{"product_id":"9781137572202","title":"Political Cultural Developments in East Asia: Interpreting Logics of Change","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePolitical Cultural Developments in East Asia: Interpreting Logics of Change\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePreston, P. W.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics  analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region  and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its  countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the  preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed  their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political logic.  Arguing that it is an error to judge these countries’ performance against the  model of Europe or America, Preston discusses the era of expansionist  colonialism, the episode of breakdown in highly destructive regional warfare in  the early twentieth century and the subsequent diverse records of China (with  its party-state turned towards a nominal state-socialism), Hong Kong  (confronting the problems of living with distant masters), Singapore (with its  elite directed national building) and Thailand (mired in elite-resistance to  popular political reform).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-11-22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137572202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-57221-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 287\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752492855436,"sku":"9781137572202","price":61.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137572202.jpg?v=1776697243","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137572202","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}