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  • Living on Your Own

    Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

    by Jesook Song ...
    An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women's difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women's ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

    The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

    by Jesook Song, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans a minimum standard of living, it prioritized assisting those citizens perceived as embodying the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • On the Margins of Urban South Korea

    Core Location as Method and Praxis

    Edited by Jesook Song, Laam Hae ...
    This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of "core location," a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and "Asia as method," a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • New Millennium South Korea

    Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements

    Edited by Jesook Song ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing a higher debt rate than the US. This groundbreaking collection of essays addresses questions such as how did the open market policies and restructuring ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • China and the New International Order

    Edited by Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • China on the Move

    Migration, the State, and the Household

    by C. Cindy Fan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to Chinese development.Using a large body of research, clear and attractive illustrations (maps, tables, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Development in East Asia

    Edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jongtae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century globalization was mainly led by the West, the 21st century is ushering in different dynamics. The re-emergence of Asia involves alternative visions of the world and different perspectives ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Specter of "the People"

    Urban Poverty in Northeast China

    by Mun Young Cho ...
    Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban unemployment, transforming the proletariat vanguard into a new urban poor. How do unemployed workers ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

    Edited by Esther Ngan-ling Chow ...
    Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Governance in China

    by John P. Burns, Du Jie, Joseph Fewsmith, Linda Jakobson, Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard, Zhu Sanzhu, Zhang Jing, Dr. Jude Howell, Marc Blecher, Michael Keane ...
    Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism that has raised living standards and the country's global economic stature. However, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

    Shifting Power

    by Hyuk-Rae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Modern Korea
    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a contested one.This book presents civil society's rise in Korea through in-depth ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD