Building Ships, Building a Nation
April 27, 2015
Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation
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Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia
April 27, 2015
After the 1917 Revolution in Russia, the Bosheviks launched a massive assault on religion. Although we know a great deal about how the Bolsheviks went about doing this—propaganda, persecution of
The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century
April 27, 2015
Using a source-based approach, The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century is the first text designed to help students, general readers, and scholars understand how people constructed Communist ways of
Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies
April 27, 2015
This informative book discusses the effects of the rise of Chinese capitalism on both China itself, and on its neighbours. Incorporating empirical data collated from interviews in several Asian societies
Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths
April 27, 2015
The result of a collaboration between a leading trade economist and a leading economic sociologist specializing in East Asia, this volume offers an original explanation of the development paths of
The Market Makers
April 27, 2015
This book describes and analyzes the transformation that occurred in retailing in the last half of the twentieth century and demonstrates that this transformation has substantially changed the global economy.
From APEC to Xanadu
April 27, 2015
This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War international order, such as what the
From Deluge to Discourse
April 27, 2015
Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T’ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type
Confronting Memories of World War II
April 24, 2015
The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected
Why Not Kill Them All?
April 24, 2015
Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the