Taipei, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, 2015, VII + 184 pp. Review by Marie-Claire Bergère At age 80, a reputed historian with Taiwan’s Academia Sinica,…

Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2014, 528 pp. Review by Marie-Claire Bergère This book studies and compares the Russian and Chinese revolutions, which occurred at…

Nara Dillon and Jean Oi, (eds.), At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, XIII+310…

Document sans nom Qu Qiubai was an unfortunate intellectual, whose tragic destiny illustrates the dilemmas faced, at the beginning of the twentieth century, by a…

Following a preliminary exposition dedicated to summarising the theoretical debates on the origin and nature of Chinese nationalism (Chapter 1), Zhao Suisheng sets out to…

To attempt a 260 page summary of the history of the Chinese and foreign banks in Shanghai over a whole century (1842-1952) is an extremely…

A large house overlooking the port of Copenhagen and, next to the sea in Sokdsberg, an enormous summer residence, full of children and loyal domestic…