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This book explores civil–military relations in Asia. With
chapters on individual countries in the region, it provides a
comprehensive account of the range of contemporary Asian practices
under conditions of abridged democracy, soft authoritarianism or
complete totalitarianism. Through its analysis, the book argues
that civil–military relations in Asia ought to be examined under
the concept of ‘Asian military evolutions’. It demonstrates
that while Asian militaries have tried to incorporate standard,
Western-derived frameworks of civil–military relations, it has
been necessary to adapt such frameworks to suit local
circumstances. The book reveals how this has in turn led to
creative fusions and novel changes in making civil–military
relations an asset to furthering national security objectives.
This book explores civil-military relations in Asia. With chapters
on individual countries in the region, it provides a comprehensive
account of the range of contemporary Asian practices under
conditions of abridged democracy, soft authoritarianism or complete
totalitarianism. Through its analysis, the book argues that
civil-military relations in Asia ought to be examined under the
concept of 'Asian military evolutions.' It demonstrates that while
Asian militaries have tried to incorporate standard,
western-derived frameworks of civil-military relations, it has been
necessary to adapt such frameworks to suit local circumstances. The
book reveals how this has in turn led to creative fusions and novel
changes in making civil-military relations an asset to furthering
national security objectives.
Many maintain that the arrival of computers networked across
sovereign borders and physical barriers is a liberating force that
will produce a global dialogue of liberal hues but this book argues
that this dominant paradigm needs to be supplemented by the
perspective of alterity in the impact of Information Technology in
different regions. Local experts draw upon a range of Asian cases
to demonstrate how alterity, defined here as a condition of
privileging the hitherto marginal and subterranean aspects of a
capitalist world order through the capabilities of information and
communications technologies, offers an alternative to the paradigm
of inevitable material advances and political liberalization.
Calling attention to the unique social and political uses being
made of IT in Asia in the service of offline and online causes
predominantly filtered by pre-existing social milieus the
contributors examine the multiple dimensions of Asian differences
in the sociology and politics of IT and show how present trends
suggest that advanced electronic media will not necessarily be
embraced in a smooth, unilinear fashion throughout Asia. This book
will appeal to any reader interested in the nexus between society
and IT in Asia.
This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific
lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and
centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically
awkward as a description of the security of states and their
populations; it implies the loosening of state control and the
emergence of newly asserted authority by mixed constellations of
intergovernmental organizations and non-state actors. It implies a
competition of agendas: threats to the integrity of borders and
human security threats such as natural disasters, airliner crashes,
and displacement by man-made pollution and food scarcity.
Conversely, polycentrism could also imply a return to a more
neo-realist oriented international order where great powers ignore
ASEAN and steer regional order according to their perceived
interests and relative military superiority. This book embraces
these contradictory trends as a foundation of analysis and accepts
that disorder can also be re-described from the perspective of
studied detachment as polycentric order.
Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka
cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that
traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple
migrations. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California,
Anusasananan travels to her family's home in China, and from there
fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe - including Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Peru, and beyond. More
than thirty home cooks and chefs share their experiences of the
Hakka diaspora as they contribute over 140 recipes for everyday
Chinese comfort food as well as more elaborate festive specialties.
This book likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of "soul food," or
a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of
hardship and oppression. Earthy, honest, and robust, it reflects
the diversity of the estimated 75 million Hakka living in China and
greater Asia, and in scattered communities around the world - yet
still retains a core flavor and technique. Anusasananan's deep
personal connection to the tradition, together with her extensive
experience testing and developing recipes, make this book both an
intimate journey of discovery and an exciting introduction to a
vibrant cuisine.
This book provides insights into China's Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI) from Asia Pacific and the Middle East. It offers critical
perspectives from various directions, not excluding historical
investigations, human geography approaches and neo-Marxist
inclinations. China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents one
of the biggest geopolitical visions since the Cold War and offers
the possibilities of an intercontinental vision of Aid politics,
along with prospects for pan-Asianism. By and large, any
geopolitical vision that purports to foster inter-regional dialogue
and materialist development of peoples and economies is bound to
have its flaws. The Belt and Road Initiative bears hallmarks of the
socio-political tradition of Chinese authoritarian infrastructure
politics while also offering a possible alternative to the
so-called 'Washington Consensus' of free markets, deregulation and
a shift towards liberal democracy. Additionally, the Belt and Road
Initiative opens up wide open intellectual spaces for dialogues
between Asians, Arabs and Westerners on the meaning of inclusive
inter-continental relationships in philosophy, geography and
economics. The significance of this is often underplayed in Chinese
official statements whereas this book introduces these
possibilities within its assorted sections. "The book is about much
more than the material aspects of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
In fact, various chapter authors use the Belt and Road to look at
perhaps the most fundamental issue of our times: how does one build
a global world order and societies that are inclusive, cohesive and
capable of managing interests of all stakeholders as well as
political, cultural, ethnic and religious differences in ways that
all are recognized without prejudice and/or discrimination?" -Prof.
James Dorsey, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Alan Chong Lau's poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in
Seattle's Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots,
working-class Asian America -- a world where customers, workers,
and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with
energy and brim over with humor.
With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness
to people's humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a
community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of
immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian
Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of
where Asian Americans -- native-born, refugee, and migrant -- are
today.
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