IN MANY respects, the dynamism of China’s economic growth represents a huge challenge for the social sciences. Unlike Western capitalism, the economy and in particular…

Since the mid-1990s, no- one has written about Hong Kong politics more prolifically or knowledgeably than Lo Shiu-hing. In this, his third book on the…

This is a very useful account of the latest developments in Taiwan concerning cross-Strait relations and the evolution of Taiwan’s mainland policy. Sheng Lijun’s book…

If one is to believe the proponents of relativism, any moral philosophy with a universalist claim would be both unrealistic and intolerant. They alone would…

The journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident has brought out a stimulating issue on the theme of anticlericalism in China. In the introduction, Vincent Gossaert and Valentine Zuber…

A Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Judith Farquar has up to now focused mainly on research into medical thinking and practice…

The articles collected in this volume analyse the relationship between the global economic growth and the dynamics taking place at the regional level in China…

This book’s argument is well summed up in its title, namely that the restructuring of the banking system is inseparably linked with that of the…

This work by Gordon Chang devotes its twelve chapters to dealing with a question that has obsessed observers of political developments in China for more…

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…