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Thomas Terry
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In this book the author examines how the Nationalist Party
(Kuomintang or KMT) returned to govern Taiwan after ruling for more
than half a century but losing power in 2000 when the opposition
Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Chen Shui-bian won the
presidency and was reelected in 2004. Out of power and playing the
role of opposition party the KMT won legislative and executive
elections in 2008. It subsequently won mayoral elections in 2010
and elections again to the legislative and executive branches of
government in 2012. The KMT returned to power by resolving internal
differences between older and younger factions in the party,
maintaining an alliance with friendly parties and preventing
philosophical differences from mattering. It was helped by the
debilitating corruption of the DPP's President Chen and good
campaigning. In assessing these KMT election victories the author
concludes that the KMT will probably remain the ruling party for
some time. Its reputation for good economic management,
democratization, honesty and good leaders seen against the DPP's
still damaged reputation due to Chen's corruption, internal
disagreements, its perorocial base, its inability to deal with
China and the United States inhibit it from being able to return to
power.
This collection of papers explores the facets of gender and sex in
history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the
unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC. It examines the
position of women in contemporary Central Asia at large, the
expression of gender in linguistic terms in Mongolian, Manju,
Tibetan and Turkic languages, and gender aspects presented in
historical literary monuments as well as in contemporary sources.
This study examines the relationship between the People's Republic
of China and the people of East Turkistan; specifically, between
China's settler colonialism and East Turkistan's independence
movement. What distinguishes this study is its dispassionate
analysis of the East Turkistan's national dilemma in terms of
international law and legal precedent as well as the prudence with
which it distinguishes substantial evidence from claims of China's
crimes against humanity and genocide in East Turkistan that have
not been fully verified yet. The author demonstrates how other
states have ignored the nature of that relationship and so avoided
asking key questions about East Turkistan that have been asked and
answered about other occupied and colonized states. The book
analyzes this situation and provides the tools and the argument to
understand East Turkistan's actual status in the international
community. Currently, the world has bought into China's rhetoric
about "stability" and "fighting extremism," and international
organizations accept China's presentation of Uyghurs and other
people as "minorities" within a Chinese nation-state. This book
instead shows East Turkistan can correctly be understood through
history and law as an illegally occupied territory undergoing
genocide. It also makes the case that East Turkistani people had
basis advancing territorial claim for independence.
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences
in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our
understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China.
Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains
largely overlooked, particularly concerning women's conditions and
gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of
women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often
inaccurately or erroneously associated with the whole gendered
heritage of China, epitomized by the infamous traditions of
footbinding and female-infanticide. Such academic and popular
predisposition belies the fact that gender systems in China span a
wide spectrum, ranging from extreme Han patriarchy to Lahu
gender-egalitarianism. The authors contributing to this book have
collectively initiated a systematic effort to bridge the gap
between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in
regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. By
achieving a quantitative balance between articles on the Han
majority and those on ethnic minorities, this book transcends the
ghettoization of ethnic minorities in the studies of Chinese women
and gender. The eleven chapters of this volume are divided into
three sections which jointly challenge the traditions and norms of
Han patriarchy from various perspectives. The first section focuses
on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the
norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact
of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices
among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores
socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han
patriarchal norms from a broad perspective. This book complements
previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our
investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of
the multiethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an
ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefront the
diverse gender systems of ethnic minorities, this book encourages
an increasing awareness of, and sensitivity to the cross-cultural
diversity of gendered China both in academia and beyond.
Colonial Justice in British India describes and examines the
lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By
foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of
European characters - planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors -
Elizabeth Kolsky argues that violence was not an exceptional but an
ordinary part of British rule in the subcontinent. Despite the
pledge of equality, colonial legislation and the practices of white
judges, juries and police placed most Europeans above the law,
literally allowing them to get away with murder. The failure to
control these unruly whites revealed how the weight of race and the
imperatives of command imbalanced the scales of colonial justice.
In a powerful account of this period, Kolsky reveals a new
perspective on the British Empire in India, highlighting the
disquieting violence that invariably accompanied imperial forms of
power.
This collection opens the geospatiality of "Asia" into an
environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex
regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity,
planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world
belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this "worlding" process
lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental
eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and
beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.
Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find
solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In
this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review of Wang
Fuzhi's understanding of historical events and his interpretation
of the Confucian classics. Tan explains what kind of Confucian
system Wang Fuzhi was trying to construct according to his motto,
"The Six Classics require me to create something new". He sought a
basis for Confucian values such as filial piety, humanity and
ritual propriety from political, moral and cosmological
perspectives, arguing that they could cultivate a noble
personality, beatify political governance, and improve social and
cosmological harmony. This inspired Wang Fuzhi's attempt to
establish a syncretic blend of the three branches of
Neo-Confucianism, i.e., Zhu Xi's (1130-1200) philosophy of
principle , Wang Yangming's (1472-1529) philosophy of mind and
Zhang Zai's (1020-1077) philosophy of qi (material force). The most
thorough work on Wang Fuzhi available in English, this study
corrects some general misunderstanding of the nature of Wang
Fuzhi's philosophy and helps readers to understand Wang Fuzhi from
an organic perspective. Building upon previous scholars' research
on Wang Fuzhi's notion of moral cultivation, Tan gives a
comprehensive understanding of how Wang Fuzhi improves social and
cosmological harmony through compliance with Confucian rituals.
This volume is dedicated to the topic of the human evaluation and
interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval cultures. From a
transcultural perspective contributions from Assyriology, Byzantine
Studies, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, German Medieval Studies
and Jewish History look into the processes and mechanisms behind
the transfer by people of certain values to animals, and the
functions these animal-signs have within written, pictorial and
performative forms of expression.
The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and
stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in
shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W.
Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field,
illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the
very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art,
architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political
and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world,
there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology
in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral
omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad
range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical
texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book
documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of
the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late
imperial period.
The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of
Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the
eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts,
autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this
book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a
penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained
Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would
serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this
region in the 1860s-70s. Challenging the consensus that the Russian
Empire abolished slavery with these conquests, Eden uses these
documents to reveal that it was the slaves themselves who brought
about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave
uprising in the region's history.
Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet
hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms - until now. Written
in a style both intelligible and enjoyable for the global audience,
The Great Equal Society distils the core ideas of the major
Confucian classics and shows how their timeless wisdom can be
applied to the modern world. It also introduces pragmatic
suggestions emanating from Confucius and his followers for ensuring
good governance, building a humane economy and educating moral
leaders. The book's core message of inner morality, first expounded
by Confucius millennia ago, will resonate on both sides of the
Pacific, and its sweeping survey of the hot topics today -
dysfunctional government, crony capitalism, and the erosion of
ethics in both Wall Street and Main Street, among others - will
breathe new life to Confucian teachings while providing much-needed
answers to our urgent social problems. The Great Equal Society is
written by Young-oak Kim, a Korean thinker whom Wikipedia describes
as "the nation's leading philosopher dealing with public issues and
explaining Oriental philosophy to the public," and Jung-kyu Kim, a
talented trilingual writer who has published works in English,
Japanese and Korean.
Located in Southeast Asia, the Republic of the Philippines is
comprised of over 7,000 islands. The first known inhabitants of
these tropical islands migrated to the Philippines 30,000 years ago
over land bridges that no longer exist today. Since then, the
Philippines has undergone drastic changes due to large numbers of
settlers and colonizers from abroad. For hundreds of years, the
Philippines was under Spanish and then United States control.
Spanish influence remains a large part of Filipino culture today.
Finally, in 1935, the Philippines embarked on the path to
independence. The past century has been a postcolonial roller
coaster ride for the Philippines. Today, the Philippines'
developing economy has sparked international interest and the
country has been marked as having one of the most promising
potentials for economic growth in the world. "The History of the
Philippines" offers a comprehensive account of the Philippines and
its struggle to discover a national identity. This volume is an
excellent addition to any library; perfect for student and general
readers.
This book represents "snapshots" of Shanghai with speculations on
their meaning as China opens to the West and undergoes yet another
shift towards modernity.
This book provides theoretical background and pastoral strategies
for pastors, lay leaders, and congregation members to foster a
restoration of the human dignity imputed by God and the good
community God desires. It addresses issues in pastoral care and
pays particular attention to Korean and Korean American contexts.
Some of the specific issues addressed include wisdom for common
life (Chung Yong) as a theological and pastoral task, tension
between Confucianism and feminism, care of the abused and abusers
in intimate violence, ageism and elderly care, racism and cultural
identity of Korean youth, sexual ethics among Korean young adults,
and depression and addiction among Korean American youth and young
adults. All of the contributors have a strong background in
clinical and/or pastoral practices in addition to theoretical
expertise.
Originally published in 1889. Author: Romesh Chunder Dutt Language:
English Keywords: History / India . Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
US foreign policy in the Middle East has faced a challenge in the
years since World War II: balancing an idealistic desire to promote
democracy against the practical need to create stability. Here,
Cleo Bunch puts a focus on US policy in Jordan from the
establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 to 1970 and the run up
to 'Black September'. These years saw a phase where the Middle East
became a stage on which Cold War rivalries were played out, as the
US was keen to encourage and maintain alliances in order to
counteract Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria. Therefore, Bunch's
analysis of US foreign policy and diplomacy vis-a-vis Jordan will
appeal to those researching both the history and the contemporary
implications of the West's foreign policy in the Middle East and
the effects of international relations on the region.
This book examines the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence
between India and Pakistan, two highly antagonistic South Asian
neighbors who recently moved into their third decade of overt
nuclear weaponization. It assesses the stability of Indo-Pakistani
nuclear deterrence and argues that, while deterrence dampens the
likelihood of escalation to conventional-and possibly nuclear-war,
the chronically embittered relations between New Delhi and
Islamabad mean that deterrence failure resulting in major warfare
cannot be ruled out. Through an empirical examination of the
effects of nuclear weapons during five crises between India and
Pakistan since 1998, as well as a discussion of the theoretical
logic of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrence, the book offers
suggestions for enhancing deterrence stability between these two
countries.
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