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…

Readers in the China field will eagerly turn to Susan Greenhalgh’s latest work for an indepth treatment of the formation of China’s one-child policy, but…

Published in China in 2004 by Changjiang wenyi chubanshe, Jiang Rong’s novel Lang tuteng (Wolf Totem) was immediately a phenomenal success. I myself witnessed this…

Derived from a doctoral thesis, this book tells us about Taiwanese emigrants to the United States of America and the way that they become American,…

Sixty years after the retreat to Taiwan of the Nationalist army, the question of Taiwan still remains important and has even, on various occasions, been…

Gender, Politics, and Democracy offers an account of Chinese women’s struggles for political suffrage from around the turn of the twentieth century to the eve…

Two recent works reintroduce China into the anthropology of kinship. Cai Hua and Laurent Barry are both students of Françoise Héritier, who at the Collège…

Is a future Sino-American war probable or not? If it began, would it likely be started by China as a rising power, or by America…

One of the most prominent directors in Hong Kong at the moment, Johnnie To Kei-fung, has over the past few years been receiving more attention…

During the 1980s and 1990s, major political and social events underpinned the work of a generation of young Hong Kong filmmakers. This eclectic movement made…