Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Peter Peverelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
This book represents the first study of economic restructuring in reform era China to apply the concepts of identity and corporate space; notions that have become increasingly relevant as foreign invested and Chinese ventures face complex operational and societal issues in the wake of globalization.
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Remaking China's Great Cities
Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation’s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book examines five features of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’: the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan’s earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting balances of power in the region and changing...
Rural Capitalists in Asia
A Comparative Analysis on India, Indonesia and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This is a comparative study of small capitalists and rural industrialists in three Asian countries. Studies on the entrepreneurial class in South Asia tend to focus on the structural aspects of entrepreneurial behaviour, while studies on this class in Southeast Asia tend to focus on cultural aspects...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Over the past three decades, China’s economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China’s enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish,...
Education Reform and Social Class in Japan
The emerging incentive divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Until the early 1990s, Japanese education was widely commended for achieving outstanding outcomes in global comparison. At the same time, it was frequently criticized for failing to cultivate 'individuality' and 'creativity' in students. Wide-ranging education reforms were enacted during the 1990s...
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma
Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism.
Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of...
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia
Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political...
Development-induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India
Current Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. In India, informal estimates of involuntary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular, Chinese cities have witnessed the largest housing boom in history and unprecedented housing privatization. China now is a country of homeowners, with more than 70 per cent of urban...
by Roger Goodman, Ian Neary
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights.
Symbolism and Power in Central Asia
Politics of the Spectacular
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
With the collapse of communism, post-communist societies scrambled to find meaning to their new independence. Central Asia was no exception. Events, relationships, gestures, spatial units and objects produced, conveyed and interpreted meaning. The new power container of the five independent states...
India and the Age of Crisis
The Local Politics of Global Economic and Ecological Fragility
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Much of the discussion of India in the public sphere has focused on economic policy settings and restructuring, annual growth rates, trade relations and the nation’s status as an economic and political actor within the international system. This collection considers other dimensions of socio-economic...
Ageing in Asia
Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet Union,...