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31. Korean Society

    Civil Society, Democracy and the State

    By Charles K. Armstrong

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Published February 13th 2002 by Routledge
32. Remaking the Chinese State

    Strategies, Society, and Security

    Edited by Chao Chien-min, Bruce Dickson

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic policies and practices of the Maoist era have been abandoned, with the goals of revolution in foreign and domestic policy being replaced by an...

    Published August 22nd 2001 by Routledge
33. Mao´s Children in the New China

    Voices From the Red Guard Generation

    By Yarong Jiang, David Ashley

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices for the first time. In this inspiring collection of interviews with...

    Published May 17th 2000 by Routledge
34. Chinese Society

    Change, Conflict and Resistance

    Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    This book, written by an interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars, offers an authoritative analysis of contemporary Chinese society, protest and resistance. Topics covered include:* labour and environmental disputes* rural and ethnic conflict* migration * legal challenges,...

    Published December 8th 1999 by Routledge
35. Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy

    A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950

    By Carl Trocki

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship...

    Published August 25th 1999 by Routledge
36. Hong Kong's History

    State and Society Under Colonial Rule

    Edited by Tak-Wing Ngo

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business...

    Published August 11th 1999 by Routledge
37. Debating Human Rights

    Critical Essays from the United States and Asia

    Edited by Peter Van Ness

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and...

    Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge