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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
This reissue of Paul Frenchs acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events. A new foreword examines why North Korea remains an issue in world politics and argues that an understanding of the country is more important now than ever. A new in-depth postscript offers ana…