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Item Metadata only India’s Changing Approach to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2022) JAIN, P.India was initially a reluctant Quadrilateral (Quad) Security Dialogue partner. Today New Delhi is a willing partner and a strong supporter of the Quad. With continuing border tensions across the Himalayas and Beijing’s growing assertiveness in India’s neighbourhood, India has tied itself tightly to the United States and the Quad partner nations’ strategies. While still pursuing strategic autonomy and engagement with Russia and dialogue with China, both of which oppose the Quad, India has embraced the Quad unhesitatingly and has now accepted Quad partners as like-minded nations.Item Metadata only Different Histories, Shared Futures: Dialogues on Australia-China(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Gao, M.; O'Connor, J.; Xie, B.; Butcher, J.This book delves into the Australia-China relationship, which is currently is at its worst since 1972 when the two countries first established a diplomatic relationship.Item Metadata only Different Pasts: The Panda and the Kangaroo(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Gao, M.; Xie, B.; O'Connor, J.; Butcher, J.; Gao, M.; O'Connor, J.; Xie, B.; Butcher, J.This chapter asks whether there is a possibility of a way forward in which Australia and China could have a shared future, even if the histories between the two countries were profoundly different. The authors acknowledge their ostensive differences and one commonality—insecurity and present a set of questions surrounding the question whether a shared future is possible. These questions are relevant at a time when Australia-China relations have never been so close yet never been so bad since the establishment of their diplomatic relationship in the 1972.Item Metadata only Is Common Destiny with Australia Possible When the CCP Still Rules China: From the Perspective of Values and Ways of Life(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Gao, C.; gao, M.; Gao, M.; O'Connor, J.; Xie, B.; Butcher, J.The root cause of the deterioration of the relationship between Australia and China in recent years is often assumed or portrayed to be the difference between values and ways of life. By checking values and ways of life in analytical categories such as democracy, market capitalism, individualism, law and order and governance with evidence-based reality, the chapter aims to show that China and indeed the Chinese do not have many fundamental differences with Australia or Australians, at least not in aspiration. The chapter further argues that the CCP has been the promoter of, not the obstacles to, progressive modern value. The chapter then moves on to argue that it is the geopolitics, largely dictated by the US, that has given rise to the hostility between the two countries. One inherent conclusion from this analysis is that common destiny with Australia is possible even when the CCP still rules China.Item Metadata only Translating anglophobia:Tensions and paradoxes of biliterate performances in Singapore [翻译恐英症新加坡实施双语政策时的紧张与矛盾](John Benjamins Publishing, 2013) Lee, T.-K.; Cai, H.; Dayter, D.This article examines problems arising from biliterate performances in English and Chinese in the context of the sociolinguistics of Singapore. The questions asked include: What are the ramifications of translating Chinese literature carrying anglophobic themes into English? How might translation displace anglophobic readings from Chinese literary works? What kind of identity discourse do self-translation practices engender? The article examines three cases of cross-linguistic practice as biliterate modalities in Singapore, with an eye on the identity discourse emanating from the translational space between English and Chinese in each case. In the first case, it is argued that the English translation of a Chinese poem with an anglophobic stance triggers an ironic self-reflexivity on the part of the target text reader and has the potential to exacerbate the cultural anxiety faced by the Chinese-speaking Self in the source text. The second case presents an example where the anglophobic interpretation of a Chinese play can potentially be ‘unread’ through the homogenization of code-switching through translation. In the final case of a self-translating playwright, it is found that English-Chinese and Chinese-English translations establish an asymmetric symbiosis whereby translation creates an interliminal space in which a hybrid identity discourse is negotiated. The three cases illustrate the tensions and paradoxes residing in the translational space between English and Chinese in Singapore, pointing to the problematic of inter- and cross-cultural communication in the multilingual state.Item Metadata only Skolmobbningens politik: lärarna gör skillnad [The politics of school bullying: Teachers matter](Friends Foundation – World Anti Bullying Forum, 2020) Yoneyama, S.; Thornberg, R.; Johansson, B.Item Open Access Miyazaki Hayao's Animism and the Anthropocene(SAGE Publications, 2021) Yoneyama, S.The need for a reconsideration of human-nature relationships has been widely recognized in the Anthropocene. It is difficult to rethink, however, because there is a crisis of imagination that is deeply entrenched within the fundamental premises of modernity. This article explores how ‘critical animism’ developed by Miyazaki Hayao of Studio Ghibli can address this paucity of imagination by providing alternative ways of knowing and being. ‘Critical animism’ emerged from the fusion of a critique of modernity with informal cultural heritage in Japan. It is a philosophy that perceives nature as a non-dualistic combination of the life-world and the spiritual-world, while also emphasizing the significance of place. Miyazaki’s critical animism challenges anthropocentrism, secularism, Eurocentrism, as well as dualism. It may be the ‘perfect story’ that could disrupt the existing paradigm, offering a promise to rethink human-nonhuman relationships and envisaging a new paradigm for the social sciences.Item Metadata only The politics of school bullying: Teachers matter(Friends Foundation - World Anti Bullying Forum, 2021) Yoneyama, S.; Johansson, B.; Thornberg, R.Item Metadata only Manabi yokereba subete yoshi(Seori Shobo, 2019) Yoneyama, S.; Nagata, Y.Item Metadata only Japan's foreign aid: Continuity and change(Lexington Books, 2020) Jain, P.C.; Lam, P.E.; Jain, P.Item Metadata only Japan-India relations: Bilateral, regional and global contexts(Lexington Books, 2020) Jain, P.C.; Lam, P.E.; Jain, P.Item Metadata only Foreign aid and Asian donors(SAGE Publications, 2020) Morreale, B.; Jain, P.C.; Inoguchi, T.Item Open Access Rethinking human-nature relationships in the time of coronavirus: Postmodern animism in films by Miyazaki Hayao & Shinkai Makoto(Asia-Pacific Journal, 2020) Yoneyama, S.Issues we are confronted with in the age of the Anthropocene, such as climate change, extinction, and the coronavirus pandemic demand a fundamental rethink of human-nature relationships, but at the same time we are faced with a ‘crisis of imagination’, which is highlighted by the paucity of stories or narratives that enable us to fully engage with these issues. We have a ‘climate crisis’ as well as a ‘crisis of culture’ and both derive from the same source: epistemological limitations in the paradigm of modernity. The most problematic limitation is the fact that our social scientific knowledge has blind spots when it comes to nature and spirituality which makes it almost impossible for us to rethink human-nature relationships in a meaningful way. Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto, however, directly illuminate these blind spots by making nature and spirituality central features in their animation films. This opens up new epistemological and ontological spaces in the hearts and minds of a global audience, making it possible to imagine something new. And that ‘something new’ is ‘postmodern animism’ which emerged from the fusion of a critique of modernity with the intangible cultural heritage of grassroots Japan. Postmodern animism is a philosophy that sees nature as a combination of the life-world and the spiritual-world thus enabling us to engage with climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic in a radically different way. It helps us to conceive a new paradigm that is more suitable for the Anthropocene.Item Open Access Training 'clerks of the [global] empire' for 21st-century Asia? English for Research Purposes [ERP] in Vietnam(University of Adelaide Press, 2017) Cadman, K.; Xuan, T.A.C.; Cargill, M.; Burgess, S.Item Open Access Introducing research rigour in the social sciences: Transcultural strategies for teaching ERPP writing, research design, and resistance to epistemic erasure(University of Adelaide Press, 2017) Cadman, K.; Cargill,, M.; Burgess, S.Item Open Access Precarious wealth: The search for status and security(ANU Press, 2018) Groot, G.; Golley, J.; Jaivin, L.IN JANUARY 2017, Chinese security agents entered Hong Kong’s Four Seasons Hotel and left with Xiao Jianhua 肖建华. Once described by the New York Times as China’s banker for the ruling class, Xiao, a self-made billionaire, ranked thirty-two on the 2016 Hurun Report’s China Rich List. It is rumoured that Xiao’s clients and connections include members of Xi Jinping’s family. Xiao was escorted to the mainland in contravention of Hong Kong law, and his companies have been put up for sale. Of Xiao himself, as of year’s end, nothing has been heard.1 Xiao was but the latest in a series of such disappearances since 2012.2 In China, prosperity is as precarious as it is now ubiquitous.Item Metadata only The rise and rise of the United Front Work Department under Xi(Jamestown Foundation, 2018) Groot, G.The March meeting of China’s two national level parliaments, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese Peoples’ Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was notable for more than just formalizing the abolition of term limits for state president. It also signaled the end of much of the pretense of separation between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and key government institutions, including the three government departments responsible for ethnic affairs, religion and Overseas Chinese affairs, whose functions will now be largely subsumed by the CCP’s own United Front Work Department (UFWD).Item Metadata only Australian views of India and India-Japan Relations(The Japan-India Association, 2014) Jain, P.Item Metadata only Twin Peaks: Japan's Economic Aid to India in the 1950s and 2010s(JICA Research Institute, 2017) Jain, P.This paper concerns the significance of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Japan’s relationship with India. It explores how and why peaks in Japan’s ODA to India parallel the two highpoints in the overall bilateral relationship – the early post-war period (roughly to the early1960s), and the present (from the mid-2000s). It argues that whatever other purposes Japan’s ODA may serve domestically and internationally through supporting economic development, in the program with India ODA has politico-strategic utility in signaling not just to India, but also to the rest of Asia and beyond, Japan’s interest in strengthening this bilateral relationship to gain leverage in Asia. Early in the post-war period, collaboration with India was seen to provide an entry point for the development of primarily commercial relations with Southeast Asia and other Asian nations while lingering concerns about Japan’s wartime incursions supported resistance to other approaches. Currently, while positioned as Japan’s special strategic and global partner, and enjoying an ever more powerful economy, India helps open the way for Japan to extend strategic leverage within Asia and beyond. This is significant for Japan at a time when regional transformation, especially through China’s rise, is becoming instrumental in reshaping the regional and global balance of power, causing Japan great strategic and economic concerns along the way.Item Metadata only Animism: a grassroots response to socioenvironmental crisis in Japan(ANU Press, 2017) Yoneyama, S.; Morris-Suzuki, T.; Soh, E.