Max Ko-wu Huang, The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism, Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. Since…

Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chul Shin, eds., How East Asians View Democracy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008, xv +…

Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration and Social Change, NY, M. E. Sharpe, 20005, 344 pp. China’s “urban revolution” has become the…

Nara Dillon and Jean Oi, (eds.), At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, XIII+310…

Lu Weijing, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China, Stanford University Press, 2008, 348 pp. In True to Her Word:…

Andrew C. Mertha’s book takes us into the world of large-scale dam projects in southwestern Chinese rivers. His research digs into resistance movements against some…

The nature of China‘s intergovernmental relations is a hotly debated topic. While none of the scholars involved in this debate would deny that a significant…

How to explain the evolution of water management policies in Shanghai? This is the question tackled by Seungho Lee (University of Nottingham, UK) in this…

This slender, compact work sets out to assess the differences and convergences between the China policies of the United States and the European Union (EU)….

David Lampton argues that for the next 20 years, China and the United States will be engaged in a “double gamble“ in which the United…