This study directs attention towards a South-South dimension of knowledge transfer, specifically China's educational exchange programmes for Africa.

While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party's methods of social control and examines four groups-Party and government cadres, intellectuals, workers and peasants.

This book challenges the 'failure thesis' which maintains that Japanese colonisation is an indication that the early modernisation process in Korea was unsucessful.

The tragic rape of an Okinawan school girl in September 1995 touched off the current Okinawa Problem and shook the bilateral relationship. It also had the effect of highlighting the need to understand the complicated history of Okinawa in the post-war US-Japan relationship. Ironically, one of the least examined periods in this post-war history is the same period that would have the most dramatic impact on Okinawa's future status, namely the years up until 1952, when the Peace Treaty with Japan, signed the September before in San Francisco, would go into effect. Using a multinational and...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work argues that the college choices of ethnic Chinese in Korea changed in relation to their political and legal status within Korean society and examines the reasons behind the changing educational trends within the context of majority-minority relations in Korea.

This book provides a detailed examination of the phonetics and phonology of consonant strength. It provides important new research in the science of Linguistics.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins of the so-called Okinawa Problem. Also inlcludes four maps.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.