This book has been put together by well-informed observers who, over several years, have followed developments in Asia. It has several strengths. Unlike many other…

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…

Mette Hansen is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, and this book on education and ethnic identity in Yunnan is the result of…

“The intellectual is supposed to be heard from, and in practice ought to be stirring up debate and if possible controversy”. If we accept this…

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…