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…

This book is a brilliant summary of Taiwanese political history: one could not recommend it more highly. Denny Roy, author of a book on Chinese…

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…

With the present volume Dru Gladney aims to dispel notions of Chinese homogeneity widespread among China scholars. He starts out from the observation that, in…

These two imposing works, totalling nine hundred pages between them, are intended to be read as a continuation and a complement to the two previous…

The economic development of south China was an unforeseen phenomenon. In a very short time, Guangdong took “one step ahead”[1], putting itself in a leading…

The central importance of the strategic management of interpersonal relations, known as guanxi, is is well known to all students of Chinese society, and has…

“Black Gold” (heijin), the iron triangle of organised crime, business and politics is a major topic in the Taiwanese media and subject of many valuable…

This is a work as fascinating as it is ambitious, and whose great quality is its ability to highlight the particular features of the Chinese…