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  • The Korean Popular Culture Reader

    Edited by Kyung Hyun Kim, Youngmin Choe ...
    Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of "K-pop," relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this ... Read more

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  • Commons Perspectives in South Korea

    Context, Fields, and Alternatives

    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Since its founding in 2011, the Research Center on the Commons and Sustainable Society has been at the forefront of Commons Research in South Korea. This book brings together the discoveries and insights the Center has produced in its first decade, as a contribution to international commons research and to the understanding of the commons in South Korea particularly.Divided into five main parts, ... Read more

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    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

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    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

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  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Read more

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  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

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  • Will China Dominate the 21st Century?

    Series series Global Futures
    China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why such assumptions are wrong. He presents an analysis of China under Xi Jinping which explores the highly significant political, ... Read more

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  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.Using case studies, Morton analyzes the relationship between international and local responses to ... Read more

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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

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  • Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

    Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

    A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive ... Read more

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  • China's Environmental Challenges

    Series series China Today
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  • Understanding Chinese Society

    Edited by Xiaowei Zang ...
    This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity, but also of China’s mass media, legal system and social control, work, and cultural expression. As ... Read more

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  • Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era

    Towards a Hybrid Capitalism

    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

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