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…

Guilhem Fabre’s study is presented as a contribution to a UNESCO project under the auspices of the MOST programme (Management of Social Transformations). The project,…

At a time when China is again beset by the rise of social movements, be they wildcat or organised—millenarian, obscurantist (Fa lungong) and xenophobic (anti-American…

The years 1986-1987 stand out in the history of Taiwanese Direct Investments (DI) abroad. Until that time, such investments were not significant, instigated by the…

From the very outset, Roland Lew, author of L’Intellectuel, l’Etat et la Révolution, warns us that « true socialism is dying. It survives in China,…