This book rethinks the relationship between the political and the aesthetic in contemporary Chinese art, against the dominant narratives that render non-Western art eligible through…

Using Chinese sources, some of which have never been published before, Liu Xiaoyuan (University of Iowa) explores a decisive decade extending from the foundation of…

With more than 81 million members, the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) is the largest youth political organisation in the world.[1] The Chinese Communist Youth…

Rivers of Iron examines China’s role in the development of railroad connectivity between China and Southeast Asia (SEA) via the Pan-Asia Railway Network (PARN). The…

Jean-Yves Heurtebise’s essay explores various aspects of the crossed history of intellectual and cultural relations between European and Chinese worlds since the Renaissance. It is…

Charlotte Bruckermann’s book is set in Sweeping Cliff, a village that has been developed into a tourist site in the mountainous Shanxi countryside. As the…

Li Jie’s new book is an intriguing study of a series of objects that can be understood as cultural texts in a broad sense, spanning…

Marriage is one of the social institutions that is still playing an important role in many Asian countries. At least, that is what is shown…

Reviewing research whose subjects echo one’s own work is a fascinating and stimulating exercise. Des lieux en commun resonates in fact with two ethnographic studies…

Since Hegel’s theorisation of China as a state without society, the debate surrounding China’s state-society relationship has been centred on crafting a definition of civil…