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Arts and cultural activity in Asia is increasingly seen as important internationally, and Asiäs growing prosperity is enabling the full range of artistic activities to be better encouraged, supported and managed. This book presents a range of case studies of arts and cultural leadership across a large number of Asian countries. Besides examining different cultural frameworks and contexts, the book considers different cultural approaches to leadership, discusses external challenges and entrepreneurialism, and explores the impact of politics. Throughout, the book covers different art forms, and different sorts of arts and cultural organisations.

As the economies of East Asia grow ever stronger, their need for energy resources increases, which in turn compels closer relations with the countries of the Middle East. This book examines the developing relations between the countries of East Asia with the countries of the Middle East. It looks at various key bilateral relationships, discusses the impact on the United States¿ hegemony in both regions, considers whether the new relations represent a contribution to, or a threat to, peace and stability, and assesses the implications of the changes for patterns of regional and global international relations systems.

This book addresses environmental issues by distinctively suggesting that an aesthetic approach inspired from ancient Chinese tradition could help us overcome the many problems that human beings have created at local and global levels. Although its main focus is the traditional and current contexts of the People¿s Republic of China, the book transcends national borders. A typical example is the ancient Chinese thought system and cultural practice of Feng Shui (¿¿) that sought to negotiate how the natural environment and human constructions can cohabit without destructing each other. The author evokes that sought-after harmony through the powerful image of gardens of life whose environmental beauty can be found in traditional Chinese gardens and palaces as well as historically and culturally preserved cities.

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book, based on extensive original research, explores how microcredit works in practice, and assesses its effectiveness. It discusses how microcredit, usually channelled through women, is often passed to the men of the family, a practice disapproved of by some, but regarded as acceptable by borrowers who have a communal approach to debt, rather than viewing debt as something held by single individuals.

Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there. It contributes to the extension of our knowledge about human trafficking in the Asian region through an exploration of the experiences of more than 100 women who took part in the study.

This book argues that China's businesses face a huge crisis because there is a considerable shortage of competent business leaders in China, at a time when leadership skills are required urgently, as China's businesses evolve and engage ever more with the global economy. The book outlines the nature and extent of the problem, but argues that a new breed of manager is emerging, emphasising more flexibility, engagement with workers and competence in the market economy. The book evaluates different management approaches in China and sets out how self-development is widespread and important.

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This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of statebuilding in countries emerging from under the shadow of authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas.

This collection provides an overview of the challenges and trends of the policing of flows, or movement, of people and objects that are deemed dangerous.

Since the beginning of Chinäs economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country¿s economic development. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current development challenges for Chinese private manufacturing firms as Chinäs integration with the global economy deepens. At the heart of the book are rich, nuanced empirical case studies of private manufacturing firms in the footwear and electrical equipment industries based in the city of Wenzhou, which was where private enterprise in China was pioneered in the 1980s. Particular subjects considered include the competition situation, the interaction of foreign and indigenous firms in both domestic and international markets, and the facilitating role of industrial development areas.

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Shailaja Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women¿s movement, she historicises Dalit women¿s experiences and constructs them as historical agents.

This book offers a detailed examination of the reasons why socialism failed in South Korea, going beyond the generally accepted view that the left failed because of suppression by the state. It proffers that the real reason why socialism failed was its inability to develop beyond revolutionary socialism and build a more pragmatic social democracy.

Using Japanese language sources presented for the first time in English and a number of local history case studies, this book offers a fascinating and little-known perspective on WWII. It combines a comprehensive theory of how war memories operate at the local level, explaining Hokkaido's pivotal role in Japanese imperial history.

This book sheds light on historical developments and the current gender equality situation in Japan through the lens of women in science and technology. Drawing on data from interviews with government officials, scientists and educators, it demonstrates how the underrepresentation of women in STEM has been dealt with by national government.

Physicians have little training in examining the credibility of a patient¿s medical presentation directly and are confronted with the possibility of malingering. This books serves as a guide for health practitioners and clinicians to diagnose neurological malingering cases. It covers history, physical exams, types of pain conditions; and electrophysiologic, pyschiatric, and chemosensory information as they relate to malingering. The book emphasizes neurological malingering in several diseases and conditions including aphasia, dementia, epilepsy, Munchausen syndrome, multiple sclerosis, blindness, and deafness.

Ongoing developments in the EU energy market make it necessary to reflect on some of the primary issues related to the public legal impact on the European energy sector, and the proposed book answers this necessity by delving into European energy law. The author offers a brief explanation of the background operation of the electricity sector, as well as of liberalisation within the area, and traces the evolution of the European Union¿s approach towards the issue of public law regulation within the electricity sector. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of EU energy law and policy.

The book explores the nature of the Islamic education systems in Indonesia and Malaysia and the different approaches taken by these states in managing these systems.

This book examines Iranian foreign policy, with a focus on the years since 2001. The first part looks at the underpinnings and key foundations of the Islamic Republic¿s external behaviour. The second part then examines Iran¿s relations with key countries and regions.

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of `modernity¿ that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean over the past two centuries.

This book provides a range of original translated documents from the late 19th and early 20th century on the development of the Bahäi/Babi communities.

The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching reveals the impact of politics, professional guidelines and restrictive measurements of literacy on the emerging identities of young teachers.

Following on from his 1994 volume Mercantilism ¿ The Shaping of an Economic Language, this new book from Lars Magnusson presents a more synthetic interpretation of Mercantilism not only as a theoretical system, but also as a system of political economy. This book incorporates samples of material from the 1994 publication alongside new material, ordered in a new set of chapters and up-date discussions on mercantilism up to the present day.

Drawing on discursive psychology, this book traces the historical development of psychiatric constructions of `normal¿ and `abnormal¿ gender expression and contextualises the recent reconstruction of gender through the DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria.

This book offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. It explores what imagination is and how applying imagination to teaching and learning can increase the engagement of disaffected students and reinvigorate their relationships with curriculum content.

In Australia, regions are not just a geographic category, they are also cultural. Being regional means being located outside the nation¿s capital cities and in the periphery of centres of power and influence. It is thus significantly different than its European or American counterparts. However, surprisingly little has been written about this unique dynamic; this book has been written to fill this gap.

This book explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity.

This book explores the complex relationship between the idealism and pragmatism, showing how they share important common ground, and illustrating their intertwined histories. This book was first published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

This book provides a study of international intervention in Somalia, contesting the rigidity of the Failed State Narrative, as well those anchored to political and anthropological determinism that have overemphasised the role of clanism, Islam, state capacity as explanatory variables of the Somali crisis.

This book argues that Islam¿s rise is a feature of a common process during which tensions between imperial ambitions and apocalyptic beliefs in Europe and the Middle East cut straight across today¿s theological and political definitions.