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Understanding Singapore Politics by Bilveer Singh
RRP: £37.00£32.66Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic's domestic politics, the key institutions and issues in the... -
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism by Helen Hardacre
RRP: £107.00£93.85Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan's constitutional... -
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi: A Hybrid Politician by Michał Lubina
RRP: £37.99£33.78This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu... -
Bangladesh's Graduation from the Least Developed Countries Group: Pitfalls and Promises by Debapriya Bhattacharya
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are characterised by small size or population. The projections are that the next decade will see a rapid increase... -
Line of Advantage: Japan's Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo by Michael Green
RRP: £117.00£103.99No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China's rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional hegemony, Japan has taken an increasingly assertive role... -
Doing The Needful: The Dilemma Of India's Population Policy by G. Narayana
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is a study of the social and cultural roots of the persistent failure of India's attempts to intervene in the realm of population control and related issues of social welfare. The book examines both public and private programmes and policies and... -
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping: The Future Political Trajectory Arthur S. Ding 9780367626532
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on China's future under Xi Jinping's authoritarian leadership by examining various facets of the political, economic, social and foreign policy trajectories of contemporary China. It assesses Xi Jinping's power dynamic as the 'core'... -
Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads: Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century by Yutaka Kawashima
RRP: £19.99£17.61The post-World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and... -
In the Name of Justice: Striving for the Rule of Law in China by Weifang He
RRP: £35.00£11.37Of all the issues presented by China's ongoing economic and sociopolitical transformation, none may ultimately prove as consequential as the development of the Chinese legal system. Even as public demand for the rule of law grows, the Chinese Communist... -
Yen Bloc: Toward Economic Integration in Asia by C. H. Kwan
RRP: £19.99£17.61In this important new book, C.H. Kwan asks whether the Japanese yen can, or will, replace the dollar as the key currency in East Asia. Kwan analyzes the implications for Japan and Asia's developing countries should they come together to form a yen bloc... -
Corporate Links And Foreign Direct Investment In Asia And The Pacific by Edward K. Y. Chen
RRP: £71.99£62.05A major force in East Asia's remarkable economic growth and industrial transformation, foreign direct investment has been growing at 14?15 percent annually in Southeast Asia and China over the last decade. This timely volume examines the impact of... -
Namoluk Beyond The Reef: The Transformation Of A Micronesian Community by Mac Marshall
RRP: £37.99£33.38This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern caroline islands of Micronesia, in the Western pacific. Most members of the Namoluk Community (cbon Namoluk) do not currently live there. some 60 percent of them have moved to chuuk,... -
China And The World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces The New Millennium Samuel S Kim 9780813334141
RRP: £54.99£47.72As the postwar international system continues its dramatic transformation, the fundamental question of what role China will play is becoming increasingly central. Contributors to the volume focus on the developments of the post-Tiananmen years,... -
Southeast Asia: Tradition And Modernity In The Contemporary World, Second Edition by Donald G. McCloud
RRP: £42.99£41.81Bridging 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... -
Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia by Mike M. Mochizuki
RRP: £39.99£35.06Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability. Some analysts see the rapidly increasing demand for energy and competition for energy resources leading to nationalistic energy policies. Others argue that... -
China At The Crossroads: nationalists And Communists, 1927-1949 by F. Gilbert Chan
RRP: £39.99£35.06Concentrating on a transitional epoch, 1927-1949, when China was at the crossroads of revolution, this book analyzes the Kuomintang's inherent weaknesses as a revolutionary force and the Communists' success in the quest for new formulas to guide the... -
Embattled Korea: The Rivalry For International Support by Ralph N. Clough
RRP: £39.99£35.46This 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. It focuses on the international rivalry between both Koreas. .Book... -
Consumer Demand In China: A Statistical Factbook by Jeffrey R Taylor
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
Democracy, Nationalism, And Communalism: The Colonial Legacy In South Asia by Asma Barlas
RRP: £27.99£24.28This book draws out the reasons for the emergence of divergent political practices in India and their meaning for democracy, nationalism and communalism. It explores the social origins of modern South Asian politics and the Janus-faced nature of the... -
Money, Banking, And Financial Markets In China by Gang Yi
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book reviews how the current banking system in China has emerged from the all-inclusive monobank system in the past. It discusses the money supply mechanism, evaluates monetary policies, analyzes the monetization process, and provides a summary of... -
Legacy Of A Divided Nation: India's Muslims From Independence To Ayodhya by Mushirul Hasan
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they should promote. It provides the reference-point for... -
The New Dynamics of Democracy in South Korea Chae-Han Kim (Hallym University, South Korea) 9780367675332
RRP: £36.99£32.53South Korea has been through important changes since its democratization in the late 1980s - most recently in 2016-2017 when the candlelight protests led to the ousting of Park Geun-hye and the election of Moon Jae-in. Taking a thematic approach to... -
Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds by Richard A Hunt
RRP: £135.00£117.68During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification program, it sought to help South Vietnam's government take root and survive as an independent, legitimate... -
Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton) by Stanley Rosen
RRP: £39.99£35.06This study examines the causes of factionalism within China's Red Guard during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Professor Rosen explores the reasons behind the division of students into two large, antagonistic factions--conservative and rebel... -
Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective by William S Turley
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on how the Vietnam Communist party adapted to its environment in order to achieve and exercise power and to what degree these adaptations made the Vietnamese revolution distinctive.About the AuthorWilliam S TurleyBook InformationISBN... -
China In The Post-utopian Age by Christopher J. Smith
RRP: £135.00£118.28China 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... -
Jokowi's Indonesia And The World by Ahmad Ibrahim Almuttaqi
RRP: £55.00£48.03When Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo was sworn in as the seventh President of the Republic of Indonesia, taking over from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the change in personnel at the highest executive office of state naturally raised questions about the likely changes... -
China’s Foreign Policy since 1978: Return to Power by Nicholas Khoo
£87.61The launching of economic and political reforms in 1978 has transformed China's standing in world politics. A new power has emerged. Yet, after more than four decades, the question of how to understand and interpret China's foreign policy remains a... -
Foreign Relations of the PRC: The Legacies and Constraints of China's International Politics since 1949 by Robert G. Sutter
RRP: £41.00£36.08Now in a fully updated edition, this cogent but comprehensive book examines the international relations of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949. Noted scholar Robert G. Sutter provides a balanced assessment of the country's recent... -
Making Disability Rights Real in Southeast Asia: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in ASEAN by Derrick L. Cogburn
RRP: £47.00£41.20This book evaluates the national implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in ASEAN. Working with country-specific research teams, the contributors compiled detailed case-studies of CRPD... -
Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand by Ruth Streicher
RRP: £22.99£20.01Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher... -
The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives by Leonard Sebastian
RRP: £130.00£112.11The 2018/2019 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sentiments were prevalent not just during the 2019 presidential election, but also during the 2018 regional... -
Child and Youth Well-being in China by Lijun Chen
RRP: £19.99£17.69The 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... -
Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentiethcentury China by Roger Jeans
RRP: £27.99£24.68Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. Although their struggle undeniably has been the main story,... -
Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction by Ou Ning
RRP: £109.99£99.13This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province,... -
Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan by Margaret McKean
RRP: £42.00£33.04This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles Alexander Brown (Australia) 9781138563346
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the... -
Vietnam: Past and Present by D. R. Sar Desai
RRP: £49.99£43.50"An indispensable tool for college students and general readers, the only available text that treats Vietnamese history in its entirety, from its beginning to the twenty-first century, as it places Vietnam within the regional and global context... -
Mr. China's Son: A Villager's Life Liyi He 9780813339795
RRP: £49.99£43.50He Liyi belongs to one of China's minorities, the Bai, and he lives in a remote area of northwestern Yunnan Province. In 1979 his wife sold her fattest pig to buy him a shortwave radio. He spent every spare moment listening to the BBC and VOA in order to... -
Womanhood In The Making: Domestic Ritual And Public Culture In Urban South India by Mary Hancock
RRP: £43.99£38.44In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created,...