Regional disparities, brought about by the reforms of the past twenty years, have exacerbated the at times disastrous plight of the peoples inhabiting the western…

Bertil Lintner, based in Bangkok since the 1980s for the Far Eastern Economic Review, has established himself as a leading expert on the Golden Triangle,…

In this work, Maja Buchler surveys the works of Robert Cheng, who is one of the best known linguistic experts on the Taiwanese language. Its…

This book brings together some of the contributions made to a conference held in Cortona, Italy, in 2001. The writers come from a variety of…

The handover of Hong Kong to China continues to attract much attention. Politically, the experiment with the “one country, two systems” arrangement affects the well-being…

Ross Terrill’s point of departure is the observation that China has remained, up to now, a repressive empire devoid of any opposition. Mao Zedong, Deng…

This work takes an innovative and yet balanced look at the major tendencies of Chinese foreign and security policy over the course of the past…

A common thread of agressive paranoia runs through the psychology of dictators, a thread associated in the period of their physical and intellectual decline with…

This is an extremely interesting and detai- led collection of essays on how femininities and masculinities have been defined from the Qing era to present-day…

During the last decade, the former leaders of Shanghai such as Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji dominated the scene in Peking, where they represented the…