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State And Society In The Philippines

by Donna J. Amoroso e Patricio N. Abinales

~~65,57€~~ 52,46€ 20% OFF

 This clear and nuanced introduction to the Philippines explores the ongoing dilemma of state-society relations, explaining the peculiar nature of a weak state that has managed to survive rebellions, dictatorship, and economic crisis, yet is unable to foster economic development and equality and guarantee long-term political stability.
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State And Society In The Philippines

by Donna J. Amoroso e Patricio N. Abinales

~~74,34€~~ 59,47€ 20% OFF

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 This clear and nuanced introduction to the Philippines explores the ongoing dilemma of state-society relations, explaining the peculiar nature of a weak state that has managed to survive rebellions, dictatorship, and economic crisis, yet is unable to foster economic development and equality and guarantee long-term political stability.
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State And Society In The Philippines

by Donna J. Amoroso e Patricio N. Abinales

~~148,71€~~ 118,97€ 20% OFF

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 This clear and nuanced introduction to the Philippines explores the ongoing dilemma of state-society relations, explaining the peculiar nature of a weak state that has managed to survive rebellions, dictatorship, and economic crisis, yet is unable to foster economic development and equality and guarantee long-term political stability.
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Patrolling The Revolution - Worker Militias, Citizenship, And The Modern Chinese State

by Elizabeth J. Perry

~~48,89€~~ 39,11€ 20% OFF

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Chinese Economic Revolution - Rural Entrepreneurship In The Twentieth Century

by Linda Grove

~~113,29€~~ 90,63€ 20% OFF

 69.00
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Tigers Without Teeth - The Pursuit Of Justice In Contemporary China

by Scott Wilson

~~107,33€~~ 85,86€ 20% OFF

 This book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in China as the author examines how AIDS carriers and pollution victims pursue justice. His case studies highlight the development of civil society as well as the limitations to the â€œpolitics of justiceâ€ as the system balances between the rule of law and regime stability.
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Tigers Without Teeth - The Pursuit Of Justice In Contemporary China

by Scott Wilson

~~121,67€~~ 97,34€ 20% OFF

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 This book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in China as the author examines how AIDS carriers and pollution victims pursue justice. His case studies highlight the development of civil society as well as the limitations to the â€œpolitics of justiceâ€ as the system balances between the rule of law and regime stability.
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Life And Death In The Garden - Sex, Drugs, Cops, And Robbers In Wartime China

by Kathryn Meyer

~~50,09€~~ 40,07€ 20% OFF

 This compelling book provides a rare glimpse into the heart of wartime China. Kathryn Meyer draws us into the perilous world of the Garden of Grand Vision, a ramshackle structure where a floating population of thousands found shelter from the freezing Siberian winter. They had come to the northern city of Harbin to find opportunity or to escape the turmoil of China in civil war. Instead they found despair. As the author vividly describes, corpses littered the halls waiting for the daily offal truck to cart the bodies away, vermin infested the walls, and relief came in the form of addiction. Yet the Garden also supported a vibrant informal economy. Rag pickers and thieves recycled everything from rat pelts to cigarette butts. Prostitutes entertained clients in the building’s halls and back alleys. These people lived at the very bottom of Chinese society, yet rumors that Chinese spies hid among the residents concerned the Japanese authorities. For this population lived in Manchukuo, the first Japanese conquest in what became the Second World War. Thus, three Japanese police officers were dispatched into the underworld of occupied China to investigate crime and vice in the Harbin slums while their military leaders dragged Japan deeper into the Pacific War. While following these policemen, the reader discovers a remarkable and unexpected view of World War II in East Asia. Instead of recounting battles and military strategy, this book explores the margins of a violent and entrepreneurial society, the struggles of an occupying police force to maintain order, and the underbelly of Japanese espionage. Drawing on the author’s years of rediscovering the historical trail in Manchuria and research based on top-secret Japanese military documents and Chinese memoirs, this book offers a unique and powerful social and cultural history of a forgotten world.
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China'S Foreign Political And Economic Relations - An Unconventional Global Power

by Dirk H. Schmidt e Sebastian Heilmann

~~47,69€~~ 38,15€ 20% OFF

 This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China's foreign political and economic relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt consider China's view of the world; its foreign policy decision-making process; its major bilateral relati...
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Webs Of Smoke - Smugglers, Warlords, Spies, And The History Of The International Drug Trade

by Kathryn Meyer e Terry Parssinen

~~46,49€~~ 37,19€ 20% OFF

 This history of international drug trafficking in the first half of the 20th century follows the stories of American gangsters, Japanese spies, Chinese warlords, and soldiers of fortune whose lives revolved around opium. The text draws on British, European, American, Japanese and Chinese archives.
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Of Camel Kings And Other Things - Rural Rebels Against Modernity In Late Imperial China

by Roxann Prazniak

~~65,57€~~ 52,46€ 20% OFF

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Communication In China - Political Economy, Power, And Conflict

by Yuezhi Zhao

~~59,61€~~ 47,69€ 20% OFF

 Explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. This study offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power.
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State And Society In The Philippines

by Donna J. Amoroso e Patricio N. Abinales

~~46,58€~~ 37,26€ 20% OFF

 People in the Philippines routinely vote, run for office, organize social movements, and call for good governance by the state. Why, then, is there a recurring state-society dilemma in the Philippines? One horn of the dilemma is the persistent inability of the state to provide basic services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic development. The other is Filipinos' equally enduring suspicion of a strong state. The idea of a strong Republic evokes President Marcos' martial law regime of the 1970s and 1980s, which spawned two armed rebellions, cost thousands of lives in repression and billions of dollars in corruption, set the nation back years in economic development, and exacerbated suspicion of the state. This dilemma stimulates thinking about the puzzle of state resilience: How has a "weak state" maintained the territorial integrity of the Philippines in the postwar period in the face of two major rebellions and an armed separatist movement, corruption, mismanagement, intractable poverty, weak sovereignty, and an often chaotic electoral system? Why does the inability to collect taxes, secure citizens' lives and property, and maintain economic infrastructure not result in state failure? State and Society in the Philippines engages the dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaborations between state leaders and social forces. It examines the long history of institutional state weakness in the Philippines and the efforts made to overcome the state's structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. It answers these difficult questions by focusing on how the state has shaped and been shaped by its interaction with social forces, especially in the rituals of popular mobilization that have produced surprising and diverse results.
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Sovereignty And Authenticity - Manchukuo And The East Asian Modern

by Prasenjit Duara

~~53,65€~~ 42,92€ 20% OFF

 A study of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in North East China, from 1932 to 1945. It explores how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period.
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China'S Foreign Political And Economic Relations - An Unconventional Global Power

by Dirk H. Schmidt e Sebastian Heilmann

~~128,43€~~ 102,74€ 20% OFF

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 This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China's foreign political and economic relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt consider China's view of the world; its foreign policy decision-making process; its major bilateral relati...
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Embattled Glory - Veterans, Military Families, And The Politics Of Patriotism In China, 1949-2007

by Neil J. Diamant

~~59,61€~~ 47,69€ 20% OFF

 This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People''s Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar populations in other parts of Asia and in the West. He offers an unprecedented look at the "everyday interactions" among veterans, military families, state officials, and ordinary citizens as they attempted to secure urban residence, jobs, spouses, medical care, and respect. Often celebrated by the government for their glorious and patriotic service, veterans and military families were the beneficiaries of many policies, such as affirmative action in hiring and access to political power. But, the author asks, if veteran and military families were heroic, why did many of them compare their situation to "donkeys slaughtered after grinding the wheat" and "tossed-away dirty socks?" And what explains the thousands of suicides among veterans, rampant discrimination, and ongoing protests against the government? By comparing veterans in China to their counterparts in the United States, the Soviet Union, Israel, and elsewhere, this book provides important answers to the larger question of what circumstances lead to better or worse treatment of veterans, and what this treatment tells us about patriotism, legitimacy, and respect for military service.
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Shanghai Gone - Domicide And Defiance In A Chinese Megacity

by Qin Shao

~~15,01€~~ 12,01€ 20% OFF

 Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, but that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide-the eradication of home against the will of its dwellers-to the destr...
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Marxism In The Chinese Revolution

by Arif Dirlik

~~175,74€~~ 140,59€ 20% OFF

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Shanghai Gone - Domicide And Defiance In A Chinese Megacity

by Qin Shao

~~148,71€~~ 118,97€ 20% OFF

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 Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, but that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide-the eradication of home against the will of its dwellers-to the destr...
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Of Camel Kings And Other Things - Rural Rebels Against Modernity In Late Imperial China

by Roxann Prazniak

~~74,34€~~ 59,47€ 20% OFF

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 This study offers a critical perspective on political and economic modernization during a key turning point in world history. From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells of the farmers who opposed constitutional reform in the early 20th century.
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Revolution In The Highlands - China'S Jinggangshan Base Area

by Elizabeth J. Perry, Joseph W. Esherick e Stephen C. Averill

~~148,71€~~ 118,97€ 20% OFF

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 Offers an analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. This book provides a local perspective on the rise of a revolution that reshaped China and the world. It explores the social cleavages that enabled the revolution to grow and dramatically influenced the structure of conflict within the party itself.
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A Chinese Economic Revolution - Rural Entrepreneurship In The Twentieth Century

by Linda Grove

~~128,43€~~ 102,74€ 20% OFF

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Webs Of Smoke - Smugglers, Warlords, Spies, And The History Of The International Drug Trade

by Kathryn Meyer e Terry Parssinen

~~52,71€~~ 42,17€ 20% OFF

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 This history of international drug trafficking in the first half of the 20th century follows the stories of American narcs and gangsters, Japanese spies, Chinese warlords and soldiers of fortune whose lives revolved around opium.
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Communication In China - Political Economy, Power, And Conflict

by Yuezhi Zhao

~~67,58€~~ 54,06€ 20% OFF

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 Explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. This study offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power.
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