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…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet. Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-1955, Berkeley, university of California Press, 2007, 638 pp. Melvyn…

Max Ko-wu Huang, The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism, Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. Since…

Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chul Shin, eds., How East Asians View Democracy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008, xv +…

Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration and Social Change, NY, M. E. Sharpe, 20005, 344 pp. China’s “urban revolution” has become the…

Lai Hongyi, Lim Tin Seng (eds.), Harmony and Development: ASEAN-China Relations, Singapore, World Scientific, 2007, 164 pp.&John Wong, Zou Keyuan, Zeng Huaqun (eds.), China-ASEAN Relations:…

Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, and Paul-François Tremlett (eds.), Re-writing Culture in Taiwan, London-New York, Routledge, 2009, 224 pp. This volume on Taiwanese culture, edited by…

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…

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…