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…

Pierre Gentelle has written this book for a student readership of candidates in France’s qualifying examinations for teachers of history and geography, the CAPES and…

It is ten years since the Chinese original of The Mountain of the Soul, Lingshan was first published. It had been written, partly in Peking,…

The astonishing advances made by the Communist International in China between 1921 and 1926, followed by the catastrophe that afflicted the Chinese communists in April-July…

Usually it is better not to criticise an author’s first publication too harshly. It is preferable to pass it over in silence, and let him…

This collection of articles edited and compiled by Deborah Davis, deals with the development of the consumer market in China, and fills a large gap…

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 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…