“This only is denied to God: the power to change the past” Agathon “Though God cannot alter the past, historians can” Samuel Butler   I…

La Vie entre soi (“Life Amongst Oneselves”) is an anthropological study of the dominant institution of contemporary Chinese Taoism, the Quanzhen order, which is distinguished…

Professor Marian Galik’s monumental work Influence, Translation and Parallels: Selected Studies on the Bible in China is a compilation of his continuing research on Bible…

An authoritative work on the concept of heritage in China , has long been overdue, and it has finally arrived with this work by Zhang…

The most exciting event in contemporary Chinese cinema was the emergence of the “Fifth Generation” of filmmakers in the mid-late 1980s. It brought increased popularity…

This book is a brilliant summary of Taiwanese political history: one could not recommend it more highly. Denny Roy, author of a book on Chinese…

With memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak still fresh, this study focuses on the governance system that made it possible to control the epidemic in…

This is a work as fascinating as it is ambitious, and whose great quality is its ability to highlight the particular features of the Chinese…

This is an important book, filling as it does a glaring gap for anyone interested in the China-Taiwan equation, that of the analysis of the…

This work sets out to be a social and cultural history of drugs in China within a wider general history of mind-affecting substances throughout the…