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…

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…

Hsiau A-Chin’s book, drawing on his doctoral dissertation research in sociology at the University of California San Diego, provides an interesting view of the rise…

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…