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…

Study of the communist bases in the countryside in China between 1937 and 1945 progressed tremendously during the final twenty-five years (1), and especially during…

Claudie Gardet’s book is the first study in French of the history of the relations between the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of…

Edmund S.K. Fung’s work examines the thought of liberal Chinese intellectuals and their gradual involvement in political action from 1929 to 1949. He seeks thereby…

This new study is devoted to the relations between the state and the elites in a dozen of districts located in the north-east and the…

Readers of Sherman Cochran will already be familiar with several of China’s major corporations from the first half of the twentieth century. His works in…

This collective work arises out of a conference held in Toronto in May 1997 entitled “Opium in East Asian History”. The book’s editors state in…

This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…

The articles in this collection, edited by Samuel P. S. Ho and Y. Y. Kueh, are the work of Chinese members of a Canadian research…

Now that regional studies seem to have acquired permanent status and while nationalism and nationhood, despite their detractors, are still very much in being, the…