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…

So who will govern China in the twenty-first century? For several years now, political analysts have been fascinated by the study of the Party elite,…

This book belongs in the increasingly widespread category of works which inform the foreign public about things Chinese, but which add nothing in terms of…

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…

Even for the tourist that I was at the beginning of the 1960s, it has bee hard to forget the severe restrictions that lay heavy…