Stability, development and unity in contemporary China -- Critical developments in Chinese politics -- Privatisation -- Uneven economic development -- China's environmental problems -- Population change and food security in China -- Ethnic minorities -- Critical social issues -- Cross strait...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...

Preface and acknowledgments -- History, politics, and theory -- The capitalist unconscious : the Korea question -- The aesthetics of democratic politics : labor, violence, and repetition -- Reparation -- Reparation : Korean Chinese as colonial returnees -- Socialist reparation : Korean Chinese...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new...