East Asia
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
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
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
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
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....