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This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies; Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation; Reform and the Role of the State in China; Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party; Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present; State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women?; Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India.

The Asian crisis, democracy, and the end of "late" development / Bruce Cumings -- Asian business networks in transition: or, what Alan Greenspan does not know about the Asian business crisis / Gary Hamilton / Regional up, regional downs / T.J. Pempel -- The determination of financial crisis in Asia / Jeffrey A. Winters -- Free market fancies: Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Asian financial crisis / Linda Y.C. Lim -- The state, democracy, and the reform of the corporate sector in Korea / Meredith Woo-Cumings -- Political institutions and the economic crisis in Thailand and Indonesia / Andrew MacIntyre -- Neither dynamo nor domino: reforms and crises in the Philippine political economy / Paul Hutchcroft -- Surviving the east Asian financial storm: the political foundation of Taiwan's economic resilience / Yun-Han Chu -- China: domestic restructuring and a new role in Asia / Barry Naughton

This book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate. Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.