This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

This is a very attractive volume with its 226 pages of text, and 315 pages overall. It includes two indices, one for proper names, and…

In this remarkable work, one chapter of which has been published in French (1), Shih Shu-mei raises some fundamental questions: what, for Chinese intellectuals of…

As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

On December 11th 2001 the People’s Republic of China (PRC) became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after more than fifteen years…

On July 10th 1986, the Chinese government submitted an official request to the Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) aiming…

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…