History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build Our Future, Macau, The Macau Ricci Institute (Macau Ricci Institute Studies no. 5), 2008, 550…

Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer, Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2009, 124 pp. The most recent addition to the New Hong Kong Cinema Series…

Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-Fung’s PTU, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 149 pp. Michael Ingham, an associate professor at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University, continues the…

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…

Lu Weijing, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China, Stanford University Press, 2008, 348 pp. In True to Her Word:…

Derived from a doctoral thesis, this book tells us about Taiwanese emigrants to the United States of America and the way that they become American,…

Sixty years after the retreat to Taiwan of the Nationalist army, the question of Taiwan still remains important and has even, on various occasions, been…

Ten years after the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, this collective work, under the direction of Louis Augustin-Jean and Florence Padovani, sets out…

Andrew C. Mertha’s book takes us into the world of large-scale dam projects in southwestern Chinese rivers. His research digs into resistance movements against some…

The nature of China‘s intergovernmental relations is a hotly debated topic. While none of the scholars involved in this debate would deny that a significant…