Readers of Sherman Cochran will already be familiar with several of Chinas major corporations from the first half of the twentieth century. His works in…
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This collective work arises out of a conference held in Toronto in May 1997 entitled Opium in East Asian History. The books editors state in…
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This volume consists mainly of contributions from geographers, but contributions have also been made by economists and political scientists. It analyses the changes in attitudes…
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Now that regional studies seem to have acquired permanent status and while nationalism and nationhood, despite their detractors, are still very much in being, the…
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Decked out in ochre and purple, 100,000 people, both civilian and military, march in procession to the greater glory of the communist state; a 50-gun…
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The publication of Lü Xiaobos book could not have been timelier. Indeed, its appearance coincided with the launch of Pekings anti-corruption drive early last year,…
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If the performance of a legal system is dependent in part at least on popular attitudes, then we perhaps can learn about the prospects for…
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The beginner in Chinese studies or the Sinologist lacking specialist knowledge on a given subject will often find acquiring the right books to provide that…
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October 1st 2000 will remain in the memory as an illustration of how persistent and how profound cultural misunderstandings can be. In Rome on that…
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During the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese revolution was a many-sided, fragmented and chaotic process, deeply affected by the variegated social structure of Northern China. It…
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