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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Since France ’s diplomatic archives on the Far East were transferred to Nantes , a number of academic researchers have based their research on them….

This book is a partial translation of a Chinese best-seller published in September 2000[1]. It was one of the first in a series of books…

This book[1] provides a wide range of discussion topics associated with the economic transition in urban China . The contributions of 13 scholars, both local…