Books by Alvin Y. So

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.

Adopting a comparative perspective, this book traces the social, political, economic and cultural conditions under which environmental movements have emerged, and assesses the transformative capacities of these movements.

In contrast to the failure of economic reforms in Eastern Europe, China's economic reforms have been quite successful. This collection examines the origins, nature and impact, as well as the future prospects, of these reforms and changes.

Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia, this work explores systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, it focuses especially on the nature of Japanese and American wars and crimes of war.

'Exceptionally useful ....So's command of the relevant literature and ability to explain complex material ...makes this stimulating book useful for a variety of audiences: scholars interested in problems of Third-World development, specialists in modern world history, and undergraduates ready to tackle problems of theory' - Journal of World History