The publication of Lü Xiaobo’s book could not have been timelier. Indeed, its appearance coincided with the launch of Peking’s anti-corruption drive early last year,…

If the performance of a legal system is dependent in part at least on popular attitudes, then we perhaps can learn about the prospects for…

The beginner in Chinese studies or the Sinologist lacking specialist knowledge on a given subject will often find acquiring the right books to provide that…

October 1st 2000 will remain in the memory as an illustration of how persistent and how profound cultural misunderstandings can be. In Rome on that…

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…

Like all of Geremie Barmé’s previous works, In the Red is a thoroughly absorbing volume that chronicles, practically day by day, all the developments on…

During the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese revolution was a many-sided, fragmented and chaotic process, deeply affected by the variegated social structure of Northern China. It…

We have already noted with interest the appearance of the brilliant Bird in a Cage by Stanley B. Lubman((1). Here is another work of synthesis…

The legal and fiscal guide published by the French Centre for External Trade and entitled by its authors, members of the law firm Thieffry &…

Far from being principally a work of research, this book is above all the writer’s homage to his own community, the Sino-Americans (Chen Yong is…