Lau Sanching’s testimony of his ten years in the laogai, China’s gulag, belongs to a genre with a firm pedigree, since it is related to…

Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens’ terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault’s work….

The Pearl River Delta is without any doubt the region that has undergone the most radical transformation as a result of the past twenty years…

Catherine Capdeville-Zeng’s book, an ethnography of the world of Chinese rock in the 1980s and early 1990s in Peking, throws us into the heart of…

At the present moment, the title of this book on the protection of China’s cultural heritage almost sounds like a provocation, in view of the…

This book, edited by Isabelle Thireau (CNRS / EHESS, Paris) and Wang Hansheng (Department of Sociology, Peking University), is the fruit of several years of…

Philip Huang set up a Los Angeles-based study group to examine Chinese law, and has created a collection with Stanford University Press, this being the…

Having represented state ideology from one end of eastern Asia to the other for two thousand years, Confucianism today is no more than a mark…

Over the last thirty years, many works, both Chinese and foreign, have been devoted to the reformist activities of notables from various Chinese provinces during…

This collection sets out to show that Asian Islam is not peripheral, as is often supposed. Relying on their own specialist knowledge, each author gives…