These stories by Xu Xing tell of the struggle that the modern individual wages against a society that increasingly demands conformity. His characters exist on…

In 1997 many Hong Kong residents were astonished by the large crowd of journalists sent to provide “coverage” of the Territory’s handover, and whose self-assurance…

“The intellectual is supposed to be heard from, and in practice ought to be stirring up debate and if possible controversy”. If we accept this…

This is an important book. It studies the movements of the New Fourth Army in central and eastern China (particularly Jiangsu and Anhui) during the…

Richard Madsen lectures in sociology at Harvard and specialises in issues of morality and society in Chinese villages (1). His book China’s Catholics deals with…

Since the beginning of the 1990s a real regional analysis of the Chinese world has gradually emerged in Western research centres. Thus certain provinces such…

Put together by Jean Berlie, a French researcher who has lived in Macau for many years, this timely publication sheds a comprehensive light on the…

Boxer, C. R., Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1968. A biographical approach to Macau’s history by the most prominent…

For several decades, the question of labour was largely abandoned by sinologists in their research. By the same token, China’s joining the ranks of industrialised,…