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  • Outsourcing Repression

    Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

    by Lynette H. Ong ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Street and the Ballot Box

    Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts

    by Lynette H. Ong ...
    Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
    How do discontented masses and opposition elites work together to engineer a change in electoral authoritarian regimes? Social movements and elections are often seen as operating in different terrains – outside and inside institutions, respectively. In this Element, I develop a theory to describe how a broad-based social movement that champions a grievance shared by a wide segment of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Prosper or Perish

    Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China

    by Lynette H. Ong ...
    The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by, townships and villages. These township and village enterprises have experienced highly uneven levels ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Outsourcing Surveillance

    Online Opinion Management in China

    by Lynette Ong, Huihua Nie, Jesslene Lee ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    The digital age has afforded autocrats new technologies of control, allowing it to co-opt, pre-empt and repress dissent. But, what if they lack the technical capacity to access digital tools of control? In what ways have digital technologies altered the way autocratic states conduct statecraft? Based on an analysis of more than 3,000 public procurement documents, and a dozen elite interviews with ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mythic Delirium: Volume Two

    Mythic Delirium, #2

    by Jane Yolen, Jessy Randall, Swapna Kishore, Michele Bannister, Sunny Moraine, Saira Ali, Sheree Renée Thomas, Jamie Killen, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Lynette Mejía, Rose Lemberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Margo Lanagan, Virginia M. Mohlere, Shveta Thakrar, Sonya Taaffe, Wendy Rathbone, John Philip Johnson, Brady Golden, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Dominik Parisien, Gwynne Garfinkle, Adam Howe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Alicia Cole, Livia Llewellyn, Natalia Theodoridou, C.S. MacCath ...
    Series Book 2 - Mythic Delirium
    Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity.Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a ... Read more

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  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Regulating Platforms

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global digital economy, concerns about information monopolies, hateful online content, and the impact on media content creators and creative industries have become more marked. Consequently governments, politicians, and civil society ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    by Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Trafficking Data

    How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty

    by Aynne Kokas ...
    Bronze Award, Axiom Business Book Awards Gold Medalist in Finance/Investing/Economics, Ippy Awards From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Bitcoin and Beyond

    Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance

    Edited by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn ...
    Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies’ have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy’, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by charities and political parties.Bitcoin and its competitors have also garnered attention for their wildly ... Read more

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  • Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

    Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

    by Jeremy L. Wallace ...
    A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

    $11.99 USD