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Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion J. Michael Cole 9780367428495
RRP: £36.99£32.53Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by... -
China And The Challenge Of The Future: Changing Political Patterns by Carol Lee Hamrin
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
Contemporary Japan by Duncan McCargo
£38.75Japan is one of the world's most important societies, yet remains one of the least understood. This book is designed to fill the gap for a concise but thought-provoking introduction to all aspects of the country's political, economic and social life set... -
Status Anxiety: Hong Kong's Crisis of Identity by Bruce VonCannon
RRP: £54.99£45.04In this book, retired banking CEO Bruce VonCannon considers the past, present and future of Hong Kong, the dynamic finance-driven autonomous city that is beset by global issues- US-China tension, income inequality, housing scarcity, climate change-... -
Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia Akihiro Ogawa 9780367581107
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding sectors in contemporary Asia. Originally a product of Western thinking, civil society represents a particular set of... -
Structural Reform in Japan: Breaking the Iron Triangle Eisuke Sakakibara 9780815776765
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815776765Author Eisuke SakakibaraFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan Sue Ellen M. Charlton 9780813348834
RRP: £43.99£38.44Comparing Asian Politics presents an invaluable comparative examination of politics and government in three Asian nations: India, China, and Japan. The author elucidates the links between politics and each nation's distinctive cultural and historical... -
Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal by Chiao-min Hsieh
RRP: £36.99£32.93"This textbook will be welcomed by professors and students who have been long looking for an appropriate textbook for teaching and studying the changing geography of post-reform China." -Hongmian Gong, Hunter College, CUNY "A wonderful... -
Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms Robert Hefner 9780813333601
RRP: £54.99£47.72One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Market Cultures examines this event, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in... -
The Pacific Islands: Paths To The Present by Evelyn Colbert
RRP: £43.99£38.44This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and international roles of the Pacific islands. Evelyn Colbert expertly paints an overall picture of the region using broad brush strokes, complementing the mostly... -
Culture, Class, And Development In Pakistan: The Emergence Of An Industrial Bourgeoisie In Punjab by Anita M. Weiss
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
Changing Central-local Relations In China: Reform And State Capacity by eter Tsan-Yin Chung
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book focuses on describing, explaining, and evaluating the changing central-local relationship in China. It presents a comprehensive picture of what has happened in China's central-local relations during the decade-long economic reform, to... -
Politics and Religion in India by Narender Kumar
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume examines how religion is intrinsically related to politics in India. Based on studies from states across the length and breadth of India, it looks at political formations that inform political discourse on the national level and maps the... -
The Rise And Demise Of Democratic Kampuchea by Craig C Etcheson
RRP: £39.99£35.06This study traces the rise of Kampuchean communism from its inception in 1930 to the present. The author analyzes the socioeconomic and political conditions that brought Cambodia to an explosive stage in 1970 and documents the cataclysmic transformation... -
The Origins Of War In South Asia: Indopakistani Conflicts Since 1947 by Sumit Ganguly
RRP: £135.00£111.30In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty and ill-conceived procedure that served to exacerbate the ideological... -
Unofficial China: Popular Culture And Thought In The People's Republic by Perry Link
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents a view of social life in China and discusses different methods for studying contemporary China as a tool for introducing students to the study of popular culture. Through a diverse set of case studies, it introduces readers to a wide... -
Crisis of State & Nation: South Asian States Between National Building & Fragmentation by John P Neelsen
RRP: £50.00£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173047312Author John P NeelsenFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and... -
Taiwan at a Tipping Point: The Democratic Progressive Party's Return to Power by John F. Copper
RRP: £95.00£83.12Taiwan at a Tipping Point assesses issues relating to Taiwan's new political, economic, diplomatic and military/strategic state-of-affairs following the January 2016 national election that brought the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to... -
The Gulf Cooperation Council: Moderation And Stability In An Interdependent World by John A. Sandwick
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Gulf Cooperation Council represents both a model of development and unity in the Arab world and a working example of interstate cooperation to other nations. In this volume, contributors describe the rationale for Gulf unity and cooperation and... -
The China Hands' Legacy: Ethics And Diplomacy by Paul Gordon Lauren
RRP: £130.00£107.24A group of American Foreign Service officers and journalists in China during and after World War II—collectively known as "the China Hands"—were accused of disloyalty, and in some cases treason, for reporting on events as they saw them. Faced with the... -
China's Belt And Road Initiative In Asean: Growing Presence, Recent Progress And Future Challenges Suthiphand Chirathivat (Chulalongkorn Univ, Thailand) 9789811241307
RRP: £125.00£108.07Southeast Asia's interactions with China have tremendously transformed and prospered in the recent decades, with China becoming ever more present on Southeast Asian soil in recent history, touching all dimensions: economic, political, social, and... -
Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms by Robert Hefner
RRP: £135.00£117.28One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Market Cultures examines this event, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in... -
Vietnam's Rural Transformation by Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet
RRP: £135.00£117.28Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change. This is the first study in English to focus on rural Vietnam?where nearly 80 percent of Vietnam's people live, much of its economic production occurs, and... -
The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 by Takashi Shiraishi
£33.95Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua. This book argues that Digul is the key to understanding Indonesia's colonial governance between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the... -
Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan by Robert Weller
RRP: £34.99£33.38Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system. This claim rests on the idea that Confucian culture" provides an alternative to Western civil values, and that China... -
Order By Accident: The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan by Alan Miller
RRP: £37.99£33.38While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys... -
Li Da And Marxist Philosophy In China Nick Knight 9780813336398
RRP: £32.99£29.16"Scholars of Marxism will be in Nick Knight's debt for this pioneering study of one of the most important figures in the development of Marxism in China. Knight makes an important case about the relationship of Chinese Marxist thought to Marxist... -
Bangladesh: From A Nation To A State Craig Baxter 9780813336329
RRP: £43.99£38.44In 1996, Bangladesh celebrated its 25th anniversary. When the country became independent from Pakistan in 1971, it proclaimed itself a parliamentary democracy with four goals-democracy, secularism, socialism, and nationalism. This comprehensive... -
The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution by Shoichi Koseki
RRP: £54.99£47.72This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japan's postwar constitution, political and social history, and foreign policy. The most complete English account of the origins of Japan's constitution, it analyzes the... -
Beijing Jeep: A Case Study Of Western Business In China Jim Mann 9780813333274
RRP: £54.99£47.72When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with excitement?a Coke for every citizen, a television for... -
Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia Mark Borthwick 9780813346670
RRP: £71.99£63.05This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region's growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks at the distant future, being devoted primarily to... -
China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability: Volume 12 by Rebecca Clothey
RRP: £32.00£28.38In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and society. The downside of these many changes is that they have presented the country's government with a... -
China's Economic Development: Growth And Structural Change by Chu-Yuan Cheng
RRP: £39.99£36.06This book demonstrates how two goals - the substitution of socialist views for embedded traditional values, and the use of China's actual and potential economic surpluses - have together formed the features of China's economic development.Book... -
China Through The Ages: History Of A Civilization by Franz Michael
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book describes the evolving history of ideas in China, from ancient faith in powerful magic to more modern concepts of a logical moral order of the universe and mankind's place in it. It explores the intellectual ferment following the dawn of the... -
Business Associations And The New Political Economy Of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity To Liberal Corporatism by Anek Laothamatas
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides detailed empirical data regarding chambers of commerce, their peak organizations, and trade associations of Thailand that has moved away from a pure form of bureaucratic polity to liberal corporatism.Book InformationISBN... -
Alternate Civilities: Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan by Robert Paul Weller
RRP: £135.00£117.28Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system. This claim rests on the idea that ?Confucian culture? provides an alternative to Western civil values, and that China... -
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar by Renaud Egreteau
RRP: £40.00£35.53This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economic transformations have... -
Activists in Transition: Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia by Thushara Dibley
RRP: £23.99£20.84Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly... -
Governance Innovation and Policy Change: Recalibrations of Chinese Politics under Xi Jinping by Nele Noesselt
RRP: £90.00£79.21This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of China's political leaders headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy innovation without regime change requires skilled political... -
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims by Mirjam Lücking
RRP: £24.99£21.67Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia exists on the periphery of an Islamic world centered...