This book is in reality a collection of articles and contributions that have been published previously and partially rewritten by the author. An introduction is…

Practically all the analyses of the potential conflicts between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan are structured along the same lines: an analysis of…

This study, which follows in the tradition of pioneering works by Elisabeth Croll, Judith Stacey, Kay Ann Johnson and Margery Wolf, deals with the debate…

Works in French on the intricacies of Chinese politics and law are sufficiently few and far between that we herald those that are published. Guobin…

Some journalists and travellers bent on exploring like to go off the beaten track in order to discover the “real China”. Ian Buruma is one…

This book, focusing on Peking since the reforms, provides an ethnography of Chinese urban contemporary popular music. It uses an interdisciplinary approach—anthropology, musicology, literary criticism…

If the grand hotel attracts the interest of architects as much as it does geographers, whose collaboration in this work is shown yet again to…

Stéphane Corcuff has published a fascinating book at a fascinating time. As he has observed, readers may automatically make connections between his book and the…

The central argument of this volume by Bo Zhiyue concerns the mobility of the provincial elites in China since 1949. This places it in the…

This book fills a gap in the history of Taiwan and France in the nineteenth century. Christophe Rouil narrates an all but forgotten episode in…