Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
by Winnie King, Chun-wing Lee, Kai-chi Leung
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power
Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives, in order to portray how Joseph Nye’s notion of “soft power” has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence....
The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China
From Journalists to Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Investigative journalism emerged in China in the 1980s following Deng Xiaoping’s media reforms. Over the past few decades, Chinese investigative journalists have produced an increasing number of reports in print or on air and covered a surprisingly wide range of topics which had been thought impossible...
Chinese Investigative Journalists' Dreams
Autonomy, Agency, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-depth study of Chinese investigative journalists’ dreams, work practices, and strategies. It is the first book that systematically addresses the roles and...
China's Last Imperial Frontier
Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native...
Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal valued commodites. Guiding readers through the...
Confronting Disaster
An Existential Approach to Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and regressive environmental...
by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In 1995D96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements...
Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party-State
The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941–1952
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This work offers new ways of conceptualizing the decision-making paradigm of the Soviet party-state that was defined by the persistent shortage of qualified manpower that afflicted the Russian elite. The traditional Russian problems of under administration, combined with the unique features of the...
Liberal Socialism
An Alternative Social Ideal Grounded in Rawls and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Should we be looking for alternatives to the western world’s status quo of neo-liberal capitalism? Should we be seeking a new form of freedom for a more just and better social world? Drawing on Rawls’s theory of justice and Marx’s critique of capitalism, this book answers those questions in...
Global Economic Disparity
A Dynamic Force in Geoeconomic Competition of Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The world is a veritable stage for superpowers. Major historical events are best viewed as the outcomes of games played by superpowers for their own economic interests. The objective of this book is to explore the primary cause of global historical events. A global economic disparity (GED) motivates...
by Swapan K. Bala, Munim Kumar Barai, K. V. Bhanu Murthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies is an anthology of seven case studies plus two theoretical chapters in a comparative context. It analyzes issues related to the rise of multinational corporations, their immense economic and political influence in a...
Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea
Landscape as Political Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Environmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s “revolutionary” industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the...
Taiwan and the Rise of China
Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Coincided with China’s economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 1979 have also seen some encouraging development. However, the rapprochement is nothing but a smooth ride. Taiwan Strait has always been full of tensions...