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India Briefing, 1987 by Marshall M. Bouton 9780367155339
RRP: $41.98$37.15This annual review of major events, issues, and trends in Indian affairs presents an authoritative and insightful assessment of India in 1986. It discusses Indian politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign relations.Book InformationISBN... -
China Briefing, 1985 by John S. Major 9780367156381
RRP: $58.78$50.99China Briefing, 1985 approaches the events of the previous year providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1984. Senior China specialists examine the student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger... -
India Briefing, 1989 by Marshall M. Bouton 9780367153182
RRP: $83.98$73.63India Briefing, 1989 is the third in a series of annual assessments of key events and issues in Indian affairs prepared by the Contemporary Affairs Department of The Asia Society. It covers the year's developments in Indian politics, foreign policy, and... -
Mass Politics In The People's Republic: State And Society In Contemporary China by Alan P.L. Liu 9780367153984
RRP: $83.98$73.63Exploring the crucial link between state and society in the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book analyzes the interaction between the Chinese Communist Party and the country's major social groups. It explores how public opinion contributes to a... -
China Briefing, 1989 by Anthony J. Kane 9780367153304
RRP: $83.98$73.63China Briefing, 1989 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 1988. Senior China specialists examine the student... -
Modernizing China: Post-mao Reform And Development by A. Doak Barnett 9780367156268
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book analyses and interprets the most significant changes that have occurred in China since the death of Mao in different sectors of society. It presents the views of the authors in a form that is aimed at scholars, students of China, and... -
Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War Ii by Yuki Tanaka 9780367160029
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book documents the previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War ll, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.Book... -
Child and Youth Well-being in China by Lijun Chen 9780367086138
RRP: $115.48$100.21The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society's future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and... -
China Briefing, 1984 by Steven M. Goldstein 9780367156169
RRP: $83.98$73.63China Briefing, 1984 aims to increase American understanding of Chinese life, culture, and society; to counter stereotypical thinking about China; and to provide a non-partisan source of information for those seeking to understand or explain China to the... -
Human Rights In Post-mao China by John F Copper 9780367155919
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book investigates human rights in China since the death of Mao in 1976. It analyzes legal practices and institutions, intellectual and ideological policies, and economic changes to evaluate the degree to which there have been real changes in the... -
Buddhism In Late Ch'ing Political Thought by Sin-wai Chan 9780367156077
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book is basically an attempt to study the religious, cultural, and political significance of Buddhism in late Ch'ing intellectual thought through an examination of the writings of a few influential figures like Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, K'ang Yu-wei, Chang... -
The Internationalization Of Japanese Business: European And Japanese Perspectives by Malcolm Trevor 9780367308674
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the progress of internationalisation of European and Japanese business in four different fields: the commodities and service trade, capital transfers, enterprise management, and information and culture.Book InformationISBN... -
Hong Kong's Economic And Financial Future by Y. F. Luk 9780367022471
RRP: $283.50$246.29SIGNIFICANT ISSUES SERIES papers are written for and published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The series will present the insights of prominent East Asian analysts and draw conclusions about complementarities or divergences that... -
China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution by Richard Baum 9780367021689
RRP: $283.50$247.13With the death of Mao Tse-tung and the subsequent purge of the "Gang of Four," China's new pragmatic leaders have embarked on a crash program of national development known as the Four Modernizations, This program is geared to the primary... -
China's Economic Development: Growth And Structural Change by Chu-Yuan Cheng 9780367022112
RRP: $283.50$248.39How has the government of the PRC transformed traditional economic institutions into a socialist, central-planning system? What has been the impact of this transformation on China's economic growth? What is the essence of the Chinese development model... -
China at the Crossroads: Nationalists and Communists, 1927-1949 by F. Gilbert Chan 9780367021191
RRP: $283.50$246.29Concentrating on a transitional epoch, 1927-1949, when China was at the crossroads of revolution, the contributors analyze the Kuomintang's inherent weaknesses as a revolutionary force and the Communists' success in the quest for new formulas to guide... -
Japan: Economic Growth, Resource Scarcity, And Environmental Constraints by Edward A. Olsen 9780367020699
RRP: $283.50$246.29This study evaluates, from a neo-Malthusian perspective, Japan's current status and its prognosis in the context of the country's economic vulnerabilities. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Malthus, N. Georgescu-Roegen, H. and M. Sprout, and... -
Economics of the Black Market by S. K. Ray 9780367018634
RRP: $283.50$246.29The black market is a phenomenon that has become increasingly central to the lives of the people in many of the world's economies. In this first serious study of the economics of the black market. Dr. Ray looks in-depth at profiteering, black money,... -
Korea Briefing, 1990 by Chong-Sik Lee 9780367015558
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book initiates a series of comprehensive annual reviews of issues and events in the Republic of Korea and on the peninsula as a whole in 1990. It provides both students and specialist with a useful overview of a rapidly changing society.Book... -
Canton In Revolution/h by Kenneth W Rea 9780367018139
RRP: $283.50$246.29"This volume is a memorial tribute to the late Professor F. Earl Swisher. Born in Lyons, Kansas, July 22, 1902, he was a member of the pioneer generation of American scholars to study China. His early life offered no indication that he would become... -
From Vietnam to America: A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States by Gail Paradise Kelly 9780367018054
RRP: $283.50$246.29In late April 1975 the war that raged in Vietnam for decades came to an end as the American-backed government of South Vietnam collapsed. Out of the territories that had once been French Indochina came over 200,000 Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese... -
Military Power And Policy In Asian States: China, India, Japan by Onkar Marwah 9780367020941
RRP: $283.50$246.29This study challenges the belief that the security concerns and strategic objectives of lesser states are dependent on the dominant power alliances and on assessments by major powers of the prospects for peace or war. Focusing on the views of security... -
Japan and the New Ocean Regime by Robert L. Friedheim 9780367015008
RRP: $283.50$247.13The regime under which humankind has governed its uses of the ocean is in the process of change-shifting away from the traditional freedom of the seas toward a aEUROoemixedaEURO system in which most of the valuable near-shore resources come under coastal... -
Administering Agricultur/h by Richard Gable 9780367017675
RRP: $283.50$248.39This comparative empirical analysis of public efforts to improve rice production in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand explores theoretical questions in the field of comparative and development administration and provides... -
Economic Cooperation In The Asia-pacific Region by John P Hardt 9780367014735
RRP: $283.50$247.13The Asia-Pacific region has, in the eyes of most observers, the potential to become the engine of global economic growth in the 21st century. Whether it does will largely depend upon the willingness of the region's nations to pursue economic... -
Indonesia's Oil by Sevinc Carlson 9780367017651
RRP: $283.50$247.13Ranked twelfth in world oil production, Indonesia is already an important supplier of oil to Japan, and may become an increasingly important supplier to the United States. Sevinc Carlson presents here the first up-to-date and comprehensive study of the... -
China And The Crisis Of Marxism-leninism by Franz Michael 9780367014612
RRP: $283.50$247.13Is the failure of communism in China inevitable? So argue the authors of China and the Crisis of Marxism-Leninism, who believe that Mao's programs were utopian fantasies that greatly aggravated the incurable flaws of the Stalinist order, now eroding... -
Culture, Class, And Development In Pakistan: The Emergence Of An Industrial Bourgeoisie In Punjab by Anita M. Weiss 9780367014605
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book is concerned with social change in Pakistan, particularly the relationship between indigenous sociocultural orientations, the development process, and the rise of a new middle-level entrepreneurial class in the Punjab.Book InformationISBN... -
China's Grain Production and Trade: An Economic Analysis by Colin A. Carter 9780367014384
RRP: $283.50$246.29China, with over 20 percent of the earth's population, is both the world's largest producer and largest consumer of cereal grains. As a consequence, the supply and demand of grain in China will have a major impact on the world food trade. In this... -
Foreign Intervention And China's Industrial Development, 1870-1911 by Stephen C Thomas 9780367019747
RRP: $283.50$246.29More than one hundred years ago, imperial Chinese leaders tried to industrialize their nation, much as China's leaders are attempting today. Self-strengthening projects in industry and the military were implemented to increase China's wealth and power... -
Human Rights In The People's Republic Of China by Yuan-li Wu 9780367014131
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book examines the effects that political institutions, the legal system, and economic policies have had on the human rights record in the PRC since 1949. The authors first address the problems of assessing political liberties in a nation that... -
China Through The Ages: History Of A Civilization by Franz Michael 9780367017064
RRP: $283.50$246.29Past studies of China have concentrated on specific events or have related a chronological history of the dynastic periods. These works have included aspects of cultural history but have underemphasized the country's great social, political, and... -
Embattled Korea: The Rivalry for International Support by Ralph N. Clough 9780367013684
RRP: $283.50$248.39This comprehensive book examines the history of Korea's division and the political and economic development of both Koreas, their military confrontation, and their efforts at dialogue. Mr. Clough focuses on the international rivalry between the two,... -
From Muskets to Missiles: Politics and Professionalism in the Chinese Army, 1945-1981 by Harlan W. Jencks 9780367019068
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book provides a detailed description and evaluation of the military, political, economic, and social context within which PLA officers have functioned since the civil war (1945-1949). Its aim is to evaluate the personal commitments and professional... -
Japan And The Pacific Quadrille: The Major Powers In East Asia by Herbert J. Ellison 9780367013158
RRP: $283.50$246.29The relationships between Japan, China, the United States, and the Soviet Union-among the most important power relationships in the contemporary world-have undergone pervasive and dramatic transformation during the past 15 years. China emerged from... -
India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform by F. Tomasson Jannuzi 9780367016760
RRP: $283.50$246.29This study shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is shaped, as it was prior to independence, largely by the interests of an elite minority of... -
Aging In Post-mao China: The Politics Of Veneration by Ada Elizabeth Sher 9780367017293
RRP: $283.50$247.13This case study of Shenyang, the industrial capital of Liaoning Province, explores what it means to be old in the People's Republic of China, especially in terms of religious and ethical traditions, education, health, and current political, economic, and... -
Amaeru/h by Donald D Mitchell 9780367021894
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book postulates that amae is a motivational factor with universal impact upon Japanese people. It explores the ways in which amae affects political behaviour and law as attitudes towards authority, factionalism, political opposition, and citizen's... -
China's Media, Media's China by Chin-Chuan Lee 9780367011895
RRP: $283.50$247.13In this richly textured volume, leading scholars and journalists engage in a unique dialogue in their exploration of the rapidly evolving conditions of political communication in China. The contributors begin by considering the bureaucratization of media... -
Contemporary Problems of Pakistan by J. Henry Korson 9780367011864
RRP: $283.50$247.13Despite weeks of negotiation with the leaders of the Congress Party and the Muslim League, the British Cabinet Mission failed in its efforts to maintain a united India. As a result, in 1947 the Asian subcontinent was partitioned into a Muslim-majority...