Sex and food are two favoured vices among the privileged classes, particularly in China: in those times when poverty was still everywhere, officials could be…

On September 19th 2000, the US Senate gave final approval to a bitterly contested bill granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to China, despite stiff…

Even twenty years ago, a book like this would have seemed ill-conceived, for two reasons. Firstly, in what ways could the histories of China, Japan,…

Shanghai, with its myths and its realities, has always been a place of great interest, in China and elsewhere. The interest has been the more…