This illustrated encyclopedia is an ambitious but comprehensive work about the overseas Chinese. It was arranged by Lynn Pan, founder and co-ordinator of the Chinese…

The Chinese presence in Europe goes back over a hundred years yet studies on the subject are rare. Until the publication of this book, these…

Sinologists interested in the Chinese diaspora concentrated first of all on those communities that were most conspicuous in their adopted countries, either through their economic…

On the South China Track is not an invitation to literally go travelling, either for ethnographic or tourist purposes, along the byways of South China….

Jean-Pierre Cabestan’s latest work on Taiwanese political institutions will most definitely become a basic reference tool for the French-speaking world. Whilst being succinct—in line with…

A reworked doctoral thesis, this book offers a substantial and sophisticated historical overview, not only of the Taiwanese opposition movement, but in the process also…

When there are vast areas of the economic and sociological literature on China devoted to those mastodons—the state-owned enterprises (SOEs)—whose never-ending death throes paralyse Chinese…

Jane Duckett’s book is ambitious. On the basis of a survey carried out between 1992 and 1993 in the administration in charge of real estate…

The subject of this work which, like many another, was published in the midst of the Asian crisis, actually goes well beyond the crisis, the…

The editors of this book combed China‘s open press and journals for articles advocating political-legal reform and assembled them into this anthology. One of the…