This book explores the dynamics of China's new united front work in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese penetrative politics can be seen in the activities of local pro-Beijing political parties, clans and neighborhood associations, labor unions, women and media organizations, district federations, and...

This book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural industries' response to it. The book...

"How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act - or not act - when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the...

Half Title Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: My Experience Researching Poverty overthe Past 35 Years -- Chapter: 3Poverty in Hong Kong --...

This book incorporates a selection of eight revised papers presented to the Conference on “Managing Economic Crisis in East Asia”, organized jointly by the Saw Centre for Financial Studies, NUS Business School, and the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, in November 2009....