Product Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world...read more

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Product Description: Does modernization in Asia mean westernization? Can Asia achieve modernity without westernization? How can Asia maintain its own cultural traditions in an age of globalization? How can Asian cultures, especially Chinese culture, facilitate modernization? The two articles in this publication address these questions by examining various links between culture, modernity and development...read more

Product Description: This work argues that local political networks in China have taken over resources and legitimacy that the central state once enjoyed, and they, rather than Beijing, have mainly created reforms. Examples are taken from political economy, culture, religion, art and literature.

Product Description: Book by Kraus, Willy