This is an extremely interesting and detai- led collection of essays on how femininities and masculinities have been defined from the Qing era to present-day…

Aid to legal projects in China aimed, in the eyes of the donors, at improving human rights conditions on the ground there have become a…

During the last decade, the former leaders of Shanghai such as Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji dominated the scene in Peking, where they represented the…

Chen Yung-Fa, the author of an authoritative study of the Chinese communist revolution, Making Revolution (1), provides us here with an excellent overview, covering seventy…

David Pollard’s book, the first reliable biography of Lu Xun in a Western language, is an important undertaking, as the subject’s life is closely linked…

Hsiau A-Chin’s book, drawing on his doctoral dissertation research in sociology at the University of California San Diego, provides an interesting view of the rise…

Here is a new monograph on Shanghai, this publication being distinguished by the originality of its angle of analysis. In order to report the numerous…

The annualised growth rate for China in the first half of 2003 was 8.2% compared with 8% in 2002, and inflation was -0.4% for the…