Evelyne Micollier with Sexual Cultures in East Asia takes an innovative approach to questions of sexuality, to HIV/AIDS and to civil society in East Asia…

This book is the result of a research programme[1] launched by the East West Center in Washington in 1998. It brings together contributions from 16…

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…

With memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak still fresh, this study focuses on the governance system that made it possible to control the epidemic in…

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…