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  • Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century

    by W. John Morgan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century addresses the now-considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies.The book charts the development of the concept in the twentieth century. Structured in two parts, Part I considers the League of Nations’ idealist attempts at international intellectual cooperation. It discusses also the first ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Peace and War

    Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by W. John Morgan, Alexandre Guilherme ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives is an accessible, higher-level critical discussion of philosophical commentaries on the nature of peace and war. It introduces and analyses various philosophies of peace and war, and their continuing theoretical and practical relevance for peace studies and conflict resolution. Using a combination of both historical and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education

    Nine Modern European Philosophers

    by Alexandre Guilherme, W. John Morgan ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work positions the socio-political views of each philosopher within a European tradition of dialogical ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia

    by W. John Morgan, Irina N. Trofimova, Grigori A. Kliucharev ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary published work in both Russian and English. The book explores how social change and developments in civil society are occurring in Russia and the role ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice

    Edited by Bin Wu, W. John Morgan ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    In place of a distributive justice perspective which focuses simply on equal access to universities, this book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. The necessity for research on the place of universities in contemporary Chinese society may be seen from current debates about and policy towards issues of educational ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Higher Education Reform in China

    Beyond the expansion

    Edited by W. John Morgan, Bin Wu ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a development strategy on such a scale, aiming to improve the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • 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

    $68.99 USD

  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Gender and Work in Urban China

    Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation

    by Jieyu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the macro-structural features of this process, this book makes the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • China's Civil Service Reform

    by Wang Xiaoqi ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China’s outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number of administrative reforms, including civil service reform which emphasized on selecting and promoting ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era

    Towards a Hybrid Capitalism

    by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era examines the dynamic ways in which millions of ethinic Chinese in East and Southeast Asian economies organize their economic activities. It analyses how Chinese capitalism has changed under conditions of contemporary globalization and anticipates what the future holds for it. The book challenges the conventional notion of Chinese cpitalism as 'crony capitalism', ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

    by Ka-ho Mok ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and education reform.It discusses how policy makers have responded to changes required in educational outcomes in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD