Over a long period, classical Tibetan literature drew extensively upon Indian Buddhist sources; but there is one genre, autobiography, in which it has given undeniable…

In describing the transformation of modern Confucianism into discourses disassociated from the whole body of practices to which it was traditionally attached, the historian Yu…

On 13 November 1935, a young woman slipped into a Buddhist temple in Tianjin and fired several shots at a peaceable 50- year-old man kneeling…

Starting from 2000, the issue that most outraged farmers and stirred them to revolt was taxation in all its forms and with all its abuses,…

This fascinating book recounts the evolution of population control policies applied from the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949 up to the present. The…

The phrase “watering the neighbour’s garden” refers to wasting valuable resources on something that will not benefit oneself. This book addresses “the rampant demographic masculinisation”…

It is rare that a first work of synthesis on a period close to contemporary history survives the test of historical review that comes with…

The closer we draw to the Mao regime, the clearer it becomes that Mao is the defining figure of China, and that the most defining…

A capitalism without capitalists? This is the paradox that Marie-Claire Bergère invites us to consider in her latest book, and which eventually persuades us. Certainly…

The authorities and the governing elite are not the only agents to have a hand in shaping the emergent institutional and moral order in China….