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…

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…

Like all of Geremie Barmé’s previous works, In the Red is a thoroughly absorbing volume that chronicles, practically day by day, all the developments on…

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…

We have already noted with interest the appearance of the brilliant Bird in a Cage by Stanley B. Lubman((1). Here is another work of synthesis…

The legal and fiscal guide published by the French Centre for External Trade and entitled by its authors, members of the law firm Thieffry &…

Far from being principally a work of research, this book is above all the writer’s homage to his own community, the Sino-Americans (Chen Yong is…

Sex and food are two favoured vices among the privileged classes, particularly in China: in those times when poverty was still everywhere, officials could be…

Even twenty years ago, a book like this would have seemed ill-conceived, for two reasons. Firstly, in what ways could the histories of China, Japan,…

Shanghai, with its myths and its realities, has always been a place of great interest, in China and elsewhere. The interest has been the more…