This book, which is taken from the thesis presented by Fung Chi Ming at the University of Hong Kong in 1996, deals principally with the…

Since France ’s diplomatic archives on the Far East were transferred to Nantes , a number of academic researchers have based their research on them….

This book is a partial translation of a Chinese best-seller published in September 2000[1]. It was one of the first in a series of books…

This work is the first complete study of China ’s hukou ( ) system. It traces the system back to its origins, highlighting its specific…

As his title indicates, the author sets out to provide a sociological explanation for the development of property rights in rural China , based on…

Chen Ying, a Taiwanese anthropologist, spent the year from 1979 to 1980 sharing the daily lives of the villagers of Mancang, in the district of…

Yanrui Wu’s book provides the reader with a valuable toolbox of statistical information and reflection for assessing Chinese growth over the decades following the creation…

Evelyne Micollier with Sexual Cultures in East Asia takes an innovative approach to questions of sexuality, to HIV/AIDS and to civil society in East Asia…

This book is the result of a research programme[1] launched by the East West Center in Washington in 1998. It brings together contributions from 16…

Patiently, passionately, Lucien Bianco has successfully concluded a mission that looked impossible : to explore the immensity of the Chinese peasantry and to describe the…