This book has been put together by well-informed observers who, over several years, have followed developments in Asia. It has several strengths. Unlike many other…

This book brings together nine contributions dealing with aspects of the transition in two major Asian socialist economies, and was collated by researchers from the…

In May 1986 the well-known novelist and investigative journalist, Zheng Yi (1), returned to the southern province of Guangxi on the border with Vietnam, in…

Mette Hansen is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, and this book on education and ethnic identity in Yunnan is the result of…

The study of tourism, through a range of choices, styles, tastes and motivations, provides a comprehensive insight into social relations, consumerism, class structure, self-identification and…

These stories by Xu Xing tell of the struggle that the modern individual wages against a society that increasingly demands conformity. His characters exist on…

Explaining his government’s attitude towards the UN Security Council’s Kosovo resolution of June 10th 1999, the representative of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pointed…