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  • Emerging Human Rights Issues in Taiwan

    Between an Oppressive Past and an Uncertain Technological Future

    Edited by Yi-Chun Chou, Mab Huang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contextual and Intercultural Perspectives on Human Rights
    This book examines emerging human rights issues in Taiwan.It comprehensively covers topics such as the #MeToo movement, the protection of health data, artificial intelligence, parental discipline, and the trans-species politics of gendered human rights and humanized animal welfare. Authored by both well-established scholars and emerging researchers, the book fills a critical gap in the English ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Contemporary Chinese Politics

    New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies

    Edited by Allen Carlson, Mary E. Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal, Melanie Manion ...
    Contemporary Chinese Politics: Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies considers how new and diverse sources and methods are changing the study of Chinese politics. Contributors spanning three generations in China studies place their distinct qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches in the framework of the discipline and point to challenges or opportunities (or both) of adapting new ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China

    Chinese and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighanthan ...
    Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Policing in Taiwan

    From authoritarianism to democracy

    by Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first monograph to examine the role of the police as a linkage between the state and civil society during ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Contentious Public Sphere

    Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China

    by Ya-Wen Lei ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently ... Read more

    Was $58.29 CAD Now $39.59 CAD

  • China's Youth

    Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality

    by Li Chunling ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials-those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s-the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviors of this key segment of the country's ... Read more

    $44.29 CAD

  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Meritocracy or Patronage?

    Political Foundations of China's Economic Transition

    by Fubing Su, Ran Tao ...
    Series series Elements in Chinese Economy and Governance
    This study interrogates the theoretical and empirical validities of two dominant theories about Chinese state in the post-Mao period. The authors argue that the meritocratic view has under-theorized the innate contradiction between officials' personal competence and political loyalty. In order to survive political struggles, political leaders need to rely on patronage networks to recruit followers ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Capitalism without Democracy

    The Private Sector in Contemporary China

    by Kellee S. Tsai ...
    Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of political observers and global business leaders, the triumph of capitalism has not led to substantial ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • China’s New 21st-Century Realities

    Social Equity in a Time of Change

    Edited by Richard Greggory Johnson III ...
    Series Book 15 - Global Studies in Education
    China’s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people think of China they think of a very rigid, patriarchal society where oppression is the order of the day. However, this book aims to debunk some of those preconceived notions by addressing issues such as single men living in rural China, professional women in ... Read more

    $51.39 CAD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD