Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Denis Gainty
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held itsfirst annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...
by Hannes Mungenast
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 87, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (School of International Business), course: Chinese Financial System, 31 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: China is a fast...
Formal Microinsurance in Indonesia - an advantage over informal risk mitigation strategies for low-income people?
an advantage over informal risk mitigation strategies for low-income people?
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2006
Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Passau, 55 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Around 52.4% of Indonesia's 242 Mio. inhabitants have to live and struggle with an income - respectively...
State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China
Serving the people
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This volume examines the shifting role of the state and social organizations (e.g. NGOs) in providing social services in contemporary China. A series of case studies identifies a dynamic whereby the state increasingly withdraws from social service provision with social organizations taking up the...
An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism
Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China’s economic rise. This perception is spread in no small measure because Xi Jinping has – in the face of patent military inferiority – conducted himself much more boldly...
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond...
Embedded Racism
Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display “Japanese Only” signs, denying entry to all 'foreigners' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Ever since the terrorist incident of September 11th a general understanding seems to have arisen among people that the challenges posed by Islam have now acquired human and global dimensions.
Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World contains case studies of people’s movements...
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential...
by Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth. Hard-hit by the financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia undertook...
by Elisabeth Croll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards,...
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized...