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…
At the present moment, the title of this book on the protection of China’s cultural heritage almost sounds like a provocation, in view of the…
The sheer number of signifiers in this book’s double title shows us straight away that the author of this work is dealing with a very…
This collection brings together poems written over 25 years and serves to illuminate the contrasts and the development of the poet’s thought. Most of the…
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…
Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens’ terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault’s work….
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…
