Introduction Since the late 2010s, discussions on the transnational trade in recyclable waste tend to centre on China. In particular, the announcement by the Chinese…

In the past few years, China’s increasing assertiveness on the international stage has made headlines all over the world, causing considerable discussion and concern among…

Introduction The discourse on 淫 (yin, obscene/licentious/lascivious/pornographic) in early twentieth century China has been gradually attracting scholarly attention in recent years. Within this body of…

In her keynote address to the conference from which this special issue of China Perspectives has emerged, Prof. Gail Hershatter spoke of gender and “blindspotting”:…

Almost half a century has passed since Anglophone feminist scholars began to write about women in China’s twentieth-century revolutions (Young 1973; Wolf and Witke 1975;…