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Penfold, Thomas William. "Black Consciousness and the politics of writing the nation in South Africa." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4643/.
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Since the transition from apartheid, there has been much discussion of the possibilities for the emergence of a truly ‘national’ literature in South Africa. This thesis joins the debate by arguing that Black Consciousness, a movement that began in the late 1960s, provided the intellectual framework both for understanding how a national culture would develop and for recognising it when it emerged. Black Consciousness posited a South Africa where formerly competing cultures sat comfortably together. This thesis explores whether such cultural equality has been achieved. Does contemporary literature harmoniously deploy different cultural idioms simultaneously? By analysing Black writing, mainly poetry, from the 1970s through to the present, the study traces the stages of development preceding the emergence of a possible ‘national’ literature and argues that the dominant art versus politics binary needs to be reconsidered. Emphasising the long-term influences of education and language policy, and of publishing, the thesis documents the continuous dialogue of art and politics in South Africa, and in the process unpicks the paradox of South Africa’s (un)national literature.
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Gunne, Sorcha. "‘A mirror with two sides’ : liminal narratives and spaces of gender violence and communitas in South African writing, 1960–present." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3907/.
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This thesis examines the gendered and racialised representations of social spaces in apartheid and post-apartheid writing. My research methodology incorporates a variety of literary and culture theories, including postcolonial theory, feminism and anthropology. I begin with a reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, examining the problematic paradigms of race and gender relations in post-apartheid South Africa which Coetzee represents through rape. Of particular importance is the idea of liminality and in the introduction I establish my interpretation of liminality amongst other theorists. I contend that the very fruitfulness of liminality as an analytical tool lies in its prismatic qualities that give rise to multiple possibilities of meaning. The complex nuances of liminality’s ‘betwixt and betweenness’ and its ‘undefinability’ are conducive to an examination of violence and violation. Simultaneously, however, liminality is also conducive to an examination of communitas or productive social relations predicated on a deep-rooted sense of shared experience. Informed by the analysis of Disgrace and the discussion of liminality in the introduction, each of the three main chapters focuses on a different thematic space. Starting with a discussion of Ruth First’s 117 Days, chapter 2 examines how the prison is a site of deactivation and conversely of collective revolutionary consciousness. I explore how Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter, Kagiso Lesego Molope’s Dancing in the Dust and Mongane Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood, represent prison as a rite of passage. I also investigate how Antjie Krog in Country of my Skull, Caesarina Kona Makhoere in No Child’s Play and Lauretta Ngcobo in And They Didn’t Die contest deactivation. Chapter 3 considers urban spaces in terms of liminality in Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die. This chapter also discusses the potential for anti-apartheid protest in Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood and Molope’s Dancing in the Dust and the liminality of post-apartheid urban landscapes in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit and Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked. Finally, analysing the train as a site of mobile incarceration in Coetzee’s The Life and Times of Michael K, chapter 4 also considers the varied representations of the train in To Every Birth Its Blood and Third World Express by Serote, Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die, Molope’s Dancing in the Dust, ‘Home Sweet Home’ by Zoё Wicomb and other short stories by Miriam Tlali.
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Carciumaru, Radu [Verfasser], and Subrata [Akademischer Betreuer] Mitra. "Negotiating Conflict in Deeply Divided Societies: Complex power-sharing institutions in South Asia and Eastern Europe / Radu Carciumaru ; Betreuer: Subrata Mitra." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1177045761/34.
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Gordhan, Komil Dilap. "Searching for common deviations from South Africaﾒs Tax Treaty Policy: The relationship with North Africa, West Asia and Eastern Europe." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31292.
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To achieve a degree of standardisation of the contents of treaties by their members, Model tax conventions were published by international organisations. Consequently, in 1963, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Model was prepared by developed countries of the world and it thus embodies rules and proposals by capital-exporting countries. As it was drafted by representatives of major Western industrialised countries, lower-income, developing countries were concerned that it resulted in too large a reduction in source country tax. The developing countries responded to the success of the OECD Model by developing their own Model convention under the auspices of the United Nations (“UN”) in 1980. This Model was drafted between developed and developing countries and attempts to reflect the interests of developing countries. Although it is based upon the OECD Model, the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and Developing Countries retains much greater source country taxation. Several tax treaties have been promulgated over time in South Africa due to the surge in international trade and investment flows which have tax consequences. There is however, no external enforcement of the above Models in the Republic of South Africa (“RSA”) and as a direct result, deviations from these standard models occur. Both a qualitative and expository study was performed. Thereafter, this dissertation considers South Africa’s treaty practice by outlining the significant deviations between South African double tax treaties and the respective OECD and UN Models. This study examines treaties concluded between South Africa and countries situated in North Africa, East Europe and West Asia. This dissertation concludes that bilateral treaties negotiated and concluded with South Africa consistently deviate from both the OECD and UN Models. These deviations were further examined to establish whether an indicative pattern informs a particular treaty practice. A small number of these observed deviations concur with the RSA position taken on the OECD Model. Treasury needs to circulate a clear and distinct South African Tax Model since South Africa’s international trade and investment flows expand across borders. The concern that South Africa does not have a published Tax Treaty Model is likely to intensify as related parties draw on frequently changing tax Models by the OECD and UN committees which may indirectly affect a developing country’s negotiating power.
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Chandrasekhar, Chaya. "Pāla-Period Buddha Images: their hands, hand gestures, and hand-held attributes." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092830047.
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Shabangu, Mohammad. "In search of the comprador: self-exoticisation in selected texts from the South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017770.
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This thesis is concerned with transnational literature and writers of the Middle Eastern and South Asian diasporas. It argues that the diasporic position of the authors enables their roles as comprador subjects. The thesis maintains that the figure of the comprador is always acted upon by its ontological predisposition, so that diasporic positionality often involves a single subject which straddles and speaks from two or more different subject positions. Comprador authors can be said to be co-opted by Western metropolitan publishing companies who stand to benefit by marketing the apparent marginality of the homelands about which these authors write. The thesis therefore proceeds from the notion that such a diasporic position is the paradoxical condition of the transnational subject or writer. I submit that there is, to some degree, a questionable element in the common political and cultural suggestions that emerge upon closer evaluation of diasporic literature. Indeed, a charge of complicity has been levelled against authors who write, apparently, to service two distinct entities – the wish to speak on behalf of a minority collective, as well as the imperial ‘centre’ which is the intended interlocutor of the comprador author. However, it is this difference, the implied otherness or marginality of the outsider within, which I argue is sometimes used by diasporic writers as a way of articulating with ‘authenticity’ the cultures and politics of their erstwhile localities. This thesis is concerned, therefore, with the representation of ‘the East’ in four novels by diasporic, specifically comprador writers, namely Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I suggest that the ‘third-world’ and transnational literature can also be a selling point for the transnational subject, whose representations may at times pander to preconceived ideas about ‘the Orient’ and its people. As an illustration of this double-bind, I offer a close reading of all the novels to suggest that on the one hand, the comprador author writes within the paradigm of the ‘writing back’ movement, as a counter-discourse to the Orientalist representations of the homeland. However, the corollary is that such an attempt to ‘write back’, in a sense, re-inscribes the very discourse it wishes to subvert, especially because the literature is aimed at a ‘Western’ audience. Moreover, the template of the comprador could be used to explain how a transnational post-9/11 text from an Afghan-American, for instance, may be put to the service of the imperial machine, and read, therefore, as a supporting document to the U.S. policy on Afghanistan.
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Henriques, Isabel Margarida dos Santos. "Crescimento demográfico no desenvolvimento económico de Timor-Leste." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6219.
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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação InternacionalEsta dissertação pretende demostrar o impacto da demografia no desenvolvimento de um país, tendo como base o continente asiático e as suas regiões, nomeadamente, a Ásia Meridional, Oriental e o Sudeste Asiático entre 1975 e 2010. Os países mais populosos do mundo - China e Índia - serão analisados de forma breve, enquanto a Indonésia terá um maior destaque devido à história que a liga a Timor-Leste, o país que será estudado com maior enfoque. Nesta tese serão apresentadas as diversas teorias do pensamento sobre o impacto da demografia no desenvolvimento de um país. Como exemplos será efectuada uma análise da China, Índia, Indonésia e Timor-Leste. O estudo feito para cada um destes países será baseado em vários indicadores populacionais, de saúde materna e políticas de planeamento familiar. Timor-Leste será alvo de maior enfoque, pretendendo-se enunciar as suas singularidades, apresentar razões que expliquem a sua conduta atípica no continente asiático e recomendar possíveis caminhos para o desenvolvimento deste país.
This thesis intends to demonstrate the demographic impact on a country’s development, based on the Asian continent and its regions, namely, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia, between the years 1975 and 2010. The most populous countries in the world – China and India – will be briefly analyzed while Indonesia will have a major prominence due to his linked history with Timor-Leste, the country that will be the main focus of the study. On this thesis, it will be presented the different theories about the impact of the demography on a country’s development. The examples given will be several countries: China, India, Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The research for each of these countries will be based on demographic indicators, maternal care and family planning programmes. Timor-Leste will be the main focus of the study as it’s intended to prove its singularities, to present the reasons that explain its atypical behaviour on the Asian continent and also to recommend possible pathways for this country’s development.
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Masteller, Kimberly Adora. "Temple Construction, Iconography, and Royal Identity In the Eastern Kalacuri Dynasty." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494172899685935.
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Arshad, Zara. "The Experiences of Non-Muslim Caucasian Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists Working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim Clients." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52375.
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This qualitative study investigated the experiences of eight non-Muslim Caucasian Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists working with South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim clients. Semi-structured interviews were used to examine the challenges and strengths that resulted from ethnic/racial and religious differences with clients of this population, and how the challenges and strengths were managed in therapy. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis and the themes that emerged were organized based on the areas of inquiry, which included: challenges that come from ethnic/racial and religious differences, strategies and recommendations to address ethnic/racial and religious differences and the challenges created by them, strengths that come from ethnic/racial and religious differences, and what therapists needed. Limitations, clinical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.Master of Science
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Nicklin, Michael S. "A study of South Asian monsoon convection and tropical upper easterly jet during northern summer 1991." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA324511.
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Thesis (M.S. in Meteorology and M.S. in Physical Oceanography) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1996.Thesis advisor(s): C.P. Chang, Pete Chu. "December 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129). Also available online.
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Alhomoud, F. "Medication use and medicine-related problems (MRPs) experienced by South Asian (SA) and Middle Eastern (ME) patients with chronic diseases in primary care in the UK." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1432607/.
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Aim: To identify type(s) and possible cause(s) of medicine-related problems (MRPs) from the SA and ME patients' perspectives. Setting and Method: The study was a cross-sectional study. Patients were from SA and ME origins, aged over 18 and prescribed three or more regular medicines. Patients were identified through previous medicine use reports (MUR), patient medication records (PMR) or when presenting with a prescription. The data were collected in 80 face-to-face semi-structured interviews in seven pharmacies in London using MRPs tool, 8-item MMAS and EuroQol questionnaire (EQ-5D-3L). Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically using Gordon’s coding frame and Nvivo 10 software. The SPSS 21.0 software was used for analysis of descriptive data obtained quantitatively. Results: Participants (61% male) had mean (SD) age 58 (13.4) years and on a mean (SD) of 8 (4) medicines. Final analysis showed the following types of MRPs: adverse drug reactions and drug interactions; intentional non-compliance; cognitive, physical and sensory problems and issues with concurrent use of herbal and alternative therapies. Problems with drug prescribing; lack of information; monitoring and review; repeat prescriptions; GP surgery and pharmacy service were also identified. Interviews revealed that several factors contribute to the development of MRPs; some appeared to be specific to SA and ME cultures and others were similar to the general population. Many of these factors could be expected to influence patient’s safety, adherence, and informed decision-making. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that SA and ME patients have their own problems and needs with both medicine use and service access. By uncovering particular problems experienced by these groups the study can inform healthcare professionals to support SA and ME patients in the use of their medicines.
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Sheffield, Daniel. "In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10409.
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In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India is a historical study of the discursive practices by which Zoroastrians struggled to define their communal identity through constructions of the central figure of their religion. I argue that Zoroastrians adopted cosmopolitan religious vocabularies from the Islamicate and Sanskritic literary traditions for a world in which they were no longer a dominant political force. Contrary to much scholarship, which characterizes medieval Zoroastrian thought as stagnant, I contend that literary production in this period reveals extraordinary intellectual engagement among Zoroastrians endeavoring to make meaning of their ancient religious traditions in a rapidly changing world. The essays of my dissertation focus on four moments in Zoroastrian intellectual history. I begin with an analysis of the thirteenth century Persian Zarātushtnāma (The Book of Zarathustra), examining interactions between Zoroastrian theology and prophetology and contemporary Islamic thought, focusing on the role that miracles played in medieval Zoroastrian conceptions of prophethood. In my next essay, I explore questions of identity, orthodoxy and heterodoxy by investigating a group of Zoroastrian mystics who migrated from Safavid Persia to Mughal India around the seventeenth century. Influenced by the Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy, they left behind a body of texts which blur religious boundaries. In my third essay, I examine the earliest literary compositions in the Gujarati language about the life of Zarathustra, employing theoretical discussions of literary cosmopolitanism and vernacularization to trace how Zoroastrian stories were reimagined by Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis) to fit Indo-Persian and Sanskritic discursive conventions. Finally, I look at the ways in which Zoroastrian prophetology was transformed through the experience of colonial modernity, focusing especially on the role of the printing press and the creation of a literate public sphere. I argue that the formation of a Parsi colonial consciousness was an experience of loss and recovery, in which traditional Persianate forms of knowledge were replaced by newly introduced sciences of philology, ethnology, and archaeology, fundamentally reshaping the Parsi conception of their religion and religious boundaries.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Brown, Kerry Lucinda. "Dīpaṅkara Buddha and the Patan Samyak Mahādāna in Nepal: Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3635.
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Every four years, in the middle of a cold winter night, devotees bearing images of 126 Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other important deities assemble in the Nepalese city of Patan for an elaborate gift giving festival known as Samyak Mahādāna (“The Perfect Great Gift”). Celebrated by Nepal’s Newar Buddhist community, Samyak honors one of the Buddhas of the historical past called Dīpaṅkara. Dīpaṅkara’s importance in Buddhism is rooted in ancient textual and visual narratives that promote the cultivation of generosity through religious acts of giving (Skt. dāna). During Samyak, large images of Dīpaṅkara Buddha ceremoniously walk in procession to the event site, aided by a man who climbs inside the wooden body to assume the legs of the Buddha. Once arranged at the event, Dīpaṅkara is honored with an array of offerings until dusk the following day.
This dissertation investigates how Newar Buddhists utilize art and ritual at Samyak to reenact and reinforce ancient Buddhist narratives in their contemporary lives. The study combines art historical methods of iconographic analysis with a contextual study of the ritual components of the Samyak Mahādāna to analyze the ways religious spectacle embeds core Buddhist values within in the multilayered components of art, ritual, and communal performance. Principally, Samyak reaffirms the foundational Buddhist belief in the cultivation of generosity (Skt. dāna pāramitā) through meritorious acts of giving (Skt. dāna). However, the synergy of image and ritual performance at Samyak provides a critical framework to examine the artistic, religious, and ritual continuities of past and present in the Newar Buddhist community of the Kathmandu Valley. An analysis of the underlying meta-narrative and conceptualization of Samyak suggests the construction of a dynamic visual narrative associated with sacred space, ritual cosmology, and religious authority. Moreover, this dissertation demonstrates the role of Samyak Mahādāna in constructing Buddhist identity in Nepal, as the festival provides an opportunity to examine how Newar Buddhists utilize art, ritual, and performance to reaffirm their ancient Buddhist heritage.
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Akrami, Rahimullah. "Revisiting Afghanistan's Modern History: The Role of Ethnic Inclusion on Regime Stability." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1547332876379751.
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Liu, Ling-Yueh, and 劉玲月. "The study of the learning situation of mother tongue of South-eastern Asia immigrants` children." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tzhraf.
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碩士國立臺東大學
進修部台灣語文教師碩(暑期)
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The study aims to discuss the condition of the use of the mother tongue of new immigrant children by a qualitative research of thorough interview. Twelve children and their families are chosen to be the interviewees according to the theme of this study. The findings are as following: 1. Only 37% of new immigrant children are capable of speaking their mother tongue taught by their mother, relatives of their mother and teachers of community schools. Their attitude toward the lesson indicates it
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Lin, Wei-Yen, and 林維言. "An Exploratory Study on Social Welfare Needs of South-Eastern Asia Female Spouses in Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43803481394871078795.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
社會政策與社會工作學系
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This research targeted the social welfare needs of the Southeast Asian female foreign spouses in Taiwan and the factors affected the contents, the priority and the differences of these social welfare needs. The research was conducted through the questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was translated into Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and English in their respective language for all these foreign female spouses to fill-out. The data were collected during June and September 2004 from the 15 counties and cities in Taiwan. Totally, 752 questionnaires were collected, and 580 were valid. The major findings are as following:: 1)The social welfare needs of these female foreign spouses were, in order, learning of the local language, understanding the local culture, having access to legal assistance, providing job opportunities and transportation assistance. 2)The assimilation into Taiwan society was the most urgent need for these female foreign spouses. 3)Those with better socio-economic conditions correspondingly expected a higher need for acquiring information and being more involved in the society. Conversely, those with less favorable socio-economic conditions expected a greater need for economic support and household assistance. 4)The following groups of female foreign spouses expect the greater need for social welfare: a.Those who residing in urban areas b.Those who having not obtained National Identification Card or not having a job c.Those who with higher education d.Those who age between 25 and 29 e.Those who having resided in Taiwan less than 5 years f.Those who with disability husbands g.Those who having difficulty communicating with family members and feeling being looked down in Taiwan h.Those who having greater family support or greater involvement in the society i.Those who having utilized the government’s social welfare service 5)Those who had the responsibility of care-giving in the family tended to expect the greater need for economic support and care-giving support for social welfare assistance. Conversely, those who didn’t bear such responsibilities tended to expect the greater need in acquiring and having access in information, active involvement in the society, and also a stronger need to be understood and accepted by the society. Based on the research findings described above, the researcher had proposed the following suggestions: 1)To strengthen the educational training for those female foreign spouses before and after they arrive in Taiwan, 2)To develop the more service programs such as day-care, temporary day-care, and after-school tutoring for children of foreign spouses, 3)To create the more job which being suitable for those female foreign spouses in Taiwan, 4)To pay more attention and to provide the counseling to those mentally or physically disabled Taiwanese men who marry female foreign spouses. 5)To create a friendly environment for the female foreign spouse and encourage them involve in this society. 6)To collaborate with the media to develop programs which regularly report the news related to Southeast Asia, 7)To enrich Taiwanese the knowledge about multicultural society, especially about the Southeast Asian culture, 8)To actively provide the counseling services to those female foreign spouses who were isolated from the society, 9)To provide the suitable social service according to the different needs of different female foreign spouse.
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Tsou, Yun-Fu, and 鄒蘊福. "The research of The mainland China to South-eastern Asia security strategy during the post cold war." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68856798717975056962.
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碩士淡江大學
東南亞研究所碩士班
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The global balance of power has reorganized following the end of the cold war. While international relations have turned toward regional cooperation and reconciliation through multilateral talks to “ replace military confrontation with economic competition and resolve enmity with negotiation and cooperation,” “ global ” and “ regional “ cooperation gradually becomes the focus of handling issues relating to international politics and security following the rise of regionalization and international cooperation of world economics instead of the global strategic deployment once prevailed in the cold war period. The implication of security has thus evolved into an integrated concept under this new historical condition, and its scope has expanded from traditional military expansion into untraditional economics, science and technology, environment, terrorism, drugs and spread of diseases. The 911 Incident broke out in the new century indicated the trend of diversification and globalization of threats on world security. While the common interest and interdependency in world security among countries increases and attempts to seek world security diversifies, reinforcing dialogs and cooperation has become an important path to pursue common security. The end of the cold war also changed the balance of power in South East Asia and the PRC’s SE Asian security strategy was diversified and inter-conflicting, i.e.cooperation and conflicts existed at the same time. Traditionally, PRC assumes power over SE Asian and rejects the “ foreign “ intervention due to the “ historical role of a suzerain state and territorial adjacency “. The ideological confrontation during the cold war period made PRC the top enemy of SE Asia. Though the relationship between the PRC and SE Asian countries was indifferent and even opposing, the former has changed its attitude after the rise and expansion of the ASEAN in the post cold war period. Interactions between both have changed from breakthrough, confrontation to physical cooperation and interdependency, and in a delicate situation combing confrontation, compromise, reciprocity, cooperation and opposition from time to time.
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Wu, Chin-Chi, and 吳錦棋. "Matchmakers or Whoremonger: A Study on Marriage Agencies’ Rolesin the Cross-National Marriage Market of South Eastern Asia." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7npymx.
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碩士東吳大學
社會學系
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Abstract This dissertation focuses on the research of South-Eastern-Asian matchmakers’ roles. Starting from the marriage marketing interest, the research probes the dilemma of Taiwanese bachelors’ marriage and their dependent - governing relationship with the matchmakers. Then, a comparison between the marriage agencies and the traditional matchmakers is reported. Finally, suggestions on the marriage agent policies in Taiwan are proposed. The research is from a qualitative perspective and the samples are Taiwanese men with South-Easter-Asian wives, matchmaker agencies, and non-profit organizations. The research concludes that 1. There are indeed some certain groups of Taiwanese bachelors struggling in looking for wives because of their family conditions, embarrassing ages (or physical/mental status), and job rankings. Therefore, they expect the marriage broker to give them a quick spouse pick-up from South-Easter-Asia. Meanwhile, the process of cross-national marriage business is fully controlled by the agents. 2. The limitation of knowledge and information access to the cross-national marriage market brings the problem of marriage asymmetry. A bridal searcher will face three problems: 1) the bride’s/groom’s birth 2) language problem and 3) the limited access to foreign South-Easter-Asia. As a result, the relationship between the bachelors and the agencies are getting tighter. 3. Cross-national marriage brokers look for profits from the business. Thus, the roles of business based matchmakers are different from the traditional matchmakers’. 4. Owing to the rapid changed policies, the matchmakers may confront many problems in the future that force them to deal with the business “illegally”. Therefore, the government will need to cope with the new cross-national marriage problems. From the study result, it is to suggest that the government should regulate the agencies in order to empower their legalized cross-national marriage business. Besides, the agencies should provide proper background information on both sides in the process of cross-national marriage business in order to change the benefit-oriented business into no-profit organization and to banish the idea of treating South-Easter-Asian brides as objects. Key Words：cross-national marriages, marriage market, marriage agency, foreign brides
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Hung, Yu-Ting, and 洪于婷. "The Qualitative Research of Newly Immigrated Married Women suffering Marital Violence and the Adaptive Process of their Responses to such on-going Violence─The Case Study of Three Newly Immigrated Married women from South-Eastern Asia." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00855911728823374556.
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碩士玄奘大學
社會福利與社會工作學系碩士班
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The study hopes to understand the newly immigrated married women in the face of marital violence and self-adaptation process of change, according to newly immigrated married women narrated their experience of suffering from marital violence. Thus the in-depth interview was employed to interview those three women and transcribed what they said about their experiences of how to confront martial violence and how to get through it. The collected date has been systematically analysed and built up into the main argument of the study. The first finding of the current research demonstrates that the cross-nationa marriage of those three newly immigrated married women are not exactly as “commercial cross-border one”. By contrast, they are looking forward to having a happy marriage and satisfying family. However, along with the occurrence of marital violence and broken dream of happy marriage, the marital violence faced by themselves occurred in the ways of not only mental and physical violence, but also economic control within 1-2 marriage years. Initially, they were astonned at the occurrence of marital violence and believed the event was accidental and never happended again. So, in response to the first time of marital violence, they still kept hope their dream of happy marriage and then were able to cope with it silently until constantly the on-going marital violence happened again and agin. This led to change their adaptation to their marital problems. Thus those newly immigrated married women gradually expanded their social network and sought help and solidarity with other counterparts also from the same mothercountry. As a result, they ended up with searching for employment and accessing more social support, and the dependency level of being a newly immergrated wife was alleviated gradually. At the end they became the family bread-winner. Therefore, they dared to make all the efforts to lessen the threat from marital violence with legal help provided by the public sector or the private sector. Of course, legal help or social support cannot protect them completely from marital violence; sometimes these supports worsened their martial marriage conversely. Thus those three women have tried to run away home in order to get rid of the marital violence. Unfortunately, they were under the economic pressure, their love for children and the regulation of their newly immigrated wives. So they did not have other choices but continue to keep their marriage. Therefore, the study has implied the following three policy discussions and suggestions: (1) The policy needs to solve out the barriers faced by newly immigrant women too hard to obtain citizenship and right of abode; (2) The related welfare policy should strengthen the childcare provisions for the newly immigrant women; (3) Finally, the employment policy must guarantee the employment rights of new immigrant women and increase their employment rate and training opportunities. Keywords: Newly Immigrated Married Women, Marital Violence
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Mackenzie, Jennifer. "Stigma and Dementia: South Asian and Eastern European family carers negotiating stigma in two cultures." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4170.
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NoThis article draws on findings from a three-year project to develop and deliver culturally appropriate support group materials for South Asian and Eastern European family carers of relatives with dementia living in the UK. Analysis of interview and field note data revealed insights into how understandings of dementia in different cultural contexts can become operationalized through stigma processes and in turn influence the ways in which people with dementia and their family carers engage with formal and informal support.
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"The Lamaholot Language of Eastern Indonesia." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/70366.
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This study presents the grammar of the Lewotobi dialect of Lamaholot, an Austronesian language spoken in the eastern part of Flores Island and neighboring islands of Indonesia. Lamaholot belongs to the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian, within which it is in a subgroup with the languages of Timor and Roti. The number of speakers of the Lewotobi dialect is approximately 6,000. Despite its importance in the history and typology of Austronesian languages, this dialect of Lamaholot has not been fully described yet. This study is the first thorough grammar of this dialect. In the absence of available description of the language, the data presented here have been collected through fieldwork conducted at the Nurri village of Kabupaten Flores Timur for a total of eight months. The purpose of this sturdy is two-fold. The first goal is to provide an empirically-based description and analysis of the entire range of the Lamaholot grammar from phonology through morphology to syntax and semantics. It begins with the discussion of phonetics and phonology, proceeds to examine morphological processes and parts of speech and then turns to the form and function of each part of speech: nouns, pronouns, numerals, measure words, verbs, adjectival nouns, adjectival verbs, demonstratives, directionals, the locative, TAM markers and other minor parts of speech. Building upon these foundations, subsequent chapters offer a detailed analysis and discussion of the following syntactic phenomena: (i) agreement, (ii) clause structure, (iii) voice and grammatical relations, (iv) verb serialization, and (v) spatial language. A mini dictionary and texts are provided as appendices to a grammatical description. The second and equally important purpose of this study is to shed new light on issues surrounding the history and typology of Austronesian languages from a perspective of Lamaholot data. Attention is drawn particularly to two grammatical phenomena: (i) the position of Lamaholot in a typology of voice and grammatical relations in western Austronesian languages and (ii) spatial language and frames of reference. It is hoped that this study will help advance both research in Austronesian linguistics and our knowledge of human language in general.
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徐紹倫. "Short-term Dynamics and Long-run Equilibrium of Narrow Money Demand in South-eastern Asian Countries." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78473936992147297423.
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Lin, Wei-Chih, and 林韋志. "South Eastern Asian States’ Responses against PRC’s Strategy in the South China Sea: Viewed from Concepts of Balancing and Bandwagoning, 2002-2011." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50427628184655076741.
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碩士國立中興大學
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In East Asia, South China Sea, which connects the Northeast Asia and the Southeast Asia, is located at the key position on the sea lines of communication. The surrounding countries also struggle for this area. Meanwhile, the disputes in the SCS are along with sovereignty, economics and geography issues, so the complex situation could not be solved completely in a short term. The contradictions between China and South Eastern Asia countries would most easily evoke further conflicts in this hostile environment. This thesis, therefore, tries to study the South Eastern Asia countries'' responses against China''s SCS strategy. The significances of SCS, China''s strategies and behaviors would be the first part. Second, the thesis would discuss the roles and influences of non-claimants to claimants'' decisions. Finally, the analysis would focus on the South Eastern Asia countries'' responses via the Balance of Threat Theory, which is provided by Stephen Walt. Those countries are included in Vietnam, which takes the strongest position in this issue, Philippines, which depends on outsiders to balance China, and Malaysia, which chooses bandwagoning policy. The connotations of these three claimants'' SCS strategies toward China are different, although both Vietnam and Philippines take the balancing pathway. This thesis would analyze the reasons of different policies choosing base on four indexes form Balance of Threat Theory with additional inner and outer factors.