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…

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…

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…