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…

Chen Yung-Fa, the author of an authoritative study of the Chinese communist revolution, Making Revolution (1), provides us here with an excellent overview, covering seventy…

David Pollard’s book, the first reliable biography of Lu Xun in a Western language, is an important undertaking, as the subject’s life is closely linked…

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…

To attempt a 260 page summary of the history of the Chinese and foreign banks in Shanghai over a whole century (1842-1952) is an extremely…