TY - BOOK ID - 77876816 TI - Lost modernities : China, Vietnam, Korea, and the hazards of world history PY - 2006 SN - 0674045343 9780674045347 0674022173 9780674022171 067426844X PB - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Bureaucracy KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Political science KW - Public administration KW - Organizational sociology KW - History. KW - China KW - Vietnam KW - Korea KW - Politics and government. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876816 AB - In Lost Modernities, Alexander Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations. This book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history. ER -