Reputed to be rather on the reform side in the mid-1980s, the author of this work, who is currently Chairman of the Chinese Academy of…

This is the most complete study so far of the relationship between China and globalisation, with a particular focus on the consequences for China’s domestic…

In the second half of 1999 the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji, publicly announced an apparent departure…

This handsome volume contains the main contributions to a conference held in Hamburg in 1999 by the Hamburg Institute of Asian Affairs and the Institute…

A large house overlooking the port of Copenhagen and, next to the sea in Sokdsberg, an enormous summer residence, full of children and loyal domestic…

Contemporary Chinese literature was virtually unknown in the West until the beginning of the 1980s, a result, according to Noël Dutrait in his brief guide…

Translator, writer, poet, artist, essayist, the multifaceted Leung Ping-kwan wears many hats; he is indeed, as he is nicknamed in Hong Kong, a “King of…

We live in a world where the media conveys to us powerful scenes of human suffering. The appalling injustices of the Interahamwe genocide in Nyamata,…

Urban/rural migration represents an important dimension in the development of a country, and this is true for China. Spared any rural exodus until quite recently,…