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…

This small volume contains the papers presented at the international conference with the same title held on November 22nd 1997 at Princeton University. The participants…

Let me begin by declaring an interest: the author of this superb book is a friend of mine (though an indifferent correspondent), he cites my…

The approach taken in this volume to the complex ongoing processes of change in the border regions where “China meets Southeast Asia” is definitely from…

Reputed to be rather on the reform side in the mid-1980s, the author of this work, who is currently Chairman of the Chinese Academy of…

This is the most complete study so far of the relationship between China and globalisation, with a particular focus on the consequences for China’s domestic…

In the second half of 1999 the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji, publicly announced an apparent departure…

This handsome volume contains the main contributions to a conference held in Hamburg in 1999 by the Hamburg Institute of Asian Affairs and the Institute…

A large house overlooking the port of Copenhagen and, next to the sea in Sokdsberg, an enormous summer residence, full of children and loyal domestic…

Contemporary Chinese literature was virtually unknown in the West until the beginning of the 1980s, a result, according to Noël Dutrait in his brief guide…