Bücher der Reihe The Cambridge China Library

This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China's economic rise, critiquing China's rejection of universal values, the nation's embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.

This is the first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies of its kind. Utilising a broad range of literary genres from the late Qing through the Republican period, Fan Boqun's innovative, illustrated analysis charts the historical blueprint of modern Chinese popular literature.

Known internationally as 'Mr Share Holding', the economist Li Yining has had a transformative impact on China's economic transition. Incorporating original research, policy proposals and theoretical thinking, these papers trace the development of Li's thought and the process through which the 'China Miracle' has occurred over the last three decades.

The seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics in the late Qing period of wuxia, a genre of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, from one of China's leading literary scholars, presented here in English translation for the first time.

The Tokyo Trial was held from 1946-8 to try Japanese military and civil officials for war crimes committed during World War II. The trial proceedings were controversial at the time and remain an emotive subject. This collection of translated essays represents a distinctively Chinese approach to the interpretation of the trial.

A lavishly illustrated study of the development of art and artists in China since 1949. The art of this period is of historical, political and cultural interest, being first used to promote the revolutionary cause, later to criticise and, more recently, charting changes that have taken place since 1978.

Volume 1 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao's career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893-1949. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.