Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Ethnic Studies - General

This book provides a comprehensive account of the global, regional and urban dimensions of China's development, and the resulting socio-economic and political outcomes. Shin begins by documenting and analysing China's changing position in the world economy before turning to the development challenges that urban China faces such as social and geographical disparities, civil society and rights and, in particular, China's uneven urban and regional development.

Each chapter will provide an overview of the key issues and associated debates, supported by reference materials, tables and...

Through a detailed study of the new military treatises produced by China s Song dynasty, part of a broader bureaucratic centralising project of the Song which involved the collection and systematic publication in encyclopedias of various "lost" texts, this book shows how important for warfare, and for Song government generally, were new rituals, not aligned to China s traditional religions Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism rituals where cultural and supernatural emblems mimicked natural forces and became themselves objects for the production of power. The book thereby casts a great deal of...

Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, this book offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation. In the first study of its kind, Fortier considers the anxieties, desires, and issues that form representations of ‘multicultural Britain’ available in the public domain.

India's foreign policy, out of the structural confines of the Cold War strategic framework, has become more expansive in defining its priorities over the last few years. With the rise of its economic and military capabilities and strategic interests, India has shaped a diplomacy that is much more aggressive in the pursuit of those interests. Tracing the trajectory of India's foreign policy in the 21st century, this book examines the factors that have shaped the Indian response towards this emerging international security environment. Including a new Afterword, this updated volume looks at...