Bücher der Reihe State & Society in East Asia

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.

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.

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.

Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers a political analysis of Chinese culture that includes all genres of art.

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.

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.

This powerful and meticulously researched study explores the role of rural industry and entrepreneurship in the Chinese economic miracle. Linda Grove focuses on one weaving district in North China, exploring the ways in which small industrial firms have accumulated capital, organized their firms, developed nationwide marketing networks, and promoted brands over the last century. Cutting across the conventional divide between studies of "history" and "contemporary economy," the author persuasively shows the links between traditional Chinese business practices and modern economic growth. Based on several decades of archival research, surveys, and fieldwork, A Chinese Economic Revolution provides the first English-language exploration of the business history of small Chinese firms.

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 "politics of justice" as the system balances between the rule of law and regime stability.