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Globalization in the Asian Region - Impacts and Consequences (Paperback): Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland Globalization in the Asian Region - Impacts and Consequences (Paperback)
Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland
R1,319 Discovery Miles 13 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bringing together contributors from both the university sector and business-centered research institutions, this comprehensive volume offers diverse perspectives on the impacts and consequences of globalization in different parts of the Asian region. Each chapter offers a substantial account of globalization within a particular nation-state or area in the region. Different understandings underpin the chapters. Some contributors perceive globalization as progress in the form of economically driven processes that have made nations mutually dependent in unprecedented and complex ways. Others emphasize the uneven outcomes of globalization, as well as the stakes for economic growth and social order in the global climate of deepening political and religious divisions since September 2001. General and specialist readers alike will gain an appreciation of the myriad emphases placed on globalization within different nations and from various vantage points. The book showcases diverse styles of discourse and serves to greatly broaden the scope of what can be discussed under the rubric of 'globalization' within a single volume.

Globalization in the Asian Region - Impacts and Consequences (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland Globalization in the Asian Region - Impacts and Consequences (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland
R3,214 Discovery Miles 32 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bringing together contributors from both the university sector and business-centered research institutions, this comprehensive volume offers diverse perspectives on the impacts and consequences of globalization in different parts of the Asian region. Each chapter offers a substantial account of globalization within a particular nation-state or area in the region. Different understandings underpin the chapters. Some contributors perceive globalization as progress in the form of economically driven processes that have made nations mutually dependent in unprecedented and complex ways. Others emphasize the uneven outcomes of globalization, as well as the stakes for economic growth and social order in the global climate of deepening political and religious divisions since September 2001. General and specialist readers alike will gain an appreciation of the myriad emphases placed on globalization within different nations and from various vantage points. The book showcases diverse styles of discourse and serves to greatly broaden the scope of what can be discussed under the rubric of 'globalization' within a single volume.

Miraculous and Strange Encounters (Paperback): Gloria Davis Miraculous and Strange Encounters (Paperback)
Gloria Davis
R938 R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Save R109 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Voicing Concerns - Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry (Paperback): Gloria Davies Voicing Concerns - Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry (Paperback)
Gloria Davies; Contributions by Geremie R. Barme, Chen Fong-Ching, Jin Guantao, Liu Dong, …
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays provide a wide range of conflicting perspectives on contemporary Chinese intellectuality, yet they share in common the belief held by many Chinese intellectuals in the power of intellectual labor to shape and change social life. By showing how Western social and cultural theory as well as the May Fourth and pre-modern Confucian traditions are being adapted for contemporary Chinese intellectual use, the book highlights how Chinese academics have affirmed an independent critical role for themselves in post-Mao China and the scope of the knowledge industry that they have created and developed since 1979.

The Special Guest (Paperback): Gloria Davis The Special Guest (Paperback)
Gloria Davis
R527 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R93 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Special Guest (Hardcover): Gloria Davis The Special Guest (Hardcover)
Gloria Davis
R794 R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Save R138 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stress in Higher Education (Paperback): Gloria Davis-Roberts Stress in Higher Education (Paperback)
Gloria Davis-Roberts
R1,771 Discovery Miles 17 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although it has been argued for some time that workers in academia have found their jobs to be highly satisfying, and in comparison with other occupations, relatively stress free, numerous studies have found high levels of stress in teachers. Attempts have also been made to isolate the job characteristics and working conditions that are considered the most stressful or have the strongest relationships with negative outcomes. This book, therefore, describes the levels and sources of stress and coping strategies of faculty and staff at institutions of higher education and to determine if these are related to some selected demographic characteristics such as gender, age marital status, years of employment and employment status. This book should provide information that would help in fostering well-being of workers so that they would not be too adversely affected by stress before concerns are addressed. Additionally, to guarantee retention and recruitment there is need to create this awareness.

Down Home Cooking (Paperback): Gloria Davis Down Home Cooking (Paperback)
Gloria Davis
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Down Home Cooking is a collection of my favorite recipes. It's down home American cooking. It's straight from the south. It has brought good conversations and full stomachs to the table and I hope that it does the same for your family. Thank you.

Lu Xun's Revolution - Writing in a Time of Violence (Hardcover): Gloria Davies Lu Xun's Revolution - Writing in a Time of Violence (Hardcover)
Gloria Davies
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. In Davies's vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun's works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses. During the last phase of Lu Xun's career, the so-called "years on the left," we see how fiercely he defended a literature in which the people would speak for themselves, and we come to understand why Lu Xun continues to inspire the debates shaping China today. Although Lu Xun was never a Communist, his legacy was fully enlisted to support the Party in the decades following his death. Far from the apologist of political violence portrayed by Maoist interpreters, however, Lu Xun emerges here as an energetic opponent of despotism, a humanist for whom empathy, not ideological zeal, was the key to achieving revolutionary ends. Limned with precision and insight, Lu Xun's Revolution is a major contribution to the ongoing reappraisal of this foundational figure.

Nantucket's People of Color - Essays on History, Politics and Community (Paperback): Robert Johnson Nantucket's People of Color - Essays on History, Politics and Community (Paperback)
Robert Johnson; Contributions by Robert Johnson, Isabel Kaldenbach-Montemayor, John Saillant, Barbara White, …
R1,842 Discovery Miles 18 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free people and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along 'racial' lines. This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.

Worrying about China - The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Paperback): Gloria Davies Worrying about China - The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Paperback)
Gloria Davies
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What can we do about China? This question, couched in pessimism, is often raised in the West but it is nothing new to the Chinese, who have long worried about themselves. In the last two decades since the "opening" of China, Chinese intellectuals have been carrying on in their own ancient tradition of "patriotic worrying."

As an intellectual mandate, "worrying about China" carries with it the moral obligation of identifying and solving perceived "Chinese problems"--social, political, cultural, historical, or economic--in order to achieve national perfection. In "Worrying about China," Gloria Davies pursues this inquiry through a wide range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts within official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism for present-day China, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas.

Davies explores the way perfectionism permeates and ultimately propels Chinese intellectual talk to the point that the drive for perfection has created a moralism that condemns those who do not contribute to improving China. Inside the heart of the New China persists ancient moralistic attitudes that remain decidedly nonmodern. And inside the postmodernism of thousands of Chinese scholars and intellectuals dwells a decidedly anti-postmodern quest for absolute certainty.

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