This is a work that in a timely way fills a gaping hole, at least in French. It is true that Taiwan’s contemporary political realities…

To present all the aspects of Chinese society from the angle of change, conflict and resistance is a huge and essential task. The book edited…

LI Ling Hin’s book deals with a subject that lies at the heart of the preoccupations of many Chinese: the management of land and real…

In this new book, sociologist S.K. Lau has reproduced, with minor revisions, 12 Occasional Papers previously published by his Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies…

Elisabeth Allès’ Musulmans de Chine: Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan is the first study in a Western language that focuses entirely on a Muslim…

In the field of research in contemporary Asia, the question of “culture” constitutes a major methodological prerequisite. Do current events and mutations have to be…

Factionalism has been a persistent puzzle for students of Chinese communist politics. We know that it is an important feature of the regime, but there…

Joseph Fewsmith is known for his extensive work on the contemporary political scene in China; and he has in recent years come to be considered…

Study of the communist bases in the countryside in China between 1937 and 1945 progressed tremendously during the final twenty-five years (1), and especially during…

Claudie Gardet’s book is the first study in French of the history of the relations between the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of…