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…

With the present volume Dru Gladney aims to dispel notions of Chinese homogeneity widespread among China scholars. He starts out from the observation that, in…

These two imposing works, totalling nine hundred pages between them, are intended to be read as a continuation and a complement to the two previous…

The economic development of south China was an unforeseen phenomenon. In a very short time, Guangdong took “one step ahead”[1], putting itself in a leading…

The central importance of the strategic management of interpersonal relations, known as guanxi, is is well known to all students of Chinese society, and has…

“Black Gold” (heijin), the iron triangle of organised crime, business and politics is a major topic in the Taiwanese media and subject of many valuable…

A combination of a m assive process of demographic colonisation and a policy for the development of the western region of China (xibu dakaifa), the…