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…

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…

One hundred and twenty pages, 14 cm x 24, here is an atlas that is supremely easy to handle; yet, that offers a huge mass…

Since the inclusion of a course on “China and the Chinese Diaspora” in the competitive French state exams (CAPES and Agrégation) for recruitment of history…

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,…

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…

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…