Two recent works reintroduce China into the anthropology of kinship. Cai Hua and Laurent Barry are both students of Françoise Héritier, who at the Collège…

Is a future Sino-American war probable or not? If it began, would it likely be started by China as a rising power, or by America…

One of the most prominent directors in Hong Kong at the moment, Johnnie To Kei-fung, has over the past few years been receiving more attention…

Susan Mann’s pioneering book, Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1997), was a breakthrough work by one of the late…

This book is Adam D. Frank’s anthropology doctoral thesis under Deborah Kapchan’s direction, defended in 2003 at the University of Texas at Austin. The study…

David Shambaugh’s volume concentrates on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as an institution. It attempts to answer the following key questions: (a) Why has the…

Three decades after its brilliantly successful conversion to market economy, and seven years after its entry into the World Trade Organisation, China is now confronted…

This book is a timely study of the historical development of, and contemporary debate on, administrative punishment in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Administrative…

This book is one of the first academic contributions analysing the factors pushing Chinese firms to internationalise their activities. (1) The authors define and assess…

Between 1978 and 2004, the number of urban dwellers in China rose from 170 million to 540 million, that is to say, from 17.9 percent…