Prognostications made by political scientists easily fall into the abyss of facile speculation, because real-life politics change constantly and may give rise to unexpected outcomes….
Read moreChina’s remarkable economic performance since the late 1970s is impressive in many ways. The constant high growth rate lasting for more than three decades is…
Read moreThis volume is part of a “blue book” (lanpishu) collection. With 19 others published in 2013 – on subjects as diverse as education, the economy,…
Read moreWhen the twentieth century dawned with the echoes of boots and guns, it became apparent that the national stories told in textbooks meant for innocent…
Read moreIn the past two decades, interest in collective memory studies has rapidly grown and has inspired debate among historians, anthropologists, and sociologists with regard to…
Read moreFar from being yet another panoramic account of China’s economic and diplomatic breakthroughs, this latest work by François Godement takes readers (whether well-versed in contemporary…
Read moreTaking eight migrants’ stories as examples, the journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka paints a vivid and detailed picture of everyday life in one of Xi’an’s urban…
Read moreThis collection of archival documents is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the Great Leap Forward famine that has appeared in the last…
Read moreWith 54 countries, a land size of 30.2 million km² and a population of about one billion, Africa is far from being a homogenous entity….
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