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Problems of Democratization in China

Problems of Democratization in China

1st Edition

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....

South-South Transfer A Study of Sino-African Exchanges

South-South Transfer: A Study of Sino-African Exchanges

1st Edition

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....

The Unknown Cultural Revolution Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976

The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976

1st Edition

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....

Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910

Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation: Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910

1st Edition

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 ...

The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952

The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952

1st Edition

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....

The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

1st Edition

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....

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