In Germany, Taiwan has for a long time been the poor relation in terms of research on China (1). The appearance of these two works…

Several recent books on Hong Kong have precisely identified the main factors that, during the 1970s, led to the emergence of a real Hong Kong…

This book has been put together by well-informed observers who, over several years, have followed developments in Asia. It has several strengths. Unlike many other…

This book brings together nine contributions dealing with aspects of the transition in two major Asian socialist economies, and was collated by researchers from the…

In May 1986 the well-known novelist and investigative journalist, Zheng Yi (1), returned to the southern province of Guangxi on the border with Vietnam, in…

Mette Hansen is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, and this book on education and ethnic identity in Yunnan is the result of…

The study of tourism, through a range of choices, styles, tastes and motivations, provides a comprehensive insight into social relations, consumerism, class structure, self-identification and…

These stories by Xu Xing tell of the struggle that the modern individual wages against a society that increasingly demands conformity. His characters exist on…

This is an important book. It studies the movements of the New Fourth Army in central and eastern China (particularly Jiangsu and Anhui) during the…

Richard Madsen lectures in sociology at Harvard and specialises in issues of morality and society in Chinese villages (1). His book China’s Catholics deals with…