Through his study of the structure of foreign direct investment (FDI), Yasheng Huang offers the reader a fresh analysis of China ’s economic reforms throughout…

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 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…