Kevin O’Brien and Li Lianjiang, Rightful Resistance in Rural China
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…
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…
These two works shed light on the conditions under which, in the course of the last 25 years, the command economy has been dismantled and…
This book joins Chen Jie’s Foreign Policy of the New Taiwan: Pragmatic Diplomacy in Southeast Asia (Elgar, 2002) as a leading analysis of the foreign…
The U.S. Chinese exclusion laws enforced from 1882 to 1943 are proving to be a nearly bottomless source of scholarly inspiration. Not only is exclusion…
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…
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…