Society

-Civil society in China today (YU KEPING)
-Institutional change and legitimacy through urban elections? Increasing people's awareness of elections and participation in urban districts (shequ) (THOMAS HEBERER)
-The Information Society in the Asia-Pacific region (JAVIER CASTAÑEDA)
-How Chinese are represented in the imaginary of Westerners (GRÉGORY LEE)
-Iran: interconnection between State and society (FARIBA ADELKHAH)
-Japan: shrinking and aging cities as a regional challenge of demographic change (WINFRIED FLÜCHTER)

Society APPENDIX:

-Chronology of society in the Asia-Pacific region