Sex and food are two favoured vices among the privileged classes, particularly in China: in those times when poverty was still everywhere, officials could be…

China in the World paints an enthusiastic portrait of a powerful and self-confident China, united around a well-established central authority, free at last from the…

Even twenty years ago, a book like this would have seemed ill-conceived, for two reasons. Firstly, in what ways could the histories of China, Japan,…

Shanghai, with its myths and its realities, has always been a place of great interest, in China and elsewhere. The interest has been the more…

The economic changes that have taken place in China since 1978 are nothing less than an industrial revolution that has not only quadrupled GDP but…

In China’s Export Miracle, the authors trace China’s development into one of the world’s leading trading nations. By 1995 China’s international trade was worth more…

This is an important book, which is already well on its way to becoming a classic in the United States. Indeed, it is a long…

One hundred and twenty pages, 14 cm x 24, here is an atlas that is supremely easy to handle; yet, that offers a huge mass…

Since the inclusion of a course on “China and the Chinese Diaspora” in the competitive French state exams (CAPES and Agrégation) for recruitment of history…

Over the past academic year, the syllabus for France’s competitive examinations for high-school teachers and university professors, the CAPES and the Agrégation, required candidates in…