An interdisciplinary quarterly journal, China Perspectives provides insightful analysis of the latest political, economic, scoial and cultural trends in the Chinese world.
China Perspectives is an anonymously peer-reviewed academic journal. Its authority is ensured by an editorial board made up of reputed scholars, and by the expertise of its contributors.
It aims to provide a scientific perspective on contemporary issues. A serious yet readable journal, China Perspectives has already proven essential for sinologists and Asia analysts, but its broad scope and highly informative articles may be of interest to anyone keen on improving their knowledge about Greater China.
Since 2007, China Perspectives has changed its format. The journal is now organized under the following headings:
Special feature:
Comprehensive and in-depth analysis of one prominent aspect of developments regarding Greater China. A pluridisciplinary approach relying on the latest academic research.
Articles:
Research articles focusing on specific topics in relation with contemporary China.
China analysis:
In cooperation with the Asia Centre (Paris), a critical synthesis of recent articles published in the Chinese press and journal.
Book reviews:
Reviews of the latest significant publications on contemporary China.
2007/4 dernier numéro publié
China and its Past: Return, Reinvention, Forgetting
- Sébastien Billioud et Joël Thoraval
- Jiaohua: The Confucian Revival in China as an Educative Project [Résumé]
- Marianne Bujard et Xi Ju
- The Heritage of the Temples, a Heritage in Stone: An Overview of Beijing’s Religious Epigraphy [Résumé]
- Christopher Howe
- Shadows, Illusions, and Realities in the History of Modern Manchuria [Résumé]
- A review of Manchuria under Japanese Domination by Yamamuro Shin’ichi, translated by Joshua A. Fogel, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
- Zeming Chen
- The “Active Rightists” of 1957 and Their Legacy: “Right-wing Intellectuals,” Revisionists, and Rights Defenders [Résumé]
- Michel Bonnin
- The Threatened History and Collective Memory of the Cultural Revolution’s Lost Generation [Résumé]
- Youqin Wang
- Finding a Place for the Victims: The Problem in Writing the History of the Cultural Revolution [Résumé]
- Sebastian Veg
- Utopian Fiction and Critical Examination: The Cultural Revolution in Wang Xiaobo’s “The Golden Age” [Résumé]
- Jean-Philippe Béja
- Forbidden Memory, Unwritten History: The Difficulty of Structuring an Opposition Movement in the PRC [Résumé]
- Eva Pils
- The Persistent Memory of Historic Wrongs in China: A Discussion of Demands for “Reappraisal” [Résumé]
China Analysis
- Michal Meidan
- China’s Think Tanks, the King’s Counsellors [Résumé]
- Compiled and commented Analysis
- Mathieu Duchâtel
- Relations between France and China: the Break . . . with Germany? [Résumé]
- Compiled and commented Analysis
Book reviews
- Kristof Van Den Troost
- Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, China on Screen: Cinema and Nation [Texte intégral]
- Emmanuel Lincot
- Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity. Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific [Texte intégral]
- Chloé Froissart
- Kevin O'Brien and Li Lianjiang, Rightful Resistance in Rural China [Texte intégral]
- Gilles Guiheux
- Ning Wang, Making a Market Economy; Yan Sun, Corruption and Market in Contemporary China [Texte intégral]
- J. Bruce Jacobs
- Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe. Shopping for Allies [Texte intégral]
- Frédéric Keck
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome. The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic; Thomas Abraham, Twenty-First Plague. The Story of SARS. [Texte intégral]
- Adam McKeown
- Estelle Lau, Paper Families. Identity, Immigration Administration and Chinese Exclusion [Texte intégral]
- Sébastien Billioud
- Térence Billeter, L’Empereur jaune, Paris, Les Indes savantes, 2007, 549 pp. [Texte intégral]