Readers of Sherman Cochran will already be familiar with several of China’s major corporations from the first half of the twentieth century. His works in…

This collective work arises out of a conference held in Toronto in May 1997 entitled “Opium in East Asian History”. The book’s editors state in…

This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…

The articles in this collection, edited by Samuel P. S. Ho and Y. Y. Kueh, are the work of Chinese members of a Canadian research…

During the three-month period between the rally on April 25th 1999 and the launch of the repression on July 22nd, I attempted, in this journal,…

Now that regional studies seem to have acquired permanent status and while nationalism and nationhood, despite their detractors, are still very much in being, the…

Decked out in ochre and purple, 100,000 people, both civilian and military, march in procession to the greater glory of the communist state; a 50-gun…