Translator, writer, poet, artist, essayist, the multifaceted Leung Ping-kwan wears many hats; he is indeed, as he is nicknamed in Hong Kong, a “King of…

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…

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…

In the first phase of the transition period in the 1990s, comparisons were often made between China and Russia and other states of Eastern Europe,…

This book by Andrew M. Marton, a geographer at Nottingham University’s Institute of Chinese Studies, provides a high quality contribution to understanding the mechanisms of…