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  • Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Ming Sing ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process elsewhere, and it supplements the received wisdom - that democracy was delayed because of colonial ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Take Back Our Future

    An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

    Edited by Ching Kwan Lee, Ming Sing ...
    In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Politics and Government in Hong Kong

    Crisis under Chinese sovereignty

    Edited by Ming Sing ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing in particular on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003. It argues that Hong Kong has been poorly governed since transferring to Chinese rule, and that public frustration with governmental performance, including anti-subversion laws and slow democratisation, ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years Of Transformation

    by Tien Foo Sing, Shi Ming Yu, Ngee Huat Seek ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real estate market in Singapore over the past 50 years. This volume is organised around two major themes, and covers issues from the 'bricks and mortar' to the capital markets; and from local to international real estate markets. The themes aptly describe how real estate has played an important ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Ho‘i Hou Ka Mauli Ola

    Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health

    by Winona K. Mesiona Lee, Mele A. Look, Nina Leialoha Beckwith, Dr. Richard Kekuni Blaisdell, S. Kalani Brady, Dee-Ann Carpenter, Rebecca Delafield, Māpuana de Silva, Sasha Naomi Kehaulani Hayashi Treschuk Fernandes0, Courtney Kielemaikalani Gaddis1, Akolea K. Ioane2, ‘Ānela K. Nacapoy Iwane3, Marcus Kawika Iwane4, Nanette Kapulani Mossman Judd5, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula6, Martina Leialoha Kamaka7, Leimomi Kanagusuku8, C. Malina Kaulukukui9, Dana-Lynn Ko‘omoa0, Malia-Susanne Lee1, Gregory G. Maskarinec2, Alika K. Maunakea3, Diane S. L. Paloma4, Karen K. Sakamoto5, Shelley Soong6, Patrice Ming-Lei Tim Sing7, Kalehua Tolentino8, Claire Townsend9, Kelli-Ann Frank Voloch0, Kamuela Werner1, Vanessa S. Wong2, Benjamin Young3 ...
    Series series Hawai‘inuiākea
    This pioneering collection highlights the historic, groundbreaking, and fascinating work done by doctors, researchers, and healthcare providers to improve the life of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The relevance of their work impacts all of us regardless of ethnicity because the discoveries made in the search for solutions to health problems, cures to diseases, and improvements to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Design of High-performance Pre-engineered Steel Concrete Composite Beams for Sustainable Construction

    by Ming-Shan Zhao, Sing-Ping Chiew, Guan-Feng Chua, Miao Ding, Yi Yang, Zhengxia Cong ...
    This accessible and practical shortform book details the properties and advantages of high-performance pre-engineered steel-concrete composite beams (HPCBs) for improving the sustainability of construction techniques. It also explains the analysis methods for testing HPCB systems.The authors describe a new HPCB system that has been developed to reduce the input of raw materials and embodied CO2 ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea

    Edited by Yun-shik Chang, Steven Hugh Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean ... Read more

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  • Contemporary China

    A History since 1978

    Edited by Yongnian Zheng ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of contemporary China.Provides a unique perspective on China, incorporating newly published materials from within and outside China, in English and Chinese. Discusses both the societal and economic aspects of China’s development, and how these factors have ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • China and the New International Order

    Edited by Wang Gungwu, Zheng Yongnian ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of ‘international order’, as viewed by the United States, and with ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

    Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created a new, younger and better trained cadre corps. Despite this successful transformation, there ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD