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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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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