In the field of research in contemporary Asia, the question of “culture” constitutes a major methodological prerequisite. Do current events and mutations have to be…

Factionalism has been a persistent puzzle for students of Chinese communist politics. We know that it is an important feature of the regime, but there…

Joseph Fewsmith is known for his extensive work on the contemporary political scene in China; and he has in recent years come to be considered…

To present all the aspects of Chinese society from the angle of change, conflict and resistance is a huge and essential task. The book edited…

LI Ling Hin’s book deals with a subject that lies at the heart of the preoccupations of many Chinese: the management of land and real…

In this new book, sociologist S.K. Lau has reproduced, with minor revisions, 12 Occasional Papers previously published by his Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies…

Elisabeth Allès’ Musulmans de Chine: Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan is the first study in a Western language that focuses entirely on a Muslim…

A number of questions are raised by the increasing power of China, by its military development, and by the impenetrability of its strategic directions—an impenetrability…

On April 1st this year, a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter aircraft collided about sixty-five miles southeast of Hainan Island. The consequences were…

Here is a book which provides much interesting information. Nonetheless, it leaves the reader somewhat perplexed, given the discrepancy between what the author announces as…