The journal Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident has brought out a stimulating issue on the theme of anticlericalism in China. In the introduction, Vincent Gossaert and Valentine Zuber…

Lau Sanching’s testimony of his ten years in the laogai, China’s gulag, belongs to a genre with a firm pedigree, since it is related to…

Every reader of Discipline and Punish has indelibly engraved in their mind the description of Damiens’ terrible ordeal at the start of Michel Foucault’s work….

The Pearl River Delta is without any doubt the region that has undergone the most radical transformation as a result of the past twenty years…

Catherine Capdeville-Zeng’s book, an ethnography of the world of Chinese rock in the 1980s and early 1990s in Peking, throws us into the heart of…

At the present moment, the title of this book on the protection of China’s cultural heritage almost sounds like a provocation, in view of the…

The sheer number of signifiers in this book’s double title shows us straight away that the author of this work is dealing with a very…

This collection brings together poems written over 25 years and serves to illuminate the contrasts and the development of the poet’s thought. Most of the…

This small volume contains the papers presented at the international conference with the same title held on November 22nd 1997 at Princeton University. The participants…

Let me begin by declaring an interest: the author of this superb book is a friend of mine (though an indifferent correspondent), he cites my…