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…

Swaran Singh is currently one of India’s most active researchers in the field of contemporary Chinese strategic studies. This work presents an overall view of…

Reading Claire Shen Hsiu-chen gave me the impression several times of discovering a kindred spirit, so closely does the first part of her book confirm…

Zhang Yinde’s in-depth study is the first substantial publication in the French language devoted to twentieth century Chinese literature, both in its diversity (the People’s…

Ray Yep’s book is a case study of the changing dynamics between the local state and managers of collective township and village enterprises (TVE, xianzhen…

The title of this book is a bit misleading. The real subject is the democracy movement over the last twenty-five years (1979-2004) as this period…

Antoine Kernen is a teacher and researcher at the University of Lausanne. This work is the fruit of ten years’ of investigations in Shenyang, the…