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Middle Class China
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00A general expectation has developed that China's middle class will generate not only social but also political change. This expectation often overlooks the reality that there is no single Chinese middle class with a common identity or will to action. This timely volume examines the behaviour and identity of the different elements of China's... more...
Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 69.95David Goodman reaches beyond China's spectacular economic success of recent years to understand the sources of Deng's political power. This is a balanced evaluation of the career of one of the century's great political survivors. more...
Exception to the Rulers
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 22.68A fresh voice from the eother America', investigative journalist Amy Goodman exposes corporate cronyism, media spin and the systematic undermining of democracy in George Bush's USA. more...
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China?s landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties... more...
The New Rich in China
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Three 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,... more...
Consuming Space
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in structuring contemporary capitalist political economies. more...
Alternative Food Networks
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 153.00Farmers? markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods ? how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and... more...
Refashioning Nature
Routledge 1991; US$ 254.00This book examines the development of the modern food system around contemporary agriculture, food processing, ecological systems and changes in women's employment in challenging our perception of our position within a natural system. more...
China's Provinces in Reform
Routledge 1997; US$ 68.95Explores the impact of social and political change on China's provinces during the reform era. Offering an in-depth comparative anaysis of a number of major provinces, it challenges generalizations over the nature of change in China more...
Globalising Food
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 71.95In an increasingly global world, societies are being provisioned from a bewildering array of sources as new countries and new food commodities are drawn into international markets. Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the area of political economy of agriculture, food and consumption through a revealing investigation of the globalisation... more...









