This book, which is taken from the thesis presented by Fung Chi Ming at the University of Hong Kong in 1996, deals principally with the…

Since France ’s diplomatic archives on the Far East were transferred to Nantes , a number of academic researchers have based their research on them….

In October 2006, China’s foreign exchange reserves reached US$1 trillion, exceeding for the first time Japan’s foreign reserves, up to now ranked first in the…

This work is the first complete study of China ’s hukou ( ) system. It traces the system back to its origins, highlighting its specific…