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Item Metadata only 1980 nendai Chugoku bunkadai ni okuru Ri Tsa-ho no Koken (Li Zehan's contributions to Chinese Culture in the 1980's)(Meiji University, 1995) Chan, Shiu-wah Sylvia; Centre for Asian StudiesItem Metadata only A balancing act: Japan's Asia challenge and India(Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd., 2006) Jain, P.Item Metadata only A Boom Financed by Taxes on the Poor(New Statesman Ltd., 2005) Gao, C.2005: China - Inequalities are not based only on wages. Peasants have to pay more than 100 levies to the government, while in the cities, migrant workers face high charges for public servicesItem Open Access A bridge to the near north: Henry Black (1858-1923) and Dr Ian McArthur (1950-)(2017) Asakura-Ward, T.; 2017 Biennial Conference of Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA 2017) (27 Jun 2017 - 30 Jun 2017 : University of Wollongong)Item Open Access A changing discourse on the Red Cross Society of China beyond civil society(Global Research & Development Services Publishing, 2015) Wei, B.This paper explores non-government organizations (NGOs) in the People’s Republic of China, where the Communist Party of China (CCP) has extensive influence over society and Western notions of NGOs operating in civil society must be reconceptualised. To analyze this unique situation, this paper examines the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and its distinct role in China. It also discusses how the RCSC provides a general example of how NGOs operate within a Party-State environment. This research is significant as it goes beyond the services the Red Cross Society of China provides to citizens and places these services within Western theories on the public sphere and civil society. The theoretical analysis is to support its perspective on public spheres and civil society and explore the changes of the Red Cross Society of China in the changing political climate of China.Item Metadata only A comparative study of Gong’an dialect: an introduction(Durham University, 2013) Cai, H.Item Open Access A grief that cannot be shared: continuing relationships with aborted foetuses in contemporary Vietnam(Finnish Death Studies Association, 2014) Heathcote, A.For Vietnamese women who undergo an abortion, the deeply distressing experience can be extenuated by the stigmatisation of abortion and the disenfranchisement of grief relating to it. Abortion is a sensitive subject in Vietnam, embedded in moral ambiguities concerning youth sexual activities and the ancestral relationship the Vietnamese have with the dead. The aborted fetus is not easily reconciled with the act of ancestor worship and questions arise as to how women express their grief and if a continuing relationship should be sustained with the aborted fetus. Based on twelve months, ethnographic research, this article contends that some Vietnamese women are continuing a relationship with their aborted fetus within the online memorial Nghia Trang Online as a way of performing ancestor worship and expressing their grief. Through the theory of durable biography and disenfranchised grief, it will be demonstrated that a continuing relationship is formed through communication and online offerings to express grief, ask for forgiveness, share past and present experiences, and through prayer and guidance for the fetus in the otherworld.Item Restricted 'A place of joy and woe': remapping Shanghai in Chen Danyan's Shanghai princess(Universitatsverlag Winter, 2013) Schaffer, K.; Hornung, A.; Baisheng, Z.Item Metadata only A Review of Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in APEC(Blackwell Publishing, 2003) Chen, C.; Findlay, C.In parallel with global trends, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have increased dramatically in the APEC economies especially since the mid 1990s. The rapid increase in cross-border M&As in the world in general and in the APEC economies in particular is driven by a combination of factors, including the liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, the deregulation of the services sector, the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, and the relaxation of controls over cross-border M&As. The role of APEC developing economies in cross-border M&As has been increasing, especially since the late 1990s.Item Metadata only A self-defeating secret weapon? The institutional limitations of corporatism on United Front work(Routledge, 2013) Groot, G.; Hsu, J.; Hasmath, R.Item Metadata only A study on vocational educational development in China from the perspective of vocational education history in the world(China National Institute for Educational Research, 2009) Zhang, N.Item Metadata only A Study skills action plan: integrating self-regulated learning in a diverse higher education context(University of Adelaide Press, 2012) Enomoto, K.; Song, X.; Cadman, K.Introduction In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in international student enrolments in language programs in Australian universities, accelerating the diversity of the language student cohort in the classroom. This increasing student diversity presents many challenges for language lecturers, necessitating both a review of pedagogical strategies and new engagement in innovative teaching practices to enhance learning for all students. As this chapter will show, this is a particularly pressing issue in the context of the first-year Japanese course at an Australian research-intensive university. Japanese 1A is a beginners’ course for non-native speakers with no or little previous knowledge of Japanese. Since 2008, the student numbers in this course have more than doubled (n=120, 2008; n=190, 2009; n=260, 2010) and in 2010 it became the largest foreign language course at the University. In Semester 1, 2010, this student cohort was diverse in terms of cultural, linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Around 60 per cent were international students from a variety of cultures and first language backgrounds, and 90 per cent of them were enrolled in various non-Arts degrees. Such a unique student group inevitably has profound implications for pedagogy in this large first-year course. It is imperative to create and deliver learning environments where all students feel equally able to succeed both in and beyond their first year at university. One way to create such an environment that maximizes each student's chance of success is through curriculum revisions that integrate study skills development into the curriculum of the mainstream courses/subjects that students are studying for their degree (DEEWR 2008; Wingate 2006).Item Metadata only Accumulating cultural capital? Some lessons from history for understanding mainland Chinese students in Australian high schools(ASAA, 2004) Stafford, A.; Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference (15th : 2004 : Canberra, Australia); Cribb, R.Item Metadata only American acolytes: Tokyo, Canberra and Washington's emerging 'Pacific Axis'(Routledge, 2006) Jain, P.; Bruni, J.; Williams, B.; Newman, A.Item Metadata only American Photographs of the Boxer Rising(1996) Elliott, Jane E.Item Metadata only Amnesia and memory: Does classical ideology matter?(CSAA, 2009) Lin, D.; Chinese Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference (11th : 2009 : Sydney, N.S.W.)In China’s quest for modernity since the early Republican era, classical ideology such as Confucianism has either been seen as the spectre of a reactionary and repressive past whose memory ought to be erased, or the quintessence of an ageless ancient wisdom whose remembrance ought to be restored. Today, revitalisation of Confucianism as a political ideology and social ethic is called upon by not only the government, but also by social scientists and educators. This calls for a critical and nuanced examination of relevance of Confucianism to current day political thinking in China. This paper offers a three-layered reading of classical Confucianism as a political ideology and examines its relevance to the suzhi discourse in post-Mao China. The three layers are (1) the Utopian perspective, (2) the approach to realising the utopian ideal – combing politics and education into one and (3) the psychological foundation of Confucianism – the sense of shame (chigan). It argues that the three-layered framework forms the basis of the paradigm of suzhi. Based on the case of suzhi, this paper further argues that contemporary China’s focus on enlisting civilising programs such as suzhi in the quest for modernisation and national development echoes millennium-old Confucian governance principles. This paper draws particular attention to the psychological foundation of Confucian governance principles and argues that when advocating for reviving Confucian values, it is important to take into account the psychology of Confucianism.Item Metadata only An Australian perspective on China's economic reform and growth(Beijing University Press, 2000) Watson, A.Item Metadata only Animism: a grassroots response to socioenvironmental crisis in Japan(ANU Press, 2017) Yoneyama, S.; Morris-Suzuki, T.; Soh, E.Item Metadata only Aozhou Wenxue Changkongde Yi Zhi Lingniao(1996) Hsu, Chia-chengItem Metadata only Asia, Asian values and Australia(Asia Pacific Research Centre, 2004) Jain, P.; Asian Values in the International Society of the C21 Conference (2002 : Kobe, Japan); Hiroyuki, T.