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Much has been written recently about China's emergence as a potential oil power. Comparisons have ranged from those that picture China as another Middle East, with a Middle East-like impact on future global oil markets, to more modest images of an...

The performance of the agricultural sector and other related areas of the economy of Bangladesh are assessed in this book, which includes descriptions and analyses of Bangladesh's natural and human resource bases; trends in agricultural input use and...

A collection of essays split into 4 sections that cover methodology, ideology, Part and Politics and Foreign Affairs. Published in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.Book InformationISBN...

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...

A common theme in the India Briefing series has been India's resilience in the face of turmoil and tragedy. This year's volume demonstrates that India is under greater stress than ever before. In the country's severest test, India's secular foundations...

The concept of individual human rights in the People's Republic of China, as in all communist countries, is fundamentally different from that in the West. Even so, the record of the Mao Zedong years is generally acknowledged as dismal even in China. This...

Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence which, in 1969, was only just prevented from setting the whole country on fire? And has Singapore's success...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523362Author Siauw Tion DjinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867385Author Clinton FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area. Beyond the familiar elements of the green revolution, there has been an increase in resource exploitation...

Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063057418Author Bethany AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 454g

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which have shaped India’s approach towards its international borders and the framework it has developed to better manage its borders. The book argues that persistence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055760Author Dr Walter HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

This volume surveys efforts by China's post-Mao leadership to adopt modern technology in China's industrial and economic sectors while focusing new attention on an increasingly obsolescent defense structure. The author presents these efforts against the...

The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India. It discusses empirical concerns and examines political representation of these disadvantaged groups in...

While major theories of economic regionalism in the existing literature are primarily constructed to explore institutionalized regional integration, European integration in particular, the analytical framework developed in this work explains the unique...

This book looks at the economic and financial future of Hong Kong. The discussion covers comparisons between Hong Kong's economic growth and that of other Asian newly industrialized economies and economic experience since the 1980s.Book InformationISBN...

This 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...

This book presents a comparative empirical analysis of public efforts to improve rice production in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. It explores theoretical questions in the field of comparative and development...

This book gives an overview of all of Asian history from the eastern borders of Europe to the Pacific and from the birth of civilization to the present. It provides a broad framework and flexible method for thinking about the history of the people of...

This book raises issues of industrial policy and reform in key Asia-Pacific countries in the context of Pacific regional cooperation. It explores how service enterprises have affected trade in goods and transnational manufacturing, forming a regional...

Focusing on the work of Sri Lankan legislators, this book offers a model of representation in examining parliamentary systems, especially those found in the Third World. It explores an important part of legislators' responsibilities as the country seeks...

This book examines the extent, nature, and political implications of professionalization in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). It provides a description and evaluation of the military, political, economic, and social context within which PLA...

These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally...

Bridging the perceived gap between Southeast Asia's historical and contemporary situations, Donald McCloud focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment. The author challenges...

The lands of Central Asia are united by a common history and historical identity as well as by common traditions. A heritage of tribal mountain and steppe confederations and oasis emirates gave way in the Soviet period to the creation of artificial...

Japan is an example of what is known as a ?latecomer? in industrial development. Drawing on case studies of computer and telecommunications and related firms, Donna Doane investigates how intra- and inter-industry cooperation between public and private...

A comparative look at North and South Korea's political and economic institutions and processes, and an examination of their evolution since 1945. Problems such as leadership succession, democratization, nuclear weapons, education and reunification are...

This book provides basic information and analysis concerning how the forces of change during the Pacific Century will provide a base for the future of the Pacific Asia. It presents a general chronological development of the civilizations and empires in...

This book provides a succinct non-technical exposition of India's economic performance and policies. It is intended to help students who are trying to sift the vast literature with a view to gaining an understanding of India's economic problems and...

This book discusses the nature of institutional development as it promotes market growth. It is concerned with the nature of and the prospects for pro-market development planning, especially in East Asia, describing pro-market policies that enhance...

Long divided by cultural, economic, and political differences, the Asia-Pacific region has little history of multilateral cooperation. Alliances that once linked individual countries with one or the other superpower fostered deep mistrust among...

This book presents an analytic introduction to Laos and traces the country's history and culture up to its independence from France in 1954. It assesses the aftermath of the 1975 Communist takeover of Laos and the consequent establishment of a people's...

Analyzing the economic, strategic, and cultural elements that shape the attraction--and the friction--between the Pacific and Atlantic communities, this book integrates European perspectives into a discussion that has traditionally been dominated by...

As the nations of the Pacific Ocean region experience rapid economic growth, they have begun to recognize the vast potential benefits of regional interdependence. Recent threats of economic nationalism, according to many specialists, have only...

An attempt at a final summary of much of my work in anthropology has been divided into two separate volumes, Status Inequality: The Self in Culture, 1990, published by Sage Publications and this present volume, Social Cohesion and Alienation: Minorities...

This book offers the most comprehensive account available of Tibetan nationalism, Sino-Tibetan relations, and the issue of Tibetan self-determination. It explores Tibet's ethnic origins, the birth of the Tibetan state, Tibet's quest for independence, and...

The 1989 Tiananmen crisis marked a crucial turning point for the People's Republic of China. The unprecedented demonstrations of popular dissent triggered the downfall of reformist premier Zhao Ziyang, who supported the students, and the rise of his...