Abingdon, Oxon & New York, Routledge, 2016, 570 pp. Review by Saša Istenič Increasingly overshadowed by China, whose long-term objective for Taiwan is well known,…

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,…

Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, 287 pp. Review by Nicolas Douay François Gipouloux, director of research emeritus at CNRS (National Centre for…

Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2016, 224 pp. Review by Alexandre de Saint-Denis Many observers are rightly concerned and also divided over the issue…

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2016, xxvi, 236 pp. Review by Stanley Lubman In 1987, Teng Xingshan was sentenced to death for raping a woman…

Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2016, 193 pp. Review by David Bartel With The Perfect Dictatorship, Stein Ringen proposes to explain how a regime built on…

Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2016, 252 pp. Review by Justine Rochot The 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic marked a turning point in…

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, 264 pp. Review by Amandine Péronnet This is an essential publication for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding…

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2015, 232 pp. Review by Eric Florence In this volume, by looking at domestic labour and service work in offices…

New Haven, London, Yale University Press, 2014, 298 pp. Review by Sébastien Colin Published in 2014, Bill Hayton’s work on the South China Sea stands…