Catalogue 23

Nouveautés 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chine- Littérature

 

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Au temple du dragon bleu  — authentiques poèmes zen

Moundarren, 2007, 135 p.

Poèmes chinois choisis et traduits par Cheng Wing fun et Hervé collet. 135 poésies reflétant l’esprit du chan. Texte bilingue français-chinois.                                                                      19,00 €

2              Beaupre, Charles P.

Aboriginal Folk Tales of Taiwan  — Animals, Heroes, and Heroic Adventures

Lewiston, 2007, 260 p., cloth

This book presents essential elements of the indigenous literature of Taiwan through selected folk tales, featuring animals, heroes and ordinary people having heroic experiences. These folktales were often the means by which different tribal groups transmitted cultural knowledge and values.                                     125,00 €

3              Berg, Daria

Reading China  — Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge

Leiden, 2007, 324 p., cloth

This book brings together eight studies that develop a new style of reading Chinese sources by exploring the dynamics of discourse across open boundaries: those of fiction and history, literary and non-literary sources, official and vernacular culture, prose and poetry, records past and present, lost and extant, vernacular and classical, traditional and modern. Each chapter discusses how authors, editors and publishers use representation, editing and selection as means of self-fashioning and political propaganda. 128,00 €

4              Besio, Kimberley & Constantine Tung (eds.)

Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture

Albany, 2007, 193 p., cloth

The essays in this volume explore the multifarious connections between Three Kingdoms and Chinese culture from a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, philosophy, art history, theater, cultural studies, and communications, demonstrating the diversity of backgrounds against which this novel can be studied. Some of the most memorable episodes and figures in Chinese literature appear

 

within its pages, and Three Kingdoms has had a profound influence on personal, social, and political behavior, even language usage, in the daily life of people in China today. The novel has inspired countless works of theater and art, and, more recently, has been the source for movies and a television series. Long popular in other countries of East Asia, such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, Three Kingdoms has also been introduced to younger generations around the globe through a series of extremely popular computer games. This study helps create a better understanding of the work's unique place in Chinese culture.  61,00 €

5              Bi Feiyu

Les triades de Shanghai

Philippe Picquier, 2007, 240 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Claude Payen. Titre original : Shanghai wangshi. Dans un monde nocturne contrôlé par l’argent et où passion rime avec trahison, un jeune adolescent naïf fraîchement débarqué de la campagne va faire l’apprentissage douloureux de la vie dans la mafia chinoise. Au service de Bijou, maîtresse du grand patron, arrogante et capricieuse, il deviendra le témoin involontaire de la destinée tragique de cette femme.                                    19,00 €

6              Bi Feiyu

The Moon Opera

London, 2007, 120 p.

Translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Original title : Qing yi. In a fit of jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of "The Moon Opera", disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, "The Moon Opera" is restaged, under the patronage of a rich local factory boss who insists that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing she is the immortal moon goddess. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Peking Opera, this devastating portrait shows the extent to which a desperate woman will embrace an exalted image of herself in an effort to flee earthly concerns.   17,00 €

7              Brunel, Pierre & Daniel-Henri Pageaux

Revue de littérature comparée 2-2007, N°322, Avril-juin 2007  — Hommage à François Cheng

Didier Erudition / Klincsieck, 2007, 263 p.

Articles : François Cheng ou dire la Chine en français (Zhang Yinde) ; François Cheng, poète français (Madeleine Bertaud) ; La Chine et l’Italie dans les Cantos toscans de François Cheng (Yvan Daniel) ; Bouddhisme ch’an et voies orphiques chez François Cheng (Véronique Brient) ; Lectures croisées : François Cheng et Olivier Deck (Matthias Vincenot) ; Poésie et beauté chez François Cheng. De A l’orient de tout aux Cinq méditations sur la beauté (Lise Sabourin) ; Le dit de Tianyi, un palimpseste de la Recherche du temps perdu ? (Luc Fraisse) ; L’éternité n’est pas de trop : réécriture de La princesse de Clèves  (Pierre Cahné) ; L’éternité n’est pas de trop : du roman d’amour au « roman du vide-médian » (Sylvie Parizet)                          16,00 €

8              Cai Zong-qi (ed.)

How to Read Chinese Poetry  — A Guided Anthology

Irvington/New York, 2007, 544 p., cloth

The volume features more than 140 famous poems representing the best examples of shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poetry, and is chronologically divided into six sections. Each chapter is prepared by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a pinyin version. Sound recording is available online free of charge. Each poem is followed by an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions and recommended reading strategies for a true appreciation of Chinese poetry. An extensive table of contents facilitates an in-depth exploration of important thematic and formal issues. Contributors: Robert Ashmore; Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan; Ronald Egan ; Grace Fong; David R. Knechtges ; Xinda Lian ; Shuen-fu Lin ; William H. Nienhauser Jr. ; Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su ; Wendy Swartz ; Xiaofei Tian ; Paula Varsano ; Fusheng Wu.

Also available in paper at 33 EUR                        66,00 €

9              Chang, Eileen

Lust, Caution — Amour, Luxure, Trahison

Robert Laffont, 2008, 175 p.

Nouvelles traduites du chinois par Emmanuelle Péchenart : Bouclage, La faïencerie, Le méridien du coeur et Lust, Caution. C’est dans le Shanghai des années 30 que Eileen Chang évoque plusieurs destins de jeunes filles qui découvrent, chacune à sa manière, le frisson annonciateur des premiers émois, les élans du coeur, l’ivresse de la passion.

Also available in English : 15 EUR                        17,00 €

 

10          Chen Xiaoming

From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution  — Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism

Albany, 2007, 156 p., cloth

Why did China’s intellectuals turn to communism? Reflecting on China’s encounters with modernity, communism, and capitalism, Xiaoming Chen offers an explanation by using as a case study the life and work of influential Chinese writer Guo Moruo (1892–1978). Guo was dedicated to the May Fourth Movement, which sought to bring reform, republicanism, and modern Western ideas to China, but abandoned these ideals for Communism in the mid-1920s. While the hope of national salvation was a major factor in Guo’s conversion, Chen suggests other reasons, including a desire to save the whole world, a goal that was consistent with the traditional Confucian call to not only “manage the state” but also “harmonize the world.” Chen also argues that despite the collectivist and totalitarian outcome of the Chinese Communist movement, Marx’s initial promise of ultimate individual emancipation served as a major attraction to intellectuals like Guo, who came to view Marxist Communism as the most efficient and thorough way to fulfill their dream of individual freedom.      56,00 €

11          Chu T'ien-hsin (Zhu Tianxin)

The Old Capital  — A Novel of Taipei

Irvington/New York, 2007, 240 p., cloth

A novel translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, The Old Capital focuses on the cultural and psychological realities of contemporary Taiwan. The stories are narrated by individuals who share an aching nostalgia for a time long past. The growing angst of these narrators reflects a deeper anxiety over the legacy of Japan and America in Taiwan. The titles of the stories themselves-Death in Venice, Man of La Mancha, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hungarian Water-reveal the strong currents of influence that run throughout the collection and shape the content and texture of the writing.          26,00 €

12          Coyaud, Maurice

Forêts d’osmanthes  — Fictions

P.A.F., 2007, 239 p.

« Cet ouvrage n’est pas seulement un recueil de notes de voyages. On y trouve il est vrai, de brefs comptes-rendus de séjours en Turquie parcourue de part en part (d’Antalya à Antioche), en Crête, au Yunnan du Nord (chez les Naxi et Tibétains) et au Guangxi (Chine du sud). L’aspect onirique des élucubrations des divers héros n’échappera pas aux lecteurs. L’ensemble est néanmoins bien ancré dans l’actualité, jusqu’à la plus récente, et prend assez souvent la forme d’une sorte paradoxale de journal… ». Extrait de l’avant-propos.    28,00 €

 

13          Dai Sijie

Par une nuit où la lune ne s’est pas levée

Gallimard, 2006, 306 p.

Les péripéties au cours des siècles d’un manuscrit sur rouleau de soie forment le fil conducteur de ce roman aux récits savamment emboîtés. Dai Sijie, revisitant l’histoire de la Chine et celle du bouddhisme, y rend un hommage fervent aux créations de l’esprit les plus subtiles et notamment à la langue écrite ou calligraphiée, qui répand sur chaque page son mystère obsédant. Après Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise et Le complexe de Di, Dai Sijie signe là son troisième roman écrit en français. 18,00 €

14          Des Forges, Alexander

Mediasphere Shanghai  — The Aesthetics of Cultural Production

Honolulu, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 2007, glossary, bibliography, index, 320 p., cloth

The products of Shanghai’s media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s help to understand how Shanghai acquired the power of being the place to be. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms—simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess—through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city’s distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived. Working from a wide range of sources, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices.                                                                      62,00 €

15          Ding Ling & Lu Xun

Power of Weakness  — Stories of the Chinese Revolution

London, 2007, 156 p.

Translated from Chinese by Tani E. Barlow. Each of the works by these two authors carries a biting social commentary on the hypocrisies of the burgeoning Chinese state in regards to women during the first half of the twentieth century. Containing six works in total, this collection reveals the force tradition and social expectation wield in historical moments where they are being renegotiated. In his speech What Happens After Nora Leaves Home? and his short stories New Year's Sacrifice and Regret for the Past, Lu Xun exposes how the anti-Confucian nationalist movement of the 1920s liberated women's thoughts beyond the constraints of tradition only to leave them the victims of social expectation and financial dependency. Ding Ling, writing in response to the clash between the nationalist and communist movements during the late twenties into the mid-forties, echoes Lu Xun's sentiments in her speech Thoughts on March 8 (Women's Day) and the short stories New Faith and When I Was in Xia Village. 19,00 €

16          Dongxi

Accrocher les coins de la bouche au bord des oreilles

L'Aube, 2007, 140 p.

Cinq nouvelles traduites du chinois par Isild Darras, qui montrent à quel point la Chine traverse une période paradoxale, entre tradition et modernité, entre larmes et…rires ! L’écrivain Dongxi né en 1966 dans la province du Guangxi, est également enseignant, journaliste et éditeur.                                                            13,90 €

17          Feng Menglong (compiled by)

Stories to Caution the World

Seattle, 2007, 792 p.

New in paperback                                             47,00 €

18          Feng Tang

Qiu, comme l’automne

L'Olivier, 2007, 309 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Sylvie Gentil. Titre original : Wanwu shengchang. Partagé entre la nostalgie d’un premier amour platonique et sa passion pour une femme qu’il n’a fait que croiser, Qiu se concentre sur son éducation sentimentale auprès de sa petite amie du moment. Ensemble ils complètent leurs connaissances anatomiques par de longues et inépuisables réflexions sur le développement intellectuel et sentimental de l’être humain. L’auteur est né en 1971 et se lance dans l’écriture d’une trilogie dont Qiu, comme l’automne est le premier volet.                                                               21,00 €

19          Fière, Stéphane

La promesse de Shanghai

Actes Sud, Coll. Babel, 2007, 412 p.

Edition au format de poche du roman paru en 2006 aux éditions Bleu de Chine.            9,50 €

20          Ge Fei

Poèmes à l’Idiot

L'Aube, 2007, 120 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Xiaomin Giafferri-Huang. Titre original : Shagua de shipian. Du Yu, jeune médecin psychiatre diplômé, est engagé par une institution dans laquelle errent des patients aux symptômes les plus variés. Chaque cas rappelle à Du des événements de son enfance, ce qui le conforte dans l’idée qu’on ne devient pas psychiatre par hasard. Mais notre jeune médecin sera définitivement perturbé lorsqu’il rencontre Lili, une ravissante jeune femme qui écrit des poèmes adressés à un dénommé « Idiot ».        12,90 €

21          Gu Ming Dong

Chinese Theories of Fiction  — A Non-Western Narrative System

Albany, 2007, 286 p.

New in paperback                                             27,40 €

22          Guo Songfen

Récit de lune

Zulma, 2007, 142 p.

Traduit du chinois (Taiwan) par Marie Laureillard. Titre original : Yue Yin. Taiwan, années cinquante. Atteint de tuberculose, hanté par les souvenirs de la guerre et les bombardements américains, Tiemin est soigné avec un grand dévouement par Wenhui, sa jeune épouse. Une fois guéri, il se voit impliqué dans une tempête politique dont il tient sa femme à l’écart. Une insidieuse angoisse s’installe, qui vient s’immiscer dans leur relation. La conjonction fatale de la maladie, de l’engagement politique et de la jalousie les pousse alors aux implications les plus extrêmes.                             9,50 €

23          Guo Xiaolu

Petit dictionnaire Chinois-Anglais pour amants Buchet-Chastel, 2008, 340 p.

Traduit de l'anglais par Carine Laléchère. Une jeune chinoise fait à Londres son apprentissage de l'anglais, de l'amour et de l'occident… Guo Xiaolu est l'auteur de La ville de pierre (éditions Philippe Picquier, 2003).   21,00 €

24          Hervey St Denis (Marquis d')

Poésies de l’époque des Thang  — précédées de L’'art poétique et la prosodie chez les Chinois

Ivréa, 2007, 359 p.

Réédition de l’ouvrage publié en 1977 aux éditions Champ Libre. Anthologie de poèmes traduits par le marquis rêveur d’Hervey de Saint-Denis (1822-1892).                                   21,00 €

25          Hong Zicheng

A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature Leiden, 2007, glossary, bibliography, index, 636 p., cloth

Translation by Michael Day of the well-known book Zhongguo dangdai wenxue shi, reprinted 16 times since its publication. The first section of the book deals with the 1949-1976 period. Often derided and ignored as an arid era for literature by both Chinese and overseas critics, Professor Hong describes the literature that was popular and officially acceptable at the time, and the cultural policies and political campaigns that shaped the tastes of readers and the literary creativity of writers during the period. The platform that the first part of the text provides renders the second part even more understandable to readers unfamiliar with the post-1976 literary scene – and offers new insights to those who are familiar with it – demonstrating as it does the close links between the two distinctive eras.           141,90 €

 

 

27          Kaske, Elisabeth

The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919

Leiden, Sinica Leidensia, 82, 2007, 540 p., cloth

The study examines the origins of the “literary revolution” proclaimed in 1917 which laid the foundation for the replacement of the classical language by the vernacular as China’s national language and medium of national literature. A unique, multifaceted approach is used to explain the political significance of the classical/vernacular divide against the backdrop of social change that followed the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5. Seeing education as the central battleground for all debates on language, the study in six thoroughly documented chapters investigates the language policy of the Qing and Republican governments, vernacular journalism of the revolutionaries, the activities of urban script reformers, the linguistic thought of the national essence advocates, and the emergence of a scholarly interest in the vernacular in academic circles.                                            176,00 €

28          Kerr, Douglas & Julia Kuehn (eds.)

A Century of Travels in China  — Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s

Hong Kong, 2007, 248 p.

Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People's Republic, China's history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn continuities. At the same time, the country has beguiled, scared and puzzled people in the West. The Victorian public admired and imitated Chinese fashions, in furniture and design, gardens and clothing, while maintaining a generally negative idea of the Chinese empire as pagan, backward and cruel.  In the first half of the twentieth century, the fascination continued. Most foreigners were aware that revolutionary changes were taking place in Chinese politics and society, yet most still knew very little about the country. But what about those few people from the English-speaking world who had first-hand experience of the place? What did they have to say about the "real" China? To answer this question, we have to turn to the travel accounts and memoirs of people who went to see for themselves, during China's most traumatic century. 34,50 €

29          Kinkley, Jeffrey C.

Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China  — The Return of the Political Novel

Stanford, 2007, 304 p., cloth

 "Anti-corruption fiction" exploded onto the marketplace and into public consciousness, spawning popular films and television series until a clampdown after 2002 that ended China's first substantial realist fiction since the 1989 Beijing massacre. Corruption and Realism examines this rebirth of the Chinese political novel and its media adaptations, explaining how the works reflect contemporary Chinese life and how they embody Chinese traditions of social criticism, literary realism, and contemplation of taboo subjects. This  book  includes excerpts from personal interviews with China's three most famous anticorruption novelists, Lu Tianming, Cheng Fang and Zhang Ping.    62,00 €

30          Lee Haiyan

Revolution of the Heart  — A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

Stanford, 2007, 384 p., cloth

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial periods to the beginning of the socialist era. 64,00 €

31          Leung Ping-kwan

Islands and Continents  — Short Stories by Leung Ping-kwan

Hong Kong, 2007, 164 p.

Edited by John Minford with Brian Holton and Agnes Hung-chong Chan. Previously published in French under the title Iles et continents, Gallimard, 2001. In this kaleidoscope of stories, translated from the Chinese, Leung Ping-Kwan, one of Hong Kong's most celebrated literary figures, presents his personal vision of the city, evoking in his inimitable voice the local and international dimensions of this extraordinary place, capturing its poignant ambivalence as a postcolonial territory on the fringe of China. Writing in his uniquely unpretentious and honest style, he brings to life for the reader an unforgettable gallery of characters, with their shared memories and ties with Hong Kong. He portrays ordinary lives against the background of local history, mingling subtle pathos with realism and humour.    24,00 €

32          Lévy, André

Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical Bloomington, 2007, 168 p.

New in paperback                                             24,00 €

33          Li He

Poèmes

Gallimard, coll. Connaissance de l’Orient, 2007, 197 p.

Poèmes de Li He (.791-817) traduits du chinois par Marie-Thérèse Lambert. Préfacé et annoté par Guy Degen. "Poète maudit, Li He ne l’est assurément pas au sens où l’entendait chez nous la phraséologie romantique et décadentiste. […] Rien n’est moins chinois que la révolte orgueilleuse, torturée, théâtrale des émules du Satan chrétien. Li He, ce Ténébreux, si on l’imagine ainsi, ce veuf de sa sublime enfance, ce prince des Tang à la haute ambition abolie, c’est bien plutôt au « Desdichado » qu’il ferait penser ".         23,00 €

34          Lin Yutang

L’importance de vivre

Philippe Picquier, Coll. Picquier Poche, 2007, 492 p.

Roman traduit de l’anglais par J. Biadi. Préface et répertoire de Pierre Kaser. Titre original : The importance of living.          11,00 €

35          Lin Yutang

Un moment à Pékin  — T.1. Enfances chinoises

Tome 2. Le triomphe de la vie

Philippe Picquier, Picquier poche, 2008, 609 + 839 p.

Roman traduit de l'anglais par François Fosca. Réimpression des 2 volumes au format de poche (11,00 euros + 12,00 euros).                                                                      23,00 €

36          Liu Xinwu

Dés de poulet façon mégère

Bleu de Chine, 2007, 150 p.

Roman traduit du chinois et annoté par Marie Laureillard. Titre original : Pofu jiding. Hekai a aujourd’hui 21 ans. Il décide de célébrer son anniversaire au restaurant de la résidence où il est employé et de profiter de l’occasion pour officialiser sa relation avec Xiaomei. Tous deux, paysans venus travailler à la ville, s’aiment. L’histoire composée de saynètes, dont chacune porte un nom de plat, se déroule dans ce restaurant où les différents protagonistes sont amenés à se retrouver en ce jour de fête. Le texte est illustré par quelques dessins de l’auteur.                                                           18,00 €

37          Liu Yong

Chansons du monde flottant

You Feng, 2006, 160 p.

Ce recueil bilingue contient 32 poèmes imprimés en caractères non-simplifiés accompagnés du pinyin, avec la traduction française en vis-à-vis. Traduction, présentation, notes et bibliographie par Muriel Détrie. Peintures et calligraphies de Li Zhongyao. On ne sait pratiquement rien de la vie réelle de Liu Yong (ca.990-1050) mais la littérature populaire en a fait le portrait d’un poète doué, séduisant et anticonformiste. Ses ci (poèmes à chanter) évoquent les plaisirs de la vie citadine et toutes les péripéties de l’amour.        20,00 €

38          Luo Guanzhong

L’épopée des Trois Royaumes, volume II

You Feng, 2007, 559 p.

Deuxième volume de la traduction intégrale (chapitres XXV à. XLVIII) du classique Sanguo yanyi, traduit et annoté par Chao-ying Durand-Sun. Le texte est illustré de bois gravés et d’extraits de bandes dessinées anciennes chinoises.

Tome II                                                            25,00 €

39          Lupke, Christopher

New Perspective on Contemporary Chinese Poetry Basingstoke, Forthcoming 2008, 272 p., cloth

This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age. Contents : Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution • Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism • Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform, or, A Genealogy of the Present • Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms, or, Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic  • Wang Xiaobo: From "Golden Age" to "Silver Age," or, Writing Against the Gravity of History • Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity            70,00 €

40          Marcel, Antoine

L’appel des grues dans le ciel clair  — Eveil, vagabondages et poésie dans la tradition excentrique du Taoïsme et du Chan

Deux Océans, 2007, 131 p.

Une proposition de voyage autour du thème de l’immortalité, ou comment cette figure de l’Immortel a influencé la peinture, la poésie, et modelé les styles de vie du lettré solitaire retiré près des montagnes, de l’ermite taoïste, du moine itinérant, du peintre hanté et du fou-poète. Avec des textes de Han Shan, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Shitao, Bashô…        18,00 €

41          Mo Yan

La joie

Philippe Picquier, 2007, 181 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Marie Laureillard. Titre original : Huanle. Un fils de paysans pauvres du Shandong rêve d’entrer à l’université pour échapper à la misère. Après maints échecs, il finit par se réfugier dans un monde secret peuplé de mirages et de souvenirs. Ce héros, surnommé Yongle, « joie éternelle » a bien des correspondances avec son créateur Le romancier aussi a connu la faim dans la même province, muré dans le silence et la solitude, sauvé par le désir entêtant d’écrire afin de pouvoir « s’épancher et manger des raviolis à tous les repas ».                                                      16,50 €

42          Mo Yan

Le chantier

Seuil, 2007, 213 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Chantal Chen-Andro. Titre original : Zhulu. Une route en construction quelque part dans la campagne chinoise : on ignore où et quand elle doit aboutir. Avec le départ du chef de chantier, les « mauvais éléments subitement livrés à eux-mêmes, oublient la discipline et le carcan idéologique…                 18,00 €

43          Pimpaneau, Jacques

Contes chinois racontés à Helen Philippe Picquier, 2007, 278 p.

Une cinquantaine de contes inédits en Occident sélectionnés et racontés par Jacques Pimpaneau.         18,50 €

44          Pohl, Karl-Heinz (ed)

Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur  — Vol. 5 Ästhetik und Literaturtheorie in China. Von der Tradition bis zur Moderne

Munich, 2006, 469 p., cloth

Volume in German The fifth volume follows the history of reflection on literature and art in China from the beginning of the first millennium B.C. up to China’s transition to the modern period (19th/20thcentury). The focus is on writings on the aesthetic aspects of poetry, the most important literary form in China. The topics range from the merging of scenery and feelings, the balance of content and form, harmony of the internal and external worlds,and natural creativity, to the “Regel der Nicht-Regel” (rule of no rule). Relations to painting and the art of writing as well as philosophical developments such as Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism, are also demonstrated.    186,00 €

45          Smith, Norman

Resisting Manchukuo  — Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation

Vancouver, 2007, 216 p., cloth

Norman Smith reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the period : Lan Ling, Mei Niang, Yang Xu, Zhang Hong’en, Zhu Ti, Wu Ying and Li Zhengzhong. Smith shows how a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the Japanese cultural agenda while working in close association with colonial institutions.                    87,80 €

46          Tambling, Jeremy

Madmen and other Survivors  — Lu Xun

Hong Kong, 2007, 136 p.

The fiction of Lu Xun (1881-1936) deals with the China moving beyond the 1911 Revolution. He asks about the possibilities of survival, and what that means, even considering the possibility that madness might be a strategy by which that is possible. Such an idea calls identity into question, and Lu Xun is read here as a writer for whom that is a wholly problematic concept. The book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism. It attempts to put Lu Xun into as wide a perspective as possible for contemporary reading. To make his work widely accessible, he is treated here in English translation.                22,00 €

47          Tang Xianzu

L'oreiller magique

Editions MF, 2007, 185 p.

Pièce traduite du chinois par André Lévy, titre original Handan ji. Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) fut l'un des plus grands dramaturges de l'époque Ming, l'auteur du Pavillon aux pivoines. A travers le rêve d'un lettré,  L'oreiller magique illustre les aléas de l'existence, les infortunes et les succès, la vanité des sentiments et l'ambigüité du rapport entre le rêve et la vie.            24,00 €

48          Vallette-Hémery, Martine

Les formes du vent  — Paysages chinois en prose

Albin Michel, coll.Spiritualités vivantes, 2007, 180 p.

Réédition au format poche de l’ouvrage publié aux éditions Le Nyctalope en 1987. Une cinquantaine de textes de d’auteurs et d’époques divers traduits du chinois par M. Vallette-Hémery. "Les premières proses sur des paysages sont des lettres ou des préfaces à des poèmes où se mêlent déjà description concrète et méditation. Le genre acquiert son autonomie et son prestige dès le XVIIIème siècle, et sa vogue ne se démentira plus jusqu’à nos jours". (M. Vallette-Hémery).           7,50 €

49          Wang Anyi

Amour dans une petite ville

Philippe Picquier, 2007, 146 p.

Roman traduit du chinois par Yvonne André. Titre original : Xiaocheng zhi lian. Dans une petite ville au temps de la Révolution culturelle, deux jeunes gens vivent une passion physique intense et bouleversante. Paru en 1986 en Chine, le texte fit scandale. Ces pages racontent l’irruption du désir et des corps à une époque où ils étaient bannis.     14,50 €

50          Wang Dulu

Tigre et dragon (Tome 1)  — Première époque : la vengeance de Petite Grue

Calmann-Lévy, 2007, 343 p.

Titre original He jing kun lun. : Roman traduit du chinois par Solange Cruveillé. Ce roman d’amour et de chevalerie écrit entre 1938 et 1942 propose une galerie de portraits sur trois générations. Jiang Xiaohe, « Petite Grue », veut venger son père assassiné douze ans plus tôt par son maître pour une histoire d’adultère, mais l’amour passionné qu’il voue en même temps à la petite fille de cet homme le plonge en plein dilemme. Tome 2 à paraître en 2008.                   19,00 €

51          Wang Lixiong

China Tidal Wave

Folkestone, Forthcoming 2008, 495 p., cloth

Originally published anonymously in the early  1990s, under the title Huang Huo – Yellow Peril, the author Wang Lixiong, who has since been acknowledged, describes himself as a conservationist who wrote the book to make the point that ‘the world’s resources are limited, but people’s greed for them is limitless, which in turn will lead to global destruction unless consumerism is curbed’.   37,00 €

52          Wang Xiaobo

Wang in Love and Bondage  — Three novellas

Albany, 2007, 157 p., cloth

Translated from Chinese by Zhang Honglin and Jason Sommer, here are 3 novellas from Wang Xiaobo : 2015, Golden Age (abridged version), East Palace West Palace.                       27,00 €

53          Xinran

Baguettes chinoises

Philippe Picquier, 2008, 341 p.

Traduit du chinois par Prune Cornet. Baguettes par opposition aux poutres que sont les garçons dans la société chinoise: voici l'histoire de trois sœurs qui luttent pour leur vie économique, sociale, leur liberté de femmes face aux contraintes de la tradition et de la pauvreté. Première œuvre de fiction de l'auteur de Chinoises, ce roman en garde le réalisme et la touchante, sinon naïve, foi en la vie.                                                                      19,00 €

54          Yang Erzeng & Philip Clart (transl.)

The Story of Han Xiangzi  — The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

Seattle, 2007, 472 p., cloth

An unabridged translation of the seventeenth-century novel Han Xiangzi quanzhuan. Written in lively vernacular prose interspersed with poems and songs, the novel takes it readers across China, to the heavens and into the underworld. Philip Clart's introduction outlines the Han Xiangzi story cycle, presents Yang Erzeng in his social context, assesses the literary merits and religious significance of the text, and explores the theory and practice of inner alchemy.   58,00 €

55          Yang Jingqing

The Chan Interpretation of Wang Wei's Poetry  — A Critical Review

Hong Kong, 2007, notes, bibliography, index, 280 p., cloth

The author has undertaken an ambitious attempt to challenge the prevalent assumptions about Chan Buddhist implications in Wang Wei’s nature poetry by examining literal and historical sources that dealt with Wang Wei’s ideology of reclusion, his associations with Buddhist monks and his apprehension of Buddhist doctrines. While researches on similar topics investigate how Wang Wei might have intentionally imparted Chan significance into his poetry, this book shows concretely why this is not the case and highlights the lack of evidence to support this claim.                                                        50,00 €

56          Yang Zhengguang

Mon cher ennemi

Bleu de Chine, 2007, 89 p.

Roman traduit du chinois et annoté par Raymond Rocher et Chen Xiangrong. Titre original : Lao Dan shi Yikeshu, paru en 2002. Veuf, Lao Dan partage sa solitude avec son fils unique. Après de nombreuses années, le vieil homme décide de redonner un sens à sa vie en vouant une haine acharnée et irraisonnée à son voisin, un trafiquant dont les affaires prospèrent. L’arrivée au village d’une jeune femme lui servira de prétexte pour exécuter son pathétique dessein.  16,00 €

57          Zeitlin, Judith T.

The Phantom Heroine  — Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature

Honolulu, 2007, 27 illus., 312 p., cloth

The “phantom heroine”—in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man—is one of the most striking features of traditional Chinese literature. The Phantom Heroine probes the complex literary and cultural roots of the Chinese ghost tradition. Zeitlin is the first to address its most remarkable feature: the phenomenon of verse attributed to phantom writers—that is, authors actually reputed to be spirits of the deceased. She also makes the case for the importance of lyric poetry in developing a ghostly aesthetics and image code. Most strikingly, Zeitlin shows that the representation of female ghosts, far from being a marginal preoccupation, expresses cultural concerns of central importance.                                            63,50 €

58          Zhang Guixing

My South Seas Sleeping Beauty  — A Tale of Memory and Longing

Irvington/New York, 2007, 272 p.

Zhang Guixing is a Malaysian-Chinese author who lives in Taipei. Translated by Valerie Jaffee, this novel recounts the life of Su Qi, the troubled-son of a wealthy Chinese-Malay family. Su Qi hates his philandering father, who indulges in decadent parties and "sex safaris" with aboriginal women. Influenced by the lyricism of Faulkner and the magical realism of Garcia Marquez, My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a dark exploration of sexuality and identity and a masterful reworking of Chinese and Western myth.            26,00 €

59          Zheng Yi

Prière pour une âme égarée

Bleu de Chine, 2007, 110 p.

Traduit du chinois et annoté par Bernard Bourrit & Li Zhang. Titre original : Zhaohun. De l'enfance à l'exil, en passant par la révolution culturelle, l'auteur évoque à la première personne les grandes scènes de sa vie. Au-delà du témoignage autobiographique, ce livre est une réflexion sur les thèmes de l'injustice, de la révolte et du pardon au cours d'une plongée dans la Chine des années rouges.                                                                      10,60 €

 

 

 

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60           

Perspectives chinoises N° 96  — Juillet-Août 2006

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2007, 72 p.

Sommaire : Relations internationales : La Chine et l'Asie centrale (Valérie Niquet) • Economie : Une question à mille milliards : le régime de change chinois est-il caduc ? (Anne-Laure Baldi-Delatte) •  Culture : La préservation du patrimoine culturel en République populaire de Chine : pour quelle mémoire ( Maylis Bellocq) • Société : Nouvelles mobilités et pratiques sociales : les Starbucks à Pékin (Gilles Puel, Jin Xiaojing, Blandine Pons) • Géographie : La nouvelle immigration chinoise à Tananarive ( Catherine Fournet-Guérin) • Lectures critiques.                                                                      12,00 €

61           

Perspectives chinoises N° 97  — Septembre-
décembre 2006

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2006, 135 p.

Sommaire : Géopolitique : La  Chine en Amérique latine (François Lafargue) • Economie : L’avantage concurrentiel chinois : entre pratiques déloyales et avantages comparatifs (Peter Navarro) • Science politique : ONG et société politique transnationale (Chen Jie) • Histoire : Réflexions sur la quête d’une identité nationale et culturelle en Chine (Werner Meissner) • Littérature : Les mouvements poétiques à Taïwan des années 1950 à la fin des années 1970 (Alain Leroux) • Lectures critiques.  12,00 €

62           

Perspectives chinoises N°2007/1

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2007, 137 p.

Perspectives Chinoises change sa formule : la revue devient trimestrielle, et chaque numéro comportera désormais un dossier spécial traité sous un angle pluridisciplinaire alimenté par les dernières recherches académiques dans chaque domaine. Sommaire : Dossier : Réchauffement climatique, l’enjeu chinois : Ethique et modèle de développement : l'avenir du climat au défi de la croissance économique chinoise (Jean-François Huchet et Jean-Paul Maréchal) ; L'impact de l'évolution climatique à Hong Kong et dans le delta de la rivière des Perles (Alexandra Tracy, Kate Trumbull et Christine Loh) ; Impacts du changement climatique, sécurité hydrique et enjeux agricoles : le cas de la Chine du nord (Nathalie Rousset) ; Charbon chinois et développement durable (Jean-Marie Martin-Amouroux) ; L'impact du développement urbain en Chine (Jullien Allaire) ; La lutte concertée contre les changements climatiques (Béatrice Quenault) ; La Chine dans une architecture post-Kyoto (Michal Meidan) ; La Chine et les mécanismes de développement propre (entretien avec Philippe Delhaise) ; La société chinoise face au changement climatique (He Gang) • Articles : Libéralisation financière et démocratisation : le long processus de la réforme des banques d’état taïwanaises (1989-2005) (Chia-Feng Leou) ; De Hong Kong a Guangzhou, de nouveaux "comptoirs" africains s'organisent (Brigitte Bertoncello et Sylvie Bredeloup) • Les nouvelles de Chine : Origine et pouvoir des nouveaux riches (synthèse de Camille Bondois) ; La Chine pratique le "colonialisme écologique" à ses propres dépens (synthèse de Michal Meidan) • Lectures critiques.                                             16,00 €

63           

Perspectives chinoises N°2007/2

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2007, 113 p.

Dossier : Hong Kong dix ans après la rétrocession : Editorial: un chemin long et sinueux (Jean Philippe Béja, Joseph Cheng et Jean-François Huchet) • L'avènement d'une culture politique démocratique? (Jean Philippe Béja) • Le mouvement pour la démocratie à Hong Kong: une décennie perdue? (Joseph Y. S. Cheng) • Dix ans d'efforts pour former une démocratie à Hong Kong (Michael C. Davis) • La politique de Pékin à Hong Kong (Willy Wo-Lap Lam) • Une société civile vivante mais entravée (Christine Loh) • Le patrimoine culturel à Hong Kong (Sebastian Veg) • Les médias et la politique dix ans après la rétrocession (Joseph M. Chan et Francis L.F. Lee) • Made in China, .. financé à Hong Kong (Anne-Laure Delatte et Maud Savary-Mornet) • Travailleurs et syndicats, hier et aujourd'hui (Ng Sek Hong et Olivia Ip) • Art et culture: Hong Kong ou la création d'une mémoire collective (Gérard Henry) • Hong Kong by night: prostitution et cinéma dans Whispers and Moans d'Herman Yau (Sebastian Veg) • Les nouvelles de Chine : Commémorer Deng et critiquer la "gauche" (synthèse de Michael Meidan) • Une politique active de "désinisation" (synthèse de Mathieu Duchâtel) • Lectures critiques.        16,00 €

64           

Perspectives chinoises N°2007/3

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2008, 173 p.

Dossier : En marche vers la société d'harmonie. Centième numéro de la revue.          16,00 €

65           

Perspectives chinoises N°2007/4

Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, 2008,

Dossier : Mémoire et histoire                             16,00 €

66           

Monde Chinois N°10 printemps-été 2007  — Un monde chinois en transition

Choiseul, 2007, 116 p.

Le parti communiste chinois pourra-t-il conserver son autorité sur le pays ? (Andrew J. Nathan) • Washington, Tokyo et Pékin face à la question taïwanaise : bilan et perspectives (Hervé Couraye) • Actualité et perspectives de la recherche et des sciences à Taïwan  (Chen Chien-Jen) • La Chine et l’Algérie entre amitié et Realpolitik (François Lafargue) • La Chine et l’Inde en Amérique latine et en Afrique : du réalisme magique ? (Javier Santiso) • La mutation globale de la Chine (Pierre Gentelle) • La Chine, ou les limites du multilatéralisme conditionnel (Benoît Vermander) • La renaissance de la marine chinoise (1949-2006) (Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix)            20,00 €

67           

Problèmes économiques N°2.926/20 juin 2007  — Dossier : « La Chine et le reste du monde »

La Documentation Française, 2007, 48 p.

Sommaire : Chine/Etats-Unis : dialogue, ou choc des Titans ? (CA-Eclairages), Hélène Baudchon et Bruno Cavalier ; La Chine et l'OMC : une posture ambitieuse et ambiguë à la fois (Accomex), Corinne Vadcar ; Un phénomène récent : les investissements chinois dans le monde (Rapport de la Commission Asie-Pacifique et HEC) ; Acquérir des matières premières à tout prix (Financial Times), Victor Mallet ; La Chine en Asie : un jeu gagnant-gagnant (La Lettre des économistes de l'AFD), Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière ; La stratégie chinoise en Afrique (Défense nationale et sécurité collective), Barthélémy Courmont et Irving Lewis ; La Chine en Amérique latine (Perspectives chinoises), François Lafargue.                                              4,70 €

68           

China's Urban Space  — Development under Market Socialism

London, 2007, 288 p., cloth

After a long period as a planned socialist economy, China’s rapid entry into the global economy has raised suggestions that modernization in China will inevitably result in urban patterns and features like those of cities in developed market economies. This book argues that this is unlikely in the short term, because processes of urban transition in China must be interpreted through the lens of a unique and unprecedented juxtaposition of socialism and the market economy, which is leading to distinctive patterns of Chinese urbanization.                                                                    112,00 €

69           

Chinese Film- and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution  — From the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Leiden, 2007, 6667 images, 8 microfilmreels

Produced mostly by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China, documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950s through 1970s. This collection of film advertisements and transcripts of Chinese documentary films and newsreels is made up of 1750 items. It spans the years 1946 to 1985, although the bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. It should also be noted that the dating of the 1946 item is questionable. All documents in the collection are in Chinese. The collection is arranged into the following series: Advertisements and Film Description Series, 1953-1966 ; Documentary and Newsreel Scripts Series, 1946 (?)-1985 ; Feature Filmscripts Series; and Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook Series, 1950-1959. Topics include industry, agriculture, the economy, military matters, education, public health care, medicine and science, as well as political movements, foreign relations, cultural and sporting events. During the Cultural Revolution, documentary films and newsreels were powerful and popular propaganda tools for patriotism, nationalism, Chairman Mao, the Communist Party, and socialist construction, and served political purposes. In this collection, there is also a group of printed advertisements and other publicity for Chinese and foreign films, plays, opera, and local performances. The price for the microfilm collection includes access to the online publication.    1 270,00 €

70           

Clean Development Mechanism in China  — Taking a Proactive and Sustainable Approach (Revised Edition)

New York, Forthcoming 2008, 210 p.

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created to enable industrialized countries to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets by buying emission reduction certificates from investments in greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in developing countries. China is seen as the most attractive host country for CDM in the future, however, it has to develop a large portfolio of CDM projects in order to capitalize on its potentials. This publication reviews the application of CDM in China, elaborates upon the attractiveness of various sectors for CDM and estimates China’s share in the international carbon market. Includes a CD-ROM.          27,00 €

71           

Documents of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

Beijing, 2007, 275 p.                                        30,00 €

72           

Hérodote, revue de géographie et de géopolitique N°125  — Chine, nouveaux enjeux géopolitiques

La Découverte, 2007, 191 p.

Une dizaine de contributeurs sous la direction de Thierry Sanjuan apporte divers éclairages politique, économique, démographique et environnemental, offrant la possibilité d’une synthèse sur les équilibres qui régissent aujourd’hui le pays aux plans national et international.                                                                      20,00 €

73           

Inde et Chine : entreprendre dans les pays émergents à forte croissance

La Documentation Française, Coll. Développer et entreprendre, 2007, 333 p.

Toutes les clés de compréhension pour de futurs investisseurs dans ces deux pays-continents dont rien ne devrait contrarier l'émergence en cours : règles et conditions d'accès au marché, pratique des affaires, évolutions en cours…   12,00 €

74           

L’essor de la Chine et de l’Inde  — Quels enjeux pour l’Afrique ?

OCDE, 2006, 169 p.

Des contributions éclairantes pour montrer comment l’affirmation de la puissance économique de l’Inde et de la Chine influence les schémas de croissance des pays africains.          24,00 €

 

75           

Sustainable Energy in China  — The Closing Window of Opportunity

New York, 2007, 328 p.

This title uses historical data from 1980 and alternative scenarios through 2020 to assess China's future energy requirements and the resources to meet them. It calls for a high-level commitment to develop and implement an integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive energy policy. The authors recommend eight building blocks to reduce energy consumption growth well below the targeted rate of economic growth, to use national resources on an economically and environmentally sound basis, and to establish a robust energy system that can better ensure the security of a diverse supply of competitively priced energy forms. Achieving these goals will require policy initiatives that restrict demand and create a "resources-conscious society", reconcile energy needs with environmental imperatives, rationalize pricing, and tackle supply security.                                        45,00 €

76           

The China Society Yearbook (2006)  —  China's Social Development, Analysis and Forecast

Leiden/Beijing, 2007, 346 p., cloth

The China Society Yearbook (2006) provides analysis of and commentary on social issues in contemporary China, broken down into chapters on different aspects of China’s social development, including change in social structure, population growth, employment, standard of living and education. Compiled and edited by top sociologists of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), this collection of current research and analysis represents some of the most pioneering and influential articles by social science scholars in the People’s Republic of China.                                                        179,00 €

77          Aglietta, Michel & Yves Landry

La Chine vers la superpuissance

Economica, 2007, 173 p.

Ce livre explore les ressorts de l’impressionnante croissance chinoise dans les vingt dernières années et interroge le futur. La Chine engage une grande transformation qui va réorienter son développement vers les profondeurs de son territoire. Elle va construire des institutions sociales et les infrastructures d’une grande économie développée. L’amélioration du niveau de vie du peuple chinois et l’influence dans les affaires du monde ont un levier commun : la puissance financière. Ce livre décrit les progrès de la réforme financière. Il en tire les conséquences à venir sur la force de la monnaie. Enfin il montre comment et pourquoi la Chine va affirmer sa puissance dans les relations monétaires internationales.               15,00 €

78          Alden, Chris

China in Africa  — Partner, Competitor or Hegemon London, 2007, 160 p.

Nowhere in the world is China’s rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China’s economic and political reach is redefining Africa’s traditional ties with the international community. This book investigates the emerging relationship between China and Africa to determine whether this engagement will be that of a development partner, economic competitor or new hegemon.    25,00 €

 

79          Artus, Patrick (ed)

La Chine

P.U.F., 2008, 93 p.

Ce cahier du Cercle des économistes tente d'analyser l'ensemble des effets du développement économique, commercial et financier de la Chine sur l'équilibre mondial.                              12,00 €

80          Ascencio, Chloé

Manager en Chine

L'Harmattan, coll. Entreprises et management, 2007,

143 p.

Les managers français vus par leurs collaborateurs chinois. Des collaborateurs et des employés chinois racontent leur expérience de travail avec des managers français : surprises, motivations, incompréhension, attraits, pratiques. Cette mise en miroir révèle des failles et propose des pistes pour l'action et la formation.     13,50 €

81          Ash, Robert & Megan Greene (eds.)

Taiwan in the 21st Century  — Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model

London, 2007, 304 p., cloth

Contents: 1. Economic Life in Mainland China and Taiwan and the Rise of a Productive Market Economy 2. Taiwan’s Success and Vulnerability: Lessons for the 21st Century  3. Taiwan’s Development Experience: Stability with Growth, 1950-2002  4. Can the ‘Taiwan Model’ of Growth with Equity be Replicated in the South East Asian Context?  5. Comparative Productivity Performance in Manufacturing between Taiwan and Mainland China, 1961-1997  6. Taiwan’s Knowledge Based Economy: A Historical Perspective on Higher Education, Manpower Planning and Economic Development  7. Re-Engineering the Developmental State in an Age of Globalization: Taiwan’s Quest for High-Tech Industries  8. Democratisation in a Chinese Community: Lessons from Taiwan  9. Democratic Transition and the Rule of Law in Taiwan: A Development Model for the Third World? 10. Constitutional Developments in Taiwan and Democratisation of the Republic of China: A Model or a Precedent for the People’s Republic of China?  11. A Tocquevillian Process: Taiwan’s Democratisation and its Paradoxical Foundations  12. Is the Party Over? Taiwan’s KMT from Power to Opposition  13. What is Taiwan? Implications for International Society     119,50 €

82          Athwal Amardeep

China-India Relations — Contemporary Dynamics

London, 2007, 176 p., cloth

Most analysts who have studied Sino-Indian relations have done so through a neorealist lens which emphasizes the conflictual and competitive elements within the overall relationship. This has had the effect of obscuring how the China-India relationship is currently in the process of transformation. Drawing on a detailed and systematic analysis of the interlinked and increasingly important issues of maritime security in the Indian Ocean region, energy demands and concerns, and economic growth and interchange, Amardeep Athwal shows that not only is there an absence of mutual threat perception, but Sino-Indian bilateral trade is increasingly being framed institutionally and China and India are also beginning to coordinate policy in important areas such as energy policy.   112,00 €

 

83          Bamo Ayi, Harrell, Stevan & Ma Lunzy

Fieldwork Connections  — The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America

Seattle, 2007, 56 photos, 5 maps, glossary, bibliog., index, 384 p.

Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic "truth."The book begins with short accounts of the process by which each of the authors became involved in anthropological field research. It then proceeds to describe the research itself, and the stories begin to connect as they become active collaborators.            32,00 €

84          Barnouin, Barbara & Yu Changgen

Zhou Enlai — A Political Life

Hong Kong, 2007, 404 p.

New in paperback                                             30,60 €

85          Barton, Dominique & Mei Ye

China Vignettes  — An Inside Look at China

Singapore, 2007, 335 p.

This book interviews thirty Chinese men and women from different walks of life and from different regions. Interviewees provide their household budget, a typical daily chronology, and they share a sense of each days pressures and priorities. In addition, thirteen well-known Chinese writers, commissioned by editors at Rongshu Publishing, have contributed short stories presenting daily life from the points of view of different ages, genders, professions, income levels and life situations. Essays by well-known Chinese sociologist Deng Weizhi and political scientist Cao Peilin complete the book. The text is supplemented with some 150 black-and-white photographs and a set of nine tables and charts.                                              27,00 €

86          Baumler, Alan

The Chinese and Opium under the Republic  — Worse than Floods and Wild Beats

Albany, 2007, 320 p., cloth

In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the nation and the race, and often profitable to the state and individuals. Once Western concepts of addiction came to China in the twentieth century, however, opium came to be seen as a problem "worse than floods and wild beasts." In this book, Alan Baumler examines how Chinese reformers convinced the people and the state that eliminating opium was one of the crucial tasks facing the new Chinese nation. He analyzes the process by which the government borrowed international models of drug control and modern ideas of citizenship and combined them into a program that successfully transformed opium from a major part of China's political economy to an ordinary social problem.     73,00 €

87          Benton, Gregor (ed)

Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution  4 vol.

London, 2007, index, 1936 p., cloth

Collections of primary sources on Mao Zedong and CCP history, written by the communists themselves, are readily available but informed scholarship is indispensable to explain these sources and to put them in proper perspective. What were Mao’s objectives? Were they consistent? In what ways did Mao manipulate the CCP and the state to his own political ends? To what extent did his political vision dominate Chinese politics in the revolutionary years and after 1949? And where is Chinese communism now headed? This new Routledge major work will help to identify some of the answers. Contents : Volume 1: Policies and Strategies, 1919–49.  Mao before Maoism.  Mao and the Peasants.  Mao and the Workers.  People’s War.  Mao and the World.  Mao and Liu Shaoqi, 1939–1949.  Mao and the Anti-Japanese United Front.  Mao and the Wartime Base-Area Economy.  • Volume 2: Policies and Strategies, 1949–76.  Economics.  Exercising Power.  The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.  International Issues.  • Volume 3: Marxism, Politics, and Culture  Chinese Marxism.  Political Theory.  Political Style.  Literature  • Volume 4: Views, Sketches, and Assessments of Mao  Soviet Views.  Sketches and Recollections.  Chinese Assessments.  Western Assessments   866,00 €

88          Béraud, Philippe, Guy Olivier Faure & Jean-Louis Perrault (eds.)

Négociation internationale et pratique des affaires en Chine

Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007, 313 p.

Sommaire : La négociation en Chine (Guy-Olivier Faure) ; Internationalisation du rapport salarial et climat des affiares en Chine (Sophie Boutillier) ; Actualité de la réglementation des investissements étrangers en Chine (Jean Thieffry) ; Augmentation de l’investissement direct étranger en Chine : signe de force ou de faiblesse ? (Olena Havrylchyk et Sandra Poncet) ; Le pouvoir d’acquisition de technologies étrangères par des entreprises chinoises, investissement international et potentiel scientifique et technique national (Dimitri Uzunidis) ; Management interculturel en Chine. Enjeux et perspectives (Bernard Fernandez) ; Patrons privés et patrons publics au Guangdong : quelques éléments de différentiation des stratégies et des comportements (Jean Ruffier, Rigas Avanitis et Zhao Wei) ; Stratégie d’alliance avec un partenaire chinois : comment manager la complexité (Sylvie Mira et Nicolas Bonnardel) ; Prise en compte des aspects culturels dans la négociation d’affaires avec les Vietnamiens (Chan Nguyen) ; Le repas d’affaires, lieu de négociation, creuset culturel (Olivier Arifon et Philippe Ricaud) ; La dimension éthique dans les relations commerciales avec la Chine (Christine Chaigne) ; La Chine et l’or noir du XXIème siècle : propriété intellectuelle, innovation et concurrence mondiale (Guilhem Fabre) ; La Chine et la question de la propriété industrielle (Blandine Laperche) ; Négociation et modèles d’affaires dans les industries de réseau en Chine (philippe Béraud). 32,00 €

89          Bergère, Marie-Claire

Capitalisme et Capitalistes en Chine

Perrin, 2007, 460 p.

Synthèse sur la Chine économique du XXIe siècle, cet ouvrage ne traite cependant pas du capitalisme étranger en Chine, ni du capitalisme chinois hors des frontières de la RPC (Hong-Kong, Taiwan, Asie du Sud-Est…). Sommaire : Un capitalisme embryonnaire (XVe-XIXe siècle) ; Du capitalisme d’Etat au capitalisme bureaucratique (1860-1911) ; L’âge d’or du capitalisme chinois (1911-1927) ; Le retour du capitalisme d’Etat et du capitalisme bureaucratique (1927-1949) ; La rupture révolutionnaire (1949-1979) ; Réforme et modernisation ; La renaissance du secteur privé ; Les nouveaux entrepreneurs dans la société ; L’Etat et les entrepreneurs. Notes, importante bibliographie, index.                                                              21,50 €

90          Blanchet, Elisabeth & Marie-José Zhu

S’installer et travailler en Chine

L'Express, 2007, 447 p.

Guide pratique à l’usage des Français qui cherchent un travail, un logement, une école en Chine.            22,90 €

91          Boisseau du Rocher, Sophie (ed.)

Asie, Edition 2007-2008  — Dix ans après la crise

La Documentation Française, 2007, 182 p.

L'Asie, dix ans après la crise : qu'est-ce qui a changé ? (Sophie Boisseau du Rocher) • La Chine : le grand bénéficiaire ? : La dynamique de l'économie chinoise et ses contraintes (François Gipouloux) ; 1997-2007 : l'évolution politique de la Chine, de la gestion de la conjoncture à la construction d'un futur ? (Jean-Luc Domenach) ; La montée en puissance de la diplomatie chinoise (Jean-Pierre Cabestan) • Les turbulences post-crise et les incertitudes des jeunes démocraties : Thaïlande, 1997-2007 : une longue crise de croissance (Arnaud Dubus) ; Indonésie : transformations de l'espace politique et émergence d'un " gouvernement du risque " (Romain Bertrand) • Transformations économiques et évolutions sociétales : l'impact de la crise : Dix ans après la crise financière : le retour du miracle asiatique ? (Françoise Nicolas) ; Le Japon, 1997-2007 : de la crise au rebond (Jean-Marie Bouissou) •  États-Unis/Taiwan : convergence militaire, divergence des agendas politiques (Mathieu Duchâtel)                 25,50 €

92          Bouc, Alain, Holzman, Marie & Claude Meuriset (eds.)

L'envers des médailles  — J.O. de Pékin 2008

Bleu de Chine, 2008, 80 p.

Depuis juillet 2001, date d'attribution des J.O. à Pékin, la Chine a bien changé, mais le système répressif en est sorti renforcé. Ces documents, réunis et présentés par le Groupe Chine de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, en un ouvrage salutaire, apportent des contre-exemples précis au grand miracle chinois.    8,00 €

93          Bréhier, Delphine

Miracles et revers de la croissance économique chinoise de 1949 à 2005

Manuscrit, 2007, 139 p.

Synthèse d’une histoire économique de la Chine de 1949 à 2005 qui se veut un essai tendant à mettre en évidence que malgré sa croissance miraculeuse, le pays reste une puissance en devenir et en développement. 14,90 €

94          Brizay, Bernard

Les trois sœurs Soong — une dynastie chinoise du XXème siècle

Rocher, 2007, 563 p.

La famille Soong a  représenté une extraordinaire concentration de pouvoir. Riches, jeunes et jolies, ces trois soeurs sont à l'origine de ce qu'on appelle la dynastie des Soong. L'aînée, Ailing, s'est mariée avec l'un des hommes les plus riches de Chine, H.H. Kung devenu plus tard Premier ministre et ministre des Finances du Guomindang et de son chef, le général Chiang Kai-shek. La cadette, Qingling, a épousé le fondateur de la République chinoise, Sun Yat-sen. La troisième, Meiling, est devenue la femme de Chiang Kai-shek, le Généralissime.                                                                      23,00 €

95          Brown, Jeremy & Paul G. Pickowicz (eds.)

Dilemmas of Victory  — The Early Years of the People's Republic of China

Cambridge, MA, 2007, notes, index, 462 p., cloth

Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, this book seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwifes, philanthropists, stand-up comics, and scientists. A stellar group of authors that includes Frederic Wakeman, Elizabeth Perry, Sherman Cochran, Perry Link, Joseph Esherick, and Chen Jian shows that the Communists sometimes achieved a remarkably smooth takeover, yet at other times appeared shockingly incompetent. Shanghai and Beijing experienced it in ways that differed dramatically from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Dalian.                                                                      42,00 €

96          Calomiris, Charles W. (ed.)

China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads Irvington/New York, 2007, 409 p., cloth

This book begins with an overview of the history of financial-sector development, regulation, and performance and then focuses on the banking sector, discussing the progress, challenges, and prospects of current sector reform. Subsequent chapters describe the role of foreign capital in China's development and analyze the changes in capital flows and controls over time; explore various explanations for China's composition of foreign-capital and foreign-exchange policies, particularly the factors shaping China's reliance on foreign direct investment; and provide an international, comparative perspective on the remarkable growth experience of China and the contribution of its institutional environment to that experience.           40,00 €

97          Carrol, John M.

A Concise History of Hong Kong

Lanham, 2007, 288 p.

John Carroll's engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect. Carroll concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences of Hong Kong's reintegration with China, and significant developments and challenges since 1997.            29,50 €

98          Carter, Neil & Arthur P.J. Mol (eds.)

Environmental Governance in China

London, 2007, 250 p.

This new book gives special attention to the development of ‘environmental governance’ in contemporary China, especially on the urban industrial and infrastructure sectors, showing how the rapid economic growth that has transformed China in recent years has major implications for the environment, as well as future economic development. This book shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by China’s accelerated economic development. At the same time it analyzes, illustrates and argues that major steps are under way in taking up these challenges. 36,00 €

99          Chamboredon, Anthony (ed.)

Du droit de l’environnement au droit à l’environnement  — A la recherche d’un juste milieu

L'Harmattan, 2007, 190 p.

Préface de Jean-Pierre Machelon. Cette publication réunit des articles, suite au colloque franco-chinois sur le droit de l’environnement qui s’est tenu à l’université de Wuhan les 28 et 29 septembre 2006 et faisant intervenir des spécialistes français et chinois en droit administratif, droit constitutionnel, droit de l’environnement, droit fiscal, droit de la santé ou encore en droit de la responsabilité.  17,00 €

100       Chang, Iris

Le viol de Nankin  — 1937 : un des plus grands massacres du XXème siècle

Payot, 2007, 380 p.

Préface de Robert Franck. Traduit de l’anglais (Etats-Unis) par Corinne Marbotte. Titre original : The Rape of Nanking : the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997). Dans cet ouvrage, Iris Chang raconte avec force et précision ce qui s'est passé selon le triple point de vue des bourreaux, des victimes et des Occidentaux. Elle analyse le lourd traumatisme qui a suivi le drame jusqu'à nos jours, montrant combien la mémoire chinoise s'est cristallisée sur ce qu'il faut appeler le viol d'une nation.          25,00 €

101       Chen Guidi & Wu Chuntao

Les paysans chinois aujourd’hui  — Trois années d’enquête au cœur de la Chine

Bourin, 2007, 309 p.

Traduit du chinois par Luo Shenyi . Après trois ans d’enquête dans l’Anhui, les auteurs dressent un portrait dramatique des paysans pressurés d’impôts, méprisés et asservis par des potentats locaux. Ignorée par une bureaucratie fédérale impuissante à faire appliquer les réformes fiscales, c’est la paysannerie qui paye la facture de l’industrialisation de la Chine. L’édition originale, Nongmin diaocha a fait débat en Chine.                                                         21,00 €

102       Chung Duck-Koo & Barry Eichengreen (eds.)

Toward an East Asian Exchange Rate Regime Washington, D.C., 2007, 176 p.

This book offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the resulting debates, drawing on expertise from China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. The introduction reviews the issues at stake, sketches a variety of proposed exchange rate regimes and discusses comparisons between East Asia and the West. Subsequent chapters examine the connection between global financial imbalances and East Asian monetary cooperation, China's potential role in regional coordination, the relationship between monetary and trade integration, and different paths toward regional cooperation.     30,00 €

103       Coué, Philippe

La Chine veut la Lune

A2C Medias, Paris, 2007, 187 p.

L’histoire de l’évolution du programme spatial chinois ouvre en même temps sur un panorama de l’actualité internationale en matière d’aéronautique : enjeux, projets, coopération…      19,00 €

104       Culp, Robert

Articulating Citizenship  — Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912-1940

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 291, 2007, 18 b/w illus., 400 pages p., cloth

This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It also analyzes how students used the tools of civic education introduced in their schools to make themselves into young citizens and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.            44,00 €

105       Curtin, Michael

Playing to the World's Biggest Audience  — The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

Berkeley, 2007, 19 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 323 p., cloth

In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national frameworks, Curtin examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience that will include more viewers than in the United States and Europe combined. He draws on in-depth interviews with a diverse array of media executives plus a wealth of historical material to argue that this vast and increasingly wealthy market is likely to shake the very foundations of Hollywood's century-long hegemony.

Also available in paper at 27 EUR                        59,40 €

106       Delamotte, Guibourg & François Godement

Géopolitique de l’Asie

Sedes, coll. Impulsion, 2007, 271 p.

Cet ouvrage se présente sous la forme d’un cours destiné aux classes préparatoires des écoles de commerce, mais il peut intéresser plus largement car il fait le point de façon claire et synthétique sur la situation des pays d’Asie, en particulier les trois Géants que constituent l’Inde, la Chine et le Japon, et les rapports qu’ils entretiennent.           22,00 €

107       Delmas-Marty, Mireille & Pierre-Etienne Will (eds.)

La Chine et la démocratie Fayard, 2007, 893 p.

Table des matières : Introduction: « l’histoire n’a pas de fin »  (Pierre-Etienne Will) • I. Tradition et reconstruction : Le despotisme et la « Chine démocratique » chez les auteurs européens au XIXème siècle (Pierre-Etienne Will) ; Des germes de démocratie dans la tradition confucéenne ? (Anne Cheng) • II. Institutions impériales : Le contrôle de l’excès de pouvoir sous la dynastie des Ming (Pierre-Etienne Will) ; Principe de légalité et règle de droit dans la tradition juridique chinoise (Jérôme Bourgon) • Transitions 1 : la fin de l’empire et la République : L’émergence d’une communauté de juristes à la fin de l’empire (Jérôme Bourgon) ; Catégories judiciaires et pratiques d’exception : « banditisme » et peine de mort en Chine (Zhang Ning) ; L’appropriation du concept de « liberté » à la fin des Qing – en partant de l’interprétation de Kant par Liang Qichao (Joël Thoraval) ; La première expérience démocratique en Chine (1908-1914) : tradition chinoise et pratiques des élites locales (Xiaohong Xiao-Planes) ; Constitutions et constitutionnalisme : les efforts pour bâtir un nouvel ordre politique (1908-1949) (xiaohong Xiao-Planes) ; La contribution chinoise à la déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme (Pierre-Etienne Will) • IV. Des usages de l’idée de démocratie au XXème siècle : Anti-tradition et démocratie dans la Chine du premier vingtième siècle : la culture moderne et la crise de l’Etat-nation (Yves Chevrier) ; La démocratie introuvable (1915-1937) (Yves Chevrier) ; Servante, épouvantail ou déesse : la démocratie dans le discours du pouvoir et dans celui de la dissidence en Chine (Michel Bonnin) ; L’intellectuel, le pouvoir et l’idée de démocratie après Mao : discours et pratiques (Zhang Lun) • V. Transitions 2 : le temps présent : La construction d’un Etat de droit en Chine dans le contexte de la mondialisation (Mireille Delmas-Marty) ; Juridicisation du politique et politisation du juridique dans la Chine des réformes (1978-2004) (Stéphanie Balme) ; L’accession de la Chine à l’OMC et la réforme juridique : vers un Etat de droit par l’internationalisation sans démocratie ? (Leïla Choukroune) ; Le débat en Chine sur le clonage humain (Mireille Delmas-Marty) • VI. Nouvelles institutions : Le renouveau des professions judiciaires en Chine (Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Li Qinglian, Sun Ping) ; La démocratie peut-elle coexister avec le Parti unique ? Pour une appréciation nuancée des élections villageoises et cantonales en Chine (Gunter Schubert) ; Démocratisation et processus électoral à Taïwan (Fiorella Allio) • Conclusion : le laboratoire chinois (Mireille Delmas-Marty). 35,00 €

108       Domenach, Jean-Luc

Comprendre la Chine d’aujourd’hui

Perrin, Coll. Asies, 2007, 321 p.

Cet ouvrage est un « journal de découverte », selon les termes même de l’auteur, formant une chronique dont les miroitements sont les « informations intéressantes glanées au fil des jours », sur une période qui s’étend de février 2002 à octobre 2006. Ces notes d’un spécialiste apportent  des éléments intéressants, inédits et stimulants permettant à un large public d'aborder- sans peur- la Chine d'aujourd'hui.                                                                      20,00 €

109       du Cros, Hilary  & Lee Yok-shiu F (eds.)

Cultural Heritage Management in China  — Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta

London, 2007, 192 p., cloth

The multidisciplinary team of international contributors analyze four key case studies of cities along the Pearl River Delta examining their administrative characteristics, economic growth and their relationship with cultural identity and human relationships.          112,00 €

110       Fayolle Lussac, Bruno, Harald Høyem & Pierre Clément (eds.)

Xi’an – An ancient city in a modern world  — Evolution of the urban form 1949-2000

Recherches / Ipraus, 2007, 299 p.

This books presents the evolution of the central Chinese metropolis between 1949 and the end of the 21st century, from the perspective of both its urban and architectural forms, which are replaced within their geographical and historical contexts. In the middle of the book is an album of 43 plates with maps and ground plans that provides spatial and multi-level points of reference, especially for the evolution of the contemporary urban form. Contributions by Chinese, French and Norvegian authors working within a cooperative framework that associates three educational and research institutions.           45,00 €

111       Fernandez-Stembridge, Leila & Juan Antonio

China's State Owned Enterprise Reforms  — An Industrial and CEO Approach

London, Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, 2007, 320 p., cloth

This book provides a more in-depth analysis of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) by assessing the transformation process of eleven specific industries, with reference to the state of competition, the influence of WTO membership and the challenges these industries face in the future. Importantly, the authors also provide a personal perspective alongside the industry analysis with eleven case studies of firms actually undergoing this restructuring process, including interviews with crucial agents of reform such as Chief Executive Officers and Genaral Managers. The provision of both a macro and business perspective of SOEs reforms provides the reader with a complete and accurate insight into the economic, social and business reality of China today.   109,00 €

112       Finkestein, David M. & Kristen Gunness (eds.)

Civil-Military Relations in Today's China  — Swimming in a New Sea

Armonk, 2007, index, tables, 344 p.

This study reflects the significant changes taking place in Chinese society and their impact on the civil-military dynamic, with particular attention to how the military will fit in with the new class of entrepreneurs. Rather than focusing exclusively on elite Party-Army relations, the book examines civil-military relations from various vantage points: at the center and in the provinces; between civilian leaders and military leaders; from a strictly military perspective and from a civilian perspective; and from the angle of specific issue areas. Chapters explore issues such as the impact of AIDS, the defense budget, the emerging dynamic between the military and China's new leadership, resettling demobilized troops back into civilian life, and the role of the militia, reserve units, and other civilian groups.            37,50 €

113       Finnane, Antonia

Changing Clothes in China

London, 2008, 350 p., cloth

"This is the first book-length work that situates 'fashion' in hefty historical contexts, from the world trading system and urban development to revolutionary movements in modern China. In so doing, the author has argued persuasively that fashion is not the prerogative of the modern, capitalist West; although the Chinese fashion system shares certain characteristics with the Western one, it is more a product of the unique (semi) colonial political situation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. As such it departs not only from the Western model, but from fashion in other colonial worlds such as India. The author has illuminated the historical and cultural specificities of the fashion system in China from multiple angles: fabric, tailoring, technology of production, consumer choices, dynamics of stylistic changes, institutions of fashion (magazines, advertising, modeling, and designer-training), and symbolic meanings. Her research method is based on subtle inter-textual readings between visual evidence (paintings, posters, and magazine illustrations), texts, and artifacts (albeit often by way of their visual representations).[…]" Review by Dorothy Ko. 46,00 €

114       Friedman, Edward, Paul G. Pickowicz & Mark Selden

Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

New Haven, 2007, 368 p.

New in paperback                                             18,50 €

115       Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth

Contagious Capitalism  — Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China

Princeton, 2007, 256 p.

New in paperback                                             24,00 €

116       Gao Wenqian

Zhou Enlai  —  The Last Perfect Revolutionary

Boulder, 2007, 368 p., cloth

Works about Zhou Enlai in China are heavily censored, and every hint of criticism is removed-so when Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong (Wannian Zhou Enlai), it was immediately banned in the People’s Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of China, Gao Wenqian offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution not thanks to ideological or personal purity, but because he was artful, crafty, and politically supple. He may have had the looks of a matinee idol, and Nixon may have called him “the greatest statesman of our era,” but Zhou’s greatest gift was to survive, at almost any price, thanks to his acute understanding of where political power resided at any one time.                 33,00 €

117       Gavalda, Elodie & Laurence Rouvin (eds.)

La Chine face à la mondialisation

L'Harmattan, 2007, 97 p.

Comment la Chine réussit-elle à profiter de la mondialisation ? A-t-elle toutes les armes pour devenir la première puissance mondiale d’ici 2050, comme beaucoup le prétendent ? A quel point l’ampleur de sa mutation menace-t-elle l’équilibre toujours fragile du monde contemporain ? Interviews, discussions, études sur le terrain et analyses de grands sinologues donneront quelques clés de réponse et de réflexion dans cet ouvrage.                                  11,00 €

118       Gibson, Judith & Du Marais Bertrand (eds.)

Réformes du droit économique et développement en Asie  — Enseignements de la Chine, de l’Indonésie et de la Thailande

La Documentation Française, Coll. Perspectives sur la justice, 2007, 257 p.

Etudes du programme de recherches « Attractivité économique du droit », par la Mission de recherche Droit et Justice, sous la direction de Judith Gibson et Bertrand du Marais. Avant-propos de Jean du Bois de Gaudusson. La première partie regroupe les contributions de juristes et d’économistes australiens. Ils identifient plusieurs limites de la méthodologie Doing business et montrent combien il est difficile de caractériser, ex ante et de l’extérieur, la « qualité » des instruments juridiques de ces trois pays sans prendre en compte leur culture juridique et institutionnelle. La seconde partie se concentre sur le droit de la propriété immobilière en Chine, en pleine mutation, grâce notamment à l’instauration d’un droit notarial. Elle souligne l’importance de la dimension culturelle et du fonctionnement des institutions pour évaluer, dans un jugement raisonnablement optimiste, cette évolution du droit.      29,00 €

119       Gill, Bates

Rising Star  — China's New Security Diplomacy and Its Implications for the United States

Washington, D.C., 2007, notes, index, 265 p., cloth

Based on a comprehensive and far-reaching analysis of the transformation in China’s security diplomacy, Bates Gill persuasively makes the case for a more nuanced and focused policy toward Beijing. Over the past decade, China’s approach to regional and global security affairs has become more proactive, practical, and constructive. This trend favors U.S. interests in many ways. Yet China’s new strategy has also bolstered its international influence and may enhance its ability to resolve thorny issues—such as Taiwan’s future—on its own terms. In exploring these dynamics, Rising Star focuses on Chinese policy in three areas—regional security mechanisms, nonproliferation and arms control, and questions of sovereignty and intervention. 34,90 €

120       Goldman, Merle

From Comrade to Citizen  — The Struggle for Political Rights in China

Cambridge, MA, 2007, 18 tables, 416 p.

New in paperback                                             21,00 €

121       Goldman, Merle & Elisabeth J. Perry (eds.)

Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China Cambridge, MA, 2007, 18 tables, 406 p., cloth

This volume explores a range of grassroots efforts--initiated by the state and society alike--intended to restrain arbitrary and corrupt official behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities. Topics include village and township elections, fiscal reforms, legal aid, media supervision, informal associations, and popular protests. While the authors offer varying assessments of the larger significance of these developments, their case studies point to a more dynamic Chinese political system than is often acknowledged.

Also available in paperback at 26 EUR                 52,00 €

122       Grenot-Wang,  Françoise

Au cœur de la Chine  — Une Française en pays Miao

Albin Michel, Coll. Latitudes, 2007, 345 p.

Connus également sous le nom de Hmong dans les pays du Sud-Est asiatique, les Miao sont près de neuf millions dans le sud de la Chine, où ils constituent l’une des minorités ethniques les plus importantes. A l’instar des Tibétains, ils luttent depuis toujours pour sauvegarder leur identité et leur culture. L’auteur est sinologue et fondatrice de l’association Couleurs de Chine qui soutient la scolarité des filles dans les montagnes du nord du Guangxi où elle vit actuellement. Ce livre relate une expérience de 10 ans parmi les Miao.  Préface de Jacques Pimpaneau.                                                     22,00 €

123       Guermon, Yves

La Chine

Belin, Coll. Memento, 2007, 173 p.

Un cours sous forme d’exposés thématiques accompagnés de documents (tableaux, cartes, photos, schémas) pour aborder ou mémoriser les grandes thématiques et problématiques du territoire chinois. Il n’y avait plus aucun livre de géographie générale de la Chine disponible, l’ouvrage vient en partie combler cette lacune… 21,00 €

124       Hannum, Emily  & Albert Park

Education and Reform in China

London, 2007, 304 p., cloth

Part 1: Overview  1. Market Reforms and Educational Opportunity in China (Emily Hannum, Albert Park and Kai-Ming Cheng)  Part 2: Finance and Access Under Market Reforms  2. School Equity in Rural China (Wen Li, Albert Park and Sangui Wang)  3. Emergence of Private Schools in China: Context, Characteristics and Implications (Jing Lin)  4. Educational Access for China’s Post-Cultural Revolution Generation: Enrollment Patterns in 1990 (Rachel Connelly and Zhenzhen Zheng)  5. Enrollment and Graduation Patterns as China’s Reforms Deepen, 1990-2000 (Rachel Connelly and Zhenzhen Zheng)  6. School Access in Rural Tibet (Gerard Postiglione)  7. Educational Attainment of Migrant Children: The Forgotten Story of Urbanization in China (Yiu-Por Chen and Zai Liang)  Part 3: Educational Quality  8. The Growth and Determinants of Literacy in China (Donald Treiman)  9. Academic Achievement and Engagement in Rural China (Emily Hannum and Albert Park)  10. Supporting China’s Teachers: Challenges in Reforming Professional Development (Lynn Paine and Yanping Fang)  11. Incentives and the Quality of Teachers and Schools (Weili Ding and Steven Lehrer)  Part 4: Marketization and the Economic Impact of Education  12. Returns to Education in Rural China (Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle)  13. Returns to Education in China’s Transitional Economy: Reassessment and Reconceptualization (Wei Zhao and Xueguang Zhou)  14. Rising Returns to Schooling in Urban China (Junsen Zhang and Yaohui Zhao)  15. In Books One Finds a House of Gold: Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China (Margaret Maurer-Fazio)                                                                    126,80 €

125       Harris, Richard B.

Wildlife Conservation in China  — Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West

Armonk, 2008, 16-page four-color photo insert, index, bibliography, 304 p., cloth

Richard B. Harris incorporates perspectives ranging from biology through Chinese history and tradition, to interpret wildlife conservation issues in a cultural context. In non-technical language Harris shows that, particularly in its vast western sections where most species of wildlife still have a chance to survive, China has adopted a strongly preservationist, hands-off approach to wildlife without confronting the larger and more difficult problem of habitat loss. This policy treats wildlife conservation as a strictly technical problem--and thus prioritizes captive breeding to meet the demand for animal products--while ignoring the manifold cultural, social, and economic dimensions that truly dictate how wild animals will fare in their interaction with the physical and human environments. The author concludes that any successes this policy achieves will be temporary.                   79,00 €

126       Hathaway, Michael John

Making nature in southwest China  — Transnational notions of landscape and ethnicity

Ann Arbor, 2007, 365 p.

This dissertation examines the shifting contemporary politics of nature in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. This dissertation analyzes the larger social field of these politics, including relationships among local residents of protected areas, global conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Chinese officials and Chinese experts.

An authourized facsimile of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan.     83,90 €

127       Heberer, Thomas

Doing Business in Rural China  — Liangshan's New Ethnic Enterpreneurs

Seattle, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China, 2007, 14 illus., 3 maps, bibliog., index, 280 p., cloth

In Doing Business in Rural China, Thomas Heberer tells the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents a wealth of economic data gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Liangshan. He documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth during the last two decades of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the new market-oriented economic structure and how economics in turn affects Nuosu culture and society. He finds that Nuosu entrepreneurs have effected significant change in local economic structures and social institutions and have financed major social and economic development projects.    51,90 €

 

128       Ho Mun S. & Chris P. Nielsen (eds.)

Clearing the Air  — The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China

Cambridge and London, 2007, index, 385 p., cloth

Clearing the Air is an innovative, quantitative examination of the national damage caused by China's degraded air quality, conducted in a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary U.S.-China collaboration. Its damage estimates are allocated by sector, making it possible for the first time to judge whether, for instance, power generation, transportation, or an unexpected source such as cement production causes the greatest environmental harm. With a CD-ROM.                   55,00 €

129       Ho, Peter & Richard Edmonds (eds.)

China's Embedded Activism  — Opportunities and constraints of a social movement

London, 2007, 208 p., cloth

Contents : 1. Introduction: Embedded Activism and Political Change in a Semi-Authoritarian Context (Peter Ho)  2. Self-Imposed Censorship and De-Politicized Politics in China: Green Activism or a Color Revolution? (Peter Ho)  3. Corporatist Control of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations: A State Perspective (Ru Jiang and Leonard Ortolano)  4. "Of Seven Mouths and Eight Tongues": Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere (Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang)  5. Political Ecology of Popular Protest in Mid-Qing China: Changes and Continuities with Contemporary Resistance (Ho-fung Hung)  6. Grassland Campaigns during the Collective Era: Socialist Politics and Local Strategies in Uxin (Ju Hong Jiang)  7. Channeling Dissent: The Institutionalization of Environmental Complaint Resolution (Anna Brettell)  8. Benefits and Costs of Shanghai’s Environmental Citizen Complaints System (Mara Warwick and Leonard Ortolano)  9. Not Against the State, Just Protecting Residents’ Interests: An Urban Movement in a Shanghai Neighborhood (Jiangang Zhu and Peter Ho)  10. An Alliance between State and Society?: Environmental Activism in Shanghai (Seungho Lee)  11. Caged by Boundaries?: NGO Cooperation at the Sino-Russian Border (Yanfei Sun and Maria Tysiachniouk)  12. Transnational Advocacy at the Grassroots: Benefits and Risks of International Cooperation (Katherine Morton)  13. Perspectives of Time and Change: Rethinking Embedded Green Activism in China (Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds)              112,00 €

130       Hochraich, Diana

Pourquoi l’Inde et la Chine ne domineront pas le monde de demain

Ellipses, 2007, 198 p.

Diana Hochraich, à contre-courant de ce qu’on entend généralement des deux grandes puissances émergeantes que représentent l’Inde et la Chine, veut démontrer que ce sont en réalité deux géants aux pieds d’argile. Précis et chiffré, ce livre apporte des arguments de poids au débat d’actualité. Il intéressera notamment les étudiants et les professionnels qui se tournent vers l’Asie. Sa lecture suppose des notions de base en macroéconomie.                    18,00 €

131       Hu Biliang

Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

London, 2007, 384 p., cloth

Focusing in particular on three major informal institutions: village trust and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs), guanxi community and Integrating Village with Company (IVWC) governance, the author argues that informal institutions, traditions and customs are all critical factors for facilitating modernization and social and economic development, promoting the integration of trust, reciprocity, responsibility and obligation into economic and social exchange processes and considerably lowering risks and transactions costs. Contents : 1. Introduction: Background of the Study  2. Village Trust, Guanxi Community and IVWC Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informal Institutional Analysis in Rural China  3. Indigenous Conceptions of Networks  4. Selection of Research Areas  5. Village Trust and Bidding ROSCAs  6. Guanxi Community and People’s Mobility  7. Guanxi Community and Township Enterprise Development in China  8. Institution of ‘Integrating Village with Company’ (IVWC) and Rural Community Development  9. Conclusion: Integration of Tradition and Modernity – Towards Understanding Institutional Arrangements in China’s Modernization           119,50 €

132       Jakobson, Linda (ed.)

Innovation with Chinese Characteristics  — High-Tech Research in China

Basingstoke, 2007, 200 p., cloth

The Chinese government has an ambitious plan to make China a world leader in science and technology by 2050. Moreover, in just 15 years from now, China’s leaders wish to see the country transformed into an innovation-oriented society. Chinese companies are to become less reliant on foreign technology. Chinese scientists are to pursue “indigenous innovation.” However, researchers in China face numerous hurdles, including bureaucratic control, corruption, and an education system based on rote learning. How realistic are the government’s goals?  Contents : Forward; A.Hautamäki Introduction (L. Jakobson) • China aims high in science and technology (L. Jakobson) • China's push to innovate in information technology (A. Kroeber) • Nanotechnology research in China (C. Bai, C. Wang & S. Xie) • Energy technology research in China (K. Jiang & Z. Li) • Biotechnology research in China (J. Yu)    92,00 €

133       Jing Huang & Li Xiaoting

Inseparable Separation

Washington, D.C., Forthcoming 2008, 330 p.

This volume presents a systematic, in-depth study of the evolution of China's Taiwan policy. China has come to prioritize regional stability, prosperity, and strategic international interests over its cross-strait problems. As a result, while insisting on the domestic nature of the Taiwan issue, Chinese leadership has adopted a pro-status-quo approach toward Taiwan, promoting "peace, stability, and development" rather than striving for "peaceful reunification." Such an approach enables Beijing and Washington to enter a de facto co-management of the Taiwan issue, as they share a common interest in maintaining peace and stability in the region. The authors argue, however, that in order to stabilize the potentially explosive Taiwan situation, Beijing and Washington must transform this ad hoc pattern of crisis management into a more goal-oriented, strategic management of the status quo. 27,30 €

134       Jing Wang

Brand New China  — Advertising, Media and Commercial Culture

Cambridge, MA, 2008, 8 tables, 432 p., cloth

One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a detailed and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China. She also examines the impact of new media practices on Chinese advertising, deliberates on the convergence of grassroots creative culture and viral marketing strategies, samples successful advertising campaigns, provides practical insights about Chinese consumer segments, and offers methodological reflections on pop culture and advertising research.  This book unveils a "brand new" China that is under the sway of the ideology of global partnership while struggling not to become a mirror image of the United States. Wang takes on the task of showing where Western thinking works in China, where it does not, and, perhaps most important, where it creates opportunities for cross-fertilization. 29,00 €

135       Kang, David C.

China Rising  — Peace, Power and Order in East Irvington/New York, 2007, index, notes, 274 p., cloth

David Kang believes certain preferences and beliefs are responsible for maintaining stability in East Asia. Kang's research shows how East Asian states have grown closer to China, with little evidence that the region is rupturing. Rising powers present opportunities as well as threats, and the economic benefits and military threat China poses for its regional neighbors are both potentially huge; however, East Asian states see substantially more advantage than danger in China's rise, making the region more stable, not less. Furthermore, although East Asian states do not unequivocally welcome China in all areas, they are willing to defer judgment regarding what China wants and what its role in East Asia will become. They believe that a strong China stabilizes East Asia, while a weak China tempts other states to try to control the region.                                                             25,00 €

136       Kean, Michael

Created in China  — The Great New Leap Forward

London, 2007, 208 p., cloth

This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China has endeavoured to catch-up with advanced Western economies. ‘Made in China’ is one approach to global competitiveness. But a focus on manufacturing and productivity is impeding innovation. China imports creativity and worries about its ‘cultural exports deficit’. In the cultural sector Chinese audiences are attracted to Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese culture, as well as Hollywood cinema. This book provides a fresh look looks at China’s move up the global value chain. It argues that while government and (most) citizens would prefer to associate with the nationalistic, but unrealized ‘created in China’ brand, widespread structural reforms are necessary to release creative potential.        112,00 €

137       Kirby, William C., Robert S. Ross & Gong Li (eds.)

Normalization of U.S.-China Relations  — An International History

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monograph 254, 2007, 425 p.

New in paperback                                             26,30 €

138       Knight, Nick

Rethinking Mao  — Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought

New York, 2007, index, bibliography, 295 p., cloth

Rethinking Mao offers an innovative perspective on the thought of Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight "rethinks" Mao by subjecting a number of controversial themes to fresh scrutiny. This book provides a sophisticated analysis of Mao's views on the role of the peasants and working class in the Chinese revolution, his theoretical attempt to make Marxism appropriate to Chinese conditions, and his understanding of the Chinese road to socialism. Knight includes a discussion of the theoretical difficulties in interpreting Mao's thought. Rethinking Mao represents a challenge to many of the conventional accounts of Mao and his thoughts.

Also available in paper at 36 EUR                        91,00 €

139       Kurlantzick, Joshua

Charm Offensive  — How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World

New Haven, 2007, 320 p., cloth

This book  examines the significance of China’s recent reliance on soft power—diplomacy, trade incentives, cultural and educational exchange opportunities, and other techniques—to project a benign national image, position itself as a model of social and economic success, and develop stronger international alliances. Drawing on years of experience tracking China’s policies in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Joshua Kurlantzick reveals how China has wooed the world with a "charm offensive" that has largely escaped the attention of American policy makers.                     32,50 €

140       Laliberté, André &  Marc Lanteigne (eds.)

The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century  — Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy

London, 2007, 208 p., cloth

Contents: 1. The Issue of Challenges to the Legitimacy of CCP Rule (André Laliberté and Marc Lanteigne) •  2. New Modes of Urban Governance: Building Community/Shequ in Post-Danwei China (Xu Feng) •  3. Chinese Labour Law in Retrospect: Efficiency and Flexibility Legitimized (Hélène Piquet) • 4. Shifting Power Relations: State-ENGO Relations in China (Jonathan Schwartz) •  5. "Harmonious Society", "Peaceful Unification" and the Dilemmas Raised by Taiwanese Philanthropy (André Laliberté) •  6. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Implications for World Order (Susan Henders) • 7. The Uses of the Past: History and Legitimacy (Diana Lary) • 8. The ‘Beijing Consensus’ and China’s Quest for Legitimacy on the International Stage (Charles Burton) • 9. The Developmentalism / Globalisation Conundrum in Chinese Governance (Marc Lanteigne) 112,00 €

141       Lam Lai Sing

The International Environment and China's Twin Models of Development

Bern, 2007, 287 p.

Contents: Mao's Post-War Worldview and the Defense-Oriented Collectivization Scheme • 1958-1969: The US as Primary Enemy with the USSR as «No. 1 Accomplice of the US» • Mao Launches the Great Leap Forward, the Commune and the Cultural Revolution • 1969-1976: The USSR as Primary Enemy and the US as Secondary Enemy • Mao's Relaxed Development Policies • Mao's Legacy: Deng Xiaoping's Economic Reform and Open-Door Policy • The Transformation of the Bipolarity: From «Good-
Neighborliness» to Inducing the Whole World to Help Modernize China  • The International Environment and Jiang's Strategy of Continuing to Induce the Whole World to Help Modernize China • Jiang Zemin's Approach to Privatization • China in the New Century.    76,00 €

142       Lam Wai-man et al

Contemporary Hong Kong Politics  — Governance in the Post-1997 Era

Hong Kong U.P., 2007, 300 p.

The politics of the HKSAR have often been turbulent in the decade since the 1997 handover. This book presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the main strands of continuity and change during the period. It looks first at the core institutions of the SAR, focusing on the executive, legislature, judiciary, civil service, District Councils, and advisory and statutory bodies. It then turns to supporting structures in the wider society, paying particular attention to political parties and elections, civil society and NGOs, and mass media and public opinion. Analyses of key policy sectors follow, notably economic policy, social policy and urban policy. To finish, the book examines Hong Kong's relations with the Mainland and the wider world.     41,10 €

143       Lary, Diana

China's Republic

Cambridge, New Approaches to Asian History Series, 2007, 226 p.

Diana Lary traces the history of the Republic from its beginnings in 1912, through the Nanjing decade, the warlord era, and the civil war with the Peoples' Liberation Army which ended in defeat in 1949. Thereafter, in an unusual excursion from traditional histories of the period, she considers how the Republic survived on in Taiwan, comparing its ongoing prosperity with the economic and social decline of the Communist mainland in the Mao years. This introductory textbook for students and general readers is enhanced with biographies of key protagonists, Chinese proverbs, love stories, poetry and a feast of illustrations.        31,00 €

144       Lary, Diana (ed.)

The Chinese State at the Borders

Vancouver, 2007, bibliography, index, 352 p., cloth

Contents : Introduction (Diana Lary) • 1. The Centre and the Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory (Alexander Woodside) • 2. Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century (Benjamin A. Elman) •  3. Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century (Nicola Di Cosmo) •  4. What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border? (Timothy Brook) •  5. Ming China and Its Border with Annam (Leo K. Shin) •  6. Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns (Peter C. Perdue)  • 7. Tributary Relations and the Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu (Andre Schmid) • 8. The Amur: As River, as Border (Victor Zatsepine) •  9. The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland (Van Nguyen-Marshall) • 10. A Zone of Nebulous Menace: The Guangxi/Indochina Border in the Republican Period (Diana Lary) • 11. Border Banishment: Rightests in the Army Farms of Beidahuang (Wang Ning) • 12. L'état, c'est nous, or We Have Met the Oppressor and He Is Us: The Predicament of Minority Cadres in the PRC (Stevan Harrell) • 13. Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China (Pitman B. Potter).     87,80 €

145       Lean, Eugenia

Public Passions  — The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China

Berkeley, 2007, 304 p., cloth

In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This riveting work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause célèbre, Eugenia Lean shows how Shi Jianqiao planned not only to avenge the death of her father, but also to attract media attention and galvanize public support. Lean traces the rise of a new sentiment –"public sympathy" – in early twentieth-century China, a sentiment that ultimately served to exonerate the assassin. The book sheds new light on the political significance of emotions, the powerful influence of sensational media, modern law in China, and the gendered nature of modernity.                                                        52,00 €

146       Lee Ching Kwan

Against the Law  — Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

Berkeley, 2007, 346 p., cloth

Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

Also available in paperback at 27 EUR                 60,00 €

147       Lee, James Z. & Wang Feng

La population chinoise, mythes et réalités

Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2006, 285 p.

Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Le Blanc. Titre original : One quarter of Humanity : Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities 1700-2000. Les auteurs abordent ici la question sur plusieurs fronts afin de mettre en lumière le phénomène démographique chinois avec d’autres outils que les idées héritées des thèses malthusiennes. C’est plus généralement de l’histoire, de la société et de l’économie de la Chine que sont apportés ici des éléments propres à en renouveler la compréhension.            31,00 €

148       Leibold, James

Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism  — How the Qing Frontier and its Indigenes Became Chinese

Basingstoke, Forthcoming 2008, 288 p., cloth

Leibold traces the political and cultural strategies employed by Han Chinese elites in the process of incorporating, both discursively and physically, the diverse inhabitants of the last Qing dynasty into a new, homogenous national com-
munity. Contents : Introduction Part I: Competing  Paradigms of Nation-Building • The Positioning of Chinese “Minzus” within Sun Yat-sen’s Discourse of Minzuzhuyi • The Failure of the Bolshevik National Question Discourse • Part II: Strategies of Political Intervention  • The Kuomintang Central Government and the “Frontier Question” • The Chinese Communist Party and the “National Question”   • Part III: Narratives of Historical Intervention • The Kuomintang and the Construction of the Zhonghua minzu • The CCP and the Construction of the Zhonghua minzu                                               72,50 €

149       Li Xiaobing

A History of the Modern Chinese Army Lexington, 2007, index, bibliography, 14 maps, 30 photos, 413 p.,

In this book, Li Xiaobing, a former member of the People's Liberation Army, provides a comprehensive examination of the PLA from the Cold War up to now that highlights the military's central function in modern Chinese society. Grounding the text in previously unreleased official Chinese government and military records as well as the personal testimonies of more than two hundred PLA soldiers, Li charts the development of China's armed forces against the backdrop of Chinese society, cultural traditions, political history, and recent technological advancements. This study links China's military  modernization to the country's growing international and economic power and provides a unique perspective on the establishment and maintenance of China's Army.     45,00 €

150       Lin Li-Chun, Sylvia

Representing Atrocity in Taiwan  — The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film

Irvington/New York, 2008, notes, bibliography, index, 240 p., cloth

Drawing on a wealth of secondary theoretical material as well as her own original research, Sylvia Li-chun Lin conducts a close analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 28th of February 1947 Incident and White Terror. She assesses the role of individual and collective memory and institutionalized forgetting, while underscoring the dangers of re-creating a historical past and the risks of trivialization. She also compares her findings with scholarly works on the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Japan, questioning the politics of forming public and personal memories and the political teleology of "closure."                                                         40,00 €

151       Lin Shuanglin & Zhu Xiaodong (eds.)

Private Enterprises and China's Economic Development

London, 2007, 304 p., cloth

Private enterprises have contributed significantly to China's recent economic growth and will play a key role in achieving China's goal of building a comprehensively well-society. But how can private enterprises help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems such as unemployment, income inequality, financial disintermediation, and an unhealthy economic cycle? And what are the main obstacles to private enterprise development? This book answers these questions by identifying the range of cultural, political and financial challenges confronting China's private enterprises, and assessing their performance and potential. Contributors also analyse the experiences and lessons of other countries, and propose strategies and policies to help China promote private enterprise development.      119,50 €

152       Lorot, Pascal

Le siècle de la Chine  — Essai sur la nouvelle puissance chinoise

Choiseul, 2007, 258 p.

L’auteur est président de l’Institut Choiseul pour la politique internationale et directeur de la revue Géoéconomie. Dans cet ouvrage il explore toutes les composantes de la réussite chinoise et de ses faiblesses. 19,00 €

 

153       Madsen, Richard

Democracy's Dharma  — Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan

Berkeley, 2007, notes, bibliography, index, 191 p.

This book explores the religious renaissance, largely ignored in the West, that has reformed, revitalized, and renewed these practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. Democracy's Dharma connects these noteworthy developments to Taiwan's transition to democracy and the burgeoning needs of its new middle classes. In appealing and accessible prose, Richard Madsen offers fresh thinking on Asian religions and shows that the public religious revival was not only encouraged by the early phases of the democratic transition but has helped to make that transition successful and sustainable. 23,00 €

154       Meisner, Maurice

Mao Zedong  — A Political and Intellectual Portrait

Cambridge, Polity Political Profiles S., 2007, 224 p., cloth

With unparalleled authority, Meisner shows how Mao’s unique “sinification of Marxism” provides the key to looking at this extraordinary political career. The first part of the book is devoted to Mao’s revolutionary leadership before 1949, in particular the influence of the liberal and anarchist ideas of the May Fourth era, his discovery of Marxism–Leninism and his conviction that peasants held the potential for revolution. In the second part, Meisner analyses Mao’s early successes as a nationalist unifier and modernizer, the failure of his socialism and his eventual transformation into a tyrant. 

Also available in paper at 33 EUR                        80,00 €

155       Ménonville (de), Corinne

Les aventuriers de Dieu et de la République  — Consuls et missionnaires en Chine (1844-1937)

Les Indes savantes, 2007, 227 p.

Illustré de nombreux documents et photographies de l'époque, cet album retrace l'histoire, les enjeux, les évènements et les personnages de l'expansion missionnaire religieuse de la France en Chine, et son rapport étroit avec l'action politique et diplomatique de la France vis-à-vis des autres puissances coloniales.           39,00 €

156       Merle, Aurore & Zhang Lun (eds.)

La Chine en transition  — regards sociologiques

P.U.F., Cahiers internationaux de sociologie, volume CXXII, 2007, 184 p.

Avant-propos : Sociologie de la transition, transition de la sociologie ; Changement social et mouvements sociaux (Zhang Lun) ; De la reconstruction de la discipline à l’interrogation de la transition : la sociologie chinoise à l’épreuve du temps (Aurore Merle) ; La transition sociale : un nouvel enjeu pour la sociologie du développement (Sun Liping) ; « Intervention forte » et « intervention faible » : deux voies d’intervention sociologique (Shen Yuan) ; « L’école rurale » et les études chinoises sur la gestion autonome villageoise (Ying Xing) ; Les écoles du Parti : vecteurs de changement ou de reproduction ? (Emilie Tran) ; Mémoire reconstituée : les stratégies mnémoniques dans la reconstruction d’un monastère bouddhique (Ji Zhe) ; Postface : La Chine et l’avenir mondial de la sociologie (Michel Wievorka).                                                                      29,00 €

157       Mertha, Andrew C.

The Politics of Piracy  — Intellectual Property in Contemporary China

Ithaca, 2007, 262 p.

New in paperback                                             19,50 €

 

158       Moody, Peter

Conservative Thought in Contemporary China

New York, 2007, bibliography, index, 230 p.

This book examines the evolution of conservative politics in China, which has become increasingly present following the death of Mao Zedong in 1978. Peter Moody traces the roots of conservatism through the imperial system, the Republican period, and the pre-Cultural Revolution People's Republic, all of which influence contemporary Chinese politics. The most direct programmatic form of conservativism has been neo-conservativism politics, which formed during the Jiang Zemin regime and persists to the present age in a diluted version. This book demonstrates that conservative thought is a consequence of relatively broad cultural and economic liberty, China's resentment of American arrogance, and a fear of the social turmoil generated as a by-product of liberal economic reforms. Moody critically analyzes the influence of antipolitics and traditional values on the current ideology of Chinese politicians and citizens.   32,70 €

159       Palmer, David A.

Qigong Fever  — Body, Science and Utopia in China

London, 2007, 320 p., cloth

Previously published in French under the title La fièvre du Qi Gong. This book is a social history of the qigong craze which swept urban socialist China in the post-Mao era, leading to the emergence of Falun Gong and its subsequent repression. How could a system of body, breath and mental training exercises, initially promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as the harbinger of a future scientific revolution, become an outlet for a mass expression of religiosity which was then ruthlessly crushed by the Chinese state? Tracing the complex relations between the masters, officials, scientists, practitioners, and ideologues involved with the qigong movement, the book combines historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches to describe a critical phase in the reinvention of Chinese tradition in its encounter with modernity and the state.        42,00 €

160       Pepper, Suzanne

Keeping Democracy at Bay  — Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform

Lanham, 2007, 464 p., cloth

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, the author places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.

Also available in paper at 43 EUR                        83,00 €

161       Platt, Stephen R.

Provincial Patriots  — The Hunanese and Modern China

Cambridge, MA, 2007, 286 p., cloth

Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan province gave rise to so many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries. Covering a span of eight decades, this book portrays three generations of Hunanese scholar-activists who held their provincial loyalties above their allegiances to a questionable Chinese empire. The renaissance of Hunan centered around the revival of Wang Fuzhi, a local hermit scholar from the seventeenth century whose iconoclastic writings were deemed a remarkable match for "Western" ideas of progress, humanism, and nationalism. Advocates of reform and revolution thus framed their projects as the continuance of a local tradition--the natural destiny of the Hunanese people--creating a tradition of reform and nationalism that culminated in the 1920s with a Hunanese independence movement led by the young Mao Zedong.        45,00 €

162       Postiglione, Gerard A.& Jason Tan (eds.)

Going to School in East Asia

Westport, 2007, 464 p., cloth

Education in east Asia varies widely, due to the cultural and political histories of each country. The communist governments of China, North Korea, and Vietnam mandate schooling differently from the limited democracy of Hong Kong and the parliamentary government of Japan. The history of the educational philosophies, systems, and curricula of seventeen East Asian countries are described here, with a timeline highlighting educational developments, and a special "day in the life" feature, a personal account of what it is like for a student to attend school in that country.                                         63,00 €

163       Praeger Young, Helen

Choosing Revolution  — Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March

Champaign, 2007, 31 photog., 304 p.

Some two thousand women participated in the Long March, but their experience of this seminal event in the history of Communist China is rarely represented. In Choosing Revolution, Helen Praeger Young presents the oral histories of twenty-two women veterans of the Red Army's legendary six-thousand-mile "retreat to victory" before the advancing Nationalist Army. In addition to their riveting stories of the march itself, Young's subjects reveal much about what it meant to grow up female and, in many cases, poor in China during the first decades of the twentieth century.                                               25,50 €

164       Prazan, Michaël

Le massacre de Nankin 1937  — Entre mémoire, oubli et négation

Denoel, 2007, 299 p.

C’est sur le double front de l’histoire et de l’actualité que ce livre interroge deux mémoires, celle de la Chine et celle du Japon, distinctes, qui, entre propagande et tabou, s’affrontent autour d’un même événement.            20,00 €

165       Qiang Zhen-Wei Christine

China's Information Revolution  — Managing the Economic and Social Transformation

New York, 2007, 156 p.

Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. The approaching 10-year mark provides an excellent opportunity to update the policy to reflect the evolving needs of China's economy. These needs include the challenges posed by industrialization, urbanization, upgraded consumption, and social mobility. Developing a more effective ICT strategy will help China to achieve its economic and social goals. Addressing all the critical factors is complex and requires long-term commitment. This book highlights several key issues that need to be addressed decisively in the second half of this decade, through policies entailing institutional reform, to trigger broader changes. Drawing on background papers by Chinese researchers, the study provides a variety of domestic perspectives and local case studies and combines these perspectives with international experiences on how similar issues may have been addressed in other countries. 27,00 €

166       Redding, Gordon & Michael A. Witt

The Future of Chinese Capitalism

Oxford, 2007, 275 p.

Building on recent conceptual and empirical advances, and rich in concrete examples, this book offers a comprehensive and systematic exploration of present-day Chinese capitalism, its component parts, and their interdependencies. It suggests that Chinese capitalism, as practiced today, in many respects represents a development from traditional business practices, whose revival has been greatly aided by the influx of investments and managerial talent from the Regional Ethnic Chinese. On the basis of present trends in the Chinese economy as well as through comparison with four major types of capitalism -those of Germany, Japan, Korea, and the United States- the book derives a prediction of the probable development paths of Chinese capitalism and its likely competitive strengths and weaknesses.   58,00 €

167       Ren Junmin

La protection juridique des inventions dans les relations commerciales entre la France et la Chine 

— Etude de droit comparé et de droit international

privé

You Feng, 2007, 592 p.

Cette thèse de doctorat en droit soutenue à l’université de Nanterre en 2006 porte sur la définition des conditions de protection des inventions, de leur exploitation et de la sanction des actes de contrefaçon ou/et de concurrence déloyale dans le contexte des échanges commerciaux entre la France et la Chine.              45,00 €

168       Riedel, James, Jing Jin & Jian Gao

How China Grows  — Investment, Finance, and Reform

Princeton, 2007, 18 tables, 222 p., cloth

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is subject to diminishing returns, and not enough on technological change? The first book on the relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, How China Grows dismisses this concern. James Riedel, Jing Jin, and Jian Gao argue that investment has not only been the engine of growth, but also the main source of technological progress and structural change in China. What threatens future growth instead, the authors argue, are the weaknesses of China's financial system that undermine efficiency in investment allocation. Financial-sector reform and development are necessary, not only for sustaining long-term growth, but also for maintaining macroeconomic stability.                                                                      39,00 €

169       Rofel, Lisa

Desiring China  — Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

Durham, 2007, 264 p.

Drawing on her research over the past two decades among urban residents and rural migrants in Hangzhou and Beijing, Lisa Rofel analyzes the meanings that individuals attach to various public cultural phenomena and what their interpretations say about their understandings of post-socialist China and their roles within it. She locates the first broad-based public debate about post-Mao social changes in the passionate dialogues about the popular 1991 television soap opera Yearnings. She describes how the emergence of gay identities and practices in China reveals connections to a transnational network of lesbians and gay men at the same time that it brings urban/rural and class divisions to the fore.                                   22,00 €

170       Rubinstein, Murray A.

Taiwan — A New History, Expanded Edition

Armonk, 2007, illust., maps, index, 576 p., cloth

This new edition expands the coverage from where the first edition ended in 1995 to 2006. It includes new material on democratization, party politics, and the independence movement. Collectively, the chapters take the reader from the geographical and climatological setting, through the stages of premodern history and contact with China and the West, through the Japanese occupation, to the successful establishment of a modern state.                       101,00 €

171       Ruffier, Jean

Faut-il avoir peur des usines chinoises ?  — Compétitivité et pérennité de « l’atelier du monde »

L'Harmattan, Collection Questions contemporaines, 2007, 181 p.

Fort de son expérience en matière de diagnostic d’entreprise en Chine, conseiller d’entrepreneurs occidentaux tant que d’entrepreneurs chinois, l’auteur tente d’offrir quelques éléments pour une meilleure connaissance des faiblesses et des points forts du milieu industriel chinois : d’où vient le capital, qui sont les patrons, qui sont les ouvriers, d’où viennent-ils et que veulent-ils, etc.      16,00 €

172       Rumer, Eugene, Dmitri Trenin & Zhao Huasheng

Central Asia  — Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing

Armonk, 2007, maps, tables, index, 232 p.

The eminent contributors to this volume offer a four-part analysis of the region's new importance in world affairs. Rajan Menon examines the place of Central Asia in a global perspective. Eugene Rumer considers the perspective of the post-9/11 United States. Dmitri Trenin looks at the region from the standpoint of traditional hegemon Russia. Huasheng Zhao provides the view from economic superpower-in-the-making China.                                                             41,10 €

173       Rummel, R. J.

China's Bloody Century  — Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900

Piscataway, 2007, 348 p.

The book presents successive periods in modern Chinese history, with each chapter divided into three parts. Rummel first relates the history of the period within which the nature and the amount of killings are presented. He then provides a detailed statistical table giving the basic estimates with their sources and qualifications. The final part offers an appendix that explains and elaborates the statistical computations and estimates. While estimates are available in the literature on the number of Chinese killed in Communist land reform, or in Tibet, or by the Nationalists in one military campaign or another, until this book no one has tried to systematically accumulate, organize, add up, and analyze these diverse killings for all of China’s governments in this century. For the first time in one place, hundreds of published estimates of Chinese genocide and mass murder are listed with sources, analyzed, and their historical context presented.

New in paperback                                             35,00 €

174       Sabouret, Jean-François (Introduction)

Les Mondes asiatiques  — Recherches et enjeux

Reseau Asie/ Les Indes Savantes, 2006, 263 p.

Le Réseau Asie, hébergé au sein de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, relie les chercheurs francophones et tient son congrès tous les deux ans. Il offre ici la synthèse des interventions, des ateliers, et des thématiques du congrès 2005. Cinq thématiques ont notamment été travaillées : « Dynamismes économiques et intégrations régionales », « Géopolitique et territoires », « Idéologies, politiques et religions », Savoirs, Milieux et Sociétés » et « Arts et Littératures ». 26,00 €

175       Sanjuan, Thierry

Atlas de la Chine — Les mutations accélérées

Autrement, 2007, 79 p.

A l'aide de cartes et de graphiques en couleur illustrant chaque page et chaque thème, cet atlas aborde tout l'éventail des mutations: démographie, santé, éducation, urbanisme, industrie, agriculture, écologie, tourisme, modes de vie, lieux de pouvoir, disparités, commerce, relations internationales, etc. Synthétique et précis, il propose des repères indispensables pour comprendre le nouveau visage de la Chine. Cartographie de Madeleine Benoit-Guyot.              15,00 €

176       Shahid, Yusuf & Anthony Saich

China Urbanizes  — Consequences, Strategies, and Policies

New York, Forthcoming 2008,  p.

The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence rural-urban ine-
quality, the pace at which urban centers expand their eco-
nomic performance, and the urban environment.    27,00 €

177       Shambaugh, David , Sandschneider, Eberhard & Zhou Hong (eds.)

China-Europe Relations  — Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

London, 2007, 368 p.

Contents : Part 1: 1. Introduction (David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider and Zhou Hong) • Part 2: Historical Context  2. The Sino-European Encounter: Historical Influences on Contemporary Relations (Michael Yahuda) •  Part 3: Europe’s Approaches to China  3. Chinese Studies in Europe (Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard)  4. It’s the System that Matters: Institutionalization and Making EU Policy Towards China (Franco Algieri)  5. The Taiwan Issue in China-Europe Relations: An Irritant More than Leverage (Jean-Pierre Cabestan) •  Part 4: China’s Approaches to Europe  6. European Studies in China (Dai Bingran)  7. China Eyes Europe’s Role in the World: Real Convergence or Cognitive Dissonance? (David Shambaugh)  8. Chinese Perceptions of the EU and the Sino-European Relationship (Zhu Liqun)  9. China’s View of European Integration and Enlargement (Song Xinning)  • Part 5: China-Europe Commercial Relations  10. Europe’s Commercial Relations with China (Robert Ash)  11. China’s Commercial Relations with Europe (Zhang Zuqian)   • Part 6: China and Europe in a Global Context  12. The EU and China in the Global System (Volker Stanzel)  13. The United States and the China-Europe Relationship (Gill Bates)  14. China-EU-U.S. Relations: Shaping a Constructive Future (Ruan Zongze) • Part 7: Conclusion and Outlook  15. From Honeymoon to Marriage: Prospects for the China-Europe Relationship (David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider and Zhou Hong)       38,00 €

178       Shi Jiayou

La codification du droit civil chinois au regard de l’expérience française

Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, Bibliothèque de droit privé tome 473, 2006, 451 p.

Préface de Mireille Delmas-Marty. Dans un mouvement mondial de renaissance du travail de codification, la codification chinoise du droit civil a  elle aussi été initiée il y a quelques années. L’auteur montre les enjeux de cette codification, sur les plans social, politique et culturel et met en perspective les conditions nécessaires à son achèvement, en regard de l’expérience française.            38,00 €

179       Shirk, Susan L.

China : Fragile Superpower  — How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

Oxford, 2007, 336 p., cloth

What kind of superpower will China become, cooperative or aggressive? In this book, Susan Shirk, a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, opens up the black box of Chinese domestic politics and reveals a fragile communist regime struggling to survive in a society turned upside down by economic growth and open markets. She argues that the West's greatest danger is not China's economic or military strength but its internal fragility. She makes the case that it is usually rising powers that provoke wars, and unless Western states understand the fears that motivate Chinese leaders, they are likely to misread and mishandle China - and find themselves in an avoidable international conflict.                     31,00 €

180       Shue, Vivienne & Christine Wong (eds.)

Paying for Progress in China  — Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

London, 2007, 208 p., cloth

China’s stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country’s ‘haves’ and its ‘have-nots’. Paying for Progress in China is a collection of essays which trace the causes of these growing inequalities, using new data including surveys, interviews, newly available official statistics and in-depth fieldwork. Their findings expose the malfunctioning of China’s ‘broken’ intergovernmental fiscal system, which has exacerbated the disequalizing effects of emerging market forces. Whilst the government’s deliberately ‘pro-poor’ development policies have in recent years sought to reduce the gap between rich and poor, both markets, and also state institutions and policies, are continuing to create perverse equity outcomes across the country, confounding hopes for better-balanced and more inclusive growth in China. 112,00 €

181       Sin Chan, Ernest

Identité hakka à Tahiti tome 2  — Ruptures, désordres et fabrication

Te Ite, 2005, 495 p.

«Dans ce volume 2, j’expose différents résultats de recherche clinique sur la psychopathologie hakka, qui sont venus confirmer une partie des hypothèses de travail de la thèse en ethnopsychiatrie que j’ai soutenue en novembre 2002 à l’Université de Paris VIII, sous la direction du professeur Tobie Nathan. (…) Les recherches cliniques que j’ai poursuivies (…) viennent témoigner de l’existence même d’une pensée et d’une identité spécifiques aux Hakkas de Polynésie française dont l’essentiel se transmet (…)  et est déposé d’une génération à l’autre malgré les migrations». Ernest Sin Chan.

Egalement disponible : Identité hakka à Tahiti tome 1 - Histoire, rites et logiques,  29 EUR           33,00 €

182       Song Yongyi

Les massacres de la Révolution culturelle

Buchet / Chastel, à paraître février 2008, 288 p.

Textes traduits du chinois par Marc Raimbourg sous la direction de Marie Holzman. Préfacé et édité par Marie Holzman. Les textes et témoignages sur la Révolution culturelle et ses massacres dans huit provinces chinoises, rassemblés ici par l'historien sino-américain Song Yongyi sont de la toute première importance : ils donnent à voir la barbarie effroyable qui a frappé des millions de personnes. Titre original publié en chinois en 2002 par Open magazine, : Wenhua da tusha.      env. 24,00 €

183       Strauss, Julia (ed)

The History of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976

Cambridge, China Quarterly Special Issues, 2007, 262 p.

Contents: Editor's Introductions: In Search of PRC History (Julia Strauss) •  China's Internationalization in the Early People's Republic: Dreams of a Socialist Economy (William C. Kirby)  • Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949–1956 (Julia Strauss) •  Dilemmas of Inside Agitators: Chinese State Feminists in 1957 (Wang Zheng) •  Aspects of and Institutionalizing Political System: China, 1958–1965 (David Bachman) •  Squeezing the Peasants: Grain Extraction, Food Consumption and Rural Living Standards in Mao's China (Robert Ash) •  Local Cadres Confront the Supernatural: The Politics of Holy Water (Shenshui) in the PRC, 1949–1966 (Steve A. Smith) •  Factional Conflict at Beijing University, 1966-1968 (Andrew G Walder) •  Zheng Junli, Complicity and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949–1976 (Paul G. Pickowicz) •  In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th Century Chinese History (Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik) •  The China Quarterly and the History of the PRC (Roderick MacFarquhar).                                                                      31,00 €

184       Sun Nanshen & Sun Wen

Legal System on Foreign Trade and Investment in China

Beijing, 2007, 236 p.

Introduction to legal system on foreign trade and investment ; about contract law on foreign business ; about investment law on foreign business ; about intellectual property right law related to trade ; about regulations on foreign exchange control ; trial system on cases with foreign elements.                                              15,00 €

185       Tan Qingshan

Village Elections in China  — Democratizing the Countryside

Lewiston, 2007, 376 p., cloth

This study considers the institutional evolution and progress of village elections in China. This book studies the creation and evolution of democratic institution of village election. It examines the causes of village election, the making of state and provincial election legislation, state implementation and improvement of village election rules and procedures, and the role of domestic and foreign players in influencing electoral institutionalization of village self-governance, and it assesses the impact of village election on Chinese political development. It argues for the institutional buildup of democratic infrastructures to ensure what could eventually be the beginning of a more extensive move towards democracy.                                         134,00 €

186       Teiwes, Frederick C. & Warren Sun

The End of the Maoist Era  — Chinese Politics during the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972-1976

Armonk, 2007, bibliography, index, 705 p., cloth

This book launches an ambitious reexamination of the elite politics behind one of the most remarkable transformations in the late twentieth century. As the first part of a new interpretation of the evolution of Chinese politics during the years 1972-82, it provides a detailed study of the end of the Maoist era, demonstrating Mao's continuing dominance even as his ability to control events ebbed away. The tensions within the gang of four, the different treatment of Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, and the largely unexamined role of younger radicals are analyzed to reveal a view of the dynamic of elite politics that is at odds with accepted scholarship. The authors draw upon newly available documentary sources and extensive interviews with Chinese participants and historians to develop their challenging interpretation of one of the most poorly understood periods in the history of the People's Republic of China.       106,00 €

187       Thi Minh-Hoang Ngo

Tunliu dans la tourmente de la réforme agraire, 1946-1950  — La révolution communiste chinoise face aux rébellions et aux résistances de la paysannerie

Riveneuve, 2007, 216 p.

Fondé sur un grand nombre d'archives internes et inédites du Parti communiste chinois, ce travail prolonge et enrichit pour les années 1946-1950 les différents travaux qui, depuis les années 1980, participent à l'important renouvellement de l'historiographie sur la révolution chinoise. Cette monographie du district de Tunliu (Shanxi), analyse l'éclatement dès 1948, à la veille de la proclamation de la République populaire de Chine, des fondations restées fragiles d'un parti-Etat fondé sur les réseaux de relations personnelles et dirigé par des intellectuels du Parti issus des élites locales et de la guerre de résistance anti-japonaise. Elle fait également ressortir et relate l'ampleur des résistances paysannes à la réforme agraire - " la terre à ceux qui la cultivent " - officiellement promulguée le 10 octobre 1947.                                                                      25,00 €

188       Thireau, Isabelle & Hua Linshan (eds.)

D’une illégitimité à l’autre dans la Chine rurale contemporaine  — « Etudes rurales » N°179,

janvier-juin 2007

E.H.E.S.S, 2007, 233 p.

Sommaire : On a Slippery Roof. Chinese Farmers and the Complex Agenda of Land Reform (Gao Wangling and Liu Yang) • La parole comme arme de mobilisation politique (Isabelle Thireau et Chang Shu) • Comment les « spoutniks » sont montés au ciel. Les rendements record du grand bond en avant (Lu Huilin) • « Prendre » pour survivre durant la grande famine de 1958 –1961 (Liu Xiaojing) • Des corps qui parlent. « Travailler beaucoup, travailler dur » à Dazhai (Chang Shu et Hua Linshan) • La crise agraire en Chine. Données et réflexions (He Bochan) • Comment les gouvernements locaux s’enrichissent (Zhou Feizhou) • Les « visites » collectives des paysans auprès des autorités supérieures (Ying Xing) • Tactical Escalation in Rural China (Kevin J. O’Brien and Li Lianjiang) • La formation des droits de propriété dans les campagnes chinoises (Wang Hansheng et Shen Jing) • Village Elections in China : Recent Prospects, New Challenges (Jude Howell)                                                                      32,00 €

189       Tong, Q. S. et al (eds.)

Critical Zone 2  — A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge

Hong Kong, 2007, 282 p.

This second volume of Critical Zone consists of two parts. The first part includes original essays that deal with the concept and practice of "empire" as a collective response to the question of how imperial formations and operations, in the past and at present, should be examined in a larger context of international politics and how historical imperialism may be considered in relation to the conditions of our time. Part II includes two sets of translations of essays, first published in Chinese, about two recent debates in China: one on the canonicity of Lu Xun and the other on the problem of how to reform Peking University in the context of globalization. These two groups of translations are led by review essays that contextualize the debates.                  38,50 €

190       Tregear, T.R.

A Geography of China

Piscataway, 2007, over 100 plates, maps, and diagrams, glossary, bibliography, index, 359 p.

When this book was originally published in the 1960s, China was beginning to change with breathtaking rapidity. These changes are presented here against geographical and historical background. Knowledge of the environmental facts is essential to an appreciation of the political, economic, and social problems that have faced the Chinese people. The book has been arranged in four sections: Physical, Historical, Economic, and Regional. Such a treatment necessarily involves some repetition but this, in some ways, is an advantage as it serves to emphasize the fact that the sections are themselves very closely interlocked. No apology is needed for including a considerable historical geographical section. The subjects treated under this heading are a few choice plums selected from a basketful of excellent fruit. No attempt has been made at a connected historical surveyor treatment.          39,00 €

191       Trevaskes, Sue

Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China

New York, 2007, 225 p., cloth

This is a study of Chinese judicial power as it is manifested in law-and-order campaigns and shame punishment. Dr. Sue Trevaskes examines today's court practices and their antecedents in China by exploring "law on display" in local court trials, rallies, and campaigns. By emphasizing the justice system of the 1980s it becomes apparent how criminal court practices in this period set the foundation for practices into the Twenty-First Century. Trevaskes argues that many aspects of Chinese law, especially civil and economic law, have developed into modern and sophisticated systems of justice administration, criminal law has not. 

Also available in paper at 31,90 EUR                    70,00 €

192       Tsai Shin-Yuan

Globalization Effects on China's Influence on Taiwan Economy

Bern, 2007, 313 p.

Globalization facilitates China's emergence and places Taiwan economy under China's influence. Empirical data confirm that Taiwan's structural weakness compromises its autonomy. Sino-US economic interdependence confines the US from adopting any strategy to protect Taiwan's autonomy. China is the largest recipient of Taiwanese investment. Flow-on effects determine China's indispensability to Taiwan. Yet, in fear of losing its autonomy to China, Taiwan tries to control the cross-Strait economic exchanges but fails. As Taiwan seeks for independence but China insists on unification, the ideological fight between the two sides is a zero-sum game. The US involvement maintains the cross-Strait status quo, but China's rise will disrupt the balance. Without political concessions, Taiwan will always live under the Chinese threat. Yet, if the US adopts a Trojan-Horse Strategy, Taiwan will have a chance to oversee China's development.                                                                      69,60 €

193       Vermander, Benoît

Chine brune ou Chine verte ?  — Les dilemmes de l'Etat-parti

Presse de Sciences Po, 2007, 212 p.

Ce petit ouvrage fait le point des contraintes et des objectifs contradictoires auxquels doit aujourd'hui faire face l'Etat-parti au pouvoir en Chine. Souci de l'environnement écologique, mais volonté d'amplifier la croissance économique, attentes démocratiques, mais souci d'un ordre social et politique, coopération et rôle international, mais affirmation d'une super-puissance: la politique chinoise s'apparente à un exercice d'équilibriste que l'auteur décrit avec précision, cernant aussi les enjeux pour l'Europe.  12,00 €

194       Vermander, Benoît

L'enclos à moutons  — Un village nuosu au sud-ouest de la Chine

Les Indes savantes, 2007, 241 p.

Yangjuan ou l'enclos à moutons est le nom d'un village situé dans les montagnes au sud du Sichuan aux confins du Yunnan et du Tibet, habité par des Nuosu (l'un des sous-groupes de la minorité des Yi). Benoît Vermander, chercheur en sciences politiques, jésuite, tout en dirigeant l'Institut Ricci de Taipei s'est consacré de longues années à comprendre et collecter les rites religieux nuosu. Bien qu'il se défende d'avoir fait l'œuvre d'un ethnographe professionnel ("C'est, dirai-je, une reprise réflexive d'une entreprise de contact, de découverte et de coopération tentée depuis quelques années déjà, même si l'aventure reste par nature inachevée") son livre décrit l'organisation sociale, clans et castes, de la communauté, sa vie quotidienne, son travail aux champs, ses rituels et ses mythes, ses aspirations. A travers la radioscopie d'un village isolé c'est aussi le dur quotidien de la Chine rurale qui se révèle.           26,00 €

195       Wachman, Alan M.

Why Taiwan?  — Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity

Stanford, Studies in Asian Security, 2007, 272 p.

Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has Beijing been feverishly developing means to prevail in combat with the U.S. over Taiwan's status? Why is Taiwan worth fighting for? To answer, this book focuses on the territorial dimension of the Taiwan issue and highlights arguments made by PRC analysts about the geostrategic significance of Taiwan, rather than emphasizing the political dispute between Beijing and Taipei. It considers Beijing's quest for Taiwan since 1949 against the backdrop of recurring Chinese anxieties about the island's status since the seventeenth century. In recent years, the PRC has become dependent on international maritime commerce and has undertaken to expand considerably its navy to ensure access to the sea. PRC analysts concerned about strategy have articulated rationales for eliminating rival influences over Taiwan, the location of which is deemed as critical to China's projection of naval power. This book traces the evolution, explains the appeal, and suggests implications of the geostrategic calculations that pervade PRC strategic considerations of Taiwan.   29,40 €

196       Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.

China's Brave New World  — And other Tales for Global Times

Bloomington, 2007, 20 b&w photos, 192 p.

If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China—or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales," Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other questions as he journeys from 19th-century China into the future, and from Shanghai to Chicago, St. Louis, and Budapest. He argues that simplistic views of China and Americanization found in most soundbite-driven media reports serve us poorly as we try to understand China's place in the current world order—or our own.                                    23,00 €

197       Worthing, Peter M.

A Military History of China  — From the Manchu Conquest to Tian'anmen Square

Westport, 2007, 220 p., cloth

The first section underscores the importance of war in China by dealing with the Manchu conquest and military rule over China, the developing technology gap between China and the West, the devastating defeats at the hands of Western powers in the 19th century, and early attempts at military reform and modernization. The second section, Republican China, traces important military reforms that gave rise to a revolutionary movement, the overthrow of the monarchy, and attempts to establish a democratic republic. The military played a dominant role in the search for a viable, modern political state during this period, which saw intense fighting between independent "warlords," contending political parties that used military force against their rivals, and a Japanese invasion. The third section, People's Republic of China, reveals the critical role of the military and warfare in the period after the Chinese Communist Party came to power. It explores the Chinese Communist role in the Korean War, border clashes with the Soviet Union, India, and Vietnam, changes in military doctrine, organization, and technology, the People's Liberation Army's violent suppression of the 1989 student demonstrations, and the military situation in the Taiwan Straits.                             53,00 €

198       Wu Fulong (ed.)

China's Emerging Cities  — The Making of New Urbanism

London, 2007, 336 p., cloth

Contents : Part 1: Cities as Emerging Institutions  1. Beyond Gradualism: China’s Urban Revolution and Emerging Cities (Fulong Wu)  2. Land Property Rights Regime in China: A Comparative Study of Suzhou and Dongguan (You-Ren Yang and Hung-Kai Wang)  3. Public-Private Partnership in the Urban Water Sector of Shanghai (Seungho Lee)  4. The Dialectics of Urban Planning in China (Daniel B. Abramson)  Part 2: Transitioning Economic and Social Spheres  5. Hong Kong and Taiwan Investment in Dongguan: Divergent Trajectories and Impacts (Chun Yang)  6. Urban Labor Market Changes and Social Protection for Urban Informal Workers: Challenges for China and India (Sunil Kumar and Bingqin Li)  7. Ageing Urban Society: Discourse and Policy (Ian G. Cook and Jason L. Powell)  8. Transition to Homeownership: Implications for Wealth Redistribution (Si-ming Li)  Part 3: Rebuilding Residential Space  9. Residential Redevelopment and Social Impacts in Beijing (Hyun Bang Shin)  10. Neighborhood Changes and Residential Differentiation in Shanghai (Shenjing He and Fulong Wu)  11. Large Urban Redevelopment Projects and Socio-Spatial Stratification in Shanghai (Ying Ying Tian and Cecilia Wong)  Part 4: Emerging Leisure, Retailing and Consumption Practices  12. Spaces of Leisure: Gated Golf Communities in China (Guillaume Giroir)  13. A Tale of Two Cities: Restructuring of Retail Capital and Production of New Consumption Spaces in Beijing and Shanghai (Shuguang Wang and Chongyi Guo)  14. When Local Meets Global: Residential Differentiation, Global Connections and Consumption in Shanghai (Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen)                                126,80 €

199       Wu Guoguang

China Turns to Multilateralism  — Foreign Policy and Regional Security

London, 2007, 320 p., cloth

Introduction  1. International Multilateralism with Chinese Characteristics: Attitude Changes, Policy Imperatives, and Regional Impacts (Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne)  Part 1: Global Concerns  2. China’s New Internationalism (Lowell Dittmer)  3. Racing to Integrate, or Cooperating to Compete? Liberal and Realist Interpretations of China’s New Multilateralism (Thomas G. Moore)  4. New Player in the Game: China, Arms Control and Multilateralism (Jing-dong Yuan)  Part 2: Regional Security  5. China’s Multilateralism and Regional Order (Michael Yahuda)  6. China and the North Korean Nuclear Problem: Diplomatic Initiative, Strategic Complexities, and Relevance of Security Multilateralism (Yinhong Shi)  7. China and SCO: Towards a New Type of Interstate Relations (Jianwei Wang)  8. Chinese and ASEAN Responses to the US Regional Maritime Security Initiative (Gaye Christoffersen)  9. Maritime Security and Multilateral Interactions between China and its Neighbours (Keyuan Zou)  Part 3: Peaceful Rise?  10. Intentions on Trial: ‘Peaceful Rise’ and Sino-ASEAN Relations (Yongnian Zheng and Sow Keat Tok)  11. Peaceful Rise? Soft Power? Human Rights in China’s New Multilateralism (Jeremy Paltiel)  12. China’s Petroleum Diplomacy: Hu Jintao’s Biggest Challenge in Foreign and Security Policy (Willy Lam)  13. China’s Multilateralism and its Impacts on Cross-Strait Relations: A View from Taipei (Dong-Ching Day)  14. An Exception to the Growing Emphasis on Multilateralism: The Case of China’s Policy toward Hong Kong (Jean-Philippe Béja)  Conclusion  15. Multiple Levels of Multilateralism: The Rising China in the Turbulent World (Guoguang Wu)                                      112,00 €

200       Yeh Wen-hsin

Shanghai Splendor  — Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949

Berkeley, 2007, 20 b/w photographs, 319 p., cloth

Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Looking in particular at Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, she sketches the rise of a new maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Making extensive use of urban tales and visual representations, the book captures urbanite voices as it uncovers the sociocultural dynamics that shaped the people and their politics.               40,50 €

201       Zang Xiaowei

Ethnicity in Urban Life in China  — A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese

London, 2007, 240 p., cloth

This work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people, the ethnic majority in the city of Lanzhou, and the Hui people, the largest ethnic minority in the city, and assesses the link between minority ethnicity and traditional behaviour in urban sociology and research on ethnic groups of China. In-depth interviews and survey data provides a fresh perspective to the study of ethnic behaviour in China, and offers a rich account of Hui behaviour in seven aspects of urban life: neighbouring interaction, friendship formation, network behaviour, mate selection methods, spouse choice, marital homogamy, and household structure.                                        105,00 €

202       Zhang  Xiaoquan Heather, Bin Wu and Richard Sanders (eds.)

Marginalisation in China  — Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation

Aldershot, 2007, 30 tables, 20 figures, 280 p., cloth

Contents :Part 1 China in Transition: Inequality, Poverty and Marginalisation: Marginalisation in the Chinese countryside: the question of rural poverty (Richard Sanders, Yang Chen and Yiying Cao) •  Marginalisation of laid-off state-owned enterprise workers in Wuhan (Jun Tang, Mingzhu Dong and Mark Duda) •  Marginalisation in the Chinese energy sector: the case of township and village coal mines (Philip Andrews-Speed) • Living and working at the margin: rural migrant workers in China's transitional cities (Li Zhang) • Marginalisation and health provision in transitional China (Zhiqiang Feng) • Institutional responses to the changing patterns of poverty and marginalisation in China since 1949 (Ka Lin).• Part 2 Marginalisation in the Era of Globalisation in China: Globalisation and marginalisation of Chinese overseas contract workers (Bin Wu) • The World Trade Organization and Chinese farmers: implications for agricultural crisis and marginalisation (John Q. Tian) • China, the World Trade Organization and the end of the agreement on textiles and clothing: impacts on workers (Markus Eberhardt and John Thoburn) • Conceptualising the links: migration, health and sustainable livelihoods in China (Heather Xiaoquan Zhang) • Spatial and social marginalisation of health in China: the impact of globalisation (Ian G. Cook and Trevor J.B. Dummer) • Civil society and marginalisation: grassroots NGOs in Qinghai province (Katherine Morton).I      104,00 €

203       Zheng Aiqing

Libertés et droits fondamentaux des travailleurs en Chine

L'Harmattan, 2007, 467 p.

Préfaces de Mireille Delmas-Marty et de Jean-Maurice Verdier. L’auteur, qui fait partie d’un groupe d’experts en droit du travail en Chine, présente ici le fruit de sa thèse, qui constitue la première étude complète en français sur la situation, encore mal connue, du monde ouvrier en Chine. "A partir d’une abondante documentation concernant le droit chinois, ses normes et son application pratique, le droit français et les normes internationales du travail, [ce travail] est non seulement descriptif et explicatif, mais surtout critique et prospectif, orienté vers les possibilités de son évolution et de son amélioration en vue d’une conciliation des exigences de la production et du développement et de celles des garanties des droits du travailleur et de sa dignité de personne." (J-M Verdier)            35,00 €

204       Zheng Lihua & Yang Xiaomin (eds.)

France-Chine  — Migrations de pensées et de technologies

L’Harmattan, Coll. Logiques sociales, 2006, 413 p.

Textes issus du quatrième séminaire interculturel sino-français de Canton, placé sous le signe de la mise en perspective historique et de la mise en lumière de l'actualité des interpénétrations sino-françaises. Chapitres : Echanges culturels entre la Chine et la France • Images nationales et communication interculturelle • Culture et management • Culture et économie • Compétences en contextes interculturels.                                                                      33,00 €

205       Zheng Yongnian

Technological Empowerment  — The Internet, State, and Society in China

Stanford, 2008, 22 tables, 272 p., cloth

This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space. Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state and society. The Internet has played an important role in facilitating political liberalization, and made government more open, transparent, and accountable. Second, the Internet produces enormous effects which are highly decentralized and beyond the reach of state power. Third, the Internet has created a new infrastructure for the state and society in their engagement with (and disengagement from) each other. Fourth, the Internet produces a recursive relationship between state and society. The interactions between the state and society over the Internet end up reshaping both the state and society.                    55,00 €

 

Chine-Histoire classique

 

206        

Annales (Histoire, sciences sociales) N°6 novembre-décembre 2006  — Chine

E.H.E.S.S., 2006, 249 p.

Numéro spécial Chine publié sous la direction d’Angela Ki Che Leung. Sommaire : Les régions maritimes: Logiques de marché dans la Chine maritime (Billy K. L. So) ; Espace et institutions dans deux régions préindustrielles (Billy K.L.So) • La révolution des lignages : La solution lignagère (David Faure) ; La révolution rituelle du XVIème siècle et l’Etat impérial chinois (D.Faure) ; Sacrifice aux ancêtres, structuration des lignages et protection de l’ordre social dans la Chine des Ming. L’exemple des Fan de Xiuning (Chang Jianhua) ; Droit et famille en Chine à l’époque des Song (960-1279) (Lau Nap-Yin) • Les Mandchous et la nation : La Chine moderne (Mark C. Elliott) ; Les Mandchous et la définition de la nation (M. C.Elliott) • Histoire chinoise (comptes rendus).           17,00 €

207        

Etudes chinoises vol. XXVI (2008)

Association française d’études chinoises, 2008           

Sommaire  In memoriam Jean Chesneaux (Alain Roux) •  L’Université des vertes forêts et la philosophie des armes : Mao à l’épreuve du second front uni (1937-1945) (Jacques Andrieu) • Poisons exotiques et vices domestiques : de vertueux héros aux prises avec les gu 蠱dans un roman du XVII^e siècle (Vincent Durand-Dastès) • Le Fonds chinois de la Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie Jacques Doucet à la bibliothèque de l’INHA (Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens et Cédric Laurent) • Six ans d’acquisitions nouvelles à la bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises (2001-2006) (Shum Wing-fong et Pierre-Henri Durand) • Yang Jian (1140-1226) et sa critique de la notion d’intention (yi) (Frédéric Wang) • De l’art de dissiper les nuages, Réflexions à partir de la théorie politique de Thomas Metzger (Sébastien Billioud).                                  45,00 €

208        

The East Asian Maritime World 1400-1800  — Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges

Wiesbaden, 2007, 281 p., cloth

The volume is a collection of studies in English, German and Chinese, discussing aspects of the political economy and raison d'état of East Asian countries, especially against the background of East Asia's integration into the "international" trade. The contributions progress from the general to the particular, the first contribution, above all, taking a broad perspective, intended as a general outline of the political and economic history of this macro-region. The other contributions examine the "East Asian world order" in ideology and reality, long perspective, supra-regional,  flows of money between China and the outer world, the role of castaways and sea routes between Korea and China, Sino-Japanese relations in the mid-sixteenth century, the trade between China and Nagasaki, aspects of Sino-Ryu-kyu-an relations and the role of translators in the East Asian maritime world. 62,00 €

209       Bickers, Robert & R. Gary Tiedemann (eds.)

The Boxers, China and the World

Lanham, 2007, 272 p., cloth

Contents : • Introduction (Robert Bickers)  • Village Politics

and National Politics: The Boxer Movement in Central Shanxi (Henrietta Harrison) • The Church Militant: Armed Conflicts Between Christians and Boxers in North China (R. Gary Tiedemann) • (A) Subaltern('s) Boxers: An Indian Soldier's Account of China and the World in 1900-1901 (Annand A. Yang)  •  Reporting the Taiyuan Massacre: Culture and Politics in the China War of 1900 (Roger R. Thompson) • Looting and Its Discontents: Moral Discourse and the Plunder of Beijing 1900-1901 (James L. Hevia) • Scandals of Empire: The Looting of North China and the Japanese Public Sphere (Ben Middleton) • After the Fall: Tianjin under Foreign Occupation, 1900-1902 (Lewis Bernstein) • The Boxer Rebellion and India: Globalizing Myths (C. A. Bayly) • The Boxer Uprising and British Foreign Policy: The End of Isolation  (T. G. Otte) • Humanizing the Boxers (Paul A. Cohen).  Also available in paperback at 33 EUR           83,00 €

210       Bourgon, Jérôme

Supplices chinois  — Livre et DVD

La Maison d’à côté, 2007, 233 p.

« Ceci est l’histoire d’un crime commis voici un peu plus d’un siècle dans un empire qui devait bientôt disparaître. Ceci est l’histoire d’un châtiment terrible, le lingchi ou supplice des « cents morceaux », qui est devenu le « supplice chinois » par excellence. Ceci est l’histoire d’un regard, celui qu’une civilisation – la nôtre – porte sur une autre –celle de la Chine - , assez proche pour qu’elle s’y reconnaisse fugitivement, assez lointaine pour qu’elle repousse cet alter ego avec horreur Supplice chinois ? Pourquoi un supplice se doit-il d’être chinois ? ». Le dernier châtiment du lingchi dont il est question dans cette étude a eu lieu en 1905 à Pékin. De nombreuses photographies, documents historiques, dessins, aquarelles inclus dans le DVD illustrent le  commentaire, et proposent ainsi un excellent complément à la lecture de l’ouvrage. Jérôme Bourgon est chercheur au CNRS, spécialiste  du droit chinois.        25,00 €

211       Brockey, Liam Matthew

Journey to the East  — The Jesuit  Mission to China, 1579-1724

Cambridge, MA, 2007, index, 496 p., cloth

The first narrative history of the Jesuits' mission from 1579 until the proscription of Christianity in China in 1724, this study is also the first to use extensive documentation of the enterprise found in Lisbon and Rome. The peril of travel in the premodern world, the danger of entering a foreign land alone and unarmed, and the challenge of understanding a radically different culture result in episodes of high drama set against such backdrops as the imperial court of Peking, the villages of Shanxi Province, and the bustling cities of the Yangzi Delta region. Further scenes show how the Jesuits claimed conversions and molded their Christian communities into outposts of Baroque Catholicism in the vastness of China .                                    33,00 €

212       Brokaw, Cynthia J.

Commerce in Culture  — The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 280, 2007, 500 p., cloth

From the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, Sibao (western Fujian) was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives, this industry supplied much of south China with cheap educational texts, household guides, medical handbooks, and fortune-telling manuals. In a study with important implications for cultural and economic history, Cynthia Brokaw describes rural, lower-level publishing and bookselling operations at the end of the imperial period. Commerce in Culture traces how the poverty and isolation of Sibao necessitated a bare-bones approach to publishing and bookselling and how the Hakka identity of the Sibao publishers shaped the configuration of their distribution networks and even the nature of their publications. Sibao's industry reveals two major trends in print culture: the geographical extension of commercial woodblock publishing to hinterlands previously untouched by commercial book culture and the related social penetration of texts to lower-status levels of the population.     40,00 €

213       Campbell, Roderick Bruce

Blood, flesh and bones  — Kinship and violence in the social economy of the Late Shang

Ann Arbor, 2007, 475 p.

Reconstructing Late Shang practices of authority and their material bases, the author focuses on sacrifice, warfare and burial in their role in the constitution of social identity and hierarchy as intersecting practices of kinship and violence. Based on these analyses he argues that the Late Shang world was ceaselessly ordered through domesticating practices based on communal violence, ancestral construction and sacrifice, recursively (re)producing, through differential participation in these practices a hierarchy of being that stretched from sacrificial victims to deified ancestors and the high god Di. Moreover, with place and identity experienced in terms of hierarchical relationships of kinship and patronage, social obligation and political authority were produced through universal participation and investment in a radically inegalitarian social economy of kinship and violence.

An authourized facsimile of a doctoral dissertation submitted to Harvard University.   83,90 €

214       Chang, Michael G.

A Court on Horseback  — Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785

Cambridge, MA, Harvard east Asian Monographs 287, 2007, 450 p., cloth

Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. This study elucidates the tensions and the constant negotiations characterizing the relationship between the imperial center and Jiangnan. Politically, economically, and culturally, Jiangnan was the undisputed center of the Han Chinese world. How did the Qing court constitute its authority and legitimate its domination over this pivotal region? What were the precise terms and historical dynamics of Qing rule over China proper during the long eighteenth century? In the course of addressing such questions, this study also explores the political culture within and through which High Qing rule was constituted and contested by a range of actors, all of whom operated within socially and historically structured contexts. The author argues that the southern tours occupied a central place in the historical formation of Qing rule during a period of momentous change affecting all strata of the eighteenth-century polity.          45,00 €

215       Chen Jianfu

Chinese Law  — Context and Transformation

Leiden, 2008, xx, 772 p.

This book examines the historical and politico-economic context in which Chinese law has developed and transformed, focusing on the underlying factors and justifications for changes. It attempts to sketch the main trends in legal modernisation in China and, by doing so, it is hoped that the main features of contemporary Chinese law can be outlined and the nature of contemporary Chinese law can be better understood from a developmental perspective. This book has a comprehensive coverage of topics: ‘legal culture’ and modern law reform, constitutional law, legal institutions, law-making, administrative law, criminal law, criminal procedure law, civil law, property, family law, contracts, law on business entities, securities, bankruptcy, intellectual property, law on foreign investment and trade, and implementation of law.                                                                 81,00 €

216       Clements, Jonathan

Le premier empereur de Chine

Perrin, 2007, 285 p.

Titre original : The First Emperor of China (2006). Traduit de l’anglais par qualis artifex. Biographie de Qin Shi Huangdi.       20,50 €

217       Crespigny, Rafe de (ed.)

A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD)

Leiden, 2007, xxxvi, 1312 p., cloth

This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the comprehensive Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) now provides information on men and women of the Chinese world who lived at the time of Later (or Eastern) Han, from Liu Xiu, founding Emperor Guangwu (reg. 24-57), to the celebrated warlord Cao Cao (155-220) at the end of the dynasty. The entries, including surnames, personal names, styles and dates, are accompanied by maps, genealogical tables and indexes, with lists of books and special accounts of women. 300,00 €

218       De Bary, W. Theodore (ed.)

Sources of East Asian Tradition  — Vol.1 : Pre
modern Asia

Irvington/New York, 2007, 1024 p., cloth

In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and Sources of Japanese Tradition so readers can experience a concise but no less comprehensive portrait of the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of East Asia. Volume 1 samples writings from the earliest times to 1600, illuminating life in early China and the first imperial age, as well as the profound impact of Daoism, Buddhism, the Confucian revival, and Neo-Confucianism; the origins of Korean culture and political structures, up through the Choson dynasty; and major developments in early and medieval Japan.

Also available in paperback at 33 EUR                 87,00 €

219       De Bary, W. Theodore (ed.)

Sources of East Asian Tradition  — Volume 2 : The Modern Period

Irvington/New York, 2007, 1024 p., cloth

Volume 2 covers major events from 1600 to the present, including the initial contact of China, Korea, and Japan with the West; nineteenth-and twentieth-century reform movements in China, along with the Nationalist and Communist revolutions; Korea's encounter with imperialist Japan; and the Meiji Restoration, the emergence of political parties and liberalism, and the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars.

Also available in paperback at 33 EUR                 87,00 €

220       De la Robertie, Pierre & Christian Le Corre

Il y a un siècle, la Chine  — La Chine de 1880 à 1920

Ouest France, 2007, 167 p.

Album relié. Le texte accompagné d’une abondante iconographie (photos, gravures, peintures) offre une documentation claire et panoramique pour aborder la Chine au tournant du vingtième siècle : la situation politique de 1880 à 1920, espace et populations (ville, campagne, moyens de transport), famille et société (grands évènements familiaux, vie quotidienne, fêtes, rites et spectacles, enseignement, justice).                                      25,00 €

221       De Pee, Christian

The Writing of Weddings in Middle-period China  — Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through

Fourteenth Centuries

Albany, 2007, 336 p., cloth

Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the writing of weddings and its spirited engagement with the texts--ritual manuals, engagement letters, nuptial songs, calendars and almanacs, and legal texts--offer a form and style for a cultural history that accommodates the particularities of the sources of the Chinese imperial past.                                                   68,00 €

222       De Weerdt, Hilde

Competition Over Content  — Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1279)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 289, 2007, index, bibliography, 495 p., cloth

The principal goal of this book is to explain the restructuring of the examination field during a critical point in its history, the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), which witnessed the increasing domination of the examinations by the Neo-Confucian Learning of the Way movement. By analyzing textbooks, examination questions and essays, and official and private commentary, Hilde De Weerdt examines how occupational, political, and intellectual groups shaped curricular standards and examination criteria and how examination standards in turn shaped political and intellectual agendas. These questions reframe the debate about the civil service examinations and their place in the imperial order.                                                  43,00 €

223       Déry, Carl

Diplomatie, rhétorique et canonnières  — Relations entre la Chine et l’Angleterre, de l’ambassade

Macartney à la guerre de l’Opium, 1793-1842

Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2007, 140 p.

Mettant en perspective l’ambassade Macartney de 1793 et la guerre de l’Opium de 1840-1842, l’auteur remet en cause la rupture épistémologique qui existerait dans l’historiographie entre ces deux moments, et plutôt que de considérer le Traité de Nankin comme le premier des traités inégaux, il tente de faire percevoir celui-ci, notamment à la lumière de la correspondance entre les deux gouvernements, comme l’aboutissement d’un long processus diplomatique. 20,00 €

224       Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn

Tears from Iron  — Cultural Reponses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Berkeley, Local Studies/Global Themes, 15, Forthcoming 2008, p b/w photographs, 5 maps, 320 p., cloth

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.           39,00 €

225       Farmer, Michael J.

The Talent of Shu  — Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan

Albany, 2007, 246 p., cloth

Countering conceptions of Sichuan as an intellectual backwater, author J. Michael Farmer provides an analytical narrative history of the significant intellectual and scholarly activity in the region during the late second through third centuries CE. Qiao Zhou, a noted classicist, historian, and official of Shu-Han, stands as an apt figure to represent the intellectual world of third-century Sichuan. An heir to a long-standing regional intellectual tradition, he was trained in political prophesy, canonical studies, and ancient history, and in true Confucian fashion, employed these skills in the service of the state. While some of Qiao’s scholarship, as well as his political engagement, was conservative, he also stands as an innovator in the fields of canonical and historical criticism and local history.            78,00 €

226       Faure, David

Emperor and Ancestor  — State and Lineage in South China

Stanford, 2007, 480 p., cloth

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state. 75,00 €

227       Fitzgerald, Charles-Patrick

Tang Taizong  — l’apogée de l’Empire chinois

Payot & Rivages, 2008, 231 p.

Biographie traduite de l’anglais par G. Lepage du cofon
dateur de la dynastie des Tang, Tang Taizong (599-649), qu’on surnommait « l’empereur très lettré ». Publié chez Payot en 1935, ce classique jamais réédité et remis à jour par Michel Jan donne l’occasion, à l’ère de la mondialisation, de revisiter une époque où la Chine connut une ouverture et un bouillonnement culturel intenses. 21,50 €

228       Furth, Charlotte, Judith T. Zeitlin & Hsiung Ping-chen (eds.)

Thinking with Cases  — Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History

Honolulu, 2007, index, bibliography, 344 p., cloth

In this volume, an international group of scholars traces the process by which the project of thinking with cases acquired a systematic and public character in the ninth century CE and after. Premodern Chinese experts on medicine and law circulated printed case collections to demonstrate efficacy or claim validity for their judgments. They were joined by authors of religious and philosophical texts. The rhetorical strategies and forms of argument used by all of these writers were allied with historical narratives, exemplary biographies, and case examples composed as aids to imperial statecraft. For China scholars, they examine the interaction of different fields of learning in the late imperial period, the relationship of evidential reasoning and literary forms, and the philosophical frameworks that linked knowledge to experience and action. For comparativists, the essays bring China into a global conversation about the methodologies of the human sciences. Contributors: Chu Honglam, Charlotte Furth, Hsiung Ping-chen, Jiang Yonglin, Yasuhiko Karasawa, Robert Sharf, Pierre-Étienne Will, Wu Yanhong, Judith T. Zeitlin.                       62,00 €

229       Gernet, Jacques

La vie quotidienne en Chine à la veille de l'invasion mongole (1250-1276)

Philippe Picquier, Picquier poche, 2008, 419 p.

Réédition attendue de l'ouvrage de Jacques Gernet, initialement publié par la Librairie Hachette en 1959. A partir  d'une abondante documentation en chinois, l'auteur relate la vie au quotidien dans la ville de Hangzhou à la fin de la dynastie des Song du Sud, au terme d'une période de développement et d'exceptionnelle prospérité de la société chinoise. Son ouvrage constitue une mine d'informations sur les habitudes sociales, urbaines, familiales, rituelles, vestimentaires, culinaires entre autres à cette époque. 9,50 €

230       Gerritsen, Anne

Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China

Leiden, 2007, 264 p., cloth

Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means to be 'local' during the Southern Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in Ji'an prefecture (Jiangxi). It argues that 'belonging locally' was important to Ji'an literati throughout this period. How they achieved that, however, changed significantly. Southern Song and Yuan literati wrote about religious sites from within their local communities, but their early Ming counterparts wrote about local temples from their posts at the capital, seeking to transform local sites from a distance. By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants. 128,00 €

231       Harrist Jr, Robert E.

The Landscape of Words  — Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China

Seattle, Forthcoming 2008, 153 illus., 20 in color, bibliography, index, 424 p., cloth

In this meticulously researched book, Robert E. Harrist Jr. focuses on the period prior to the eighth century C.E. to demonstrate that the significance of inscriptions on stone embedded in nature depends on the interaction of words with topography. The Landscape of Words is a study about  the stone inscriptions, moya or moya shike, carved into the natural terrain on granite boulders and cliffs at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. Carved in large, bold characters, moya constitute a vast repository of texts produced continuously for more than two thousand years and are an important form of public art. Harrist presents detailed case studies of important moya sites, such as the Stone Gate tunnel in Shaanxi and Cloud Peak Mountain, Mount Tie, and Mount Tai in Shangdong.         62,00 €

232       Hegel, Robert E. & Katherine Carlitz (eds.)

Writing and Law in Late Imperial China  — Crime, Conflict and Judgment

Seattle, 2007, glossary, bibliog., index, 352 p., cloth

In Writing and Law in Late Imperial China, scholars of Chinese history, law, literature, and religions explore the intersections of legal practice with writing in many different social contexts. They consider the overlapping concerns of legal culture and the arts of crafting persuasive texts in a range of documents including crime reports, legislation, novels, prayers, and law suits. This book explores works of crime-case fiction, judicial handbooks for magistrates and legal secretaries, popular attitudes toward clergy and merchants as reflected in legal plaints, and the belief in a parallel, otherworldly judicial system that supports earthly justice.      67,00 €

233       Herman, John E.

Amid the Clouds and Mist  — China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 203, 2007, 6 maps, 344 p., cloth

In 1200, Guizhou, Yunnan, and the southern portion of Sichuan were home to an assortment of strikingly diverse cultures and ruled by a multitude of political entities. By 1750, China's military, political, sociocultural, and economic institutions were firmly in control of the region, and many of the area's cultures were rapidly becoming extinct. One purpose of this book is to examine how China's three late imperial dynasties conquered, colonized, and assumed control of the southwest. Another objective is to highlight the indigenous response to China's colonization of the southwest, particularly that of the Nasu Yi people of western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan, the only group to leave an extensive written record.                                     44,00 €

234       Huang, Martin W. (ed.)

Male Friendship in Ming China

Leiden, 2007, 188 p.

Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China. Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called “five cardinal human relationships”. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and literary studies), the contributors thoroughly explore the complexities and the gendered nature of friendship in Ming China. This volume has also been published as a special theme issue of Brill's journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in China.                                         79,00 €

235       Ko, Dorothy

Cinderella's Sisters  — A Revisionist History of Footbinding

Berkeley, 2007, 53 b/w photographs, 351 p.

New in paperback                                                           21,00 €

236       Lee Xiahong, Lili (ed.)

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  — Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.--618 C.E.

Armonk, 2007, Table, chronology, glossary, 488 p., cloth

This new volume recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. 109,00 €

237       Leibundgut, Brice

La rhubarbe et la pivoine  — Dominique Parrenin 1665-1741, missionnaire jésuite à la cour des empereurs mandchous

Comtois illustres, 2007, 174 p.

Ayant passé son enfance dans le Haut-Doubs, Brice Leibundgut a voulu raviver le souvenir d'un enfant de cette région: le jésuite Dominique Parrenin, envoyé par Louis XIV à l'Empereur de Chine comme "mathématicien du Roy". Il passera 43 ans en Chine, traduira des livres scientifiques et participera à la cartographie de la Chine. Il est surtout connu en Europe pour ses correspondances scientifiques notamment avec les encyclopédistes et les philosophes. L'ouvrage retrace sa vie et éclaire en annexe les nombreux liens avec ses contemporains.                                                                      18,00 €

238       Levi, Jean

Hiérarchie et sacrifice en Chine ancienne

Société d’ethnologie, 2007, 48 p.

Texte d’une conférence prononcée le 22 novembre 2006. Jean Levi montre ce qui lie pouvoir et rituel et analyse comment la dimension sacrale de l’appareil d’Etat est opératoire dans l’autorité du souverain et le maintien de l’ordre social et politique.   12,00 €

239       Lewis, Mark Edward

The Early Chinese Empires — Qin and Han

Cambridge, MA, 2007, notes, bibliography, index, 16 maps, 321 p., cloth

This volume is the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China and covers a broad range of topics. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity.                             30,00 €

240       Li, Lillian M.

Fighting Famine in North China  — State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s

Stanford, 2007, 30 tables, 43 fig., 17 maps, 600 p., cloth

This work examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth-century Qing emperors (“the golden age of famine relief”), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when China was called “the Land of Famine”), and the ambitions of the Mao era (which tragically led to the greatest famine in human history). In addition to a wide array of documentary sources, the book employs quantitative analysis to measure the economic impact of natural crises, state policies, and markets. In this way, the theories of Qing statesmen that have received much attention in recent scholarship are linked to actual practices and outcomes. Using the Zhili-Hebei region as its focus, the book also reveals the unusual role played by the institutions and policies designed to ensure food security for the capital, Beijing.        87,80 €

241       Liu Chang

Peasants and Revolution in Rural China  — Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949

London, 2007, 272 p., cloth

Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China – the North China plain and the Yangzi delta – to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century.           119,50 €

242       Loti, Pierre

Les derniers jours de Pékin

Kailash, 2007, 221 p.

Envoyé en mission à Pékin, Pierre Loti tient son journal de septembre 1900 à mai 1901. Un récit qui témoigne des temps troublés de la « révolte des Boxeurs ».                                        22,50 €

243       Mann, Susan

The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

Berkeley, 2007, 352 p., cloth

The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang family --Tang Yaoqing, her eldest daughter, and her eldest granddaughter-- Susan Mann illuminates a China that has been largely invisible. Drawing on of primary materials--published poetry, gazetteer articles, memorabilia--as well as other historical documents, Mann reconstructs these women's intimate relationships, personal aspirations, values, ideas, and political consciousness. She transforms our understanding of gender relations and what it meant to be an educated woman during China's transition from empire to nation and offers a new view of the history of late imperial women.

Also available in paper at 24 EUR                        58,00 €

244       McNight, Brian E.

Law and Order in Sung China

Cambridge, 2007, 573 p. New in paperback        77,00 €

245       Menzies, Gavin

1421, l’année où la Chine a découvert l’Amérique Intervalles, 2007, 414 p.

Traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Julie Sauvage. Titre original : 1421, The Year China Discovered the World (2004). Le 8 mars 1421, la plus grande flotte que le monde avait jamais vue quitta les côtes chinoises. Ces immenses vaisseaux étaient commandés par les fidèles amiraux eunuques de l’empereur Zhu Di. Ils avaient ordre de naviguer jusqu’aux confins de la terre. L’auteur mène une longue enquête qui l’a conduit à soutenir que les Chinois avaient fait le tour du monde un siècle avant Magellan, découvert l’Amérique 70 ans avant Colomb et l’Australie 350 ans avant Cook…                          25,00 €

246       Ouyang Xiu

Historical Records of the Five Dynasties Irvington/New York, 2008, 736 p.

New in paperback                                             31,00 €

247       Pavé, François

Le journal de Jules Bedeau  — un artilleur français dans la Chine des Boxers (1900-1901)

You Feng, 2007, 234 p.

François Pavé analyse dans cet ouvrage le journal de son arrière-grand-père, Jules Bedeau, à la lumière de documents et journaux datant de cette époque. Il en ressort une description de l'univers militaire et une image de la Chine de cette époque.        18,00 €

248       Polo, Marco

Le devisement du monde  — Tome V « A travers la Chine du Sud »

Droz, 2006, 300 p., cloth

Cette partie du récit offre notamment des descriptions de Yanzhou, Suzhou et Hangzhou l’ancienne capitale des Song.       33,62 €

249       Schafer, Edward H.

The Vermilion Bird  — T’ang Images of the South

Warren, Forthcoming 2008, 392 p.

In the 7th century, the great T’ang nation was obliged to re-conquer the southernmost portion of what had been considered Chinese territory for many centuries. This book attempts to recover, through the medium of its literature, the actual character of the monsoon realms of T’ang - a scattering of palisaded garrisons, isolated monasteries, and commercial towns, all surrounded by dark, haunted woods. The soldiers, administrators, colonists, and political exiles who lived there were constantly threatened by hostile inhabitants, disease, wild animals, and supernatural powers. On the other hand, there were new and beautiful plants and fruits, enchanting limestone grottoes, and ravishing landscapes. Schafer examines the thoughts, emotions, imaginations, and daily lives of the men of that era for evidence of the changes inspired by their conquest of southern territories     52,00 €

250       Shaughnessy, Edward L. (ed.)

La Chine

Evergreen/Taschen, 2007, 256 p.

Un ouvrage initiant aux divers aspects de l’histoire et de la civilisation chinoises, au travers d’un texte succinct mais judicieusement illustré et structuré. Déjà publié en français en 2000 aux éditions Larousse, au prix de 42 EUR  9,99 €

251       Shelach, Gideon

Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China  — Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First Millennium

London, Forthcoming 2008, 224 p., cloth

This book focuses on the formative period in pastoral-sedentary relations, the late second and early first millennium BCE, on today's northern borders of China. It demonstrates that while changes in aspects of daily life, such as subsistence strategies and political organization, were gradual, a much more dramatic change occurred in the style and quantity of symbolic expression. This suggests that the construction of identities - local and regional- was not merely the end result of the process but rather was, from the beginning, an important catalyst of change. The book brings more comprehensive and nuance understanding to the archaeology and history of East Asia. By focusing on issues of identity, its construction, manipulation and materialization in symbols and artifacts, it also brings new theoretical and methodological innovations to a topic which has a relatively long history in anthropology but which has only recently been seriously addressed by archaeologists.                                               122,00 €

252       Sima Qian

The First Emperor  — Selections from the Historical Records

Oxford, Oxford World's Classics, 2007, bibliography, index, 208 p.

A fluent and attractive translation by one of the foremost scholars of Classical Chinese, Raymond Dawson, with an interesting introduction and unobtrusive notes. The new preface updates the archaeological finds and shows how they help us understand and appreciate Sima Qian's detail. Contents : • The Birth of the First Emperor • An Assassination Attempt • The Biography of the Chief Minister of Qin • The Builder of the Great Wall • The Annals of Qin The Treatises • The Story of the Rebel Xiang Yu • The Story of the Rebel Chen Sheng  13,00 €

253       Standen, Naomi

Unbounded Loyalty  — Frontier Crossings in Liao China

Honolulu, 2007, 11 maps, 296 p., cloth

Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907–1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. She takes as her starting point the recognition that, at the time, “China” did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically. Political borders were not the fixed geographical divisions of the modern world, but a function of relationships between leaders and followers. When local leaders changed allegiance, the borderline moved with them. Cultural identity did not determine people’s actions: Ethnicity did not exist. In this context, she argues, collaboration, resistance, and accommodation were not meaningful concepts, and tenth-century understandings of loyalty were broad and various.                            60,00 €

254       Sun Xi

Bedeutung und Rolle des Jesuitenmissionars Ignaz Kögler (1680-1746) in China  — Aus chinesischer Sicht

Bern, Mainzer Studien zur Neueren Geschichte  Vol. 20, 2007, 367 p.

Er ging 1716 mit 36 Jahren nach Peking und blieb dort bis zu seinem Tode im Jahr 1746. In diesen 30 Jahren war er zweimal Visitator (1729-1733 und 1741-1745) der Jesuitenvizeprovinz China und Japan und über 20 Jahre lang der erste offizielle europäische Direktor des astronomischen Amts Chinas. Er war außerdem Mandarin zweiter Klasse und Vizepräsident des Kultusministeriums am chinesischen Kaiserhof, was nur wenige Europäer erreichten. Als ranghöchster Jesuitenmissionar verteidigte Kögler seine Ordensbrüder in China mehrmals, und zwar mit viel Erfolg. Er wurde als die «einzige Stütze des Christentums in China» bezeichnet. Als ausgezeichneter europäischer Jesuitenwissenschaftler verbesserte Ignaz Kögler die chinesische Astronomie und den Kalender. Das letzte große astronomische Instrument Chinas «Ji Heng Fu Cheng Yi» wurde unter seiner Leitung verfasst. Wegen seiner hervorragenden wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit wurde Ignaz Kögler von drei Kaisern mehrmals belohnt und von chinesischen Historikern als der hervorragendste Missionar bezeichnet.                 75,00 €

255       Svarverud, Rune

International Law as World Order in Late Imperial China

Leiden, Sinica Leidensia, 78, 2007, 322 p., cloth

This is the first systematic analysis of the early introduction and reception of international law as a Western political and legal science in China. International law in late imperial China is studied both as part of the introduction of the Western sciences and as a theoretical orientation in international affairs between 1847 and 1911. The first chapters serve the purpose of analysing the political, institutional, intellectual and linguistic process of adapting the theories of international law to the Chinese context language. The second major part of the book is dedicated to the discourse on China and world order within this framework.       94,00 €

256       Thornton, Patricia M.

Disciplining the State  — Virtue, Violence and State-Making in Modern China

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 283, 2007, 275 p., cloth

This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power.  State-making is, in China as elsewhere, a profoundly normative and normalizing process. This study maps the complex processes of state-making, moral regulation, and social control during three critical reform periods: the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), the Guomindang's Nanjing decade (1927-1937), and the Communist Party's Socialist Education Campaign (1962-1966). During each period, central authorities introduced --not without resistance -- institutional change designed to extend the reach of central control over local political life.         37,00 €

257       Tian Xiaofei

Beacon Fire and Shooting Star  — The Literary Culture of the Liang

Cambridge, MA, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 63, 2007, 450 p., cloth

Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the works of this era are often dismissed as "decadent" and no more than a shallow prelude to the glories of the Tang. This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era --not only the literary works themselves but also the physical process of literary production such as the copying and transmitting of texts; activities such as book collecting, anthologizing, cataloguing, and various forms of literary scholarship; and the intricate interaction of religion, particularly Buddhism, and literature. Its aim is to explore the impact of social and political structure on the literary world.                              44,00 €

258       Van Gulik, Robert

Affaires résolues à l’ombre du poirier  — Un manuel chinois de jurisprudence et d’investigation policière du XIIIème siècle

Tallandier, Coll. Texto, 2007, 300 p.

Affaires résolues à l’ombre du poirier, ou Tang Yin Bi Shi. Texte anglais établi par Robert Van Gulik. Traduction et annotations en français de Lisa Bresner et Jacques Limoni. Réédition au format de poche de l’ouvrage paru aux éditions Albin Michel en 2002.           6,50 €

259       Wagner, Rudolf G. (ed)

Joining the Global Public  — Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

Albany, 2007, 249 p., cloth

Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China’s modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first generation of Chinese journalists, editorialists, and “newspainters.” With analyses demonstrating how the growth of popular media would enable China to join the global public, contributors also examine the impact of inserting an alien medium—a newspaper—into a Chinese universe and note the spread of new attitudes and values as entertainment papers filled the space of a newly created urban leisure.          73,00 €

260       Walter, Xavier

Petite histoire de la Chine

Eyrolles Pratique, 2007, 201 p.

"Une histoire conforme à l’image que les Chinois se font de leur passé" (l’éditeur) par l’ancien collaborateur d’Alain Peyrefitte.                                                                      10,00 €

261       Wetzel, Alexandra

La Chine ancienne  — De la fondation de l’empire à la dynastie Ming

Hazan, Coll. Guide des arts, 2007, 383 p.

Traduit de l’italien par Todaro Tradito. Ce guide a pour objectif d’offrir un panorama complet de l’Empire jusqu’à l’époque des Ming, sous forme de 7 chapitres thématiques iconographiés : les personnages ; le pouvoir et la vie publique ; la religion et la philosophie ; la vie quotidienne ; le monde des morts ; les capitales ; les grottes bouddhistes. Carte de la Chine, chronologie, muséographie, bibliographie et index complètent la documentation.                      27,00 €

262       Yan Yan

Le mouvement des Boxeurs en Chine (1898-1900) You Feng, 2007, 273 p.

Publication d’un travail universitaire réalisé à Paris 1-Pan-
théon-Sorbonne. L’auteur cherche à préciser les origines et le déroulement du mouvement des Boxeurs, sujet très étudié et controversé dans le milieu des historiens chinois, mais peu approfondi en France.            25,00 €

263       Zhang Xiantao

The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press  — The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China

London, 2007, 192 p., cloth

This book  shows how the western missionaries and their evangelical/educational newspapers changed the long-standing traditional practices, styles, content, print culture and printing technology of Chinese newspapers and, in the process, introduced some of the key ideas of western modernity which were to have a profound effect on Chinese society. Zhang Xiantao demonstrates how missionary publications reshaped print journalism, rather indirectly, from a centuries-long monopoly by the state - the Imperial press - into a pluralized, modernizing and frequently radical public journalism. She focuses in particular on the relationship between the missionaries and the class of ‘gentry scholars’ - literati and civil servants, educated via the traditional state examination system in the Confucian classics, who were the prime target readers of the missionary publications. This key group and the independent press they established at the end of the nineteenth century played a crucial role in shaping the ongoing struggle for a modern democratic media culture in China.      112,00 €

 

 

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264        

Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident Hors série  — Qu’était-ce qu’écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ?

What did it mean to write an encyclopedia in China

Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007, 224 p.

Sommaire : I La question générale des « encyclopédies » en Chine : Introduction (Florence Bretelle-Establet et Karine Chemla) • Des ouvrages classés par catégories : les encyclopédies chinoises (Jean-Pierre Drège) • II. Des encyclopédies impériales aux Notes au fil du pinceau : The Compilation and Publication of the Taiping yulan and the Cefu yuangui (Johannes L. Kurz) • The Encyclopedia as Textbook : Selling Private Chinese Encyclopedias in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Hilde De Weerdt) • The Flourishing of biji or Pen-Notes Texts an its Relations to History of knowledge in Song China (960-1279) (Fu Daiwei) • III. Ecrire par citation : significations politiques et philosophiques : Collecting and classifying : Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (leishu) (Benjamin Elman) • Archiving Knowledge : A Life History of the Calendrical Treatises of the Chongzhen Reign (Chongzhen lishu) (Chu Pingyi) • IV. Regards extérieurs : Le florilège latin comme point de comparaison (Anne Blair) • La muraille et les livres (Roger Chartier). Résumés en français/Abstracts/Résumés en chinois.                                                                      15,00 €

265        

Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident N° 28  — Desseins de frontières

Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007, 221 p.

Numéro coordonné par Paola Calanca. Sommaire : I .Des tracés et des bornes  • Les frontières : quelques termes-clés(Paola Calanca, François Wildt) •  La notion de frontière dans l'aménagement du territoire à l'époque ancienne (Paola Calanca) II. Enjeux frontaliers • Militaires et bureaucrates aux confins du Gansu-Qinghai à la fin du XIe siècle   (Christian Lamouroux) • Usages de la frontière : le cas du Xinjiang (XIXe- XXe siècles) (Elisabeth Allès) III. Tensions frontalières : Vers une nouvelle définition de la frontière sino-tibétaine : la Conférence de Simla (1913-1914) et le projet de création de la province chinoise du Xikang  (Fabienne Jagou) • Chine-Corée : une frontière en suspens ?  (Sébastien Colin) IV. Regard extérieur : Eclats de frontières (Daniel Nordman)      15,00 €

266        

Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident N°29  — De l’esprit aux esprits – enquête sur la notion de shen

Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007, 220 p.

Numéro préparé par Romain Graziani et Roel Sterckx. Sommaire : « Quand l’esprit demeure tout seul » (Romain Graziani) • I. Divinités transcendantes ou forces sociales ? Les esprits dans le rituel et la religion : Searching for Spirit : Shen and acrifice in Warning States and Han Philosophy and Ritual (Roel Sterckx) ; Intellectuels chinois contemporains en débat avec les esprits : le cas de Liang Shuming (1893-1988) (Thierry Meynard) • Âmes du corps ou âme du monde ? Les esprits dans la médecine et la pratique de soi : Âmes et animations du corps. La notion de shen dans la médecine chinoise antique (Catherine Despeux) ; Humans, Spirits and Sages en Chinese Antiquity : Ge Hong’s Master Who Embraces Simplicity (Baopuzi) (Michael Puett) • III. Saisir la marche des choses. Les esprits dans la métaphysique et la cosmologie : L’accès à l’âme du monde. Définitions et approches à partir de l’œuvre de Zhang Zai (1020-1078) (Stéphane Feuillas) ; Culture de soi et créativité. Relations sur la relation entre Mou Zongsan et le confucianisme énergétique (Fabian Heubel) • Regard extérieur : Le prince et le pêcheur Remarques sur un cas de divination dans le Tchouang-tseu (Bertrand Méheust)  15,00 €

267        

Oser construire  — Pour François Jullien

Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond / Seuil, 2007, 150 p.

Textes inclus : 1. Du danger de penser (Françoise Gaillard) • 2. Affrontements idéologiques et continuité culturelle  (Philippe d’Iribarne) • 3. D’un (im)possible passage. Note sur Si parler va sans dire. Du logos et autres ressources  (Jean Allouch) • 4. Le discours de la méthode de François Jullien (Patrick Hochart) • 5. L’élision du sujet (Philippe Jousset) • 6. François Jullien (Jean-Marie Schaeffer) • 7. Comment faire travailler un écart ? (Lin Chi-Ming) • 8. Contre les néo-figuristes. Pourquoi la Chine est importante, mais la sinologie insignifiante  (Wolfgang Kubin) • 9. Forget the "for" and "against" (for the moment) (Ramona Naddaff) • 10. Lettre de Pékin : sur l’usage chinois de la "boîte à outils" de François Jullien (Du Xiaozhen) • 11. Contre le Contre François Jullien de Jean-François Billeter  (Léon Vandermeersch) • 12. Autour d’une controverse, deux hétérotopies parallèles  (Bruno Latour) • Construire des comparables  (Paul Ricoeur) • Jullien l’apostat  (Alain Badiou)                                                                      16,00 €

268        

Acupuncture traditionnelle chinoise N°16 Institut Yin-Yang, 2007, 140 p.

Recueil de textes d’acupuncture et de médecine chinoise publiés en Chine, sélectionnés, adaptés, traduits et annotés par Lin Shi Shan. Thèmes : Foie, reins, paralysie faciale, céphalée, couples de points, hyperlipidémie, lumbago, douleurs du genou, tabagisme.                                                                      26,50 €

269       Abé Yoshio

Le « décorticage » du riz  — typologie, répartition géographique et histoire des instruments à monder le riz

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Coll. archéologie expérimentale et ethnographique des techniques  8, 2007, 588 p.

Souvent confondues avec l’usinage des agronomes, les techniques traditionnelles du mondage conjuguent des savoir-faire précis et délicats, aujourd’hui tombés dans l’oubli. Au gré d’un remarquable travail d’érudition et d’analyse, Yoshio Abé reconstitue pour la première fois ces instruments et ces techniques. Elaborant leur typologie, considérant leur répartition géographique à travers le monde, l’histoire de leur diffusion et leur évolution, il nous plonge dans la réalité quotidienne de ce qu’ont été les civilisations du riz.     52,00 €

270       Adamek, Wendi

The Mystique of Transmission  — On Early Chan History and Its Contexts

Irvington/New York, 2007, 448 p., cloth

Wendi Adamek provides a close reading of the late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations) and provides its first English translation. The work combines a history of the transmission of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan. Adamek compares the text with related works, tracing changes in the doctrines and practices associated with the transmission of authority in medieval Chinese Buddhism. While Adamek is concerned with familiar Chan themes like patriarchal genealogies and the ideology of sudden enlightenment, she also highlights topics that make this work distinctive: formless practice, the inclusion of female practitioners, the influence of Daoist metaphysics, and connections with early Tibetan Buddhism.                                                       47,00 €

271       Anderson, Christian Alan

Betel nut chewing culture  — The social and symbolic life of an Indigenous commodity in Taiwan and Hainan

Ann Arbor, 2007, 464 p.

Betel nut chewing is a social practice that articulates boundaries. The history of betel nut chewing in Southern China indexes the ways in which non-Han minorities were sinicized, demonstrating how betel nut chewing culture was appropriated by Han nobles, and variously incorporated into Han cultural expressions in the southern region. In Hainan betel nut chewing marks boundaries between local islanders and outsiders. A comparative analysis of betel nut chewing cultures in Taiwan and Hainan reveals that internal boundaries are marked in Taiwan, and outsider/insider status is marked in Hainan. Analysis of the symbolic nature of betel nut and the process of chewing is found to relate to gendered complementary practice at its root, and extends to various expressions of betel nut in its social and ritual forms.

 An authourized facsimile of a doctoral dissertation submitted to University of Southern California.       83,90 €

272       Bell, Daniel A. (ed)

Confucian Political Ethics

Princeton, Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics, 2007, 264 p., cloth

Drawing upon in-depth, cross-cultural dialogues, the contributors delve into the relationship of Confucian political ethics to contemporary social issues, exploring Confucian perspectives on civil society, government, territorial boundaries and boundaries of the human body and body politic, and ethical pluralism. They examine how Confucianism, often dismissed as backwardly patriarchal, can in fact find common ground with a range of contemporary feminist values and need not hinder gender equality. And they show how Confucian theories about war and peace were formulated in a context not so different from today's international system, and how they can help us achieve a more peaceful global community. The contributors are Daniel A. Bell, Joseph Chan, Sin Yee Chan, Chenyang Li, Richard Madsen, Ni Lexiong, Peter Nosco, Michael Nylan, Henry Rosemont, Jr., and Lee H. Yearley.

Also available in paperback at 20 EUR                 53,00 €

273       Benn, James

Burning for the Buddha  — Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism

Honolulu, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No. 19, 2007, 376 p.

This study examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.      54,50 €

274       Birdwhistell, Joanne D.

Mencius and Masculinities  — Dynamics of Power, Morality and Maternal Thinking

Albany, 2007, 160 p., cloth

In this innovative work, Joanne D. Birdwhistell presents the first gender analysis of the Mencius, a central text in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Mencian philosophy, particularly its ideas about the processes by which a man could develop into a cultivated gentleman, was important to the political thought of China's long imperial order. Through close textual readings, Birdwhistell offers a new interpretation of core Mencian ideas about the heart and the self-cultivation of the great man. She argues that the concept of masculinity advocated by the Mencius is derived, although without acknowledgment, from maternal practices and thinking--through processes of appropriation, inversion, and transformation. She illustrates that even though maternal practices and thinking are an invisible dimension of Mencian thought, they are constantly present in the text through their transcoding with agricultural practices and thinking. *Also available in paperback at 16,00 €                                                                      57,00 €

275       Blanchon, Flora & Rang-Ri Park-Barjot (dir.)

Le nouvel âge de Confucius  — Modern Confucianism in China and South Korea

Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007, 367 p.

Le recueil rassemble les contributions de chercheurs chinois, coréens et européens sur le thème du " nouveau confucianisme contemporain" : les liens avec la tradition, le sens du corpus écrit, le rapport au religieux, le choc avec la modernité du monde globalisé. Cet ouvrage de recherche et de réflexion éclaire le sens et la portée philosophique, sociale et économique de l’actualité du "retour de Confucius" en Asie. Articles de Tang Yijie, Li Zhonghua, Léon Vandermeersch, June W.Seo, Suk-won Oh, Toshihiko Yazawa, Ivan P. Kamenarovic, Béatrice L’Haridon, Isabelle Sancho, Isabelle Landry-Deron, Vincent Goossaert, Nicolas Zufferey, Thierry Pairault, Rang-Ri Park-Barjot & Tae-Sik Rhee Michel Masson SJ, Joël Thoraval, Anne Cheng, Jung-In Kim, Jocelyne Fresnais-Vaudelle, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Roland Lin Chih-Hung, Young-Jin Choi, Soo-Bok Cheong.       26,00 €

276       Bokenkamp, Stephen R.

Ancestors and Anxiety  — Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China

Berkeley, A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies, 2007, index, bibliography, 220 p., cloth

This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's  study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview. Here, he explores how Chinese authors, including Daoists and non-Buddhists, received and deployed ideas about rebirth from the third to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist accounts that provide detail on the realms of the dead, their denizens, and human interactions with them. Bokenkamp demonstrates that the motive for the Daoist acceptance of Buddhist notions of rebirth lay not so much in the power of these ideas as in the work they could be made to do. 53,00 €

277       Bray, Francesca, Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera & Georges Métailié (eds.)

Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China  —  The Warp and the Weft

Leiden, 2007, 776 p., cloth

This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu: ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West.  189,00 €

278       Brown, Miranda

The Politics of Mourning in Early China

Albany, 2007, 8 tables, 205 p., cloth

The Politics of Mourning in Early China reevaluates the longstanding assumptions about early imperial political culture. Offering a new perspective on the mourning practices and funerary monuments of the Han dynasty, Miranda Brown asks whether the early imperial elite did in fact imagine political participation solely along the lines of the father-son relationship or whether there were alternative visions of political association. The early imperial elite held remarkably varied and contradictory beliefs about political life, and they had multiple templates and changing scripts for political action. This book documents and explains such diversity and variation and shows that the Han dynasty practice of mourning expressed many visions of political life, visions that left lasting legacies.     56,00 €

279       Chen Huaiyu

The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China

Bern, American University Studies Series 7: Theology and Religion Vol. 253, 2007, 244 p., cloth

Previously published as a dissertation at Proquest. In presenting a fresh image of medieval monastic life of Chinese Buddhism, this book focuses on several key issues in Daoxuan's work, including the veneration of Buddha's relics, the re-creation of the ordination platform and ordination ritual, and how the Buddhist community reclassified and dealt with monastic property. 89,00 €

280       Chen Jinhua

Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician  — The Many Lives of Fazang (643-712)

Leiden, Sinica Leidensia, 75, 2007, 542 p., cloth

The Buddhist monk Fazang (643-712), regarded today mainly as a scholastic monk, was in fact one of the greatest metaphysicians in Asia. This biographical - and hagiographical - study of Fazang seeks to explore his other contributions and in so doing to correct some major mis-presentations and misinterpretations existing in modern scholarship. It highlights and uncovers aspects of Fazang’s complicated life which have been neglected or ignored until now. By experimenting with some methodological innovations in reading medieval Chinese monastic hagio-biography, this study reveals general features, structures and overall governing laws of medieval East Asian monastic hagio-biographic literature.                                176,00 €

281       Cheng, Anne (ed.)

La pensée en Chine aujourd’hui

Gallimard, Folio Essais N°486, 2007, 478 p.

Sommaire : Pour en finir avec le mythe de l’altérité (Anne Cheng) • Dynamiques de la modernité : Modernité de Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692) (Jacques Gernet) ; La conception chinoise de l’histoire (Léon Vandermeersch) ; De Confucius au romancier Jin Yong (Nicolas Zufferey) ; La tentation pragmatiste dans la Chine contemporaine (Joël Thoraval) ; Liu xiaobo : le retour de la morale (Jean-Philippe Béja) • L’invention des catégories modernes : philosophie, religion, médecine : Les tribulations de la « philosophie chinoise » en Chine (Anne Cheng) ; L’invention des « religions » en Chine moderne (Vincent Gossaert) ; la médecine chinoise traditionnelle en République populaire de Chine : d’une « tradition inventée » à une « modernité alternative » (Elisabeth Hsu) • Questions d’identité : l’écriture et la langue : L’écriture chinoise : mise au point (Viviane Alleton) ; Identité de la langue, identité de la Chine (Chu Xiaoquan) ; La « sinité » : l’identité chinoise en question (Zhang yinde) ; Où en est la pensée taïwanaise ? Une histoire en constante réécriture (Damien Morier-Genoud) • Dépasser l’altérité : Penser sur la science avec les mathématiques de la Chine ancienne (Karine Chemla)         8,70 €

282       Choain, Jean

La « voie rationnelle » de la médecine chinoise Frison-Roche, 2007, 527 p.

Préfaces d’Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée et de Patrick Sautreuil. L’auteur est revenu aux sources de la tradition et il a structuré de façon rigoureuse la médecine traditionnelle chinoise, ce qui ne manquera pas d’intéresser le lecteur d’aujourd’hui qui retrouvera dans ce livre une clarification des mécanismes de l’acupuncture.    105,00 €

283       Chu, William P.

A Buddha-shaped hole: Yinshun's (1906--2005) critical Buddhology and the theological crisis in modern Chinese Buddhism

Ann Arbor, 2007, 463 p.

Modern East Asian Buddhology gave birth to whole generations of "critical scholar practitioners," who used their supposedly less fallible academic methods (in contrast to a faithful reliance on the increasingly problematized sectarian myths and scriptural histories) to subvert and reinterpret some of the most revered and idiosyncratic aspects of traditional Buddhism. Historical-critical methods employed by modern Buddhist scholars have had seriously threatened to unravel the legitimacy of Chinese Buddhist sacred scriptures and their religious implications, engendering a spiritual crisis comparable to the European "God-shaped hole" that haunted the emergent modern psyche---set adrift by philosophical skepticism and new scientific insights, yet profoundly yearning for and continuously reinventing its religious experience. In similar ways, leading scholars in Chinese communities like Yinshun (1906-2005) advanced their polemical agendas in the name of a rationalized and "scientifically verified" reform movement. Their works have played seminal roles in the developing modern Chinese Buddhist scholarship, and are fast becoming the curricular backbone of Buddhist studies courses in many Taiwanese universities and seminaries.

An authourized facsimile of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of California.    83,90 €

284       Cuevas, Bryan J. & Jacqueline I. Stone

The Buddhist Dead  — Practices, Discourses, Representations

Honolulu, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No. 20, 2007, 13 illus., 504 p., cloth

In this comparative study, the individual essays, representing a range of methods, shed light on a rich array of traditional Buddhist practices for the dead and dying; the sophisticated but often paradoxical discourses about death and the dead in Buddhist texts; and the varied representations of the dead and the afterlife found in Buddhist funerary art and popular literature. This important collection moves beyond the largely text—and doctrine—centered approaches characterizing an earlier generation of Buddhist scholarship and expands its treatment of death to include ritual, devotional, and material culture.  Contributors: James A. Benn, Raoul Birnbaum, Jason A. Carbine, Bryan J. Cuevas, Hank Glassman, John Clifford Holt, Matthew T. Kapstein, D. Max Moerman, Mark Rowe, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gregory Schopen, Koichi Shinohara, Jacqueline I. Stone, John S. Strong.      68,00 €

285       Davies, Gloria

Worrying about China  — The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry

Cambridge, MA, 2007, 324 p., cloth

In Worrying about China, Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas. Davies explores the way perfectionism permeates and ultimately propels Chinese intellectual talk to the point that the drive for perfection has created a moralism that condemns those who do not contribute to improving China. Inside the heart of the New China persists ancient moralistic attitudes that remain decidedly nonmodern. And inside the postmodernism of thousands of Chinese scholars and intellectuals dwells a decidedly anti-postmodern quest for absolute certainty.                                         37,00 €

286       De Groot, J.J.M.

Les fêtes annuellement célébrées à Emoui (Amoy)  — Etude concernant la religion populaire des Chinois. Partie 1, Du printemps à l'été

You Feng, 2006, 400 p.

Traduit du néerlandais, avec le concours de l’auteur, par C.-G. Chavannes. Illustrations de Félix Régamey. Première édition: Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1886                                                      38,00 €

287       Fazang

Les mystères essentiels de l’entrée à Lankâ

Fayard, 2007, 138 p.

Traduit du chinois, introduit et annoté par Patrick Carré. L’expérience métaphysique n’est pas foncièrement différente de l’expérience mystique. Les « enseignements parfaits » de l’école des Ornements Fleuris (Huayan) pourraient apporter, sur le mode philosophique et visionnaire si particulier au bouddhisme, la réponse la plus fine à la question la plus finement posée : qu’est-ce-que le réel ? Fazang (né en 642), troisième patriarche de l’école Huayan, s’emploie alors à démontrer que la vérité n’est pas un effet du rejet de l’erreur mais l’acceptation complète, raisonnée et documentée, de toutes les visions et les vues les plus contradictoires que le réel inspire à ceux qui la cherchent.                                                        15,00 €

288       Froese, Katrin

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Daoist Thought  — Crossing Paths In-Between

Albany, SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture, 2007, 272 p., cloth          25,00 €

289       Gernet, Jacques

Société et pensée chinoises aux XVIème et XVIIème siècles

Fayard, 2007, 201 p.

Résumés des cours et séminaires au Collège de France. Chaire d’histoire intellectuelle et sociale de la Chine (1975-1992). Des intitulés donneront une idée du travail élaboré au cours de ces dix-sept années : le matérialisme chinois au XVIème siècle ; un moderniste chinois du XVIIème siècle : Liu Xianting ; Réactions chinoises au christianisme ; Histoire et politique chez Wang Fuzhi ; Associations et académies en Chine au XVIème siècle ; Recherches sur les académies en Chine, Education et société en Chine ; Les débuts de la pensée moderne en Chine : Wang Fuzhi ; La philosophie de Wang Fuzhi ; quelques thèmes de la pensée chinoise aux XVIème et XVIIème siècles.                                                                      20,00 €

290       Goossaert, Vincent

The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949  — A Social History of Urban Clerics

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs, 284, 2007, index, bibliography, 395 p., cloth

Arguing that there cannot be a history of Taoism without the Taoists --all of them-- Vincent Goossaert shows that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies nor otherwordly ascetics, but active participants in the religious economy of the city. In exploring exactly what their role was, he addresses the day-to-day  life of modern Chinese religion from the perspective of ordinary religious specialists. This approach highlights the social processes, institutions, and networks that transmit religious knowledge and mediate between prestigious religious traditions and the people in the street.   45,00 €

291       Hamar, Imre (ed)

Reflecting Mirrors  — Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism

Wiesbaden, 2007, bibliographies, XXII, 410 p.

The reader gains an insight into the development of Huayan Buddhism: The compilation of its base text, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, the establishment of Huayan tradition as a special form of East Asian Buddhism and its visual representations. The book consists of five chapters: 1. State of Field, 2. The Buddhavatam. sakasutra, 3. Huayan in China, 4. Hwaom/ Kegon in Korea and Japan, and 5. Huayan/ Hwaom/ Kegon Art. The following scholars contributed to this volume: Aramaki Noritoshi, Jana Benicka, Choe Yeonshik, Bernard Faure, Frédéric Girard, Imre Hamar, Huang Yi-hsun, Ishii Kosei, Kimura Kiyotaka, Charles Muller, Jan Nattier, Otake Susumu, Joerg Plassen, Wei Daoru, Dorothy Wong, Zhu Qingzhi.                      96,00 €

292       Heirman, Ann & Stephan P. Bumbacher (eds.)

The Spread of Buddhism

Leiden, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies, 16, 2007, 474 p., cloth

In no region of the world Buddhism can be seen as a unified doctrinal system. It rather consists of a multitude of different ideas, practices and behaviours. Geographical, social, political, economic, philosophical, religious, and also linguistic factors all played their role in its development and spread, but this role was different from region to region. Based on up-to-date research, this book aims at unraveling the complex factors that shaped the presence of particular forms of Buddhism in the regions to the north and the east of India. The result is a fascinating view on the mechanisms that allowed or hampered the presence of (certain aspects of) Buddhism in regions such as Central Asia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, or Korea.                164,00 €

293       Ho Peng Yoke

Explorations in Daoism  — Medicine and Alchemy in Literature

London, Needham Research Institute Series, 2007, 256 p., cloth

The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts concerning ritual, alchemical and meditation practices within Daoist religion. Many of these texts are undated and anonymous, so dating them is essential for a clear understanding of the development of Chinese alchemy, and the place of these texts in history. Ho Peng Yoke's Explorations in Daoism brings together an extraordinary compendium of data on alchemical knowledge in China, describing the methods used for dating important alchemical texts in the Daoist canon, and reconstructing and translating a number of alchemical texts that exist only in fragments scattered throughout the Daoist canon, pharmacopoeia and other compendia. This book provides a clear guide for students and scholars about the methods required for dating and reconstituting texts using techniques that can be applied to other areas of traditional Chinese culture also.            126,80 €

294       Israeli, Raphael

Islam in China  — Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics

New York, 2007, 350 p.

Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders. Both timely and important, the multifaceted essays-— collection of over twenty years of Raphael Israeli's scholarship on Chinese Muslims—offer detailed insight into the relationship between China's non-Muslim majority and an increasingly self-confident guest culture. The work uncovers a history of uneasy ethnic, philosophical, and ideological coexistence, the gradual sinification of the Chinese Muslim creed, and the increasing accommodation of Islam by a modern, westernizing China. In addition, it highlights a religious group riddled with sectarianism; factional rifts that reveal the doctrinal, social, and political diversity at the core of Chinese Islam.   41,30 €

295       Jia Jinhua

The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eight through Tenth-Century China

Albany, 2007, 220 p.

New in paperback                                             25,00 €

296       Jullien, François

La pensée chinoise, dans le miroir de la philosophie

Seuil, Coll. Opus Seuil, 2007, 1882 p.

Ce volume rassemble Eloge de la fadeur (1991), Le détour et l’accès (1995), Procès ou création (1989), La propension des choses (1992), Figures de l’immanence (1993), Fonder la morale (1995), Traité de l’efficacité (1996). Une introduction inédite ainsi qu’un index raisonné complètent l’ensemble.                                      39,00 €

297       Jullien, François

Vital Nourishment — Departing from Happiness

Cambridge, MA, 2007, 170 p., cloth

Translated from French by Arthur Goldhammer. Original title : Nourrir sa vie. The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning. Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends François Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten simply to experience life. In Vital Nourishment, Jullien slows down and begins to think about life from a point outside of Western inquiry, using  Zhuangzi as a foil in this installment of his continuing project of plumbing the philosophical divide between Eastern and Western thought.    26,00 €

298       Komjathy, Louis

Cultivating Perfection  —  Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism

Leiden, Sinica Leidensia, 76, 2007, 554 p., cloth

Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization and textual analysis it is demonstrated that in its formative and incipient organized phases Quanzhen was a Daoist religious community consisting of a few renunciants dedicated to religious praxis. The study proper is followed by a complete annotated translation of a text attributed to the founder, which represents one of only two early Quanzhen texts translated to date. Subsequent appendices address issues of dating and contents of the early textual corpus as well as technical Quanzhen religious terminology.                                                                    176,00 €

299       Miller, Tracy G.

The Divine Nature of Power  — Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci

Cambridge, MA,  Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 62, 2007, 40 color halftones, 22 b/w halftones, 265 p., cloth

Built around three sacred springs, the Jin Shrines complex (Jinci), near Taiyuan in Shanxi province, contains a wealth of ancient art and architecture dating back to the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on the research of archaeologists, anthropologists, and religious, social, and art historians, this book seeks to recover the motivations behind the creation of religious art, including temple buildings, sculpture, and wall paintings. Through an examination of building style and site organization, the author illuminates the multiplicity of meanings projected by buildings within a sacred landscape and the ability of competing patronage groups to modify those meanings with text and context, thereby affecting the identity of the deities housed within them.         42,00 €

300       Møllgaard, Eske

An Introduction to Daoist Thought  — Action, Language, and Ethics in Zhuangzi

London, 2007, 176 p., cloth

The author introduces a complex reading that shows the unity of Zhuangzi’s thought, in particular in his views of action, language, and ethics. By addressing methodological questions that arise in reading Zhuangzi, a hermeneutics is developed which makes understanding Zhuangzi’s religious thought possible. A theoretical contribution to comparative philosophy and the cross-cultural study of religious traditions, the book serves as an introduction to Daoism for graduate students in religion, philosophy, and East Asian Studies.                                                                    112,00 €

301       Nickerson, Peter

Taoism, Bureaucracy and Popular Religion in Early Medieval China

Cambridge, MA, Harvard East Asian Monographs 285, Forthcoming 2008, 275 p., cloth

During the second century CE, Taoism appeared as an organized religion--the Way of the Celestial Master, a recognizable social entity with a priesthood, special rituals, registered parishioners, a messianic eschatology, and other features of an institutionalized faith. The Celestial Masters based their organization on procedures used by the state administration. Thus, from the very beginning, the Taoist religion was inseparably linked to bureaucratic forms and usages. This study focuses on several of early Taoism's most bureaucratized aspects--its social organization, healing ritual, and cosmology--and applies its findings to an analysis of Taoism's relationship to popular religious traditions, particularly spirit-mediumism, exorcism, divination, and cults to local deities. Early Taoism's affinity for bureaucracy, the author argues, was a formative influence on the complex relationship between Taoism and popular religion that continued to evolve for centuries thereafter--still shaped by those early medieval patterns. 36,00 €

302       Ou Chaoquan

Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949

Leiden, Sinica Leidensia, 80, 2007, 79 illus., 298 p., cloth

Translated by D. Norman Geary. Although this unique insider's account of minority life in China is clearly a book in itself, it is also the sequel to the much-acclaimed The Kam People of China (Geary, Ou and others, 2003, 144 EUR). It describes the hitherto scarcely researched culture of people from Xiangye village, in an untravelled corner of Guizhou province, Southwest China, in the 20 years leading up to Liberation in 1949. Xiangye is a Kam (Dong) nationality village, so the book highlights Kam culture of the 1930s and 1940s. It is a fascinating and unparalleled study, also offering exceptionally clear details of many aspects of material culture and social customs, for example, the work of rice-farming, cotton production, and cooking, beautifully illustrated with line drawings and photographs, that should appeal to anyone interested in the Kam people, China, or in ethnology generally. The author grew up in Xiangye and later became Professor of Anthropology at a university in Qinghai province. The manuscript was first written in Chinese, with the intention of having it translated into English for an outside readership.                                          103,00 €

303       Pellat, Valerie

Numbers and Numeracy in Chinese Culture, Language and Education  — The Social Substratum of the Development of Mathematical Thinking

Lewiston, 2007, Bibliography, index, 156 p., cloth

This study explores the way in which mathematics and calculation have developed against the background of indigenous Chinese philosophy, scientific thinking and state
craft. Contents : Introduction • 1 Number in Chinese History and Philosophy • 2 Number in Chinese Education • 3 Num
bers in Chinese Language and Culture • 4 Number in Chinese Culture • 5 The Numbers One by One • 6 Conclusion          116,00 €

304       Reiter, Florian C. (ed)

Purposes, Means and Convictions in Daoism  — A Berlin Symposium II

Wiesbaden, 2007, 257 p.

This book contains twelve articles that represent con
tributions of international scholars who, in 2005 participated in a symposium at Humboldt-University (Berlin), staged with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG/ Bonn). The two parts of the book, Historical and Ritual Traditions (I) and Varieties of Religious Activities and Functions (II), mirror the understanding of the basic themes as developed during the symposium and the ensuing discussions. The articles cover periods and developments from the beginning of the religious Daoism up to the late 19th century. The four Chinese contributions are accompanied by English summaries. 66,00 €

305       Rochat de la Vallée, Elisabeth

La symbolique des nombres dans la Chine traditionnelle

Desclée de Brouwer, 2007, 225 p.

La dimension de la symbolique des nombres apparaît comme une clé de lecture indispensable pour appréhender la civilisation ou lire les grands textes fondateurs de la pensée chinoise. Une plongée dans la polysémie des nombres chinois, qui au-delà de rangs ou de simples quantités, traduisent la vision d’un ordre du monde, voire témoignent d’une sagesse sous-jacente.         22,00 €

306       Rosenlee, Li-hsiang Lisa

Confucianism and Women  — A Philosophical Interpretation

Albany, 2007, 200 p.

New in paperback                                             22,80 €

307       Sawyer, Ralph

The Tao of Deception  — Unorthodoxy Warfare in Historic and Ancient China

New York, 2007, 489 p., cloth

A guide to the ancient practice of unorthodox warfare. It describes how Chinese generals have used false rumours to exploit opposing generals' distrust of their subordinates, dressed thousands of women as soldiers to create the illusion of an elite attack force; and sent word of a false surrender to lure enemy troops away from an escape route.  36,00 €

308       Scott, Janet Lee

For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors  — The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings

Seattle, 2007,  64 color illus., 336 p.

Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle - how they are made, sold, and used. Her comprehensive investigation touches on virtually every aspect of Chinese popular religion as it explores the many forms of these intricate objects, their manufacture, their significance, and their importance in rituals to honor gods, care for ancestors, and contend with ghosts. Throughout For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors, paper offerings are presented as a vibrant and living tradition expressing worshippers' respect and gratitude for the gods, as well as love and concern for departed family members. Finally, the book considers the survival of this traditional craft, the importance of flexibility and innovation, and the role of compassion and filial piety in the use of paper offerings.      31,00 €

309       Sun Zi

The Art of War  — Sun Zi's Military Methods

Irvington/New York, 2007, 189 p., cloth

A new translation with valuable explanatory notes by Victor Mair who confronts complex questions concerning the authorship of the work, asserting that Sun Wu, a supposed strategist of the Spring and Autumn period  to whom the text is traditionally attributed, never existed. Instead, Mair claims that The Art of War coalesced over a period of around seventy-five years, from the middle of the fourth century to the first quarter of the third century B.C.E. He also reveals the way The Art of War reflects historical developments in technological and military strategy in civilizations throughout Eurasia, especially in regards to iron metallurgy. He demonstrates the close link between the philosophy in The Art of War and taoism and discusses the reception of the text from the classical period to today.       21,00 €

310       Tao, Antony

Dieu et le Tao (L’Occident et la Chine)

L'Harmattan, 2007, 109 p.

Mise en parallèle des deux images qui découlent du survol des grandes lignes du paysage des croyances en Chine et en Occident. Un abrégé de la vision selon laquelle Chine et Occident seraient deux versants fondamentalement différents de la pensée humaine (immanence/transcendance).                              11,50 €

311       Tarocco, Francesca

The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism  — Attuning the Dharma

London, 2007, 208 p., cloth

Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. Francesca Tarocco is a rising star in this field and offers an innovative high-quality piece of work that presents a new perspective on the influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture. Drawing on scarcely analyzed historical and archive sources, including photographs and musical scores, Tarocco adeptly argues that Chinese Buddhism played a more vital role in shaping Chinese culture than previously assumed. Focusing on the cultural side of Buddhism, it adds breadth and balance to studies in Buddhism as a whole, appealing to professionals and academics with an interest in Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist history.         112,00 €

312       Temple, Robert

Le génie de la Chine  — 3000 ans de découvertes et d’inventions

Philippe Picquier, 2007, 288 p.

Paru pour la première fois il y a vingt ans, cet ouvrage est un succès mondial en librairie. Il reparait ici dans une version entièrement renouvelée et notemment complétée selon les récentes études scientifiques. Ce livre richement illustré écrit d’après le travail de Joseph Needham permet de découvrir par grands thèmes les nombreuses découvertes et inven-
tions faites par les Chinois au cours de l’histoire.   29,00 €

313       Tessenow, Hermann & Paul U. Unschuld

A Dictionary of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen  — Book and CD

Berkeley, Forthcoming 2008, 600 p., cloth

This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, translated by Hermann Tessenow and Paul U. Unschuld. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and the blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including acupuncture. The dictionary comes with a CD containing two concordances that list all characters along the pinyin-alphabetical sequence. 83,00 €

314       Thiébault, Philippe

Confucius et le devenir homme  — Chemins de maturation

Academia Bruylant & Presses universitaires de Louvain, Coll. Orientales, 2007, 210 p.

L’auteur s’engage dans cet essai à accomplir le travail historique et textuel nécessaire à une rencontre plus précise et authentique du penseur, en vue aussi d’une interrogation de notre modernité, d’un éclairage de notre actualité par la réactualisation de cette pensée et du mode d’existence qu’elle propose. La prise en compte des connaissances les plus récentes sur l’histoire antique de la Chine et le texte lui-même sont placés au cœur de cette réflexion sur notre humanité et notre présent. Préface de Léon Vandermeersch.      24,50 €

315       Wagner, Donald B.

Science and Civilisation in China  — Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology Part 11, Ferrous Metallurgy

Cambridge, Forthcoming 2008, 4 tables, 48 colour figures, 544 p., cloth

Donald B. Wagner provides a comprehensive historical account of the production and use of iron and steel in China in their political and economic context. An initial chapter on the traditional Chinese iron industry introduces the important technical concepts and the ways in which technology, geography, and economics interact and influence political phenomena. Recent archaeological work indicates that the earliest production of iron in China was in the Northwest, and that the technology was introduced from the West via Central Asia. It was, however, the invention in South China of large-scale technologies which put China on a very different developmental path from that of the West. Further chapters deal with developments from the Han to the Tang, the technical evolution and economic revolution of the Song period, and economic expansion under the Ming. A final chapter investigates the debt of the modern steel industry to Chinese developments.                                                                    174,00 €

316       Wang Youru (ed.)

Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought London, 2007, 272 p., cloth

The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusing on the ethical dimension and function of deconstruction in Asian thought. Examining different traditions and schools of Asian thought, including Indian Buddhism, Zen, other schools of East Asian Buddhism, the Kyoto School, and Daoism, the contributors explore the central theme from different contexts and different angles. Insights and notions from the contemporary discussion of Derridean deconstruction and its ethic or Derridean-Levinasian ethic as a paradigm for comparison or interpretation are used as a framework. Furthering our understanding of the relationship between deconstruction and the ethical in Asian traditions, this book also enriches the contemporary ethical discourse from a global perspective by bridging Asia and the West.