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  • Connecting Taiwan

    Participation – Integration – Impacts

    Edited by Carsten Storm ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • Anxious Wealth

    Money and Morality Among China's New Rich

    by John Osburg ...
    Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    by Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Korean Wave

    Korean Media Go Global

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context?This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Education in China

    Educational History, Models, and Initiatives

    by Qiang Zha, Ruth Hayhoe, Heidi Ross ...
    Series series Berkshire Essentials
    Chinese students are known worldwide for their accomplishment and ambition, and education is profoundly valued in China. But these facts do not tell the whole story. Intellectuals were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and only recently has a college education been accessible to a majority of Chinese high school graduates. Things are changing rapidly. China’s higher-education ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Chinese Women - Living and Working

    by Anne McLaren ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Changing Taiwanese Identities

    Edited by J. Bruce Jacobs, Peter Kang ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different cultures and migrations throughout the island’s history. In the 20th and early 21st centuries especially it has been a stage for cultural and ethnic conflict, not least because of the arrival of mainland Chinese fleeing the Chinese Communist Revolution. The subsequent tensions between those who see Taiwan as a natural territory of China ... Read more

    $62.99 USD