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…

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…

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…

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,…

Waiting is a well-titled book. It is the story of Lin Kong, who waits for eighteen years to divorce his wife and marry his girlfriend…

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…