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,…

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…

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…