As his title indicates, the author sets out to provide a sociological explanation for the development of property rights in rural China , based on…

Chen Ying, a Taiwanese anthropologist, spent the year from 1979 to 1980 sharing the daily lives of the villagers of Mancang, in the district of…

Yanrui Wu’s book provides the reader with a valuable toolbox of statistical information and reflection for assessing Chinese growth over the decades following the creation…

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…

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…

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…