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  • Koreans' Social Identity

    by Myoung-Jin Lee, Ji-Young Choi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the changing characteristics of Korean society and Koreans in various areas, including politics, economics, and society, providing rich analyses on social identity. Factoring in the trajectory of Korean history, the authors chart the rapid economic growth of Korea and the ways in which this has significantly improved Koreans' material living standards. The book shows that ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Korean Immigrants in Canada

    Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family

    by Samuel Noh, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh ...
    Series series Asian Canadian Studies
    Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on Korean immigrants and their offspring from interdisciplinary, social scientific perspectives.The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Risk of Compressed Modernity

    by Chang Kyung-Sup ...
    In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic growth very quickly, but it also harbored unexpected risks and costs that threatened further development. The very mechanisms and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Empowered Educators in China

    How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

    by Mistilina Sato ...
    BEST PRACTICES FROM CHINA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMEmpowered Educators in China is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • China's Youth

    Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality

    by Li Chunling ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials-those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s-the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviors of this key segment of the country's ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • A taxonomy of state capitalism

    The developmental phases of Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Singapore - a comparative institutional analysis

    by Axel Wölk ...
    Series Book 7 - Emerging Markets Studies
    What is the economic order of state capitalism? Furthermore,how can its significant performance differences be explained? The firstquestion is tackled with the help of New Institutional Economics by developinga model of state capitalism. This topic is furthermore dealt with in Chapter 3 wherea taxonomy of state capitalism is presented. This chapter already explains someof the performance ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Meritocracy or Patronage?

    Political Foundations of China's Economic Transition

    by Fubing Su, Ran Tao ...
    Series series Elements in Chinese Economy and Governance
    This study interrogates the theoretical and empirical validities of two dominant theories about Chinese state in the post-Mao period. The authors argue that the meritocratic view has under-theorized the innate contradiction between officials' personal competence and political loyalty. In order to survive political struggles, political leaders need to rely on patronage networks to recruit followers ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • 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

    $47.79 USD

  • Political Selection in China

    Rethinking Foundations and Findings

    by Melanie Manion ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia
    Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office – and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The evidence favors democratic elections as the selection institution that produces high governance quality. Yet authoritarian China, where a communist party monopolizes the selection of all officials of importance, presents a sophisticated and, by some ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Social Unrest and the Poverty Problem in Hong Kong

    Growth Imbalance and Sustainable Development

    by Paul Siu Fai Yip ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the policy and public health challenges in Hong Kong from the perspective of economic and social welfare challenges, specifically focusing on the poverty and inequality research supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Charities Trust. Conducted by Prof Yip and his research team at the HKJC’s Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong across ... Read more

    $49.49 USD