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1. Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities

   New Development Trajectories

   Edited by Peter W. Daniels, Kong Chong Ho, Tom Hutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

   From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

   Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. China's Embedded Activism

   Opportunities and constraints of a social movement

   Edited by Peter Ho, Richard Edmonds

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Developmental Dilemmas

   Land Reform and Institutional Change in China

   By Peter Ho

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the People's Republic of China. The book demonstrates that private property protected by law, the principle of '...

   Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge
5. Rural Development in Transitional China

   The New Agriculture

   Edited by Jacob Eyferth, Peter Ho, Eduard Vermeer

   Since the late 1970s, China has experienced the most rapid social and economic changes in world history. Over 200 million rural inhabitants were lifted out of absolute poverty and tens of millions became wealthier than the average urban resident.This book offers an authoritative and in-depth...

   Published February 4th 2004 by Routledge