This collective work, directed by two writers known for their work on China’s intellectuals , undertakes to bring together with the classic problem of intellectuals…

The story is familiar enough: Taiwan is settled by people from the Chinese mainland, colonised by Japan, ruled by the KMT (Guomindang), nativises its political…

The title of this book is not very clear—and its purpose is scarcely more so. Judging by what we are told in the short introduction,…

Family policy and the growth of the population in China have been the subject of continuous attention for many years, but there was no research…

This collective work under the direction of Isabelle Attané is invaluable for its precise information and further reflections on developments in present-day China. It sets…

What a strange idea runs through this book! Not the author’s, of course, but Mao’s, when he sent students from high schools and universities to…

This volume is a collection of papers given at a conference with the same title, which was organised to celebrate the Nanjing University centenary in…

Günter Schubert’s work on China’s struggle for nationhood deals with a very pressing contemporary issue and is the outcome of in-depth research within the purview…

The death of Mao in 1976 saw the eclipse of the leading light of the communist cause, and the dawning of new possible ideological and…