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This book records the early policy- and practice-oriented results of a project which examines the Green Revolution in rice-growing in non-deltaic areas in South Asia: an interdisciplinary project undertaken by workers drawn from Tamil Nadu, India; Sri...

This book brings to light the major differences in the way Japanese and Americans perceive nuclear energy and nuclear proliferation. It makes an important contribution to the process of building a foundation for better understanding between the two...

This book discusses that Bangkok, through the operations of its decision-making elite, has historically been parasitic on the Thai nation and that primate city parasitism is essentially a political phenomenon, more complex than has been previously...

Presenting the results of seventeen months of field research, conducted entirely in the Thai language, this book describes and compares the patterns of culture and social exchange of two groups of Thai officials: district-level bureaucrats and physicians...

This book is designed as a contribution to the current economic policy debate between the U.S. and Japan, which has increasingly assumed the attributes of an adversary proceeding. It provides a basis for understanding and resolving the difficult...

This book describes nomadic life and culture in Mongolia depicting the patterns of the Ch'ing period (1644-1912), in which all the Mongols lived under the administration and control of the Chinese empire. It explains the patterns of the subsequent...

This concise report on one commune in China's innovative commune system is designed to present key features of the system as a whole. It focuses on the concept of the commune in Chinese Communist Party policy and covers Huadong's government and politics,...

This book documents the role of interest groups in shaping Pakistan's trade policy during the politically turbulent 1970-1982 period. It analyses the political economy of Pakistan's export policies and examines the behavior of all of the country's major...

This book examines the question-how Japanese have been able to carry out technological change so quickly and so smoothly-in depth by comparing the introduction of a major new industrial process-use of the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)-in Japan and in the...

This book offers candid analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of China's economic system and addresses some aspect of the current economic reform. It is an attempt to find the answers to many of the questions directly from the work of Chinese...

This up-to-date textbook reviews China's foreign policy goals since the PRC's active reemergence in world affairs following the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969, covering China's quest for security, the breakthrough in China-U.S. relations, and the...

This book is an offshoot of the media activities of the China Council of The Asia Society in 1981. It provides a quick, multifaceted portrait that covers not only politics, economics, and foreign policy, but also society, culture, and personalities.Book...

This book examines the agricultural policies and programs adopted by the Chinese leadership since 1949 and analyzes the role of agriculture in China's changing development strategies. It gives particular attention to the measures intended to improve...

In this book a number of specialists with a variety of academic backgrounds analyze the nuclear future of Asia. It gives an overall view on nuclear power, nuclear arms and proliferation in China, Japan, Eastern Asia, and India.Book InformationISBN...

This book identifies potential and technical obstacles to China's oil development, assesses the likelihood of China's overcoming them, examines the incentives for increasing Chinese petroleum exports, and analyzes the role such exports could play in...

This book explains the political economy and the striking regional differences in performance by cooperatives in rural India. It points toward general principles of organizational effectiveness, revealing the potentials and limitations of cooperatives as...

This book considers the patterns, strategies, and consequences of industrial restructuring in two dynamic Asian city-states, Hong Kong and Singapore, in the global economy. It highlights the institutional differences between the two industrial economies...

This comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward-looking book focuses on the economic and political forces shaping agriculture and trade in the Pacific region. It promises to be valuable for scholars and policymakers interested in the political and economic...

This book provides a brief overview of events in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since mid-1981. It includes essays that focus on underlying trends and key issues in the PRC and the island of Taiwan. The book is useful for business executives,...

This book explores some of the issues surrounding the mining industry in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and the Phosphate islands, looking at the political dimension of mining and at the relationship of mining to national...

This book combines the new theoretical approach to credit markets with certain precepts of the New Institutional Economics in order to analyze informal credit markets. The case of the Philippine agriculture is illustrated with the historical experience...

This book examines how medicine in People's Republic of China is being transformed towards modernization. It describes how traditional health care methods are being selectively integrated with western medicine. .Book InformationISBN 9780367165901Author...

This book contains papers on the study of the oyatoi gailcokujin (foreign employees) in Meiji Japan presented at the Fukui conference held at the Fukui University in the autumn of 1985. It is an extension of The Modernizers published at the Rutgers...

This book provides a detailed account of political and economic development performance evaluation methodology, Marxism and spiritual ideology, politics, and foreign affairs in the communist political system of the People's Republic of China. .Book...

This book gives an account of concrete market situations and describes marketing strategies and distribution channels of German manufacturing firms, German and foreign trading firms and Japanese partner firms on the Japanese market in important product...

In this book, the author makes some generalizations about contemporary India and the years immediately ahead daring to set forth some of his personal concerns for critical review by those in the United States and in India who share in varying degrees his...

This book examines India's perception of its international role in relation to post-Cold War global realignment, describes social and literary movements among India's "Untouchables," and reviews the ongoing struggle over Kashmir. It presents...

This book focuses on the political economy of the environment in Asia, examining the economic and political forces that have generated the problems, the political efforts to find solutions, and the economic and political contexts of proposed solutions...

China's Provincial Statistics, 1949-1989 provides a systematic compilation of China's regional statistics on various aspects of the thirty provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, presenting more than 100 economic and social variables under 15...

This book analyzes the key events and trends in Chinese affairs during the year 1989. It includes special chapters on Hong Kong, which was dramatically affected by the year's events, and Tibet, which continues to cause problems for Beijing and in its...

This book includes papers presented in a one-day symposium and four discussion-group sessions during the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference on "Comparative Analysis of Food Demand/Consumption and Agricultural...

This book tests the model of civil-military dualism to explain People's Liberation Army's (PLA) political engagement and its loyalty to the party in Maoist China. It explores how the party maintained its control- through penetration of the armed forces...

This clear and accessible text explores Vietnam's successful transition from neo-Stalinist central planning to a market economy-"Vietnamese style." After describing the north Vietnamese system prior to 1975 and its colonial and precolonial antecedents,...

China in the Post-Utopian Age is an interdisciplinary book about China in the post-utopian age, focusing on the transformations that have occurred during the leaderships of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin throughout the 1980s and 1990s.Book InformationISBN...

This book is concerned with the management of food production and the distribution of food in the Pacific Basin, discussing the role of food and agriculture in the international economy. It looks at how agriculture can contribute to the development of...

This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate-and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.Book InformationISBN...

This is the first academic study of Christian literature in Hindi and its role in the politics of language and religion in contemporary India. In public portrayals, Hindi has been the language of Hindus and Urdu the language of Muslims, but Christians...

The book examines US states' and cities' paradiplomacy-subnational engagement in foreign relations-towards China and Taiwan from 1949 to 2020. As an alternative diplomatic history of the United States' relations with divided China, it offers an in-depth...

This book looks at the transition of modern Chinese society in terms of its culture and literature. Since the economic reforms and open door policy in 1978, the Chinese society has undergone a drastic transformation. It is headed towards becoming an...

This book traces the People's Liberation Army's revolutionary transition, examines the structural changes associated with it, and assesses military policies. It discusses the political commissar system, the key institution for all political-military...