Introduction -- Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand -- Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore -- The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: the cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok -- Politics, Policy, Culture and China: The Growth of the Top Eth…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Nation Branding in Uzbekistan -- Chapter 3. The Heart of Eurasia and the ancient land of the Kazakhs -- Chapter 4. Reconstructed Pasts: The state and its margins -- Chapter 5. Multicultural Societies and Imperatives of a ‘Singular Faith’ -- Chapter 6. The Emergence of a New Dialogue? Regional strategies and initiatives -- Chapter 7. Conc…
Introduction -- Philippine migration in multicultural Australia -- Writing a cultural history -- Representations of a sexualised citizen -- Fil-Oz in Blacktown : a cultural geography -- Questionable solidarity: “Romances, after all, start in various ways” -- Class and Filipino Australians -- Male-ordered bodies -- The Filipino elderly: to love is to labour -- Filipino Australian activism: d…
Chapter 1. Launching a New Methodology for the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 2. Applying the One-dot Theory Again to the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 3. Finding Fault with the Non-One-Dot-Theory Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 4. Challenging Other Theories and Models in General and Those Related to Contemporary China in Particular -- Chapter 5. Sharing Some Major Findi…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Filicide in the media: news coverage of mothers who kill in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 2. The Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 3. Contested meanings: mothers who kill and the rhetoric of ūman ribu -- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako’s early fiction -- Conclusion. .This book provides the first full-length, English-l…
Chapter 1. Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions -- Chapter 2. 1988 Summer Olympics and the Rise of South Korea and Seoul -- Chapter 3. Daejeon Expo '93 and Paving the Way for Future Development Aspirations -- Chapter 4. 2002 FIFA World Cup and Rebranding of South Korea -- Chapter 5. Pyeong Chang 2018 Winter Olympics -- Chapter 6. Conclusions – the Art of Using Mega-Events for Development.This book …
This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context. It discusses the complexity of the notion of social capital in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, detailing the challenges and pressures facing the Uzbek people. Challengi…