This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political and economic developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity, patronage and the reform movement. Apart from discussing issues such as Islamisation and identity transformations within Malaysian society, it reviews policies like privatisation and provides an examination of business enterprise, exploring how control of 'corporate Malaysia' is interlinked with political developments. This study's primary focus is an analysis of why the reform movement failed to secure substantial support in the late 1990s even though many Malaysians then appeared ready to hold the government accountable for its poor record of a democratic and transparent form of governance. This volume also assesses the likelihood of change as a result of the retirement of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad

Gerry Segal, a world expert on China, was a prolific writer. Before he died in 1999 the journal Foreign Affairs published his very provocative and significant article 'Does China Matter?'

Focusing on Segal's theme, this volume expands and takes forward his research by gathering together ten leading writers on China to reassess his argument. The book opens with a discussion of Dr Segal's contribution, and a reprint of the article. The authors then address the question of 'does China matter?' in the context of the world economy, Asian economy, as a global military power, as a regional military power, within world and Asian politics and within contemporary world and Asian culture.

They provide an extension and critique of Segal's work in the context of an authoritative up-to-date and forward-looking evaluation of China's prospects. The question 'does China matter?' remains central to world politics. This book sets out a detailed case for exactly how, why and to whom it matters.

A creative memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves chronicles a year spent writing a sonata from scratch, in full recognition of the likelihood of failure, to see what can be learned about ambition and limitation. And time. The Point of Distraction explores the way that second-string activities bring one's main interests in life into focus, considering artists as critics, writers as musicians. Staring at your creative pursuit straight on can render it impossible, but if you let it occupy the space of distraction, to your side, it lives and breathes. This novel memoir touches on neuroscience, musical theory and will power.

The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in their society since traditional, pre-colonial times, and their resistance and adaptation to the modernising forces of the new Algerian state. In 1999, following eight years during which Algeria's Tuareg were effectively isolated from the outside world as a result of Algeria's political crisis, Keenan returned to visit them once again. Following a further four years of study, he has written a series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg in the forty years since independence.

The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in their society since traditional, pre-colonial times, and their resistance and adaptation to the modernising forces of the new Algerian state. In 1999, following eight years during which Algeria's Tuareg were effectively isolated from the outside world as a result of Algeria's political crisis, Keenan returned to visit them once again. Following a further four years of study, he has written a series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg in the forty years since independence.

Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament, characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority, is producing new expressions of Islam, some of which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation, and others which call for dialogue, reconciliation and inter-faith harmony.

The mid-twentieth century saw the end of colonial empires, a global phenomenon that brought about profound changes and created enormous problems. Decolonization played a major part in shaping the contemporary world order and the domestic development of newly emerging states in the 'Third World'. In Decolonization, Raymond Betts considers this process and its outcomes. Drawing on numerous examples, including those of Ghana, India, Rwanda and Hong Kong, the author examines: the effects of two World Wars on the colonial empire the expectations and problems created by independence Major demographic shifts accompanying the end of empire Cultural experiences, literary movements and the search for ideology of the dying empire and newly independent nations The second edition brings the discussion up to date and looks at contemporary concerns such as the growth of Islamic Fundamentalism, 9/11, globalization and the AIDS pandemic.

This book offers a unique guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism. It makes a classic work of Chinese economic history from top Chinese scholars available, in abridged form, for the first time in English. The immense historic sweep runs from the Late Ming period through the early mid Qing to the time of the Opium wars. In each period there are detailed surveys of sectors of the economy, both industrial and agricultural, and of the technological development and methods used, in addition to overviews of the nature of economic change in China and the retarded development of capitalism prior to the nineteenth century.

Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Jews and Muslims: Portraying Communities
1. Christian 'Intruders', Muslim 'Bigots': The Egyptian-Syrian Press Controversy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Cairo 1. Ami Ayalon
2. Zionism, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire as Reflected in the Weekly Hamevasser Aryeh Shmuelevitz
3. Mediating the 'Other' through Advertisements Arus Yumul
4. From Judeophobia to Islamophobia in the Italian Media, with a Special Focus on the Northern League Party Media Emanuela Trevisan-Semi
5. Minorities and Press in Post-Revolution Iran Ali Granmayer
6. Imag(in)ing Europe: The Theme of Emigration in North African Cinema Roy Armes
7. Representing the Muslim: The 'Courtesan Film' in Indian Popular Cinema Rachel Dwyer
8. Jewish Themes in the Press of Independent India Yulia Egorova
Part Two: Mass Media and the Conflict in the Middle East
9. In the Eyes of the Beholder: Israel, Jews and Zionism in the Iraqi Media Ofra Bengio
10. The Image of Jews and the State of Israel in Eastern Bloc Media Angelika Timm
11. The Portrayal of Palestinian Arabs in the Moscow Yiddish Monthly Sovetish Heymland Gennady Estraikh
12. Arab.Ru: The Virtual Other in the Israeli-Russian Web Mikhail and Anna Krutikov
13. Reading The Guardian: Jews, Israel-Palestine and the Origins of Irritation Colin Shindler
14. Facing and defacing the 'Other'. Israel Television's Live Representation of Arabs in Ceremonies and Disaster Marathons Tamar Liebes
15. Are They Still the Enemy? The Representation of Arabs in Israeli TV News Anat First
16. Approaches to Peacemaking in the Israeli Press Michael Keren
17. Argument, War and the Role of the Media in the Conflict Management Marcelo Dascal

Series Information:
RoutledgeCurzon Studies on China in Transition

This edited volume presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, in management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. Significant themes include changing marriage and consumer aspirations and the reinvention of domestic space. The volume offers fresh insights into changing definitions of 'women's work' in contemporary China and questions women's perceived 'disadvantage' in the market economy.

Contents:
Acknowledgements Transliteration Abbreviations Part I - Framing the Nation 1. Introduction: Framing the Nation in China and Japan 1.1 Group Classifications and Distinctions 1.2 The Problem of Framing the Nation 1.3 Framing the Nation and Orientalist Categories 1.4 Framing the Nation and Reducing 'Them' and 'the Other' 1.5 Trends in Categorizing Groups 1.6 Three Forms of Grouping: Naturalist Grouping, Culturalist Grouping, Globalist Grouping 1.7 Endnotes Chapter 1 2. The Power of National Symbols: The Might of a Chinese Dragon 2.1 Feeding (on) Symbolic Power 2.1.1 The Politics of National Identity Marking 2.1.2 The Scale of Symbolic Power 2.2 The Might of a Multiple Interpretable Dragon 2.2.1 The Totem Dragon 2.2.2 The Dragon as an Oceanic Giant Python 2.2.3 The Dragon as an Embryo 2.2.4 The Modernization of a Taoist Dragon 2.3 Symbols as Effective Triggers of Associated Sentiments in Linked Contexts 2.4 Endnotes Chapter 2 3. The Coherent Force of Struggle and Diversity in Chinese Nationalism 3.1 Natural Group Markers 3.2 Origins, Coherent Force, and Consanguinity 3.3 Coherent Force: The Dialectical Unity of Merger through Struggle 3.4 Endnotes Chapter 3 Part II - Group Categorization 4. Natural Categorization 4.1 Chosen Peoples and Codified Brains 4.2 The Evolution of Us Cultural Brains and Them Civilized Brains 4.3 Instinctive Distancing: Are We Closest to Macaques or Ôbei-ans? 4.4 A Japanese Solution to Climatic Deterioration: Animism Renaissance 4.5 The King's Fall from the Forest and Western Cartesian Thought 4.6 Digging Up Genetic Roots: The Re-Appropriation of the Past 4.7 Natural Group Categories in Short 4.8 Endnotes Chapter 4 5. Culturalist Categorization 5.1 The Universality of Primitive Forest Culture: Umehara Takeshi's Jômon 5.2 Yin-Yang Regulation of the Two Hemispheres: Ye Qiaojian 5.3 Hu Fuchen: Taoist Universality and Chinese Scientific Wisdom 5.4 Universal Markers of Betrayal and Linguistic Supremacy: Tsuda Yukio 5.5 Cultural Categories
Endnotes Chapter 5 6. Global Categorization 6.1 Borderless Values 6.2 Balancing Scientistic Arguments against Japanese Uniqueness 6.3 Aidagara, Kanjinshugi, and Autopoiesis 6.4 Key Persons and National Systems-Strategies: Mutual Trust and Uncertainty 6.5 Rigid Analogous Processors and Adaptive Parallel Processors 6.6 Scientism and the Unit of the Nation Part III - Group Framing Habits and Strategies 7. Grouping 7.1 Group Architecture 7.1.1 Family Metaphors 7.2 Framing Group Differences: Horizontal Polarization, Hierarchy, Temporal Projection of Us and Them / the Other 7.3 Grouping in Short 7.4 Endnotes Chapter 7 8. Framing the Nation in the Short History of the International research Centre for Japanese Culture (Nichibunken, 1987 - ) 8.1 Institutionalised Nation-Framing and Its Failure as Social Science 8.2 Nichibunken 8.2.1 Founding Nichibunken 8.2.2 Ten Years Later 8.2.3 Archetypal Analogies and the Analysis of the National Unconscious 8.4 Structural Aspects of Knowledge Production 8.4.1 The Mass-Production of Symbolic Knowledge: Shôgi 8.5 The Unit of the Nation 8.6 Endnotes Chapter 8 9. Nation-Centred Political Strategies in Academic Thought, Examples from China and Japan 9.1 A Neglect of the Local and the Specific 9.2 Subordination of the Universal to the National 9.3 The Nation and Its Various Interest Groups 9.4 Controlling the 'National Organism' and the 'System' 9.5 Habitual Nation-Framing and Its Consequences 9.6 Endnotes Chapter 9 10. Nation Framing as an Academic Strategy in the PRC 10.1 Social Science and State Building in the PRC 10.2 Appraising National Policies 10.3 National Prescription and Conservatism 10.4 The Failure to Imagine Other Views of the Nation 10.5 The Political Predictability of Framing the Nation 10.6 Framing the Nation in the PRC: Some Features 10.7 Endnotes Chapter 10 11. Core Themes and an Outlook on Future Research 11.1 The Universal and Particular in Framing the Nation 11.2 Framing the Nation and Spatial and Temporal Order 11.3 Examples from China and Japan 11.4 Features of Nation-Framing Appendix I: Joint-Research Nichibunken [1988-1996] Appendix II: General Research Meetings Nichibunken Appendix III: Fields of Basic Research Glossary of frequently used Japanese and Chinese terms and persons References

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalisation and in the scale and structure of organisations. ICT has therefore accelerated the process of continual change and evolution that is the hallmark of both the capitalist economy and of organisations.
A student-friendly account is given of the diversity of theoretical perspectives for understanding the evolving economic geography of advanced capitalist economies. A series of detailed firm and employees' case-studies from Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific, are used to inform the theoretical case-studies. These also highlight and examine the significance of the increased blurring of the distinction between services and manufacturing functions in the production and consumption process.

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalisation and in the scale and structure of organisations. ICT has therefore accelerated the process of continual change and evolution that is the hallmark of both the capitalist economy and of organisations.
A student-friendly account is given of the diversity of theoretical perspectives for understanding the evolving economic geography of advanced capitalist economies. A series of detailed firm and employees' case-studies from Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific, are used to inform the theoretical case-studies. These also highlight and examine the significance of the increased blurring of the distinction between services and manufacturing functions in the production and consumption process.

Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over 1500 top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership is stratified. Unlike existing research on Chinese leaders, "Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China" draws on extensive statistical information and data analysis. It evidences how political development in the reform era has led to the division of labour between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government in governance, leading to two distinctive career paths in the two political systems respectively. Key issues examined include: the different criteria the CCP and the government demand; the requirements for promotion; the effect of university education on the rate of mobility; the different affiliations of the two groups; and the role of co-optation in leadership selection. Many of the elites discussed are still leading figures in China, making this book an extensive biographical data set in elite studies. This allows for a meaningful analysis of elite behaviour in China. This book

In this volume, a group of international scholars address issues relating to community wellbeing and the role of politics, law and economics in Europe and Japan in achieving human-centred symbiotic governance. Case-studies and suggestions for reform are presented in the arenas of economy, government administration, management, university governance, health, agriculture, the environment and urban planning.
This book will prove a useful tool to those in business research institutes, members of administrative research institutes, NGO's and non-profit organizaions while also providing students of business, Asian studies, politics and law with an insight into possible areas of reform.

East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula and they took things away. The economic and demographic structures of Kyongsang Province had deep and wide connections with these Japanese traders. Social and political clashes revolving around the Japan House in Pusan reveal Korean mentalities towards the Japanese connection. This study seeks to define 'Korea' by examining its frontier with Japan. The guiding problems are the relations between structures and agents and the self-definitions reached by pre-modern Koreans in their interaction with the Japanese. Case studies range from demography to taxation to trade to politics to prostitution. The study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries. It offers a model approach for Korea's northern frontier with China and shows that the peninsula was and is a complex brocade of differing regions. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with pre-1900 East Asia, Korea in particular, and especially Korea's relations with the outside world. Anyone interested in early-modern Japan and its external relations will also find it essential reading.

The Chinese Journalist provides an intriguing introduction to Chinese journalists and their roles within society for both students of Media and Asian Studies. The book initially offers a background history of journalists and the media in Communist China before examining the origins and development of Chinese journalism in the nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters explore:
· how young people become journalists
· the norms of the profession
· the developing identity of the journalist
· the gulf between beliefs and reality
Drawing upon sinology, social psychology, history and sociology, this book will inform readers from many disciplines about the increasing power journalists have, as well as providing new perspectives on familiar debates for students of media and communications.

This refreshingly clear guide provides students with a compact introduction to this key topic in literary studies. Although most often associated with Victorian poets such as Browning, dramatic monologue has a long literary and cultural history.
Dramatic Monologue:
*unravels the history of the genre, from the poems of Donne, to today's stand-up comic routines
*presents a history of definitions of the term
*explores issues at play in our understanding of the genre, such as subjectivity, gender and politics.

Virtually everywhere, directly or indirectly, modern men are prepared for war through sport. It has been no different in the past. Throughout history a constant imperative has been a moral commitment to defend the society. Sport has played its part in the inculcation of this commitment. However, sport has also been considered both a substitute for war and an antidote to war. This collection of essays explores the relationship between sport and war, bringing together established authors that include Peter Beck, Hans Bonde, Vassil Girginov, Donald Kyle, J.A. Mangan, John McClelland and Gertrud Pfister, and emerging authors such as Penelope Kissoudi, Orestis Kustrin, Callum McKenzie, Alethea Melling, Hamad Ndee and Roberta Vescovi.

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. The book's primary importance is thus as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. The book also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. In addition to the synchronic description of Mangghuer, extensive comparison with other Mongolic languages is included, demonstrating the genetic relationship of Mangghuer within that family. In the course of describing Mangghuer linguistic structures, the book also examines issues of interest to linguistic typologists.

This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. While basic issues such as masculine ideals in China and Japan are examined, the book also addresses issues including homosexuality, women's perceptions of men, the role of sport and food and Asian men in the Chinese diaspora.

Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from scholars engaged in the most up-to-date social research in Vietnam, as well as some of Vietnam's most popular cultural producers who are forging new ways of imagining the present whilst at the same time engaging actively in reinterpreting the past. The diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially negotiating the future are examined as the book addresses issues of indigenisation of cultural influences, ambivalence surrounding change, and the consistent blurring of boundaries between informal, non-state cultural activities and formal institutional structures in the evolution of a civil society in Vietnam.

Crime involving cars - whether involving offences by drivers or theft of and from cars - represents a substantial proportion of offences committed, and occupies an enormous amount of police time. But it is not always perceived as the serious crime that it is: many traffic offences cause enormous harm in terms of death and injury, but are often not regarded seriously by drivers, the criminal justice system and the state. Other than theft of and from cars it is arguable that car crime is socially constructed as 'not real crime' or 'not even crime'. This book is the first to survey the whole area of car crime. It considers car crime as a coherent whole, addressing the concept of car culture; considers car crime in its various guides in relation to issues such as masculinity, gender, car usage and the environment; considers the historical roots of legislation concerning crime committed in the car, through to current legislation and its effects and implications. The book also addresses issues of crime prevention, and in particular the role of car manufacturers in making cars more crime proof.

Islam and Political Legitimacy explores one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. It presents a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South, Central and South East Asia and highlights the immediacy of the challenge for the political leadership in those societies. Contributors to this volume examine the evolving relationship between Islam and political power in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. Researchers and students of political Islam and the growth of radicalism in the Muslim world will find Islam and Political Legitimacy of special interest. This is a welcome addition to the rich literature on the politics of the contemporary Muslim world.

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