The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate a
Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on thr
This is a study of the elite politics of China for the period 1972-1976 that is intended by authors Teiwes (emeritus, Chinese politics, U. of Sydney, Australia) and Sun (Chinese studies, Monash U., Au
The results of a five-year multinational study of literature on environmental interviews, these nine articles include national-level summaries and interpretations as well as commentary on conducting f
Cooney (political science and international relations, Union U.) carefully uses a wide range of literature on Japanese foreign relations and extensive interviews with Japanese policy-makers to craft t
Political and legal scholars in the US, China, and Germany examine the competing movements in China: the one advocating Western multi-party democracy, and the other seeking to improve single-party rul
This work provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of civil-military relations in China. It reflects the significant changes taking place in Chinese society and their impact on the civil-milita
This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the richness and subtleties of Japanese manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (a
Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a contex
