By Thomas G. Lum
August 03, 2016
While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party's methods of social control and examines four groups-Party and government cadres, intellectuals, workers and peasants....
By Sandra Gillespie
July 29, 2016
This study directs attention towards a South-South dimension of knowledge transfer: specifically, China's educational exchange programs for Africa....
By Dongping Han
July 29, 2016
Based on archival research and interviews, this study explores Cultural Revolution educational reform and its links to rural education....
By Yoonmi Lee
July 15, 2016
By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was ...
By Robert D. Eldridge
April 14, 2016
Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins of the so-called Okinawa Problem. Also inlcludes four maps....
By Anny Wong
March 14, 2001
The study focuses on Japan's policies toward international environmental issues and includes case studies on whaling, deforestation in the tropics, and acid deposition in Asia....