Lexington Books: 3858 books
The Politics of Crisis Management in China
The Sichuan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People’s...
by Bing Guan, Taihui Guo, Zhonghua Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined...
Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots
Chinese Village Elections in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China’s political system. It draws on comparative fieldwork conducted in six villages in two counties in Jiangxi and Jilin Provinces and one district in Shenzhen between 2002 and 2005, producing data...
Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China
Reform and Resistance in the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform, and Resistance in the Publishing Industry concentrates on the trajectories of the labor process transformation of knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political...
Origins of North Korea's Juche
Colonialism, War, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea’s Juche*: Colonialism, War, and Development*, edited by Jae-Jung Suh, argues that it has survived because of Juche, a unique political institution built on the simple...
Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan
A Sajiao Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the past two decades, a uniform representation of cutified femininity prevails in the Taiwanese media, evidenced by the shift of Taiwan’s popular cultural taste from a Chinese-centered tradition to a mixed absorption from neighboring cultural capitals in the global market. This book argues that...
Chinese Language in Law
Code Red
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The book explores some of the intricacies, dilemmas, and idiosyncrasies of the Chinese language used in the legal context, analyzing linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese context and cross-linguistically when Chinese and English are compared. It investigates the linguistic and cultural landscape...
China–South Korea Relations in the New Era
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive examination of China–South Korea relations after their diplomatic normalization in 1992, paying close attention to the most recent controversies in the bilateral relationship after the turn of the century. Inspired by the sharp contrast between their booming economic...
Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.
An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
"China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argues that a test of the China threat thesis requires addressing two fundamental questions: whether China has the capabilities to challenge the...
The US–India Nuclear Agreement
Accommodating the Anomaly?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The United States–India nuclear cooperation agreement to resume civilian nuclear technology trade with India—a non-signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and a defacto nuclear weapon state—is regarded as an impetuous shift in the US nuclear nonproliferation policy. The 2008 nuclear...
The "Other" Karen in Myanmar
Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The “Other” Karen in Myanmar looks at the “other” or “quiet” minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance organizations, but who pursued non-violent approaches to promote their individual and collective interests. This is the first in-depth study...
China and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in Central Asia with each country on a five dimensional approach: security cooperation, energy security, trade relations, political relations, and cultural relations. Regarding...
by Svetlana Akhmatnurova, Ignat Bogdan, Natalia Bokova
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book examines recent political and psychological changes in Russian society during Vladimir Putin’s third term. Instability in 2011–2012 and new domestic and international contexts make this a unique period in the post-Soviet political history of Russia. This volume focuses on popular perceptions...
The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world...