新书：《超越政权——中国与印度的比较》

Harvard Contemporary China Series 19

Beyond Regimes

China and India Compared

Edited by Prasenjit Duara

Elizabeth J. Perry

$35.00 • £25.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674987104

Publication: October 2018

Available 09/10/2018

320 pages

6 x 9 inches

10 line illustrations, 15 tables

About This Book:

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and investment. The eight substantive chapters and introduction share a common perspective in arguing that distinctions in regime type (“democracy” versus “dictatorship”) alone offer little insight into critical differences and similarities between these Asian giants in terms of either policies or performance. A wide variety of subnational and transnational actors, from municipal governments to international organizations, and from local NGO activists to a far-flung diaspora, have been—and will continue to be—decisive.

The authors approach China and India through a strategy of “convergent comparison,” in which they investigate temporal and spatial parallels at various critical junctures, at various levels of the political system, and both inside and outside the territorial confines of the nation-state. The intensified globalization of recent decades only heightens the need to view state initiatives against such a wider canvas.

About the Authors:

Prasenjit Duara is Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University.

Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.