Beyond Exoticism
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Special feature
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Agrobiodiversity on the Ground: Ethnicity and Indigenous Knowledge Between Discourse and Practice [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Cosmopolitan Imaginaries, Specialty Coffee, and the New Life in Dali [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Climbing and Reinforcing the Ladder: Educational Migration and Spatial Hierarchy in Southwest China [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Southwestern Sci-Fi’s Critical Provincialism [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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From State Secret to Industrial Heritage to New Ruins: Anticipatory Urbanism and the Third Front Spirit [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Mistreated Heroes, Immortal Sacrifice: Interstitial Commemorative Zones and Epistemic Pilgrimage to Southwest China [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Afterword – China’s Ambiguous Borderland [Full text]
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Article
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Hospitable Nation and Its Discontents: China’s Sightseeing Tours for Chinese Overseas (1950s–1970s) [Full text will be published on September 2027]
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Book reviews



