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The authors of this book have joined together for a third time to produce a book on Japanese political parties and elections. The first two books under the title of The Japanese Party System were also published by Westview Press in 1986 and 1992. This...

This outstanding contribution to our understanding of Thailand's political economic system is perhaps the first major English-language work that provides an up-to-date analysis of the country widely hailed as Asia's next newly industrialized country. Dr...

"It is with great pleasure that I recognize those who helped make this book possible. I am indebted to A. Doak Barnett, Paul H. B. Godwin, and Barry Naughton for their many extremely useful suggestions on the conceptual structure and details of the...

This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments...

China's reform policies during the past decade have resulted in the reorganization of economic and political structures and have led to a dramatic reorientation of the nation's foreign policy. These reforms have especially influenced China's military...

Malaysia, a new nation whose very existence depends on holding disparate ethnic groups in balance, is an example of a developing nation whose legislature does influence policy. This pioneering survey and analysis of the Malaysian parliament carefully...

Contributing to the literature on labor migration from less developed countries to the Gulf states, this sociological analysis focuses on the case of Sri Lanka's large-scale exportation of its poorest women to serve as housemaids in private Arab homes...

Within a scant eighteen-month span, India held two national elections. The first, in November 1989, witnessed the political demise of Rajiv Gandhi and the precipitous decline of his Congress Party. The second, in May 1991, witnessed his assassination at...

In GATT negotiations over the past several years the United States, a founding member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, has been pushing hard for a global liberalization of trade in services. This development would have special significance...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the profound changes in Chinas central-local relations since the late 1970s. Lending insight into a crucial component of Chinas current political economy and the transformation of state socialism, the...

In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of women in development and to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as effective vehicles for change. Although there are a great many published studies dealing with each of these...

Specifying those conditions under which low-income countries might be able to achieve equitable growth and reduce mass poverty is a major issue in development theory and policy. Given the preponderant role of the agricultural sector as a source of income...

I would like to thank many people for their assistance in this research. I am particularly grateful to Bruce Johnston for his close guidance and encouragement of my studies at the Food Research Institute. Rey Martore11 is to thank for much of my interest...

This book aims to produce a monograph evaluating the extent to which direct foreign investment in developing countries is related to structural change in the Asia-Pacific region. It is useful for economists, public policymakers, graduates or...

This book highlights information obtained from formal interviews and informal conversations with knowledgeable Chinese in 1985-1987. It reveals the growing participation in politics of social groups and related changes underway in the patterns of...

The 1989 prodemocracy movement in the People's Republic of China and the subsequent crackdown were marked by many dramatic reversals. Supported at first by several thousand Beijing University students, the movement quickly attracted millions of followers...

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a South and South-east Asia regional workshop on 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma', organised by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Sri Lanka, and...

"China Briefing, 1988" approaches the events of the previous year differently from past volumes in the series, providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1987. Senior China specialists examine the...

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex and rapidly changing relations among China, Russia, Japan, and the countries of South and Southeast Asia. It discusses in depth the major issues faced by the policymakers of each country.Book...

This book aims to bring to readers an understanding of important developments in Indian affairs in 1990. It analyzes the role of resurgent Hinduism in India's political and social order and looks at the economy, foreign relations, law and poverty.Book...

Focusing on the work of Sri Lankan legislators, this book offers a unique model of representation useful in examining parliamentary systems, especially those found in the Third World. Dr. Oberst explores the legislator's role in the planning and...

This book aims to consider the role of import controls in an export-oriented development strategy, and is based on a case study of South Korea. The study establishes that in Korea successful export orientation was not predicated on the liberal import...

This factbook provides an overview of China's consumers, their incomes, and the goods and services on which they spend their money. It consists of a brief introduction to sources of data on Chinese consumer demand and incomes, and numerous detailed...

As editors, first of all, we would like to thank the authors of this volume for their conscientious work that makes this volume possible. Many ideas in this book were first explored at an international symposium on financial market reforms in China,...

Nuclear-free zones, neutrality, and nonalignment are catchwords that recently have earned unprecedented international publicity for New Zealand's foreign policy. That country's defence policy has also been subjected to its most searching scrutiny since...

Over the past several years, Mainland China has undertaken reforms in various domestic areas, including culture and society, education, the economy, and the Communist Party. In addition, since September 1982 Peking has begun to pursue an independent...

This book offers a long-term perspective on the eruption in Ayodhya, showing its connection to the perennial question of Indian national identity. It explores the growing momentum of economic reform, despite the Bombay stock market scandal and the riots...

Despite Japan's status as a global economic power and its position as the world's second-largest market economy, institutional, historical, and cultural factors have combined to limit Japan's political and military roles. In this volume, a reprint of a...

The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, China experienced the consolidation of rural economic reform, continued progress in urban reform, a...

Malaysia has many problems in common with other developing countries-including the difficult task of achieving economic progress and modernization while retaining useful traditional values, reducing poverty, and minimizing dependence on the export of a...

This book contains the most complete set of the Chinese national income and its components based on system of national accounts. It points out some fundamental issues concerning the estimation of China's national income and it is intended to the students...

With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world's largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined the ranks of developed countries. Yet, despite the...

In this third annual volume in the Korea Briefing series, experts analyze key aspects of contemporary Korean society. Included this year is an in-depth assessment of North Korea as well as chapters on politics, economics, women's issues, security on the...

China Briefing, 1991 is the tenth in a series of annual assessments copublished by The Asia Society and Westview Press, focusing on the aftereffects of Tiananmen on China's domestic politics, economics, society, and foreign relations.Book InformationISBN...

This book explores the external and internal forces shaping the country, by tracing political, economic, military, social, and cultural trends in the People's Republic of China. It helps to further understanding of what has happened in China in the...

This book is a study of the political consequences of economic reform in the People's Republic of China, considering the progress and pitfalls of Chinese reform socialism and focusing on the three central policy arenas of the reform era: political...

This book delves into the limitations of Singapore's authoritarian governance model. In doing so, the relevance of the Singapore governance model for other industrialising economies is systematically examined. Research in this book examines the...

Over the past decade, the VIF has charted an academically independent path of research and analyses. The Foundation has thus been disseminating a vast stream of analyses of key developments and decision dilemmas concerning the nation to its wide circle...

In 1997 the British state relinquished control of Hong Kong. From that point an established prosperous community was faced with reordering its sense of itself and its links with the wider world around the authority of Beijing. This book traces the...

Pakistan's 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to another-a remarkable achievement considering the country's history of dictatorial rule. Pakistan's Political Parties examines how the...