Product Description: Originally published in 1981, this study fits into a wider context of works analysing the impact of the social revolution on the structure of Chinese society since 1949. Party and Professionals focuses on the teaching profession in relation to social ranking...read more

Product Description: An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society. It investigates the political and social consequences of an economic strategy which aims to introduce markets into a centrally-planned socialist economy...read more

Product Description: This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

Product Description: This volume analyzes the merits and limitations of both welfarist and neoliberal approaches to the provision of key social services in terms of the outcomes and sustainability of the two approaches. It proposes an alternative model of social provision, characterized by multiplicity in service delivery and financing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. However, many new democracies are illiberal, non-participatory, and characterized by enormous inequalities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the political dynamics of the recent wave of democratization in developing societies. Within a broad comparative perspective, the text focuses on the particular experiences of four countries - South Korea, Ghana, Zambia and Chile. The contributors assess the likelihood of sustaining new democratic regimes and discuss the feasibility of the promotion of democratization by outside parties. The text also addresses the complex practical issues of establishing and consolidating democratic political institutions, as well as important topics such as military power, the role of civil society and the position of women in relation to democracy.

Product Description: Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. China's reformers have highlighted the need to curb the awesome power of the Leninist state and change the balance of power between state and economy, state and society...read more

Product Description: Mobile radio is one of the fastest growing areas in communications, and there is a constant need for technicians and managers who are conversant with the technology. Mobile Radio Technology explains the systems currently operating and those under development...read more

Product Description: Analyzing the evolution of China's financial reforms since Deng Xiaoping gained firm control of the CCP leadership in 1978, this book examines the reforms from a political economic perspective and explores the complex interactions between the actors shaping the reform process...read more

Analyzes the political origins and impact of the post-Mao programme of market-orientated reform in China focusing on key areas of policy, institutions and social dynamics. White argues that the Deng reforms have radically changed the nature of Chinese society and is leading to political pluralism.

Product Description: This treatment of the many aspects of video is written for the engineer or technician working in television or ancillary industries. The book will also be useful to anyone seeking information outside their own particular specialization and to production staff and electronics engineers who need a working knowledge of techniques in this rapidly changing industry...read more

The book analyses and evaluates the development role and impact of the state in East Asia, in both capitalist (South Korea and Taiwan) and socialist (China) contexts. It makes use of new research data on the mechanisms and impact of state intervention in East Asian development and presents an original theory, taking issue with the conventional view that East Asian development reflects the power of market forces.

World Politics and Economics

Product Description: Book by Bleecher, Marc J., White, Gordon