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…

We live in a world where the media conveys to us powerful scenes of human suffering. The appalling injustices of the Interahamwe genocide in Nyamata,…

Urban/rural migration represents an important dimension in the development of a country, and this is true for China. Spared any rural exodus until quite recently,…

The focus of Stefan Friedrich’s book on China-EU relations, which is a revised version of his doctoral thesis from the University of Heidelberg, is revealed…

The economic history of Asia has long been dominated by studies confined within national boundaries and with a focus on agricultural activity. Over the past…

Becoming Japanese is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on the intellectual history of twentieth century Taiwan. In fact, this is more…

This work, the publication of which has been supervised by Edmund Terence Gomez (University of Malay, Kuala Lumpur) and Michael Hsiao (Academia Sinica, Taipei), brings…

It is in temples that one encounters Chinese religion as it is lived by the people—a religion that often seems far from the mystical verses…

The title of this book is enough to arouse interest since it deals with a particularly sensitive phenomenon in modern Chinese history: collaboration with the…