"A sociological and historical study of the development of reproductive technologies, this book focuses on key technological developments through a biomedicalization lens with special attention to gender. Using in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a hub, it critically examines the main areas of...

This volume addresses the rapid growth of China's cultural industry and its significant cultural and economic impact on the country. It considers what exactly constitutes the cultural industry, defining the basis for discussions on issues as the internal tensions constraining China's cultural...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...

"This book synthesizes a research on the so-called "Tang-Song social transformation" and "society of moneyed elite" in ancient China to examine the social changes that took place in the Tang and Song dynasties. The ancient Chinese "society of moneyed elite" theory provides a conceptual frame of...