Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development : East Asian Perspectives

• Main Author: Kyong-Dong, Kim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; Sociology.; Economic development.; Social change.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811034671
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3467-1
• Physical Description: XXV, 271 p. 5 illus. online resource.

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of de...