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Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen by Richard Baum 9781138341111
£111.61The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in 1991, presents essays that explore the political and economic reform... -
China and the West: Crossroads of Civilisation by Peter Nolan 9781138331884
RRP: £44.99£39.28Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global... -
China: Liberation and Transformation 1942-1962 by Bill Brugger 9781138341357
£72.00This book, first published in 1981, is a study concerned with the leadership and the people of China during the 1942-1962 period. It analyses the attempt made by the CCP to develop new policies of administration in the wartime base areas and the... -
Sino-Pakistani Relations: Politics, Military and Regional Dynamics by Filippo Boni 9781138362604
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book analyses the relationship between Pakistan and China in the post 9/11 period against the backdrop of Pakistan's domestic politics and proposes that the major source of continuity in the ties between the two countries is represented by the... -
Innovation and Technology Transfer in Japan and Europe: Industry-Academic Interactions by Glyn O. Phillips 9781138365070
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1989, compares, contrasts and evaluates the nature, scale and direction of industry-academic interactions in Britain and Japan: the conversion of academic discoveries into practical products. Japan shows its outstanding... -
Political Transformations in Nepal: Dalit Inequality and Social Justice by Mom Bishwakarma 9781138354432
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between long-standing caste discrimination in Nepal, its vicious circle of impact upon the Dalit groups and the changes brought by the recent political transformations. It explores the links... -
The Evolution of Industrial Systems: The Forking Paths by Timothy Leggatt 9781138352971
£72.00This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside Western capitalism? What are the salient evolutionary... -
Adamawa Past and Present: An Historical Approach to the Development of a Northern Cameroons Province by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene 9781138594357
£111.61Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria. It discusses the varying fortunes of the territory, the life of its people, the efforts of its explorers and the achievements of the... -
Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy by Miho Ushiyama 9781138339071
RRP: £135.00£117.28Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients' knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists. Where previously such knowledge may have been written off as... -
The Cultural Revolution in China: An Annotated Bibliography by James C.F. Wang 9781138347724
£111.61The Cultural Revolution in China generated a cascade of commentaries and interpretations on the development and meaning of the upheaval. Many students and researchers have found it difficult to locate and identify literature on the period. This... -
Gender, Nationalism, and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland by Azra Rashid 9781138346444
RRP: £125.00£107.86The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the region's long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in... -
The Chinese Economic Reforms by Stephan Feuchtwang 9781138343917
£57.88This book, first published in 1983, examines the significant economic reforms undergone by China following the death of Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four. It looks at Chinese economists' conceptions of the necessity for change and compares China's... -
Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978-84: Essays on Epistemology, Ideology and Political Economy by Bill Brugger 9781138341043
RRP: £21.99£19.34This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country's leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory. It considers the... -
The Reform Decade in China: From Hope to Dismay by Marta Dassu 9781138343689
£111.61This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a head in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were the result of a... -
China Since the 'Gang of Four' by Bill Brugger 9781138341067
£112.01This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the 'Gang of Four'. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and abandoning Mao's policies? Was China's leadership remaining... -
Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People by Roger Howard 9781138341555
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people. The author makes extensive use of a number of interviews with a cross-section of Chinese people, as well as examining the written records made... -
The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and its Discontents by Andreas Fulda 9781138328341
RRP: £135.00£117.28The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. Taking a long historical perspective, the... -
P.R.C. Laws for China Traders and Investors: Second Edition, Revised by Thomas C.W. Chiu 9781138368934
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive reference of the laws and practice relating to trade between China and the rest of the world, at a time when the country had only recently opened its markets to foreigners. It shows how China wished... -
Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942 by Gregor Benton 9781138343184
£98.60This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the Republic... -
Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century: New Priorities, New Philosophies by Allen G. Noble 9781138325609
RRP: £120.00£104.01Published in 1998, Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current... -
Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century: New Priorities, New Philosophies by Allen G. Noble 9781138325630
RRP: £32.99£29.16Published in 1998, Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current... -
The Religions of Tibet by Helmut Hoffmann 9781138338739
£111.61This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the... -
US Foreign Policy Towards Russia in the Post-Cold War Era: Ideational Legacies and Institutionalised Conflict and Co-operation by David Parker 9781138321397
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book discusses how the ideas, expectations and mind-sets that formed within different US foreign policy making institutions during the Cold War have continued to influence US foreign policy making vis-a-vis Russia in the post-Cold War era, with... -
Sri Lanka's Remittance Economy: A Multiscalar Analysis of Migration-Underdevelopment by Matt Withers 9781138320048
RRP: £135.00£117.28Employing a multiscalar approach to migration outcomes, spanning individual households, local communities, the macroeconomy and global patterns of capital accumulation, this book demonstrates how cumulatively causal processes at structural, institutional... -
The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case of Korea by J. L. Enos 9781138318205
£112.01This book, first published in 1988, considers the problems that developing countries face when importing technology from abroad. The major issues - technical, economic, political - are analysed in the case of one particular country: Korea. The book... -
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh by Nazia Hussein 9781032269863
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people’s sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative... -
Great Transition In India: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Chanwahn Kim 9789811285493
RRP: £70.00£60.84India, with its vast population, has become a focal point of global attention due to its remarkable economic growth and potential. In addition, India's geo-political influence has assumed significance within the context of Indo-Pacific strategy. This has... -
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective by Jacqueline Knörr 9781800737358
RRP: £15.95£13.30For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict... -
The Geography of Creativity by Gunnar Tornqvist 9781781001509
£98.61What is creativity and who exactly is creative? In this insightful and highly readable book, Gunnar Toernqvist attempts to answer these questions by arguing that geographical millieux are hotbeds for creativity and renewal - places where pioneers in art,... -
Evolving Regional Economies: Resources, Specialization, Globalization by Martin Henning 9781788214087
RRP: £24.99£23.26Regional issues are increasingly debated across the social sciences. In an age of globalization, the region has come to matter perhaps more than before. In business, companies orient themselves to engage in regional environments to build capabilities and... -
Evolving Regional Economies: Resources, Specialization, Globalization by Martin Henning 9781788214070
£93.17Regional issues are increasingly debated across the social sciences. In an age of globalization, the region has come to matter perhaps more than before. In business, companies orient themselves to engage in regional environments to build capabilities and... -
Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Pasquale Verdicchio 9781611470185
RRP: £81.00£66.08Working toward an analysis of the influence of photography on the construction of an Italian "type" to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages the work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated... -
Contemporary Chinese Theatre by Roger Howard 9780367771539
RRP: £28.99£25.09Chinese theatre underwent a great experiment under the cultural revolution. Using the reformed Beijing operas as models, the whole range of theatre arts, from straight plays to acrobatics and from ballet to ballads saw a profound transformation... -
Contemporary China: A New Superpower? by Kristina Kironska 9781032395081
RRP: £35.99£31.69- provides a comprehensive image on contemporary China, including history, society, economics, politics, and international relations. - China’s “superpower” status as the focal point of the analysis, thus offering students to be curious about China while... -
Oral Narrative in Afghanistan: The Individual in Tradition by Margaret A. Mills 9780367265618
RRP: £33.99£30.40This book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the oral narrative process which can be observed in individual performances.Book InformationISBN 9780367265618Author Margaret A... -
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 5 by Bernard Jackson S 9789004072855
RRP: £94.99£82.35Volume 15 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-14 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. The volume... -
United Arab Emirates (Routledge Revival): MERI Report by Middle East Research Institute 9781138902244
RRP: £35.99£31.69First published in 1985, this study, focusing on the United Arab Emirates, looks at the underlying reasons why certain political, economic and social events have taken place in the country’s history. It provides vital analysis of the political and... -
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh by Ali Riaz 9780367581657
RRP: £43.99£38.84In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress. Despite high population density, a limited natural-resource base, underdeveloped infrastructure, frequent natural disasters and political uncertainty, the country has... -
Bahamas Primary Social Studies Grade 5 by Lisa Greenstein 9781398390096
£16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398390096Author Lisa GreensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education -
Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Wolfram Eberhard 9781032244495
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book, first published in 1937, collects together traditional Chinese fairy tales, taken down word for word as they were related to the author by one of China’s foremost scholars.Book InformationISBN 9781032244495Author Wolfram EberhardFormat...