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…

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…

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…

With their adherents numbering millions and their enormous financial resources, Buddhist groups are a significant force in the civil society of Taiwan today. Their political…

This collective work edited by Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun offers an excellent overview of the social policies of Shanghai and Hong Kong,…

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…