One of the most remarkable aspects of the reforms in China over the last twenty years has been the enormous variation that they have produced…

This is a book that abounds in information on, and analyses of an important subject. The basic question it sets out to answer is how…

This fine book goes back over an important subject (the role played by rural industry in the extraordinary economic development of the past two decades…

Study of the interaction between China and Christianity is a burgeoning field which, to judge from the number of publications, is in no danger of…

The political scientist Joseph Camilleri is the author of many publications on the transformation of both the state and the international system in the Far…

Economic reforms in China and Vietnam and the drive for a “socialist market-economy” have resulted in, an in-turn been driven even further by a growing…

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…

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…