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…

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…

This work by Corine Eyraud is based on the doctoral thesis that won her the “Prix de la Thèse” in 1993. As its title suggests,…

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…

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…