Sementara perhatian Barat telah difokuskan pada Uni Soviet dan Eropa Timur, revolusi yang lebih tenang dan kumulatif telah terjadi di Asia yang mungkin memiliki konsekuensi yang lebih besar bagi sejarah dunia. Saat kita bergerak menuju tahun 2000, Asia akan menjadi kawasan yang dominan di dunia: secara ekonomi, politik, dan budaya. Hingga tahun 1990-an, Barat menetapkan aturan. Sekarang, orang …
This past spring, the outbreak of SARS grabbed the attention of the world. The schizophrenic, paranoid way the Chinese government handled the outbreak perfectly illustrated the danger of a political system unaccountable to its citizens. In The New Chinese Empire, Ross Terrill assesses this government, and the central question it raises: Is the People's Republic of China, whose polity is a hybri…
In the East, as recently as 1930, half the world's population was subjected to Dutch, British, French or American colonial rule. Two generations later the West's empires in the East are extinct. Instead, the Orient has become the Pacific miracle, a catch phrase for all things modern and dynamic. In this survey, John Keay draws on the writing and reminiscences of contemporaries, both rulers and …
Contents: 1. China's economy in early 21st century: Background and role of reform 2. Major tasks for the pivotal stage of reform of the state sector in the 21st century 3. It is fundamental to establish an income system with employees shareholding as the key in early 21st century 4. Rural economic reform focusing on introducing a long-term and guranteed land-use right in the early 21st cent…
The China Factor in Modern Japanese Thought examines the ideas of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945, a revisionist within the Japanese Kangaku tradition, which focused on incorporating Chinese elements into Japanese culture. Tachibana advocated the study of popular culture as the key to understanding contemporary society. When militarism was on the ascendant, Tachibana was a vocal critic of mil…
Although dozens of books have been published about China's rise, most authors treat it as an economic, political or military bloc rather than seeing it as a powerhouse of ideas that could influence our world. They have little to say about China's intellectual debates, or the ideological competition they might pose to the European and American world-views.
Contents: 1. The history of the South Slavs 2. Youth 3. The making of a communist 4. Wartime 5. The Utasha terror etc.
The present volume, which collects the ongoing activity of the Holy See, despite the aridity of the documentation, highlights the pastoral and missionary attention of the Holy Father and of the entire Church moving towards the third millennium. Looking at the horizon of history, a sense of dismay and restlessness sometimes surprises souls. But the message of the volume could be summarized as an…
Explores the historical roots of the conflict in Yugoslavia and provides a background to understanding the entrenched antagonism between Serbs and Croats. Its particular focus is the Yugoslav Communist Party's attempts to resolve this problem in the process of remaking the state.
The most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia available in English This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, t…