Unstately Power

Author : Lynn T. White, III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478371
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unstately Power written by Lynn T. White, III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.

Author : Lynn T. White
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765601490
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unstately Power written by Lynn T. White and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn T. White
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765600448
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unstately Power: Local causes of China's economic reforms written by Lynn T. White and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's dramatic reforms are usually said to have been caused by the policies of state leaders under Deng Xiaoping. This fascinating new study by one of the West's leading authorities on contemporary China shows, however, that reforms began and are maintained by local networks. They emerged first in the economy -- partly as unintended results of previous policies. Agricultural extension in Mao Zedong's time freed so much labor from the land in rich areas, such as the Shanghai delta, that peasant leaders set up rural industries to employ clients. Many of these leaders were avowed "state cadres", but they acted for local constituencies more than for Beijing. Their initiatives can be documented in the early 1970s, long before the 1978 proclamation of new enterprises, which the central bureaucracy could not monitor, taking materials and markets away from state industries. This caused socialist control of input prices and commodity flows to collapse by the mid-1980s. As a result, shortages and inflation bedeviled the economy, the state ran deficits, management decentralized local banks proliferated, and immigration to cities soared.

Author : Lynn T. White (III)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unstately Power: Local causes of China's economic reforms written by Lynn T. White (III) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morris Altman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765621481
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics written by Morris Altman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists is the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. At a time when conventional approaches have failed to resolve key economic concerns, the book provides a provocative alternative view of how economic decisions are actually made.

Author : Lynn T. White, III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315293471
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unstately Power written by Lynn T. White, III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.

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ISBN 13 : 9814469319
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Author : Lee Feigon
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461699401
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao written by Lee Feigon and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin. But, as Lee Feigon points out in his startling revision of Mao, the Chinese leader has been tainted by the actions and policies of the same Soviet-style Communist bureaucrats he came to hate and attempted to eliminate. Mr. Feigon argues that the movements for which Mao is almost universally condemned today—the Great Leap Forward and especially the Cultural Revolution—were in many ways beneficial for the Chinese people. They forced China to break with its Stalinist past and paved the way for its great economic and political strides in recent years. While not glossing over Mao’s mistakes, some of which had heinous consequences, Mr. Feigon contends that Mao should be largely praised for many of his later efforts—such as the attacks he began to level in the late 1950s on those bureaucrats responsible for many of the problems that continue to plague China today. In reevaluating Mao’s contributions, this interpretive study reverses the recent curve of criticism, seeing Mao’s late-in-life contributions to the Chinese revolution more favorably while taking a more critical view of his earlier efforts. Whereas most studies praise the Mao of the 1930s and 1940s as an original and independent thinker, Mr. Feigon contends that during this period his ideas and actions were fairly ordinary—but that he depended much more on Stalin’s help than has been acknowledged. Mao: A Reinterpretation seeks a more informed perspective on one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century.

Author : Benjamin van Rooij
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9087280130
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating Land and Pollution in China written by Benjamin van Rooij and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Many of China's rivers and lakes are strongly polluted, the air in cities is amongst the worst in the world, while some have warned that if the country is not careful it may soon have insufficient arable land to feed its population. This book looks at why the protection of natural resources through stricter legislation and more stringent law enforcement has been so difficult. It does so through a combination of a local case with comparative and theoretical insights about lawmaking, compliance and enforcement. It offers a unique view on how law functions in the world's largest legal system, and how such law interacts with the social, economic and political circumstances at hand. This book offers an incomparable body of empirical and theoretical knowledge for those interested in how law functions in China, as well as those interested in the workings of regulatory lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement in a comparative perspective. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789087280130.

Author : Kate Xiao Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512074
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia? written by Kate Xiao Zhou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to rethink usual notions regarding ways in which "democracies" emerge or "citizens" gain more power. Careful examination of current developments in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia show a need for expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization. This book challenges traditional ways in which political regimes in local as well as national polities are conceived and labeled. It shows from Asian experiences that democracy and its precursors come in more forms than most liberals have yet imagined. In reviewing recent experiences of countries across East Asia, these chapters show that actual democracies and ostensible democratizations there are less like those in the West than the surprisingly consensual and standard political science of democratization suggests. This book first examines the extreme variation of democracy’s meaning in many Asian states that hold contested elections (South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand). Then it focuses on China. It analyzes a range of grassroots forces driving political change in the People’s Republic, and it finds both accelerators and brakes in China’s political reform process. The contributors show that models for China’s political future exist both within and outside the PRC, including in other East Asian states, in localities and sectors that already are pushing the limits of the powerful, but no longer all-powerful, Chinese party-state. With contributions from leading academics in the field, Democratization in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia? will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics, and democratization more broadly.