Constructing China's Jerusalem

Nanlai Cao

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary... Lees meer

Rise of the Red Engineers

Joel Andreas

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, autho... Lees meer

Blowback

Neil Devotta

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their commu... Lees meer

Global Futures in East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of ... Lees meer

Capital, Coercion, and Crime

John T Sidel

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and e... Lees meer

Beyond Bilateralism

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japa... Lees meer

Capital, Coercion, and Crime

John T Sidel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and e... Lees meer

Roots of the State

Benjamin Read

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state contro... Lees meer

Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector con... Lees meer

Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Vedi Hadiz

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentral... Lees meer

Rise of the Red Engineers

Joel Andreas

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, autho... Lees meer

On the Edge of the Global

Niko Besnier

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, ... Lees meer

Opposing Suharto

Edward Aspinall

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups cha... Lees meer

Constructing China's Jerusalem

Nanlai Cao

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary... Lees meer

Roots of the State

Benjamin Read

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Focusing on the capital cities of Beijing and Taipei, this book provides a detailed discussion of state-sponsored neighborhood organizations in China ... Lees meer

Rising China and Asian Democratization

Daniel C Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global ... Lees meer

Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transit... Lees meer

Beyond Bilateralism

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japa... Lees meer

Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Vedi Hadiz

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentral... Lees meer

Global Futures in East Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of ... Lees meer

Making Majorities

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numeri... Lees meer

The Fourth Circle

John F McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies condu... Lees meer

Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transit... Lees meer

Southeast Asia in Political Science

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
• This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogu... Lees meer