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Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Town and Country in China Identity and Perception St Antony's Series edited by David Faure and Tao Tao Liu Palgrave Macmillan Contemporary scholars place the rural-urban divide at the center of individual identity in China. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Japan as a Low-Crime Nation Dag Leonardsen Palgrave Macmillan Criminologists have despaired that modernization and crime are inseparable, but Japan has long been seen as an exception to the rule. In this book, the author...

Hardcover : $108.95 Buy	Feminism in India Edited by Maitrayee Chaudhuri Zed Books This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as...

Hardcover : $99.95 Buy	Dowry and Inheritance Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism Edited by Srimati Basu Zed Books Despite preventive litigation, dowry remains a widespread "social evil"--a marker of social status--more common, disturbingly, among the educated urban middle...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Higher Education, Research, and Knowledge in the Asia-Pacific Region Issues in Higher Education Edited by V. Lynn Meek and Charas Suwanwela Palgrave Macmillan One of the first collections to focus on different national perspectives of knowledge production and research in higher education in the Asia and Pacific...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics Edited by Thomas B. Gold, William J. Hurst, Jaeyoun Won, and Li Qiang Palgrave Macmillan Communist parties lead revolutions in the name of the industrial proletariat. But in the course of China’s post-Mao reforms, perhaps no class has experienced...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Identity Politics Reconsidered Future of Minority Studies Edited by Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya Palgrave Macmillan This book examines how the concept of "identity" shapes the discussion of major topics and issues in ethnic and gender studies.

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Education of British South Asians Ethnicity, Capital and Class Structure Tahir Abbas Palgrave Macmillan This analyzes the reasons for differential educational performance of South Asians, taking into consideration social class, ethnicity, capital (cultural,...

Hardcover : $113.95 Buy	Gender and Caste Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism Edited by Anupama Rao Zed Books Most of the essays in this collection have emerged in the context of a renewed national debate about the politics of caste inaugurated by the Mandal decision...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Marginalization in China Recasting Minority Politics Edited by Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky Palgrave Macmillan State management of diversity is a modern enterprise. China’s need to temper the push for national unity with policies of variety and difference is no...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Global Englishes in Asian Contexts Current and Future Debates Edited by Kumiko Murata and Jennifer Jenkins Palgrave Macmillan This volume explores the current issues in World Englishes/ELF specifically in relation to the Asian context. The international contributors are all prominent...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	The Persistence of Caste India's Hidden Apartheid and the Khairlanji Murders Anand Teltumbde Zed Books While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Gender and the Political Opportunities of Democratization in South Korea Nicola Anne Jones Palgrave Macmillan This book explores how political opportunities afforded by democratization, including the relative balance of power between conservative and progressive civic...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Urban Poverty in Bangladesh Slum Communities, Migration and Social Integration Library of Development Studies Shahadat Hossain Tauris Academic Studies The analysis of urban poverty has traditionally been dominated by economic approaches, often neglecting the social questions arising from poverty. This book...

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