This book offers different perspectives on China's business and law. It aims to offer an introduction into both theoretical and practical aspects of Chinas law on foreign related business affairs. This comprises economic and political background information, including Chinas economic evolution and China-EU trade relations, in addition to more detailed information on selected subject areas important to foreign related business affairs in China, namely commercial arbitration law, contract law ,company law , IPR protection, financial law, foreign direct investment law, and also the establishment of overseas branches of Chinese companies in the EU.Perspectives on Chinese Business and Law thus introduces the reader to the current Chinese legislations on foreign related business.

The book features an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic style especially the concept of Vitality-Charm ( ). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines Vitality-Charm and related topics from the perspectives of aesthetics, stylistics, semiotics, cosmology, art history, and socio-cultural history. It reviews the development of, and examines the relations between, the concepts of poetic vision, spiritual resonance, spiritual expressiveness, Vitality-Charm and so on in the tradition of Chinese art (including literature, music, dancing, and drama). The book also attempts to clarify confusions caused by the overlapping and indistinct demarcations between the concepts when they are used in the discourse of, and even the training of art - especially traditional Chinese art.