As his biographical note on the back cover states, He Qing’s works fall into the present-day problematic of cultural resistance to the “sham universalism” imposed…

So who will govern China in the twenty-first century? For several years now, political analysts have been fascinated by the study of the Party elite,…

This book belongs in the increasingly widespread category of works which inform the foreign public about things Chinese, but which add nothing in terms of…

In his new book, Robert Heuser, Professor of “Chinese legal culture” at Cologne University in Germany, intends from a perspective that is both historical and…

This substantial (over 2,000 pages), four-volume book by Xing Ziling, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, a former soldier in the People’s Liberation Army,…

At a time when attention is increasingly focused on the question of potential candidates to succeed Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji at the head of…

This work is the outcome of an international conference held in Leiden in October 1998 the object of which was to draw a picture of…

China is an immense chessboard on which a dynamic and complicated game is in progress. A better understanding of this space, and especially of the…

This book is in fact a second edition of a previous work, published in 1992 with the two parts of the title reversed. The first…

The main claim of this study by a researcher at the Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is that it provides a comprehensive summary of…