p align=”justify”> This volume contains a collection of sixteen papers presented at the conference on the work of Gao Xinjiang, which was organised by the…

The vagaries of publishing have seen the simultaneous appearance in France of two complete versions of Lu Xun’s collection Wandering, only seven of whose eleven…

In this remarkable work, one chapter of which has been published in French (1), Shih Shu-mei raises some fundamental questions: what, for Chinese intellectuals of…

As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

Sex and food are two favoured vices among the privileged classes, particularly in China: in those times when poverty was still everywhere, officials could be…