Patiently, passionately, Lucien Bianco has successfully concluded a mission that looked impossible : to explore the immensity of the Chinese peasantry and to describe the…

“This only is denied to God: the power to change the past” Agathon “Though God cannot alter the past, historians can” Samuel Butler   I…

Through his study of the structure of foreign direct investment (FDI), Yasheng Huang offers the reader a fresh analysis of China ’s economic reforms throughout…

This collection of articles edited by Laurence J. C. Ma[1] and Fulong Wu[2] is one of the first publications from the dynamic China Urban Research…

This edited volume provides a very comprehensive picture for scholars who want to “get their feet wet” in the area of information and communication technologies…

Two episodes stand out from one of my last research sojourns to Taiwan a few years ago. Episode 1: With the factory owner in a…

The subject of much media attention, the new dam at Yichang in the western part of Hubei province is of great and varied consequence for…