With their adherents numbering millions and their enormous financial resources, Buddhist groups are a significant force in the civil society of Taiwan today. Their political…

This collective work edited by Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun offers an excellent overview of the social policies of Shanghai and Hong Kong,…

Following a preliminary exposition dedicated to summarising the theoretical debates on the origin and nature of Chinese nationalism (Chapter 1), Zhao Suisheng sets out to…

This work changes somewhat the vision that historians have provided to this day of China ‘s participation in the First World War. The sending to…

This book by Maria Hsia Chang presents itself as a summarisation of a movement that has by now become well known: the Falun Gong[1]. It…

The vagaries of publishing have seen the simultaneous appearance in France of two complete versions of Lu Xun’s collection Wandering, only seven of whose eleven…

A combination of a m assive process of demographic colonisation and a policy for the development of the western region of China (xibu dakaifa), the…

This book is a synthesis of a doctoral thesis, which offers new research into the scientific elite of the People’s Republic. Taking as his subject…

Hiroshi Sato’s latest book, which focuses on rural China is a contribution to the debate taking place among specialists in transitology, the study of the…

China is the world’s largest producer of coal, and coal remains the most important energy source for an economy that continues to grow at an…