The contents of this book: - Regional Performance Figures - Power Game - Trade - Currencies - Asia-Pasific Organizations, etc.
One hundred years after their first appearance in Leon Trotsky's Results and Prospects, this book critically reevaluates two key Marxist theories: uneven and combined development, and permanent revolution. It brings together a formidable array of Marxist intellectuals from across the world including Daniel Bensaid, Michael Lowy, Hillel Ticktin and Patrick Bond. Marx saw societies progressing…
Buku ini berisi tentang perjalanan panjang sejarah China masa lalu mulai dari pembangunan ekonomi, sistem pertahanan nasional, hubungan luar negeri hingga hubungan dengan aktor-aktor penting.
This book presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of China's socio-political economy. The authors provide insightful explanations of China's economic reforms which started in 1978, have triggered China's integration with the world economy, privatized farming, liberalized markets, intensified healthy competition in industry, and introduced modern macro-economic management. The book comb…
For several decades the Western model of development has been criticized forcefully within Asia. But there has been little intellectual articulation of what the alternatives might be - at micro and macro level - from an Asian perspective. Do the various communities in Asia share anything significant beyond an abhorrence of the local effects of globalization and Western dominance? These two v…
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. The queen…
China's Tibet is a mysterious land, having a strong appeal to people from outside with its beautiful landscape, rich historical legacies, colorful culture, and unique folklore.
Reveals explosive changes currently taking place in Asia while considering how these changes will affect the rest of the world, predicting a major shift in international economic forces.
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…