This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

This is a very attractive volume with its 226 pages of text, and 315 pages overall. It includes two indices, one for proper names, and…

In this remarkable work, one chapter of which has been published in French (1), Shih Shu-mei raises some fundamental questions: what, for Chinese intellectuals of…

As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

Here is another story, but different, of the educated young being sent to the frontier provinces to be educated/reformed among the poor and medium lower…

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…

China is an immense chessboard on which a dynamic and complicated game is in progress. A better understanding of this space, and especially of the…

This book is in fact a second edition of a previous work, published in 1992 with the two parts of the title reversed. The first…

The main claim of this study by a researcher at the Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is that it provides a comprehensive summary of…