These are the central questions that a group of China specialists address in China Review. The subject matters discussed in the book edited by Kuan Hsin-chi and Maurice Brosseau include major developments in the following areas: political leadership, national reunification, the armed forces, the dissidents' movement, law and order, China and the world, China-Hong Kong relation, the economy, the…
Examines the Caribbean experience from slavery through to the post-independence period. Divided into 4 broad thematic areas, the articles demonstrate the impact of colonialism and the plantation system on Caribbean Life and highlight the efforts that Caribbean peoples have made to uplift themselves from the trammels of colonialism.
The political implacations of this theory are important. As lenin eventually realized and made clear in his closely related theories of imperialism and nationalism, third world nationalist struggles againts colonial rule or neo-colonial domination can have significant progressive political potential.
Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people. It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pr…
This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present-from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic.
This book describes the greater gift of competition that is not everything and changes us for the better. Through this book, it is hoped that readers can learn lessons that can change us for the better.
The overseas Chinese and the Chinese of Taiwan and Hong Kong are among the most dynamic business people in Asia. Making up around six per cent of the population of South-East Asia, ethnic Chinese business people control more than 70 per cent of the region's corporate wealth.
A sixth collection of speeches by the President of the Republic of the Philippines." Includes bibliographical references and index. ASEAN Recourses Centre copy signed by author."
Here Mike Moore examines the implications of the post industrial economy, the emerging information age, and how New Zealand can best prosper within the global economy. He warns of the serious economic consequences of ignoring our social, intellectual and infrastructural deficits and makes a case for New Zealand's endangered middle class, advancing the significant proposition that New Zealand mo…
The papers in this book focus on women in Southeast Asia, and demonstrate that Boserup's formulation is equally applicable in this region. The important feature of capitalism in developing countries seems to be its ability to undermine women's traditional spheres of power and influence while simultaneously creating new conditions for further dependence on men. Thus, as a result of inappropriate…