If one is to believe the proponents of relativism, any moral philosophy with a universalist claim would be both unrealistic and intolerant. They alone would…

The journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident has brought out a stimulating issue on the theme of anticlericalism in China. In the introduction, Vincent Gossaert and Valentine Zuber…

A Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Judith Farquar has up to now focused mainly on research into medical thinking and practice…

Lau Sanching’s testimony of his ten years in the laogai, China’s gulag, belongs to a genre with a firm pedigree, since it is related to…

Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens’ terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault’s work….

The Pearl River Delta is without any doubt the region that has undergone the most radical transformation as a result of the past twenty years…