Gender, Politics, and Democracy offers an account of Chinese women’s struggles for political suffrage from around the turn of the twentieth century to the eve…

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…

During the 1980s and 1990s, major political and social events underpinned the work of a generation of young Hong Kong filmmakers. This eclectic movement made…

The HIV/AIDS epidemic that spread in Henan Province (and beyond) in the 1990s through unsafe blood collection represented – in many ways – a watershed…

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…