Examining the varied expressions of religious life in a rural district of North China, the historian Thomas David Dubois, in The Sacred Village, gives us…
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In the introduction to this volume collecting contributions to a colloquium held at Fu Jen university (Taipei) in 2001, the editors propose the study of…
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Although China has undergone profound changes since economic reforms and marketisation were introduced in the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still represents a…
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This work by Daniel A. Bell can be seen as a provocative attempt to show that there are morally legitimate alternatives in East Asia to…
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Document sans nom Qu Qiubai was an unfortunate intellectual, whose tragic destiny illustrates the dilemmas faced, at the beginning of the twentieth century, by a…
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At a moment when the centre of gravity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic that is affecting over 40 million people worldwide is gradually shifting towards Asia,…
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Since the alarm signal was first sounded by professor Amartya Sen in 1990[1] works have appeared on the growing imbalances between the sexes in East…
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p align=”justify”> This volume contains a collection of sixteen papers presented at the conference on the work of Gao Xinjiang, which was organised by the…
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Migration and poverty are certainly two major intertwined issues for contemporary China. Although poverty has decreased rapidly during the last decades, thanks to growth and…
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Wu Hung has made a major contribution to the understanding of the history and anthropology of contemporary Chinese memory. His works builds on the specificities…
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