Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective : Papers Presented at the 7th Annual Conference.,.,. [Volume 1]

20x14cm, (28),411 pp., Series: Nordic Proceedings in Asian Studies, no. 2. Volume 1 only [of 3]. Full title reads: "Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective : Papers Presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies, Møn, Denmark, 1990 : [Volume 1]". Contains 17 papers, all in English, concerning dynamics of industrialization & processes of agrarian transformation. Includes: India' s industrial & technological policies into the late 1980s; The role of the state in the development process in Taiwan and South Korea: Agriculture as a case study; Vietnamese industry in transition: a case study of some recent changes in the Vietnamese txtile industry; The Hanoi bicycle market;The state against society: the great divide in Indian social science discourse; Farmer managed irrigation orgtanizations and the challenge of development: The case of Tharu farmers on Rajapur island, Nepal; Coffee growing under new world-market conditions: the case of Tana Toraja, Indonesia; Contractions and expansions: Agrarian change in Java since 1830;etc.…