As an American diplomat once observed, the United States tended to “pull its punches” with respect to the repugnant actions of its authoritarian allies during…

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…

The title of this work is apposite since for once, among recently published books on China, the cover reference to Mao is not unwarranted. Indeed,…

This collective work, directed by two writers known for their work on China’s intellectuals , undertakes to bring together with the classic problem of intellectuals…

The story is familiar enough: Taiwan is settled by people from the Chinese mainland, colonised by Japan, ruled by the KMT (Guomindang), nativises its political…

The title of this book is not very clear—and its purpose is scarcely more so. Judging by what we are told in the short introduction,…

Family policy and the growth of the population in China have been the subject of continuous attention for many years, but there was no research…