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by Celia Roberts, Evelyn Davies, Tom Jupp
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how...
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos
Perspective for Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and indigenous conflict resolution systems as a tool for social justice. It explores how the conflict...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current status, and characteristics of the study of China in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar, and what factors shaped...
The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region’s migratory patterns. In the early centuries of migration, the Yemeni, or Hadrami, traveler was both a trader and a religious missionary,...
Medical Transnationalism
Korean Immigrants' Medical Tourism to South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Medical Transnationalism examines Korean immigrants’ distinctive healthcare behaviors, contributing factors to their medical tourism, and their experiences and evaluations of medical tourism. Analyzing survey data of 507 Korean immigrants and in-depth interviews with 120 Korean immigrants in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Published in 1998, this book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of one of the most vital issues in the contemporary world. Never was this topic more relevant than now, on the threshold of the twenty-first century. At a time when the global economy, European citizenship and worldwide religion are...
by Minju Juan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces fourteen kinds of Chinese representative vernacular dwelling, such as the cave dwellings of Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, Siheyuans on Yan-Zhao Plain, Huizhou's civil buildings which can make rainwater quad flow...
by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García, Veronica Carrera
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture’s expectations...
HIV als transnationales Problem
Die HIV-Epidemie auf Batam, Indonesien
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Südasienkunde, Südostasienkunde, Note: 1,3, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Regionalwissenschaften Südostasien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The island of Batam, which belongs...
Stepin Fetchit
The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,”...
This Generation
Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come—an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate...
Polite Lies
On being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.
Brown
The Last Discovery of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book...
Big Little Man
In Search of My Asian Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“A ruthlessly honest personal story and a devastating critique of contemporary American culture.” — Seattle Times
A “searingly honest self-exploration”* of the experience and psyche of the Asian American male, including Tizon’s stunning final article, “My Family’s Slave”
Shame,...