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Modernization, Dependency and World-System Theories
During the past four decades, the field of development has been dominated by three schools of research. The 1950s saw the modernization school, the 19...
Origins, Transformations, and Challenges
In contrast to the failure to economic reforms in Eastern Europe, China's economic reforms have been quite successful. Decollectivization, marketizati...
Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new reg...
13. Walking a Tight Rope: Hong Kong's Media Facing Political and Economic Challenges Since Sovereignty Transfer -- 14. Postcolonial Cultural Trends in...
Comparative Perspectives
Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes ...
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a ...
Partnership in Flux
This text focuses on the relationship of Hong Kong with the adjacent Chinese province Guangdong, the territories most directly involved in the 1997 tr...
Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China...
Local Historical Transformation and World System Theory
The material in this book is framed and organized through the themes of world system's theory -- such as incorporation, commercialization of agricultu...
A Societal Analysis
While many scholars of democratization focus on outside forces and legal change, political sociologist Alvin So argues that - in the case of Hong Kong...
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emergin...
In contrast to the literature's focuses on market, culture, state, and dependency, East Asia and the World Economy points to the crucial role of geopo...