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Dynamics of Change in East Asia: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development book cover

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Dynamics of Change in East Asia Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development

By P.W. Preston Copyright 2018
310 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence. With new, highly developed scientific resources, great economic strengths, significant global trading links and equally powerful financial resources, East Asia is now one of the most dynamic regions in the global system. This book illuminates the historical... Read more
Part One: Complex change and the logics of forms-of-life

1. Argument making in social science

2. Substantive theoretical traditions

3.  Livelihood investigated

Part Two: The shift to the modern world in East Asia

4. Colonialism and modernity: the overall trajectory

5. Colonialism and modernity: disentangling the issues

Part Three: Successor elites and the pursuit of national development

6. The dissolution of state-empires

7. The formation of successor elites

8. Power, authority and dissent

9. Development issues faced

Part Four: East Asia in the changing global system

10. The region in overview

11. Globalization and the end of history

Part Five: East Asia: success and its costs

12. Elite projects and post-colonial goals

13. States, masses and the idea of democracy

14. Collective memory and national pasts

15. Performance and problem

Biography

P.W. Preston is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK. His recent publications include Political-Cultural Developments in East Asia (2017) and The Logic of Chinese Politics (2016).

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