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  • Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China

    Chinese and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighanthan ...
    Series series Actexpress
    Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD

  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $33.83 CAD

  • The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea

    A Fragile Miracle

    by Tat Yan Kong ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Korean economy combines an historical approach with a substantial treatment of the new economy. Its fresh analysis of the recent transition and systematic treatment of labour issues represent a significant contribution to the scholarship on the politics of development. It is an essential resource for students of comparative ... Read more

    $80.07 CAD

  • Costly Democracy

    Peacebuilding and Democratization After War

    by Christoph Zürcher, Carrie Manning, Kristie D. Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Nora Roehner, Sarah Riese ...
    Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align.It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may ... Read more

    $34.55 CAD

  • State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

    Shifting Power

    by Hyuk-Rae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Modern Korea
    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a contested one.This book presents civil society's rise in Korea through in-depth ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • How East Asians View Democracy

    Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Doh Chull Shin, Andrew J. Nathan ...
    East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy.This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian ... Read more

    $33.83 CAD

  • Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia

    Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States

    Edited by Bae-Gyoon Park, Richard Child Hill, Asato Saito ...
    Series Book 70 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes in East Asia, one of the most important topics in social science research over the past two decadesConsiders the Asian perspective by ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • China's Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping

    Edited by John Garrick, Yan Chang Bennett ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Under the direction of the Communist Party of China (CPC), key legal challenges have been identified which will shape the modernization of China’s legal and administrative institutions. An increasingly complex set of legal actors now seek to influence this development, including securities regulators, bankers, accountants, lawyers, local-level mediators and some of China’s newly rich. Whilst the ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Gender and Chinese Development

    Towards an Equitable Society

    by Lanyan Chen ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of high growth rates, increasing GDP per capita and high trade volume, the book looks at what is happening to the very socioeconomic and political fabric of society; particularly in terms of the transformation of gender relations. Chen’s study ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD

  • China's Social Policy

    Transformation and Challenges

    Edited by Kinglun Ngok, Chak Kwan Chan ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    This book critically and comprehensively examines China’s welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China’s inception of the open door policy in 1978 to the new administration of Jinping Xi and Keqiang Li, including social security, health, education, housing, employment, rural areas, migrant workers, children and ... Read more

    $87.46 CAD

  • China's Reforms and International Political Economy

    Edited by David Zweig, Zhimin Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China’s economic and political transition.Exploring international relations theory with a China-centric view, the book addresses key and significant questions such as ... Read more

    $85.00 CAD