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  • Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Ming Sing ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process elsewhere, and it supplements the received wisdom - that democracy was delayed because of colonial ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Take Back Our Future

    An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

    Edited by Ching Kwan Lee, Ming Sing ...
    In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Politics and Government in Hong Kong

    Crisis under Chinese sovereignty

    Edited by Ming Sing ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing in particular on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003. It argues that Hong Kong has been poorly governed since transferring to Chinese rule, and that public frustration with governmental performance, including anti-subversion laws and slow democratisation, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

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  • Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea

    Edited by Yun-shik Chang, Steven Hugh Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

    A History since 1978

    Edited by Yongnian Zheng ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of contemporary China.Provides a unique perspective on China, incorporating newly published materials from within and outside China, in English and Chinese. Discusses both the societal and economic aspects of China’s development, and how these factors have ... Read more

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  • China and the New International Order

    Edited by Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

    Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps. Despite this successful transformation, there ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Hong Kong

    Legacies and Prospects of Development

    Edited by Benjamin K.P. Leung ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling of social and cultural images - east and west, local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal. In this volume, the editor has selected essays dealing with a variety of aspects of Hong Kong including change and development, culture and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Contemporary South Korean Society

    A Critical Perspective

    Edited by Hee-Yeon Cho, Lawrence Surendra, Hyo-Je Cho ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    The growing importance of the Korean economy in the global arena and the spread of the so-called ‘Korean wave’ in Asia mean there is an increasing desire to understand contemporary Korean Society. To this end, this book provides a critical and progressive analysis of the diverse issues that impact on and shape contemporary Korean society at both local and national levels.The contributors address ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Hong Kong's Governance Under Chinese Sovereignty

    The Failure of the State-Business Alliance after 1997

    by Brian C. H. Fong ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
    As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era. However, since the handover in 1997, the transformation of Hong Kong’s political and socio-economic environment has eroded the conditions that supported a viable state-business alliance. This state-business alliance, which was once a solution for Hong Kong’s governance, has now become a political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD