In this short work, the Australian political scientist Colin Mackerras offers a general overview of the situation of ethnic minorities in China over the past…

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…

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…

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…