Brill's Encyclopedia of China
Biographical note
Daniel Leese is assistant professor of Sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. In his Ph.D. dissertation Performative Politics and Petrified Image (Bremen 2006) he traced the evolution of the Cultural Revolutionary Mao cult. He has published on aspects of modern Chinese history and Western perceptions of China.
Reviews
'An impressive list of global authorities created 450+ entries all backed with solid research and covering all facets of development from the early beginnings to present day. Assembled with the latest statistics available, this resource should be in all public and academic libraries.'
Dr. William R. Taylor, Choice, February 2009
"...the most comprehensive, single-volumed, European-language reference work on modern China, understood by the editors to cover the period fromt he mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth and to include developments in Taiwan and Hongkong.(...) The real strength of this encyclopedia lies precisely in its Weberian categories. Read together, these entries on economy, society, and law provide a superb introduction to the socioeconomic transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented reform during the second half of the twentieth century. All aspects of the economic, fiscal, monetary, industrial, agricultural, service and trading systems are addressed."
Ned Davis, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, JAS
"this work will almost certainly become an important port of call for sound and unbiased information on the PRC. (...) excellent reference work which certainly merits a place in a good subject collection."
Joan Williamson, Reference Reviews, 2009/348
Dr. William R. Taylor, Choice, February 2009
"...the most comprehensive, single-volumed, European-language reference work on modern China, understood by the editors to cover the period fromt he mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth and to include developments in Taiwan and Hongkong.(...) The real strength of this encyclopedia lies precisely in its Weberian categories. Read together, these entries on economy, society, and law provide a superb introduction to the socioeconomic transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented reform during the second half of the twentieth century. All aspects of the economic, fiscal, monetary, industrial, agricultural, service and trading systems are addressed."
Ned Davis, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, JAS
"this work will almost certainly become an important port of call for sound and unbiased information on the PRC. (...) excellent reference work which certainly merits a place in a good subject collection."
Joan Williamson, Reference Reviews, 2009/348
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