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Yen, Dorothy Ai-wan. "An examination of Anglo-Chinese business-to business relationships." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496333.
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Steele, Tracy Lee. "Anglo-American tensions over the Chinese offshore islands, 1954-1958." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1088/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the 'special relationship' between the United States and Great Britain and their ability to work together in the Far East despite widely divergent policies towards the People's Republic of China. The American policy of non-recognition of the PRC and its active support of the Republic of China, in opposition to Britain's early recognition of the PRC, did not hamper British and American efforts to work together to wage or contain the Cold War. In reference to the crises in the area of the Chinese offshore islands of Matsu and Quemoy, I would argue that the US and Britain put their differences aside during tense periods because they agreed generally on over-all policy, to disengage the PRC from the influence of the Soviet Union, but used different means to attain this goal. Both Britain and the US, to different degrees, attempted to establish 'two China's' in order to stabilize the situation in the Far East which left unchecked might trigger a third world war. The skirmishes in the offshore islands in 1954-55 and 1958 highlighted the danger of this situation and affected the related issues of the China seat in the United Nations, the embargo placed on trade with the People's Republic at the time of the Korean war, Hong Kong and the diplomatic relationships in the region. This thesis examines the impact of these issues on Far East policy, particularly, how agreements reached on the United Nations and trade issues affect British policy during the 1958 offshore islands crisis. The change in British policy from 1954 to 1958 is striking, reflecting external issues such as Suez and Harold Macmillan's rise to the office of prime minister. American policy, although less inflexible than is traditionally assumed, shifts slightly over the same period and attempts to normalize the situation by placing tighter controls on its ally, Chiang Kai-shek. As will be seen, British cooperation on Far Eastern issues was an important prerequisite for American manoeuvres in the region.
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Mansor, Suffian. "Tientsin and its hinterland in Anglo-Chinese relations, 1925-1937." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/c465cbba-8eb8-4e59-9d56-0080599c23f0.
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The British informal empire in China is often mistakenly believed to have represented the British government's policies and views. The' second biggest Chinese treaty port, Tientsin, had a different pomt of view to that of China (mostly in treaty ports) and Westminster. Tientsin's British community's main interests lay either within the concession or in Tientsin's hinterlands. TTiese interests included its people and property. In addition the British community was proud of the British empire's prestige. All these created a determination in the British community that any attempt to jeopardise their interests would be opposed. However, the situation in Tientsin was rather different to that of their counterparts in Shanghai. The limited power of the British Municipal Council meant that the British community had, reluctantly, to obey British liberal policy when faced with the rise of the antiimperialist movement m the mid-1920s.
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Leung, Sau-yue Christina. "Students' attitudes toward putonghua in two selected Anglo-Chinese secondary schools." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38627644.
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Chang, Y. S. "Parental involvement in children's learning : an Anglo-Chinese cross-cultural study." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597454.
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This is a comparative study of parental involvement in children’s learning at Key Stage 2. It focuses on mothers and children of white English and Chinese ethnic origin, using a two-group sample which also mixes gender and socio-economic status. The illustrative medium for the study is an official DfES book designed for parents to use with their children to support their school learning. The book, Learning Journey (ages 7-11): a parent’s guide to the primary school curriculum is published in both English and Chinese versions. The research examines how this material is viewed and used by mothers and children in the two cultural groups, and places its analysis in the wider context of UK government policy on education and home-school relations. Three methods were used to collect data for the study: interview, observation and analysis of the chosen illustrative medium. The interviews were with the mothers in the two groups and with DfES and Primary National Strategy team officials, a home-school academic expert, and a representative of a national parental organisation. The mothers and children were observed undertaking activities from the English and Chinese variations of Learning Journey (ages 7-11). All interviews and observation sessions were tape-recorded. In the latter case this facilitated a subsidiary comparison of the task-related mother-child discourse in the two groups. The two published versions of Learning Journey (ages 7-11) were compared for cultural bias and for disparities arising from translation. The findings reveal both similarities and differences within and across the cultural and socio-economic groups involved in the study. There is also variation in the views of those interviewed. Some of the most striking differences are in the areas of homework, children’s home life, and the way parents approach the task of helping their children with their school work. In the latter case, the discourse analysis shows the impact of culture and parental educational experience.
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Zheng, Baoxuan, and 鄭寶璇. "The theme of alienation in modern Chinese and Anglo-American fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31206803.
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Leung, Sau-yue Christina, and 梁秀瑜. "Students' attitudes toward putonghua in two selected Anglo-Chinese secondary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38627644.
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Cheng, Po-suen. "The theme of alienation in modern Chinese and Anglo-American fiction /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12317135.
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Munn, Christopher Charles. "Anglo-China, Chinese people and British rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1870." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0006/NQ35261.pdf.
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Fong, Wai-lin Yvonne, and 方慧玲. "Written English errors of eighth graders in an Anglo-Chinese school inHong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949022.
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Bonnerjee, Jayani Jeanne. "Neighbourhood, city, diaspora : identity and belonging for Calcutta's Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/400.
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This thesis is located in the wider debates in postcolonial cultural geography on the city and diaspora. It engages with everyday lived spaces of Calcutta’s Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities through a focus on ideas of home, identity, belonging, cosmopolitanism and nostalgia. Drawing on overlapping narratives of these two communities in the city and in diaspora in London and Toronto, the thesis explores the idea of Calcutta as a ‘diaspora city’ and also the notion of a ‘Calcutta diaspora’. It explores the material and imaginative entanglements of migration and places narratives of identity and belonging for its Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in the context of the city. Both Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities have been an integral part of Calcutta’s colonial and postcolonial histories, and although many members of both communities have migrated elsewhere in recent times, the city remains an important locus of emotional register. It is in this context that the thesis studies everyday lived spaces at different scales: in the neighbourhood, in the city and in diaspora. While the actual spaces are located/ rooted in real neighbourhoods and cities inhabited by the communities, the imagination of these spaces both in the city and in diaspora also intersect to create a more complex relationship between minority communities and cities. Methodologically, the thesis has adopted a multi-sited, qualitative approach to follow the lives of the communities across cities. Whilst a large part of the material has been drawn from in-depth interviews, the thesis also uses material drawn through ethnographic research and participant observation at community events, maps of the neighbourhood and city drawn by interviewees and secondary material such as community publications and websites, films, pamphlets and newspaper reports.
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Tang, Kit-lai Miranda, and 鄧潔麗. "The adoption of Chinese version in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education history examination by two Anglo-Chinese schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31957481.
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Tang, Jihua. "Britain and the Peking Government 1926-1928." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388289.
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Bent, Ritchie. "Anglo-Chinese leadership : a study of leadership within Asian-based executive teams, comprised of Hong Kong Chinese and western managers." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29343.
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During the past 50 years, much has been written about the notions leadership and management. The last twenty years, however, has seen a strong research shift towards business leadership. For the most part, this research has been conducted in the West and focused on Western leaders. These findings have in turn been 'exported' to the developing economies of the world, mainly through Western educators, consultants, books and more recently, the Internet. However, as far back as thirty years ago, the transferability of such ideas was challenged on the basis of culturally differing values and beliefs giving rise to different behaviours. Much has since been written about cultural diversity. Most of these studies have been comparative in nature, with conclusions being drawn from cultures observed in isolation, rather than in the context of multicultural interaction. In more recent years, however, a growing interest has emerged in multicultural work groups. With this interest has emerged a growing recognition that culturally diverse teams, when managed well, can outperform their homogeneous counterparts. This finding has critical implications for business leaders, who now increasingly find themselves operating and living beyond their domestic boundaries. This thesis is therefore about leadership in multicultural situations. More specifically, it is about senior level leadership within teams comprised of Hong Kong Chinese and Australian or British managers, working together in Asian-based, multinational organisations. The thesis will present arguments which challenge some of the conventional thinking about leadership, when applied to multicultural situations. The thesis will also provide new perspectives on the pitfalls of cultural stereotyping, identify underlying tensions which exist within multicultural executive teams, and the associated behaviours. However, most important of all, the thesis will add to our body of knowledge, by addressing what is arguably one of the most compelling business challenges for the new millennium, multicultural leadership.
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Fong, Wai-lin Yvonne. "Written English errors of eighth graders in an Anglo-Chinese school in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31949022.
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Au, Yeung Wong Nim-chi Cecilia. "Recent developments of the official curriculum for history in Hongkong Anglo-Chinese secondary schools." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38627747.
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Heselwood, Luke Anthony. "The impact of Anglo-Chinese relations on the development of British liberalism, 1842-1857." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-impact-of-anglochinese-relations-on-the-development-of-british-liberalism-18421857(6f66493d-34e8-4661-a9ca-adcd9e5e5c21).html.
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Between 1842 and 1857, British interactions with the Qing Empire shaped and informed the development of British liberal attitudes. However, amid the widespread historiography devoted to uncovering international influences on British liberalism during this period, the impact of the Anglo-Chinese relationship remains a footnote. Instead, focus is given to how Europe, America and the British Empire assisted in the advancement of British politics and liberal thought. This thesis redresses this oversight – showing how Anglo-Chinese frictions in the mid-nineteenth century brought into question British notions of free trade, international law, diplomatic standards and non-intervention. Britain’s determination to improve its trading network in China matched by the Qing’s refusal to allow further Western expansion, informed British liberal debate and shaped political attitudes. Most notably, it resulted in Sir John Bowring, the former Foreign Secretary of the London Peace Society, ordering the military bombardment of the port of Canton in late 1856. The bombardment – which resulted in the second Anglo-Chinese conflict (1856-1860) – is well-documented by historians. However, the development of Bowring’s political convictions, which provided an ideological justification for war, has been overlooked. This thesis uncovers how interactions with China forced Bowring and the British expatriate community more generally to reconsider the meaning of free trade, the boundaries of international law and their commitment to non-intervention. In addition, it shows how Bowring’s actions resulted in a heated debate that captured the attention of Britain’s political elite and, through the General Election of 1857, the British public more generally. As a result, it facilitated an open and vibrant debate that queried whether, to secure British trade, military intervention could be deemed an acceptable diplomatic method – a discussion that forced the development of the nation’s liberal attitudes. This thesis tackles two relatively distinct areas of historical research that rarely interact. First, it sheds new light on the scholarship that has examined foreign influences on the development of British liberal ideas in the mid-nineteenth century. It shows that through an investigation of relations with peripheral nations such as China, historians can gain a fresh and more detailed perspective on how and why nineteenth century liberal attitudes developed. In addition, it challenges the existing framework adopted by Sinologists in their assessment of Anglo-Chinese relations. Recent studies remain focused on uncovering how nineteenth century Western expansion into the Qing Empire affected its political, legal and cultural development. This thesis reverses this approach – arguing that this relationship not only affected events within China but in addition, shaped British liberal debate and consolidated British political ideas. This thesis calls, therefore, for historians to reconsider the importance of relatively peripheral nations on the development of British ideals and liberal thinking in the mid-nineteenth century. By examining these new frontiers, it sheds new light on the making of British liberalism.
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Hui, Leng. "A study of intercultural discourse between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/672.
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Intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians is receiving ever-increasing attention in many fields. These fields include intercultural communication. English language teaching, education and business. This study approached the intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians from a cognitive perspective by applying the theoretical framework of cultural linguistics. The intercultural discourse produced by mainland Chinese speakers of English in the context of them interacting with Anglo-Australians was analysed. The analysis was made by employing key concepts such as schemas, cultural schemas, discourse scenarios and discourse indexicals. A body of 39 audio-taped conversations between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians which ran about 50 hours was collected according to the research tradition of the ethnography of communication. The data were transcribed and examined with the “emic” and “etic” insights provided by volunteer participants and informants. Fifty live excerpts of these conversations were analysed in line with cognitive anthropology and cultural linguistics.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land an exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 /." University of Sydney. Arts. Department of History, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Henderson, Jane Anne. "A rationale for an intensive English bridging programme for students entering Anglo-Chinese secondary schools." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B3862641X.
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Hsu, Chu-Ching. "Translation strategies in Anglo-American novels translated into Chinese with special reference to terms of address." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500050.
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Costa, Marília Borges. "Fios diaspóricos nas narrativas de "The woman warrior", de Maxine Hong Kingston." Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09042003-174326/.
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O presente trabalho focaliza os processos de formação da identidade, observados em narrativas da escritora sino-americana Maxine Hong Kingston. Documentando as contradições e a fragmentação do sujeito, procura-se iluminar os vários sentidos de subjetividade presentes em uma pessoa de origem chinesa que vive nos Estados Unidos na época da pós-modernidade. O quadro teórico utilizado na análise desses processos é construído a partir da crítica sobre o romance pósmoderno e dos estudos culturais sobre a diáspora. Focaliza-se o livro de memórias da autora, The woman warrior memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, publicado pela primeira vez em 1976. Desde meados do século XVIII, um grande número de imigrantes asiáticos deslocou-se para os Estados Unidos, trazendo consigo seus próprios valores materiais e espirituais e seus distintos padrões de comportamento. A formação das gerações que cresceram nessa encruzilhada de culturas só poderia ser difícil e conflituosa. Esta dissertação procura descobrir, por um lado, como se efetivam os processos de identificação dos sino-americanos, visto que estão sujeitos a dois sistemas de valor diferentes e, por outro, como se articulam os diversos elementos culturais, tanto na constituição da identidade das personagens como na construção do romance. As narrativas de Maxine Hong Kingston revelam processos de hibridização, característicos de um autor diaspórico.This dissertation deals with the processes of identity formation as observed in the works of the Chinese-American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, especially in her book The woman warrior memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, first published in 1976. The different meanings of subjectivity that can take shape in an American of Chinese descent, encompassing an individuals contradictions and fragmentation, are analyzed. The theoretical framework is based on critics of postmodernism and on cultural studies about diasporas. Since the middle of the eighteenth century a great number of Asian immigrants moved to the United States, taking along with them their different values and behavior patterns. A person growing up in the intersection of cultures has to deal with conflicts and paradoxes, resulting in identities that are contradictory and fragmentary. This dissertation seeks to unravel, on one hand, the processes of identity formation among the Chinese-Americans, faced as they are by two distinct value systems. On the other hand, find out how the different cultural elements are articulated both in the identity formation of the characters and in the construction of the novel. The narratives of Maxine Hong Kingston reveal processes of hybridization, which are characteristic of a diasporic author.
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Yu, Ku Siu-yin Helen. "A comparison of the learning approaches of the intellectually - giftedhigh & low academic achievers Anglo-Chinese schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29784189.
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Yap, Set-lee Shirley. "Out-of-class use of english by secondary school students in a Hong Kong Anglo-Chinese school." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19883468.
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Peng, Chunhui. "The geopolitics of memory production in China, Hong Kong, and Anglo-America reading memoirs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution from 1980 to 2006 /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386945.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Jan. 19, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-194).
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Ma, Fang Fang. "A comparative analysis of minority shareholders' remedies in Anglo-American law and Chinese law : lessons to be learnt." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501094.
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The background to this thesis is the most recent and significant company law reforms in England and China, particularly those concerned with minority shareholders' remedies. The implementation of the Companies Act 2006 in England and the Chinese Company Law 2005 makes this comparative research interesting and challenging. At this time, it is especially worthwhile because of England's already sophisticated level of economic development and the current rapid rise of China as a leading economic power with enormous potential. The thesis examines the deficiencies of current laws on minority shareholders' remedies in both England and China, in particular shareholders' personal actions. derivative actions and the unfair prejudice remedies. It proposes for each jurisdiction further reforms which could be carried out to achieve a proper balance between the protection of minority shareholder interests and those of their companies. The latter often suffer from undue interference from litigious activities of the former. By way of comparison, it shows that England and China can learn from each other with regard to future law reforms concerned with minority shareholders' remedies whilst taking into account their different constitutional, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural backgrounds.
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Xiong, Ying. "Herbs and Beauty: Gendered Poethood and Translated Affect in Late Imperial and Modern China." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23739.
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My dissertation is a comparative analysis of the juncture at which Chinese poetry became “modern.” The catalyst for this development was the early twentieth-century translation into Chinese of the European Romantics, which was contemporaneous with changes and permutations within the “herbs and beauty” myth crucial to the conception of the Chinese poet. I argue that the convergence of the two serve as an anchor for examining China’s literary responses, in both form and content, to drastic social change brought about by rapid modernization and dramatic revolutions.
Through a diverse selection of written and visual texts, I scrutinize and accentuate two ambivalences that, I argue, China’s struggle for modernity required and to which the “herbs and beauty” myth gives form. On the one hand, I locate a moment when the essential femininity of the traditional Chinese poet (man or woman) came to be displaced onto the Western new woman, as the Southern Society, a large community of Chinese poets in the early 20th century, revamped the “herbs and beauty” allegory through their project of translating the European Romantics into Chinese. On the other hand, I investigate how modern Chinese poets and intellectuals, torn between their residual attachment to a hallowed national literary tradition and their new quest for non-indigenous (European) sources, partook in the difficult moments of China’s modern transformation by constantly redefining the interconnections between the beautiful and the virtuous through translation and transcultural relation.
In each instance in question, the influence of translation causes a shift in modes of representation that require new definitions of what it means to be a poet in an increasingly unspiritual and commodified world: together, these examples enable me to conceptualize the poetics and politics of what I call “translated affect” and “affective modernity.”10000-01-01
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Ku, Tan Kan. "Culture and stigma towards mental illness : a comparison of general and psychiatric nurses of Chinese and Anglo-Australian backgrounds /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/8400.
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A sample of 208 nurses (a response rate of 63%) participated in a study by responding to a questionnaire comprising of 170 items which examined nurses’ attitudes towards mental illness, and the association between contact, cultural values, general and practice stigma. General stigma refers to attitudes towards the mentally ill while practice stigma is informed from differential clinical practice approaches towards the care of two case vignettes describing a patient with mental illness and one with diabetes. Subjects were recruited using the snowballing technique and comprised of nurses (83 Anglo Psychiatric, 41 Anglo General, 49 Chinese Psychiatric and 35 Chinese General) currently practising in Victoria. Age ranged from 21 to 65 years. Principal components analyses were conducted on items to develop subscales related to individualism and collectivism, contact types, general and practice stigma. Analyses of variance and covariance were conducted to examine differences between nurse type and ethnicity and respectively, to account for possible differences in background, contact and in the case of practice stigma, general stigma.The key findings revealed differences according to nurse type and ethnicity in several of the subscales. Psychiatric nurses endorsed a higher level of contact than general nurses with mentally ill people on the variables ‘Contact Through Work Situation’, ‘Patient Help Nurses’ and ‘External Socialisation with Patient’, but not on the variable ‘Relative With Mental Illness’. By virtue of more contact, psychiatric nurses also endorsed less general stigma than general nurses, assessed by results from analysing social distancing, but not by negative stereotyping of people with mental illness. With respect to practice stigma, while care and satisfaction did not differ according to patient type and nurse type, psychiatric nurses expressed less authoritarianism and negativity than general nurses towards the mental illness case than general nurses while lesser differences between nurse types were evident for the diabetes case. Chinese nurses when compared with Anglo-Australian nurses, endorsed more highly collectivist values measured by the variables ‘Ingroup Interdependence’ and ‘Ingroup Role Concern’ but there was no difference in individualist values. This may reflect acculturation towards Western values but also retention of Chinese values, interpreted in the light of other results on cultural affiliation, as a bicultural position. Chinese nurses endorsed more highly general stigma towards the mentally ill than Anglo nurses when statistically controlling for differences in background demographics and contact factors.
Nursing satisfaction did not differ in ethnicity and patient type. Chinese nurses endorsed more highly care and authoritarianism in their clinical practice approaches than Anglo-Australian nurses, although there was no significant interaction effect between ethnicity and patient type on care and authoritarianism. Chinese nurses endorsed more highly negativity than Anglo-Australian nurses for the mental illness case than the diabetes case, an effect later shown to be mediated by differences in general stigma between the two ethnic groups. Within the Chinese sample, higher contact was associated with lower differential negativity for the mental illness than the diabetes case. Several path analyses suggested Chinese values influenced differential negativity, mediated by general stigma and prior diversified contact with people having a mental illness.
It may be concluded from these results that practice stigma is related to cultural values but the relationship is mediated by general stigma and contact. What aspect of the Chinese values specifically correlates with general stigma remains a question for further research, but several possibilities are discussed.
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Chu, Lina. "An investigation into the language difficulties encountered by F.2 students in studying history in an Anglo-Chinese secondary school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38626044.
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Leung, Fook-kay. "The relationship between L1 and L2 proficiencies in a junior form of an Anglo-Chinese secondary school in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38626469.
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Leung, Fook-kay, and 梁復基. "The relationship between L1 and L2 proficiencies in a junior form of an Anglo-Chinese secondary school in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38626469.
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Chu, Lina, and 朱麗娜. "An investigation into the language difficulties encountered by F.2 students in studying history in an Anglo-Chinese secondary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38626044.
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Kwan, Kit-man Kitty, and 關潔文. "An evaluation of students' language difficulties in using history and integrated science materials in form I in an Anglo-Chinese secondaryschool." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38626597.
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Kwan, Kit-man Kitty. "An evaluation of students' language difficulties in using history and integrated science materials in form I in an Anglo-Chinese secondary school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38626597.
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Chan, Suk-ye Susan, and 陳淑兒. "An investigation of the effectiveness of cross-age peer tutoring on writing in a Band 5 Anglo-Chinese school in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31957705.
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Wong, Kit-kwan Heidi. "Sex-role stereotypes and academic subject preferences among Form 3 boys and girls in co-educational and single-sex Anglo-Chinese secondary schools in Hong Kong." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13553379.
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Mountford, Benjamin Wilson. "The open door swings both ways : Australia, China and the British World System, c.1770-1907." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f5f97280-2bda-4dec-86e6-0b9238ed9f21.
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This doctoral thesis considers the significance of Australian engagement with China within British imperial history between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It sets out to explore the notion that colonial and early-federation Australia constituted an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires. Drawing on a long tradition of imperial historiography and recent advances in British World and Anglo-Chinese history, it utilises extensive new archival research to add a colonial dimension to the growing body of scholarship on the British Empire’s relations with Qing China. In doing so, it also seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the internal dynamics and external relations of Britain’s late-Victorian and Edwardian Empire. The following chapters centre around two overarching historical themes. The first is the interconnection between Chinese migration to Australia and the protection of British mercantile and strategic interests in the Far East as imperial issues. The second is the relationship between Australian engagement with China and the development of the idea of a Greater Britain. Each of these themes throws up a range of fascinating historical questions about the evolving character of Britain’s late-Victorian and Edwardian Empire, the inter-relation of its various parts and its ability to navigate the shifting winds of political and economic change. Taken together, they shed new light not only on Anglo-Australian, Anglo-Chinese and Sino-Australian history, but also serve to illuminate a series of triangular relationships, connecting the metropolitan, Far Eastern and Australian branches of the British Empire.
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Jiang, Tianyi. "Developing a scheme that governs the transfer of rights through the bill of lading under Chinese law : a comparison with the Anglo-American experience and the international approach." Thesis, Bangor University, 2017. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/developing-a-scheme-that-governs-the-transfer-of-rights-through-the-bill-of-lading-under-chinese-law-a-comparison-with-the-angloamerican-experience-and-the-international-approach(0a4d81fe-ca0d-4bb7-973c-f12de7f63a7a).html.
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This thesis aims to establish a legal scheme under Chinese law for dealing with transfer of rights through bill of lading in maritime trade. Although the current Chinese Maritime Code (CMC 1992) attempts to address such a transfer of rights, the rules in it are oversimplified and ambiguous, giving rise to confusion and uncertainty in practice. To reform current Chinese law in this regard, the thesis examines the existing solutions to the transfer of rights issues provided by English law, American law, and the Rotterdam Rules and its travaux preparatoires. Through comparing the aforesaid foreign solutions and analysing the coherence and compatibility ot these solutions with China's economic , commercial and legal environment, this thesis suggests ways in which an effective and comprehensive legal scheme that governs transfer of rights through the bill of lading could be established under Chinese law. This thesis starts with a historical review on how such a legal scheme has been developed in Anglo-American law and the international convention on seaborne cargo transportation (the Rotterdam rules and its travaux preparatoires). Based on the implications of the historical review, thisa thesis revisits the CMC 1992 and uncovers two underlying deficiencies in it in terms of transfer of rights through the bilol mof lading. These are: the lack of a connection with the commercial trading of goods, and disharmony with China's civil law heritage. To address the deficiences, this thesis sets out three key elements worthy of consideration, which are, the balance of interest between the carrier and the cargo interests, facilitation of paperless trading, and localization of foreign rules. The aforesaid elements are examined when discussing the specific issues regarding the transfer of rights through the bill of lading in order to understand to what extent those foreign approaches can be accommodated neatly in Chinese law. Based on this. the thesis argues that under a future Chinese maritime law, similar to English law and American law, the rights that can be conveyed through the bill of lading should include the right to sue the carrier and the right to claim delivery of goods, whilst at the same time, the acquisition of the real right of goods covered by the bill should be addressed by the property law, and this should provide for a presumable effect of passing rel rights of goods when the bill is duly negotiated. For the right of control suggested by the Rotterdam Rules, in a future Chinese law, to a large extent it should continue to be subject to the freedom of contract although, similar to the American law, the notion of 'control' should be adopted and re-defined in terms of securing the singularity and exclusivity of the access to the electronic bill of lading in paperless trading. In addition, as to the legal manner in which those rights can be conveyed through the bill of lading, this thesis suggests that a future Chines maritime law should follow the American approach, partially modelling the law governing the negotiable instruments, and incorporate the good faith purchaser rule into the bill of lading law and practice so as to vest the bill of lading with a certain degree of negoriability. In this way, the commercial value of the bill of lading as a reliable and tradeable document to secure its holder's interest in shipping and trading practice would be enhanced. Also in order to secure a balance between the paerties that participate in cargo shipping and trading, this thesis argues that in some extraordinary situations the right of suit and the real rights of goods should not be locked into a bill of lading. Rather they should be transferred between cargo interests by virtue of trade-related factors such as the assumption of cargo loss or damage and the intention of relevant cargo interests. In brief, to thoroughly solve the problems arising from transfer of rights through the bill of lading in Chinese law, this thesis suggests that the legal scheme governing such a transfer should not only be established under the maritime law but also be supported by the property law. In this way, such a legal scheme would properly reflect the impartible connection between the carriage of goods and the commercial transaction of goods, optimizing its value in balancing interests between carrier and cargo interests, accommodating the use of the electronic bill of trading, and harmonizing the maritimen law with other legislations in China.
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Malik, Ranbir Singh. "Influence of home and school environments on the academic performance of Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian students studying at an academically-oriented high school in Perth, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1390.
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Although minority status has been associated with low academic achievement, the “high Asian achieving syndrome" remains as one of the unresolved sociological puzzles. Consistent evidence suggests that regardless of the family status, children from the Asian migrant families, settled in the industrialised countries, tend to perform academically better than their counterparts from the dominant group. This disparity is attributed to a number of factors, which taken separately, do not address this complex issue. In Australia little research has been done to compare the home environment and school experiences of children coming from Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian families even though the number of children from the Southeast Asian region has steadily increased. This thesis investigates the influence of home and school on the academic performance of high school students coming from Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian families who resided in a predominantly middle class suburb and their children attended one particular state school in Perth, Western Australia. By studying children in their homes and classrooms I have attempted in this ethnographic study to construct some theoretically coherent explanations to understand the disparity in academic performance of Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian high school students. In order to capture what teachers, parents, and children say and do as a product of how they interpret the complexity of their world this study explores how macro and micro processes are linked to children's academic performance. As this study aims to understand social events from each individual's point of view it assumes that human behaviour is the result of indispensable and continuous interactions between persons and the situations they encounter. The findings of this study, with no claim to generalise beyond these families, suggest that the reason why Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian children have different educational outcomes is that these families socialise their children differently. From this study emerge two different models: and academic oriented Chinese-Australian model and a sports oriented Anglo-Australian model. At the start of high school there was no marked difference in ability and performance based on ethnicity. By the time they completed lower secondary school all Chinese-Australian students had improved in English and enrolled in a normal stream in English. Except for one student, they had selected TEE subjects with a university education as their main goal. At this stage, Anglo-Australians, with the exception of two students (who had selected TEE subjects), had decided to study either a mixture of TEE and TAFE subjects or easier TEE subjects. At the end of Year 12 all Chinese-Australian, except for one, had qualified to study at university. From Anglo-Australian group, only two students had qualified to study at university. This pattern of performance is consistent with the high Asian achieving syndrome and lack lustre performance of Anglo-Australian students. However, this study serves some sober reminder about the narrow focus by Chinese-Australians and lack of effort by Anglo-Australian students.
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Stevenson, Caroline Moira. "Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Jiaqing Emperor, 1816." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143193.
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The Amherst Embassy to the Qing court in 1816 remains little researched in comparison with the earlier Macartney Embassy (1792-94). This dissertation offers the first comprehensive account of the Embassy and reassesses its importance for Anglo-Chinese relations in the period before the First Opium War of 1839-42. It addresses why the British thought the Amherst Embassy would succeed where the Macartney Embassy had failed and how the latter’s legacy led the British to misjudge the response of the Jiaqing court. Largely ignored primary sources, in addition to the East India Company records, have provided important new insights into British motivations for dispatching the Embassy and for assessing Amherst’s role as the leader of the mission. The popular view that Amherst was indecisive and overly influenced by the Second Commissioner, George Staunton, in refusing to kotow before the Jiaqing emperor thereby consigning the Embassy to its premature dismissal, is rejected. Amherst emerges as an effective leader whose options were constrained by earlier flawed assumptions about British standing in China, ambiguous and conflicting instructions and an uncompromising Qing court determined to reinforce the protocols of the tributary system. The intense diplomatic encounter endured by the Amherst Embassy is examined within a traditional historical approach of causes, responses and outcomes although aspects of the resulting cultural clash lend themselves to an anthropological and sensory analysis. A revised British assessment of China arose from the diplomatic ashes of the Embassy’s failure. Views of the Qing emperor changed from a civil and enlightened despot to a degenerate potentate ruling over a decaying empire whose arrogance and ignorance rendered futile any further British diplomatic overtures. It was already apparent to some officials that force might be required in future to achieve British aims in China.
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Roberts, Anthea Elizabeth. "Is International Law International?" Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/124611.
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International lawyers are familiar with the question:
“Is international law law?” But this thesis instead asks the
question: “Is international law international?” Using a
variety of methods, this work sheds light on some of the ways in
which international law as a transnational legal field is
constructed by international law academics, and is conceptualized
in international law textbooks, in the five permanent members of
the Security Council: the People’s Republic of China, the
French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of
America. It explores how different national communities of
international lawyers construct and pass on their understandings
of “international law” in ways that belie the field’s claim
to universality, perpetuating certain forms of difference and
dominance. By adopting a comparative approach, it aims to make
international lawyers more aware of the frames that shape their
own understandings of and approaches to the field, as well as how
these might be similar to or different from the frames adopted by
those coming from other states, regions or geopolitical
groupings. It also examines how some of these patterns might be
disrupted as a result of shifts in geopolitical power, such as
the movement from unipolar power toward greater multipolarity and
the growing confrontations between Western liberal democratic
states (like the United States, the United Kingdom, and France)
and non-Western authoritarian states (like China and Russia).
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Yin, Li. "A Comparative study of the contract remedy systems between Anglo-American law and Chinese law." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2341.
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This thesis presents a comparative study of the contract remedy systems between Chinese law and Anglo-American law. The main aim is to deepen the understanding of both contract remedy systems, particularly to enhance an understanding of the different principles and features of contract remedies in both legal systems.
The study centres on two major issues which are the most striking differences between the two contract remedy systems: the principle of specific performance in Chinese law versus the use of monetary damages in Anglo-American law; and the principle of punishment in Chinese law versus the principle of compensation in Anglo-American law.
The study strives not only to identify the differences, but also to look into the underlying reasons and implications of those differences. Special effort is made to illustrate these differences in the context of social, economic and cultural perspectives. Much of the discussion is devoted to examining and analyzing the relations and interactions between law and the social and economic environment, especially the great impact which the social system, economic structure, ideology and legal culture of a society have on its contract law.
The hypothesis is that legal principles and doctrines are but the expressions in legal forms of the conditions of social and economic life in a society. The principles of a contract remedy system are decided and significantly influenced by the social and economic factors of a society within which the remedy system operates. Therefore, the rules and principles of contract remedies differ substantially between a planned economy and a market economy. And the contrast reflects the different needs of the two societies and the different responses made at the level of law to those needs. In the Chinese context of a planned scarcity economy, contract remedy principles in particular serve to promote the purpose of contracts in implementing the state economic plan. Realization and guarantee of the state economic plan is the touchstone of contract remedies. However, in the context of a market economy, contract remedial rules emphasize a great degree of flexibility and choice to individuals, with minimal government intervention. It is believed that such flexibility and choices can maximize social welfare and promote the operations of a market economy.
The study also tries to make a brief critical re-assessment of the specific performance principle and punitive principle of Chinese contract remedies in the changing situations of China which may call for specific reforms in the existing Chinese economic contract law.
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劉熾楷. "The relationship between the British first reformed parliament and the Anglo-Chinese War, 1839-1842." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22080CHU00493005%22.&searchmode=basic.
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"Second language classroom research: a developmental perspective of teachers' error correction behaviour in an Anglo-Chinese secondary school's classroom in Hong Kong." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886593.
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Sinclair, PJ. "Exploring the comparative effects of societal syndromes on knowledge discovery in new product-process development : contrasting Anglo-Western society and Han-Chinese society." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/28016.
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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Business.International marketers must learn how to match product and process transformation requirements to localised cultural predispositions, as not all cultures are equally disposed towards novel innovation or improving existing technologies. In this thesis, the original unification of prior histological investigations and first application of quantitative analyses of reflective and structural equation models, newly confirmed that a comprehensive understanding of cultural predispositions in society at large and in the workplace, is necessary and indispensable, in guiding the rightful assignment of global new product-process development tasks. Moreover, the affiliation between cultural antecedents and final product-process outcomes was shown not to be a direct relationship, as formerly assumed: Instead, cultural predispositions, based on newly revealed societal syndromes, were unmistakably found to act to foster or impede knowledge building (i.e., knowledge sharing and creative synergies) and knowledge discovery. Thus, in this thesis, for the first time, knowledge building was unambiguously shown to; intermediate the relationship between cultural antecedents and final new product-process development outcomes. Key societal models, established in this exploratory research, were developed for multiple cross-societal applications. However, for first measurement, significant to the twenty-first century product and process development, Anglo-Western society and Han-Chinese society were selected to test an original societal syndrome archetype comprised of the primary dimensions of Vertical Power Ethos, Horizontal Altruism and Conventional Orthodoxy. ‘First measures’ were made, in ‘seminal’ and quantitatively exploratory research, to reveal Han-Chinese general superiority in replicating known technologies and making minor incremental changes to enhance known technologies. Alternatively, Anglo-Western society was typically more talented in developing first generation (often high transformation) or intermediate transformation product-processes, which require higher levels of lateral knowledge sharing and involvement of out-groups. Extensive structural equation modelling confirmed original societal syndromes. A new intermediation primary path model and accompanying moderators were statistically validated. Armed with a new knowledge of societally-based predilections, towards either progressing highly novel product-process innovation or forms of innovation aimed at improving traditional practices; based on particular needs, global companies, with various products and components, such as Boeing Inc. and 3M, can now benefit, from a more informed basis for assignment of their product-process development tasks. Unifying socio-cultural studies and histological accounts enabled study of cultural antecedents, providing a more integrated theoretical qualitative discipline-wide model than previously available. Development of a dynamic structural design (archetype) comprised of original societal syndromes, elucidates for theorists the relationships of societally qualified syndromes on knowledge building across multiple disciplines From the perspective of cross-societal dispositions, concerning products and processes, future researchers should study the implications of profitability and new research commitment, on original innovation vis-à-vis cultivating accepted approaches. New transnational cross-societal equity corporate relationship types could be progressed, to concurrently achieve benefit, in both creative product-process innovation and existing product-process generation improvement, across societies in joint-venture relationships, by leveraging societally localised advantages globally.
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Soosai, Joanne Siu Chern Tan. "A cross-cultural perspective on ageing well in Australia: a mixed methods approach to successful ageing and filial piety among Anglo-Australians and Chinese immigrants." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/90265.
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Australia’s older population has become increasingly diversified in terms of country of origin and ethnicity. The overall aim of the thesis was to critically explore ageing well in an immigrant community by examining the intersection of the Western value system of successful ageing and the Eastern value system of filial piety through the lens of acculturation. In particular, the aim of the present research was to investigate attitudes and beliefs towards ageing and well-being within the context of successful ageing; and the needs and expectations within the context of filial piety among Anglo-Australians and Chinese immigrants. By focusing on the older Chinese community, an under-studied group that is emerging in contemporary Australia, the present research gave a voice to their values and what they perceived as appropriate and relevant as they age away from their country of origin. Using a mixed methods research design, the first phase comprised of a qualitative research component. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to identify and explore themes gathered through semi-structured interviews with 21 participants, 11 Anglo-Australians and 10 Chinese-Australians, aged 55 to 78 years. The present research also explored the issue of establishing rigour in qualitative research within the context of IPA and noted that the use of inter-rater reliability is questionable because it does not consider researcher subjectivity, context and individual differences; pre-determined themes or coding as limiting; the danger of using quantitative criteria on qualitative research; and the need for sufficient resources and involvement of an independent rater. Instead, and as a proposed alternative, the present research demonstrated that rigour in IPA could be established by quoting raw data, carrying out reflexivity and conducting member checks. To further investigate cultural differences in aspects of successful ageing and filial responsibilities and expectations, and the role of acculturation, the second quantitative phase collected data using a battery of questionnaires, which were available in English and in Chinese. Participants (N = 268) over 55 years of age were recruited mainly from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Successful ageing and filial responsibilities (perceptions about adult children’s responsibilities) and filial expectations (older adults’ expectations) were surveyed among 152 Anglo-Australians (AA) and 116 Chinese-Australians (CA), including 68 English speaking (ESCA) and 48 Chinese speaking (CSCA) participants. Results of study one revealed that both groups associated successful ageing with health and personal responsibility. AA regarded growing old gracefully and acceptance as important aspects of successful ageing, whereas CA valued financial security and an active lifestyle. Both groups spoke about their current lack of preparation with respect to future care plans. In terms of ‘Future care preferences’, themes of ‘Ageing in place’, ‘Openness to formal care’ and ‘Quality of care’ reflect perceptions and attitudes of both the AA and CA groups. Results demonstrated heterogeneity within the CA group and suggest that longer length of residency does not necessarily lead to a decrease in traditional expectations. Results of study two revealed AA and CA rated 13 and 14, respectively, of the 20 successful ageing attributes as important. Results also revealed that AA and CA differed significantly on four successful ageing attributes: ‘Having friends and family who are there for me’, ‘Being able to make choices’, ‘Being able to cope’ and ‘Continuing to learn new things’. For CSCA, heredity was rated as important to successful ageing as compared to their ESCA and AA counterparts. With regards to filial piety, overall CA showed greater endorsement of filial responsibilities: that adult children should show filial piety, that children have been brought up to it and that they will have to do this for their parents, compared to AA. CA also showed greater endorsement of filial expectations: that older adults expect filial piety, that older adults were brought up this way and that they themselves expect it as they age, compared to AA. Results consistently showed filial duties ‘look after’ and ‘financial assistance’ were significantly higher for CA on all six sets of subscales. Perceptions of filial piety were further explored using nine statements of filial piety. Chi-square analyses showed CA scored higher than AA, and within the CA group, CSCA scored higher on four of the nine statements. It also discussed the role of acculturation on Chinese immigrants. In summary, when it comes to attitudes towards ageing and well-being, and needs and expectations for support in old age, results of qualitative and quantitative studies indicated Chinese immigrants exhibited a range of complex sentiments. In the context of successful ageing, participants appear to focus on individualistic values and in the context of filial responsibilities and expectations, participants tend to emphasise collectivistic values, although findings also showed mixed orientation in some cases. The present research is an important contribution to the cross-cultural understanding of successful ageing and the value of filial piety of adults ageing in Australia. Future directions could entail further expansion of the present research across a range of other ethnic communities, thereby raising the profile of ethnic communities in the wider society and enhancing culturally appropriate aged care and services in
Australia.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2014