Asian Studies
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The Institutional Evolution of China
Fan Zhang
China’s experience over the past decades is not just a story of economic growth, it is also one of institutional change. The current political-economic system is a bureaucratic market system, in which the government and the market both c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Making Hong Kong
Pui-yin Ho
Pui-yin Ho surveys how the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the evolution of urban planning in Hong Kong. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change over time, this bo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing Currency Risk
Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu
This book demonstrates how exporters’ decisions regarding choice of invoice currency can be influenced by many factors including firm size, product competitiveness, intra/inter-firm trades, and the geography of export destination. The ai...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Chinese Perspectives on the International Rule of Law
Matthieu Burnay
This insightful book investigates the historical, political, and legal foundations of the Chinese perspectives on the rule of law and the international rule of law. Building upon an understanding of the rule of law as an ''essentially co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations
Edited by Young-Myon Lee, Bruce E. Kaufman
The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations explores current employment and workplace relations practice in South Korea, tracing their origins to key historical events and giving cultural, politico-economic and global con...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Human Capital and Development
Ju-Ho Lee, Hyeok Jeong, Song Chang Hong
During recent decades, Korea has been one of only a handful of countries that have made the successful transformation to become a developed nation by simultaneously achieving persistent economic growth combined with a democratic politica...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China in the Global Political Economy
Gordon C.K. Cheung
Is the US losing its economic authority to China, whose global economic identity is being determined more by entrepreneurial spirit than developmental principle? Through the exercise of soft power and hard currency in some areas of the g...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Rights and Islam
Abdullah Saeed
Is there a basis for human rights in Islam? Beginning with an exploration of what rights are and how the human rights discourse developed, Abdullah Saeed explores the resources that exist within Islamic tradition. He looks at those that ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Logic of Chinese Politics
Sabrina C.Y. Luk, Peter W. Preston
Europe and China have a long intermingled history reaching back to the earliest phases of the shift to the modern world. In the twenty-first century Europe and China are rediscovering their interlinked histories and reestablishing relati...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Understanding China’s New Diplomacy
Gerald Chan
What is China’s high-speed rail diplomacy? What is China’s infrastructure diplomacy? How do they relate to each other and to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative? Can China finance the numerous projects around the world under the initi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Stagnation in Japan
Edited by Dongchul Cho, Takatoshi Ito, Andrew Mason
Japan’s dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to advanced countries everywhere that are struggling with stagnation. The term ‘Japanization’ is often used by economists to des...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islamic Wealth Management
Edited by Mohamed Ariff, Shamsher Mohamad
From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the objective of benefiting human society. Such guidance means that wealth management is a process involving the g...eBook:Find out more$40.00