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…

Since the beginning of the 1990s a real regional analysis of the Chinese world has gradually emerged in Western research centres. Thus certain provinces such…

In 1997 many Hong Kong residents were astonished by the large crowd of journalists sent to provide “coverage” of the Territory’s handover, and whose self-assurance…

Boxer, C. R., Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1968. A biographical approach to Macau’s history by the most prominent…

Put together by Jean Berlie, a French researcher who has lived in Macau for many years, this timely publication sheds a comprehensive light on the…

For several decades, the question of labour was largely abandoned by sinologists in their research. By the same token, China’s joining the ranks of industrialised,…

Neßhöver book is a precise, detailed and clear description of Germany and France’s China policy during the 1990s, faced with the new international order created…

Taiwan’s democratisation has been more than democratisation. It also gave birth to “Taiwanism”, a term that I believe captures the essence of the emerging civic…