Third-generation theories of revolution pointed to the structural vulnerabilities of regimes as
the basic causes of revolutions. In the last decade, critics of structural theories have argued …

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling
users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of
identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the …

The state often struggles to meet citizens' demands but confronts strong public pressure to
do so. What does the state do when public expectations exceed its actual governing …

China, Geremie R. Barmé notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing
nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates …

China's Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the
worst famine in human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution-that other massive …

India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all twenty years ago. It is likely to
be a key global actor throughout the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one …

This study examines the law of intellectual property in China from imperial times to the
present. It draws on history, politics, economics, sociology, and the arts, and on interviews …

This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It
has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference'to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence." …