Patiently, passionately, Lucien Bianco has successfully concluded a mission that looked impossible : to explore the immensity of the Chinese peasantry and to describe the…

“This only is denied to God: the power to change the past” Agathon “Though God cannot alter the past, historians can” Samuel Butler   I…

Through his study of the structure of foreign direct investment (FDI), Yasheng Huang offers the reader a fresh analysis of China ’s economic reforms throughout…

This collection of articles edited by Laurence J. C. Ma[1] and Fulong Wu[2] is one of the first publications from the dynamic China Urban Research…

This edited volume provides a very comprehensive picture for scholars who want to “get their feet wet” in the area of information and communication technologies…

Two episodes stand out from one of my last research sojourns to Taiwan a few years ago. Episode 1: With the factory owner in a…

La Vie entre soi (“Life Amongst Oneselves”) is an anthropological study of the dominant institution of contemporary Chinese Taoism, the Quanzhen order, which is distinguished…

Professor Marian Galik’s monumental work Influence, Translation and Parallels: Selected Studies on the Bible in China is a compilation of his continuing research on Bible…

An authoritative work on the concept of heritage in China , has long been overdue, and it has finally arrived with this work by Zhang…

The most exciting event in contemporary Chinese cinema was the emergence of the “Fifth Generation” of filmmakers in the mid-late 1980s. It brought increased popularity…