party and State in post-Mao China is part of around 15 titles published in the ‘China Today’ series of Polity Press. The stated aim of this academic publisher is to get closer to the readership of the general public by inviting eminent specialists from all over the world to write concise introductor...

RÉSUMÉ : Cet article s’intéresse à la pauvreté et aux inégalités de revenus dans la Chine urbaine à travers l’analyse de données récentes recueillies lors d’enquêtes conduites dans quatre des plus grandes villes chinoises(1). S’appuyant sur des mesures quantitatives telles que des indices de pauvret...

Transformation of local governance modes and evolution of public intervention systems in China — 22 and 23 March at ENS-Lyon, Room F104. At the end of an international research project funded by the Rhône-Alpes Region, a workshop will be held on 22 and 23 March 2012. Building on perspectives and pra...

through the World Expo held in Shanghai in 2010 on the theme: ‘Better city, better life’, China has shown how it designs the ‘universal’ by applying ancestral concepts specific to its culture to foreign countries. It understands and equates the international community through the prism of the green...

TCL Corporation’s senior management The turnaround of 2008 TCL Corporation is headed by a board chaired by Li Dongsheng, the composition of which may change on a proposal from the Chairman. After the disagreements of the 2006s and 2007s, TCL opened its advice to new personalities from outside, and i...

The fact that the business leaders concerned had from the outset a strong awareness of their delay in terms of technology, managerial know-how, business networks, brands, distribution networks and experienced international managers may have had a major consequence: their determination and strong com...

In a discussion held on our e-platform, Lorenzo Andolfatto, Jon Chappell, Leigh Jenco and David Mervart engaged in a discussion about empire as an analytical category. What are the heuristic limits of this category? How far can it encompass the specific features of the very different political insti...

Author: Robin Verner, journalist at BFM TV. Interview with Mr Lu Shaye, Ambassador of China to France. Production: BFM TV. Continuous French news television channel, a subsidiary of the NextRadioTV group. Dissemination: the BFM TV website, https://www.bfmtv.com/ Date: 20 April 2020, 11: 00 China con...

For its fifth issue, Impressions from the Far East provide readers with insights on how we are confronted in China, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, India and Korea, the universal constraint Brillat-Savarin summarised under the imparte formula: “Everything that lives is fed”. These 25 literary evocations, un...

This dissertation takes as its point of departure the recent renewal of the interest of the Chinese state in agricultural development. The approach of this research is twofold: political and sociological. The political approach focuses on the analysis of agricultural modernization policies between 2...

For the fifth session of the collective seminar “Comparative approaches to the destiny: the lot, part, the link” of 2015-2016, as part of the Interdisciplinary Research Programme “Maintaining Comparatism: terrain, texts, artefacts” of the EHESS, we will have the pleasure to listen to: Pablo Blistein...

China cuts the wing in steel and coal, Le Monde Economie, 12/03/2016 Beijing creates a fund of almost EUR 14 billion to reclassify workers who will lose their jobs... read oil prices: Nigerian economy destabilised, the Echos, 11/03/2016 Nigeria avoided the dry breakdown. Trade unions of the national...

China has an unparalleled wealth of divination systems. Starting in the 14th century before our era with oracular inscriptions, the sophistication of these divinatory methods has since evolved. Although in reality intended to reduce the complexity of contingencies, many forms of divination reflect a...

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L’essor du commerce en ligne a eu des répercussions importantes en Chine sur un large éventail de domaines commerciaux et professionnels ; la psychothérapie, profession apparue lors du récent « boom de la psychologie » (xinli re 心理热), en fait partie. À partir de matériaux recueillis lors d’entretien...

[ndlr] SEAC General Seminar: statement by Danielle Tan (Oriental Asia Institute — ENS Lyon) on 19 March 2015 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the House of Asia. Not to be missed. * * * illicit economies, Chinese networks and state-building in Southeast Asia An alternative history of the Triangle d’Or (Tha...

In its past, China has inherited statistical categories based on ethnicity (Han/shaoshu Minzu or minorities) and residence (hukou system). We are examining the difficulties created by this categorisation, particularly in the field of education. The fundamentalisation of categories with uncertain sci...

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This article originated from an ethnographic survey carried out between 2014 and 2016 in China, which looked at the fate of what is commonly referred to as “electronic waste”. It sheds light on the relatively little, though widespread, phenomenon of recycling used and used high-end smartphones. I ar...

As one of the most eminent writers of modern Chinese literature, Lao She tries to, through his literary creation, revive old Peking with its people, with Peking flavor and humor constituting the two most characteristic features of his style. These stylistic features that are rooted in Chinese cultur...

Social housing in post-Maoist China shows a complete paradigm shift from the 1990s onwards. Housing loses its status as a social benefit: attributed by companies (danwei) to their employees, it becomes a market good, whereas the construction sector is a major challenge for economic growth. A period...

This is a stand-alone version with its own VBA module, with all pages password-protected to avoid unwanted modifications. Only one cell is accessible, to allow entry of target year. This is an Excel spreadsheet workbook, made with Excel for Mac 2011, with additional VBA functions created by myself....

Conferences at the Cernuschi Museum: Images of Asia in the 19th century. The milestones of Henri Cernuschi’s and Theodore Duret’s major trip to Japan, China, Java, Ceylan and India, commented and illustrated by unprecedented photographic archives of the museum. The sessions are held on a Tuesday a m...

Author: Benoit Ballet (with AFP) Production: BFM TV with RMC. Continuous French news television channel, a subsidiary of the NextRadioTV group. Dissemination: the BFM TV website (https://rmc.bfmtv.com/) Date and Time: 6 January 2021, 07: 08 a year almost a day, and bad memories that spread. The main...