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Dynamics of Change in East Asia - Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor P.W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK. His recent publications include Political-Cultural Developments in East Asia (2017) and The Logic of Chinese Politics (2016). Zusammenfassung This book illuminates the historical development trajectory of East Asia. Embracing a cross-disciplinary perspective, it summarises the history of the region and goes on to focus upon the rise of East Asia since the ruins of the Pacific War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Complex change and the logics of forms-of-life 1. Argument making in social science 2. Substantive theoretical traditions 3. Livelihood investigated Part Two: The shift to the modern world in East Asia 4. Colonialism and modernity: the overall trajectory 5. Colonialism and modernity: disentangling the issues Part Three: Successor elites and the pursuit of national development 6. The dissolution of state-empires 7. The formation of successor elites 8. Power, authority and dissent 9. Development issues faced Part Four: East Asia in the changing global system 10. The region in overview 11. Globalization and the end of history Part Five: East Asia: success and its costs 12. Elite projects and post-colonial goals 13. States, masses and the idea of democracy 14. Collective memory and national pasts 15. Performance and problems

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