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…

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 focuses on transformations of identity in Hong Kong, as well as how and the extent to which the people of Hong Kong have…

In his book, Gilbert Etienne displays his understanding of the history and contemporary developments of two countries that are among the major players on the…

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…