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Words Kill
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectivly managing significant opposition to the... more...
Chinas Economic Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Written by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urban - rural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth... more...
Remaking the Chinese State
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 64.95After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic policies and practices of the Maoist era have been abandoned, with the goals of revolution in foreign and domestic policy being replaced by an emphasis on economic modernization, accompanied by radical... more...
Public Policymaking in Hong Kong
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy domains. It identifies three explanatory factors, namely, the profile of a policy domain, the structure of societal interest, and the strength... more...
Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 185.00This 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 -... more...
The Chinese Complaint System: Natural Resistance
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the People?s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits System ( xinfang zhidu ), which was designed to allow people to register complaints with the upper levels of the government. However, both parties generally overlooked several different complaint... more...
Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages... more...
Japan - Change and Continuity
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 178.00Japan is currently undergoing many interesting changes, which the Japanese government trumpets as fundamental reform, but which some observers suspect will turn out to be superficial, part of a long sequence of changes which have been much less far-reaching than at first anticipated. This book provides a survey of the many changes currently in progress... more...
Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905 is the first detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing a thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament, still the central institution of Japanese politics, and its development during this formative period. Drawn from primary sources, including the Diet records and contemporary... more...
Handbook of China?s Governance and Domestic Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 300.00This Handbook provides an in-depth overview of how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world?s largest political party in the world?s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid economic and social development. How this... more...









