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  • Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest?

    Edited by Ien Ang, Yudhishthir Isar, Phillip Mar ...
    Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? is the first book bringing together, from the perspective of the cultural disciplines, scholarship that locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social, political, and ideological contexts, while examining the different forces that drive them.The contributions to this book have two methodologies: the first, to deconstruct and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Heritage and History in the ChinaAustralia Migration Corridor

    Edited by Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, Phillip Mar ...
    Series Book 5 - Crossing Seas
    Heritage and History in the ChinaAustralia Migration Corridor traces the material and social legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. The volume offers a multidimensional examination of the material footprint of migration as it exists in the migration corridor stretching between Zhongshan county in south China and Australia. Spanning the fields of heritage ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Media and the Chinese Diaspora

    Community, Communications and Commerce

    Edited by Wanning Sun ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Global Asian City

    Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul

    by Francis L. Collins ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoul—including migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Spatial Planning and High-tech Development

    A comparative study of Eindhoven city-region, the Netherlands and Hsinchu City-region, Taiwan

    by Wei-Ju Huang ...
    n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance global competitiveness at the national and/or city-regional level. These policies have involved the ... Read more

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  • The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

    From Outside to Inside the Circle

    by Arlene Chan ...
    The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastward in search of employment and a more welcoming place.In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered fifty. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve what has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language and Globalization

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Chinese Community in Toronto

    Then and Now

    by Arlene Chan ...
    Sam Ching, a laundryman, is the first Chinese resident recorded in Toronto's city directory of 1878. A few years later, in 1881, there were 10 Chinese and no sign of a Chinatown. Today, with no less than seven Chinatowns and half a million people, Chinese Canadians have become the second-largest visible minority in the Greater Toronto Area.Stories, photographs, newspaper reports, maps, and charts ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service

    by Emrys Myles Khean Aun Chew, Chong Guan Kwa ...
    Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered, this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

    $20.00 USD