History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build Our Future, Macau, The Macau Ricci Institute (Macau Ricci Institute Studies no. 5), 2008, 550…

Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer, Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2009, 124 pp. The most recent addition to the New Hong Kong Cinema Series…

Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-Fung’s PTU, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 149 pp. Michael Ingham, an associate professor at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University, continues 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:…

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…

Ten years after the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, this collective work, under the direction of Louis Augustin-Jean and Florence Padovani, sets out…