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…

Following a preliminary exposition dedicated to summarising the theoretical debates on the origin and nature of Chinese nationalism (Chapter 1), Zhao Suisheng sets out to…

This work changes somewhat the vision that historians have provided to this day of China ‘s participation in the First World War. The sending to…

This book by Maria Hsia Chang presents itself as a summarisation of a movement that has by now become well known: the Falun Gong[1]. It…

The vagaries of publishing have seen the simultaneous appearance in France of two complete versions of Lu Xun’s collection Wandering, only seven of whose eleven…

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…