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AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide: Unit 4A The Government of the USA
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 15.98Focused revision for your best possible grade. more...
Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00Landry examines how the Chinese Communist Party's management of local officials perpetuates a decentralized authoritarian regime. more...
The Two Koreas and the Great Powers
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 39.00Emphasizing the most recent developments in East Asia, including the ongoing confrontation with North Korea over its nuclear program, this book examines how North and South Korea have emerged separately and in relation to one another in the post-Cold War world. 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...
Kingship in Early Medieval China
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th-7th centuries AD) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. It lays a basis for a framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia. more...
Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 74.00This book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work. more...
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 31.99Political Science and Chinese Political Studies
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer "isolated" from the larger disciplines of Political... more...
We Decide transforms e-democracy towards equity and social justice
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 199.00The articles in this ebook describe the thinking, approaches, issues, and challenges of designing e-democracy to improve impact on equity and social justice. To achieve this goal, a grassroots e-democracy learnscape, We Decide, was launched at the IADIS International conference. The articles focus on the work of We Decide and show how practitioners... more...
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...









