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,…

The focus of Stefan Friedrich’s book on China-EU relations, which is a revised version of his doctoral thesis from the University of Heidelberg, is revealed…

The economic history of Asia has long been dominated by studies confined within national boundaries and with a focus on agricultural activity. Over the past…

Becoming Japanese is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on the intellectual history of twentieth century Taiwan. In fact, this is more…