| An Emerging Asian Model of Governance and Transnational Knowledge Transfer |
Ting-Yan Wang, Hong Liu |
This timely volume explores the emergence of Asian models of governance, taking into account the shifting global political economic landscape and the region’s rapid growth in recent decades. As well as theoretical explorations, the book also provides rich empirical evidence on the contextualized lessons accumulated in Asia, offering a more nuanced understanding of Asian governance experience through comparative case studies.
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| Shangmai yu Shangdao: Guoji Huashang Yanjiu Wenji [Commercial Networks and Business Behaviours: Studies in Global Chinese Entrepreneurship] |
Long Denggao, Liu Hong |
This book examines the dynamics, characteristics, challenges and future prospects of global Chinese entrepreneurship from historical, sociological, economic, and management perspectives. |
| Routledge Focus on Public Governance in Asia |
Hong Liu, Wenxuan Yu |
Focusing on new governance challenges, practices and experiences in and about a globalizing Asia, particularly East Asia and Southeast Asia, this focus series invites upcoming and established researchers all over the world to succinctly and comprehensively discuss important public administration and policy themes such as government administrative reform, public budgeting reform, government crisis management, public private partnership, science and technology policy, technology-enabled public service delivery, public health and aging, talent management, and anticorruption across Asian countries.
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| This Is What Inequality Looks Like |
Teo You Yenn |
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence. Each aims to accomplish two things: first, to introduce a key aspect of the experience of being low-income in contemporary Singapore. Second, to illustrate how people’s experiences are linked to structural conditions of inequality.
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| Sustainability through the Lens of Environmental Sociology |
Md Saidul Islam |
This Special Issue of Sustainability will provide an environmental sociology approach to understanding and achieving the widely used notion of “Sustainability.” The Special Issue will focus on, among other topics, the inherent discursive formations of environmental sociology, conceptual tools and paradoxes, competing theories and practices, and their complex implications on our society at large.
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| Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora |
Gregor Benton, Prof
Hong Liu and Dr Zhang Huimei |
This book seeks to examine the qiaopi (letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances) from two interconnected perspectives. One view qiaopi from a political and institutional angle, the other from a financial and social angle. As one of the first books in English on the qiaopi trade and its significance, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history and Chinese migration, as well as Migration Studies and Diaspora studies more generally.
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| Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820 - 1980 |
Gregor Benton and Hong Liu |
Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.
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