The SARS crisis in 2003 very quickly gave rise to a number of analyses on its consequences in terms of public health by setting China…

In this book on Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, the mythical patron figure of Chinese civilization, Térence Billeter presents a meticulously documented study on the Chinese…

During the last decade, books and papers on Chinese cinema have multiplied almost exponentially. One of the major problems engaged in those writings has been…

A Professor of comparative literature at the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA), and a specialist in gender studies, Shu-mei Shih, in this new…

Rightful Resistance in Rural China is a good example of the heuristic character of the inductive method in political sociology, that is to say, the…

Industrial sociologist Jean Ruffier offers us an important book on his Chinese experience that begins at the end of the 1980s in Guangzhou and in…

Is law a transferable technology? This is in essence the question posed by the work of Hélène Piquet, Professor at the Faculty of Law and…

The previous book written by these three authors generated considerable enthusiasm. However, it was an enthusiasm I did not share, and while this current volume…

For thirty years, David Faure has been deconstructing our image of an “eternal” and timeless China. According to this image, China was a society dominated…

A revised edition of a doctoral thesis presented at the University of Michigan, The Age of Wild Ghosts is the result of over a year’s…