For sale in CIS only! To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium – a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence....

For sale in CIS only! First published in 1992, "The Discourse of Race in Modern China" rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the...

For sale in CIS only! Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their his...

For sale in CIS only! How do people relate to things? Much has been written about social movements in modern China, but next to nothing is known about the revolution which transformed the texture of everyday life. This is the first book to map the m...

For sale in CIS only! Sex' emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature of sex, the determination of sexual differences,...