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UNINA9910815419303321 |
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Titolo |
State making in Asia / / edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-37712-7 |
9786610377121 |
1-134-28123-4 |
0-203-33898-7 |
0-203-56762-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BoydRichard |
NgoTak-Wing <1962-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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State, The |
Asia Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-197) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Reconnecting the state to the dynamics of its making / Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo -- Japanese state making in global context / Mark Ravina -- The making of state-bureaucracy relations in Japan / Richard Boyd -- Citizen, state and nation in China / R. Bin Wong -- Sovereignty, survival, and the transformation of the Taiwan state / Jenn-Hwan Wang -- Constructing the state in the Tibetan diaspora / Ann Frechette -- Nation, ethnicity, and contending discourse in the Malaysian state / Shamsul A. B. and Sity Daud -- Some states of Asia compared from afar / Laurence Whitehead. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of institution and ideologies embedded in Asian state making and their distinctiveness from the Western experience.Presenting new empirical and conceptual material based on original resear |
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