La Vie entre soi (“Life Amongst Oneselves”) is an anthropological study of the dominant institution of contemporary Chinese Taoism, the Quanzhen order, which is distinguished…

Professor Marian Galik’s monumental work Influence, Translation and Parallels: Selected Studies on the Bible in China is a compilation of his continuing research on Bible…

An authoritative work on the concept of heritage in China , has long been overdue, and it has finally arrived with this work by Zhang…

The most exciting event in contemporary Chinese cinema was the emergence of the “Fifth Generation” of filmmakers in the mid-late 1980s. It brought increased popularity…

This book is a brilliant summary of Taiwanese political history: one could not recommend it more highly. Denny Roy, author of a book on Chinese…

With memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak still fresh, this study focuses on the governance system that made it possible to control the epidemic in…

Although homosexual practices were largely tolerated in classical Chinese society, after 1949, under the People’s Republic homosexuality has been regarded as “hooliganism”. During the Cultural…