Dissertations / Theses: 'Asia'

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Nájera, Rendón Daniel. "Asia Town + Casa Asia Puebla." Thesis, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2011. http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lar/najera_r_d/.

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de, Somer Gregory John Humanities &amp Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The Redefinition of Asia : Australian Foreign Policy and Contemporary Asian Regionalism." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38666.

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This thesis set out to ascertain the position of recent Australian Governments on the latest instalments of Asian regionalism in the context of an assessment of whether there has been a redefinition of Asia and thus a redefinition of Australia???s engagement with Asia. It will concentrate on the broad themes of politico-strategic and economic engagement. Whilst there has been extensive research and documentation on the Asian economic crisis there has been less work on the issue of a new Asian regionalism and the implications for Australia???s complex and variable engagement with the region. This is the basis for the claim to originality of this thesis, a claim supported by its focus on the practical and policy implications of Australia???s engagement, or lack of it, with regional institutions. The process of regional integration has been extremely slow, thus supporting the conclusion that there is no evidence of a major redefinition of Asia. Efforts at Asian regionalism are meeting obstacles that pose immense challenges. Asian regionalism remains nascent and poorly defined. This reflects the diversity and enormous disparities in cultures, political systems and the levels of economic development and differences over economic philosophies within East Asia. What is discernible is that the regionalism is proceeding more rapidly on financial issues than on trade, and in the security area it is conspicuously absent. This research highlights the fact that the question of Asian engagement remains a sensitive issue in Australia and continues to grow more complex. Australia???s engagement with Asia since 1996 has been variable because of the Howard Government???s broader balance of priorities between global and regional issues, and because of the changing nature of the Asian region. The perception gleaned from sources is that, for the Australian Government, regionalism initiatives are characterised by much discussion but lack substance. Consequently, this appears to have led the Government to the position that exclusion from some manifestations of regionalism is not so important. Australia is excluded from some of the regional architectures being constructed. In its efforts to seek inclusion in ASEAN + 3 and ASEM, Australia is facing the same barriers that have stood in the way of an AFTA-CER agreement. Exclusion would be important if the performance of regional groupings was not so indifferent. Exclusion from ASEAN + 3 and ASEM, however, does not equate to Australia???s exclusion from the region.

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龔振輝 and Chun-fai Frederick Kung. "Influx of Western media to Asia and response of Asian governments." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31267191.

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Kung, Chun-fai Frederick. "Influx of Western media to Asia and response of Asian governments /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1796314X.

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King, Seiko. "Re-made in Asia : transformation across Asian markets and popular culture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54738/1/Seiko_King_Thesis.pdf.

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The thesis is an examination of how Japanese popular culture products are remade (rimeiku). Adaptation of manga, anime and television drama, from one format to another, frequently occurs within Japan. The rights to these stories and texts are traded in South Korea and Taiwan. The ‘spin-off’ products form part of the Japanese content industry. When products are distributed and remade across geographical boundaries, they have a multi-dimensional aspect and potentially contribute to an evolving cultural re-engagement between Japan and East Asia. The case studies are the television dramas Akai Giwaku and Winter Sonata and two manga, Hana yori Dango and Janguru Taitei. Except for the television drama Winter Sonata these texts originated in Japan. Each study shows how remaking occurs across geographical borders. The study argues that Japan has been slow to recognise the value of its popular culture through regional and international media trade. Japan is now taking steps to remedy this strategic shortfall to enable the long-term viability of the Japanese content industry. The study includes an examination of how remaking raises legal issues in the appropriation of media content. Unauthorised copying and piracy contributes to loss of financial value. To place the three Japanese cultural products into a historical context, the thesis includes an overview of Japanese copying culture from its early origins through to the present day. The thesis also discusses the Meiji restoration and the post-World War II restructuring that resulted in Japan becoming a regional media powerhouse. The localisation of Japanese media content in South Korea and Taiwan also brings with it significant cultural influences, which may be regarded as contributing to a better understanding of East Asian society in line with the idea of regional ‘harmony’. The study argues that the commercial success of Japanese products beyond Japan is governed by perceptions of the quality of the story and by the cultural frames of the target audience. The thesis draws on audience research to illustrate the loss or reinforcement of national identity as a consequence of cross-cultural trade. The thesis also examines the contribution to Japanese ‘soft power’ (Nye, 2004, p. x). The study concludes with recommendations for the sustainability of the Japanese media industry.

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Creighton, Chie-wei Eve, and 林綺薇. "MTV Asia headquarters." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982645.

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Fukasawa, Masahiko. ""Keiretsu" in Asia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12625.

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Creighton, Chie-wei Eve. "MTV Asia headquarters." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951361.

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Wang, Qiu Wen. "Regional integration in East Asia :the feasibility study of East Asian community." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554634.

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Chabangborn, Akkaneewut. "Asian monsoon over mainland Southeast Asia in the past 25 000 years." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107136.

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The objective of this research is to interpret high-resolution palaeo-proxy data sets to understand the Asian summer monsoon variability in the past. This was done by synthesizing published palaeo-records from the Asian monsoon region, model simulation comparisons, and analysing new lake sedimentary records from northeast Thailand. Palaeo-records and climate modeling indicate a strengthened summer monsoon over Mainland Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), compared to dry conditions in other parts of the Asian monsoon region. This can be explained by the LGM sea level low stand, which exposed Sundaland and created a large land-sea thermal contrast. Sea level rise ~19 600 years before present (BP), reorganized the atmospheric circulation in the Pacific Ocean and weakened the summer monsoon between 20 000 and 19 000 years BP. Both the Mainland Southeast Asia and the East Asian monsoon hydroclimatic records point to an earlier Holocene onset of strengthened summer monsoon, compared to the Indian Ocean monsoon. The asynchronous evolution of the summer monsoon and a time lag of 1500 years between the East Asian and the Indian Ocean monsoon can be explained by the palaeogeography of Mainland Southeast Asia, which acted as a land bridge for the movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The palaeo-proxy records from Lake Kumphawapi compare well to the other data sets and suggest a strengthened summer monsoon between 10 000 and 7000 years BP and a weakening of the summer monsoon thereafter. The data from Lake Pa Kho provides a picture of summer monsoon variability over 2000 years. A strengthened summer monsoon prevailed between BC 170-AD 370, AD 800-960 and since AD 1450, and was weaker about AD 370-800 and AD 1300-1450. The movement of the mean position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone explains shifts in summer monsoon intensity, but weakening of the summer monsoon between 960 and 1450 AD could be affected by changes in the Walker circulation.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript..

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Milliot, David. "Processus ASEM (Asia-Europe meeting) : vers l'émergence du trans-régionalisme Asie-Europe ?" Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100025.

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Les relations euro-asiatiques ont longtemps été marquées par des rapports inégaux. Il faudra attendre la fin du XXe siècle pour voir disparaitre le déséquilibre historique des relations Europe-Asie. Le lancement de l'ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) à Bangkok en 1996 a été le symbole le plus marquant de ce rééquilibrage. Sous-tendue par un mode de fonctionnement original, l'ASEM a créé une dynamique de convergence inscrite dans la durée avec la tenue des Sommets biennaux. Toutefois, son mode de fonctionnement ternaire (politique, économique, culturel) révèle certaines lacunes que les mesures adoptées au Sommet de Copenhague (2002) cherchent à combler. L'ASEM est l'histoire d'une double reconquête : la reconquête de la scène internationale par l'Asie tout d'abord. Pour la première fois, un cadre de dialogue et de coopération avec l'Europe s'inspire, dans son mode de fonctionnement, directement des techniques diplomatiques asiatiques. Face à des contraintes internes et externes de plus en plus lourdes, l'ASEAN a perdu son rôle moteur dans le processus. Dans ce contexte, l'ASEM peut jouer un rôle utile comme espace de dialogue complémentaire aux relations inter-régionales (ASEAN-UE), bilatérales et multilatérales. Dans le même temps, le "recyclage" de l'ASEM permet à l'Asie de développer des relations inédites avec d'autres pôles régionaux. Les fonctions du trans-régionalisme de l'ASEM révèlent également une stratégie de reconquête de la scène internationale par les états. Objet non identifié des relations internationales, le trans-régionalisme de l'ASEM peut répondre à plusieurs types d'interprétation. Les relations trans-régionales sont des outils utiles à l'émergence d'un concept de gouvernance mondiale : elles permettent à la fois le renforcement des relations entre pôles régionaux et à la création d'espaces de dialogue transversaux inédits. Le trans-régionalisme de l'ASEM serait-il le lien manquant entre mondialisation et régionalisation ?
The launching of the ASEM process in Bangkok in 1996 was the first step towards a global agenda among two equal partners, Asia and Europe. Supported by specific working procedures and biannual summits, ASEM has created a new dynamic between the two regions. From ASEM I in Bangkok (1996) to ASEM IV in Copenhaguen (2002), ASEM has developed a complete new set of methods of fostering political and economic dialogue as well as functional co-operation. Its working, achievements and shortcomings are analysed. But the key question is : what both partners want to achieve through this process ? First, ASEM aims at increasing the profile of Asia and Europe in international relations. But it also underlines a number of functions which help States managing their bilateral, inter-regional and multilateral affairs. The trans-regionalism of ASEM is in fact an important feature of this new process. As a political and diplomatic process, ASEM is to a large extent more influenced by the informal Asian ways of conducting business than the legalistic European approach. The consequences of the ASEM process on Asian regionalism, especially the building-up of an East-Asian Community, are also to be considered. Whereas Southeast Asia is searching ways to consolidate its position in the context of emerging China and the increasing dynamism of the Indian subcontinent, ASEM provides with new linkages. The role of the ASEM process in the international affairs is not meaningless : it has emerged as being a new layer of co-operation and has created a window of opportunity for fostering new types of co-operation between regions in the world. In fact, ASEM has served as a blueprint respectively for Europe and Asia to foster new relations with other regions (Latin America, Africa, Middle East). Hence, it raises the issue of a new global governance in international relations. Will ASEM be the missing link between regionalism and globalization ?

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Mohr, Alexander T., and B. N. Kumar. "The effects of the Asian crisis on German FDI in Southeast Asia." Gabler Publishing, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4047.

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Kamthornkittikul, Napol. "Southeast Asia Equity ETFs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104525.

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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-48).
Southeast Asia countries are forming the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), one of the largest markets in the world with an over $2 trillion economy and population of over 600 million. This represents great opportunities not only for ASEAN citizens but also for foreigners to benefit from the combined economy. As a student from Thailand with strong interest in equity investment, I am interested in exploring equity investment opportunities in the region. I particular I want to look at Southeast Asia Equity ETFs as I believe that ETFs will play an important role in allowing investors to benefit from an exposure to the region's economy. In this thesis, I developed key investment highlights of Southeast Asia. I then explained why ETFs are an attractive tool for investors based on their special characteristics that distinguish them from typical mutual funds. Next, I explored and analyzed currently available Southeast Asia regional-focused ETFs. Finally, I developed several key considerations for new entrants who might consider getting into the market in offering Southeast Asia Equity ETFs.
by Napol Kamthornkittikul.
S.M. in Management Studies

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Weiss, John A. "Poverty Targeting in Asia." Edward Elgar, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3477.

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Bakar, Nor'Aznin Abu. "Solvency and the currency crisis in Asia : evidence from the four Asian countries." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842887/.

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The study deals with the Asian currency crises, in which the causes and consequences of the crisis are analysed. The two hypotheses which, are often viewed as competing, fundamental and panic and herd behaviour, are also examined. The first hypothesis states that fundamental imbalances triggered the Asian currency and financial crisis in 1997. The crisis occurred because the economies had deteriorating current accounts, a slowdown in growth rates and short-term debt approaching a dangerous level, while the second hypothesis states that sudden shifts in market expectations and confidence were the cause of the initial financial turmoil. When the crisis erupted it caused panic in domestic and foreign investors. A major focus of the study is to evaluate these two approaches and to examine whether there was evidence of insolvency prior to the crisis. A solvency index as originally popularised by Cohen (1991) is then calculated for each country. An econometric analysis of the trade sector is undertaken in which the Engle-Granger two-step procedure is employed, and the short-run dynamics are described by the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM). The Johansen Maximum Likelihood test is also employed as a comparison to the Engle-Granger Two-Step model. Subsequently the price elasticities obtained from the export demand model together with the GDP supply elasticity are used to calculate the index. From the results, it appeal's that all countries were solvent prior to the crisis in which the percentage of actual debt service paid (in 1997) was greater than the percentage that needs to be paid to be solvent. This suggests that a further external credit could have solved the problem, as it was a matter of short-term liquidity difficulties and panic, rather than insolvency.

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TAMBUNAN, Shuri Mariasih Gietty. "Intra-Asia cultural traffic: transnational flow of East Asian television dramas in Indonesia." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2013. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/18.

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East Asian television dramas have crossed the threshold of Indonesian mediascapes since the 1990s. This transnational product offers new resources for the "work of imagination" within the rapid flow of cultural products in Asia. By focusing on the Network Flows and Reception Theory models in the approaches to cultural globalization, the project asks how the process of intra-Asia cultural traffic mediates and is mediated by gatekeepers/intermediaries and by the ordinary experience of the contemporary Indonesian audience. East Asian television dramas have nurtured a process of transnational imagination and self-reflexivity in the Indonesian audience's everyday life. Furthermore, the Indonesian cultural, political and social specificities have created significant distinctions on how these television dramas reconstruct the shared imagination of(East) Asia in Indonesia compared to how it is in other locales. The main question of the research would be on the circulation network and the reception context of the East Asian television dramas in Indonesia with an aim to understand the complexity of the cultural globalization process in Asia. The research concerns a multi-layered analysis that draws on the methodological resources of textual analysis, institutional research and audience study. The multiple methods have contextualized the objects of study culturally, historically and geographically. For the audience study, throughout the research, the methods have been chosen reflexively and recursively resulting in a triangulation of data from the Focus Group Discussions, Interviews and Diary Study. In conclusion, the research findings have extended the discussion of geocultural/linguistic regions and also the cultural proximity thesis. It echoes that the Asian case should be analyzed in a distinctive framework compared to other regional case studies. Furthermore, I argue that the circulation and reception of East Asian television dramas in Indonesia has constructed an imagined unitary Asia while at the same time orientalise the notion of Asia. As a result, the intra-Asia cultural traffic, which has intensified the process of cultural globalization in Asia in the last decade, does not indicate a geocultural approximation between the Asian countries. The regional dynamics occur because 'Asia' has been appropriated as a depository of in-betweenness.

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Coșobea, Timeea. "“Asia as Method” Now and Then : Investigating the Critical Concept of Inter-Asia Referencing." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147570.

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Majchrowicz, Daniel Joseph. "Travel, Travel Writing and the "Means to Victory" in Modern South Asia." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467221.

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This dissertation is a history of the idea of travel in South Asia as it found expression in Urdu travel writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though travel has always been integral to social life in South Asia, it was only during this period that it became an end in itself. The imagined virtues of travel hinged on two emergent beliefs: that travel was a requisite for inner growth, and that travel experience was transferable. Consequently, Urdu travel writers endorsed travel not to reach a particular destination but to engender personal development, social advancement and communal well-being. Authors conveyed the transformative power of travel to their readers through accounts that traced out their inner journeys through narratives of physical travel, an ideal echoed in an old proverb that re-emerged at this time: “travel is the means to victory.” This study, which draws on extensive archival research from four countries, represents the most comprehensive examination of travel writing in any South Asian language. Through a diachronic analysis of a wealth of new primary sources, it indexes shifting valuations of travel as they relate to conceptualizations of the self, the political and the social. It demonstrates that though the idea of beneficial travel found its first expression in accounts commissioned by a colonial government interested in inculcating modern cosmopolitan aesthetics, it quickly developed a life of its own in the public sphere of print. This dynamic literary space was forged by writers from across the social spectrum who produced a profusion of accounts that drew inspiration from Indic, Islamic and European traditions. In the twentieth century, too, travel writing continued to evolve and expand as it adapted to the shifting dimensions of local nationalisms and successive international conflicts. In independent India and Pakistan, it broke new ground both aesthetically and thematically as it came to terms with the post-colonial geography of South Asia. Yet, throughout this history,Urdu travel writing continued to cultivate the idea that the journey was valuable for its own sake.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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Liu, Hsin-tine Tina. "Reducing acculturation conflicts within Asian immigrant families /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Cone, Rachel. "Introducing the Stability Theory in Alliance Politics: The US, Japan, and South Korea." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/705.

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Analyzing the current state of the United States' alliances with both Japan and South Korea underscores the failure of the traditional alliance theory concepts, realism, liberalism, and constructivism, to adequately describe their continuation. Introducing a concept termed the stability theory to alliance theory explains the current trajectories of the US-Japan and US-South Korea alliances. Stability theory is an extension of the conception of the three aforementioned theories and hedging, and is based in part upon the inherent inertia resisting change, in a long-standing alliance. In setting the stage for the introduction of stability theory, the past, present, and future of the alliances come into play, illustrating how this new theory picks up where others fall off.

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Rathnayaka, Mudiyanselage Shashika D. "An Econometric Analysis of Consumer Demand in Asia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/389584.

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Most Asian economies have grown impressively during the past 30 years. Asia continues to be both the fastest-growing region in the world and the main growth engine of the world economy, contributing to more than 60% of global economic growth. Such robust, prolonged growth has clearly raised incomes, lifted millions out of poverty and given rise to new wealth and the emergence of a new rich class in Asia. The economic transformation of Asia, combined with globalization, has led Asian consumers towards greater discretionary spending, while providing ample expansion potential for businesses and investors. In light of this background, this thesis aims to analyse the demand for consumer goods in Asian countries and examine the similarities and disparities of consumption patterns across Asian countries using a systemic approach. A review of the literature on the topic revealed that there are only a few empirical studies that include some Asian countries, for various time periods. In this thesis, we consider ten Asian countries which are at different stages of economic development: Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand—with a special focus on Sri Lanka.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept Account,Finance & Econ
Griffith Business School
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Edwards, Jonathan M. "Russia's place in Central Asia." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA392041.

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Costa, Buranelli Filippo. "International society and Central Asia." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/international-society-and-central-asia(98000750-d3b3-426d-b80f-53f38a31510a).html.

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia appeared on the world stage as a sub-system in the wider Eurasian continent. Because of its vast and rich natural resources and its strategic location with respect to Afghanistan, within the discipline of International Relations Central Asia has been widely considered as a mere ‘pawn’ in the competition among the Great Powers for geo-political and geo-economic advantage in the area. This framework of analysis, strongly focusing on systemic factors, has often downplayed and silenced the dense intra-regional political dynamics at play. In the few instances where these dynamics have been studied, the international relations of Central Asian states have always been read through a strongly realist framework of analysis. Since these states are more interested in dealing with foreign powers than with themselves, since there are not Central Asian regional organisations and since several problems, mostly related to water- management and border issues, hinder cooperation between them, the region has often been described as a paramount example of realism at play. This thesis, challenging the existent literature on the region, shows that an English School (ES) reading of Central Asian regional politics reveals much more than it is usually believed to be present there, and that despite the strong confrontational character of the region, these states have managed to coexist relatively peacefully. How? Drawing on a variety of primary sources, interviews with diplomats and practitioners conducted in the region and on the analysis of official documents and statements, this research finds that Central Asia represents an in fieri, but nonetheless existent, regional international society, featuring also local, peculiar interpretations of global norms and institutions, where cooperation and confrontation have always been intertwined and seldom mutually exclusive. Being the first work in the literature to use ES theory to study Central Asian international politics, this thesis advances two agendas: it suggests new, more nuanced and ‘autoptic’ readings of the Central Asian region while encouraging the ES to expand into the ‘heartland’, therefore bringing forward the recently established comparative agenda on international society at the regional level.

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Anderson, Kristin Siwan. "Dowry payments in South Asia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0033/NQ38849.pdf.

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Khan, Omer. "Injection Safety in Central Asia." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/137.

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The capstone reviews the issue of injection safety in Central Asia. Unsafe injections have been a cause of several HIV outbreaks in the region and poses a significant public health challenge. The capstone goes over the process used to engage the local health departments to assess injection practices in the region and the development of an assessment tool to be used to evaluate injection safety practices in the region.

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Lim, Anne Wing-huen, and 林詠萱. "W.E.B. Du Bois and Asia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44915147.

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Mumtaz, Haroon. "The recession in east Asia." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271689.

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Ali, Aleena. "Optimizing Urbanization in South Asia." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1571.

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Over the next few decades, urban populations in Pakistan and India are projected to increase by 350 million. Considered to be a critical driver of economic modernization and sociopolitical progress, urbanization can catalyze numerous benefits. However, the extent to which it proves beneficial is contingent on the manner in which national and sub-national leaders respond to the multitude of challenges associated with urban spatial expansion and population growth. This thesis outlines key policy priorities for Indian and Pakistani leaders and puts forth recommendations that aim to optimize urban expansion for greater prosperity and livability. It employs a comprehensive set of methodologies to examine the true extent and characteristics of urbanization in India and Pakistan. On the basis of existing and projected dynamics of urbanization and identification of key factors that currently impede the leveraging of urbanization, it offers a range of policy proposals that aim to leverage urban growth through optimizing urban planning processes and governance, urban mobility and the spatial distribution of urban populations.

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Kho, Song-Moo. "Koreans in Soviet central Asia /." Helsinki : Finnish Oriental society, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35823281z.

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Eccles, Brian Allan. "The productivity paradox in Asia." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19926558.

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Guha, Papia. "Regional Cooperation in South Asia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625686.

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Kolovos, Amaleia E. "Regional Integration in East Asia." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/93.

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Regional integration is not a new phenomenon but has become an increasingly important topic of political research with the continued expansion of the European Union as well as an increased number of regional organizations around the globe. This paper will seek to use both Europe and East Asia as illustrations in order to better comprehend the driving forces behind integration as well as why some regions are further integrated than others. The purpose of this research is to achieve a better understanding of what causes regional integration in hopes of developing a more inclusive theory. More specifically, it aims to see how integrated the region of East Asia is, in particular when compared to Europe. Through comparing the two regions and analyzing factors in both Europe and East Asia as determined by current integration theory, this research aims to achieve a better understanding of the driving forces behind regional integration as an international phenomenon. My research is an attempt to tie together the multiple existing theories of regional integration with the goal of creating a more cohesive and measurable theory. With an increased understanding of regional integration, we will be better able to both explain and predict integration in both Europe and East Asia, as well as other, less integrated regions around the world.

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Obregon, Ramirez Grecia <1991&gt. "Green Diplomacy in East Asia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12127.

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My paper will concentrate on environmental policy and diplomacy in East Asian countries. Giving an outline of the main environmental treaties and protocols, and then focusing on China, Japan and South Korea's implementation and mitigation of climate change and environmental depletion.

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Marioni, Sonia <1989&gt. "L'espansione russa in Asia Centrale." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12156.

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La presente tesi compilativa prende in analisi l’espansione russa in Asia Centrale. Nel primo capitolo si fornisce un inquadramento geografico e storico, che mette in luce le principali caratteristiche della regione: un territorio dal punto di visto storico-culturale collegato al mondo musulmano sin dall’antichità ed una popolazione parlante prevalentemente lingue turche. La millenaria importanza della regione centroasiatica cade con le scoperte geografiche agli albori dell’età moderna causandone una progressiva marginalizzazione. Il secondo capitolo si apre con l’inaugurazione dell’espansione russa verso i suoi fronti orientali. La prima fase di conquista (1731-1848) vide i Kazaki chiedere volontariamente la protezione dell’impero russo contro gli invasori locali. Nel terzo capitolo si presenta la seconda fase (1865-1885), che si trattò di una vera e propria conquista militare. Quest’ultima allarmò l’impero britannico, che era nel pieno della sua espansione coloniale. L’analisi prosegue portando a riflettere sulle motivazioni di conquista e i metodi di dominazione. Nello specifico, nel quarto capitolo, si prosegue con l’analisi della politica adottata da Kaufman, primo Governatore del Turkestan russo, nei confronti della popolazione musulmana. L’amministrazione russa nell’intento di gestire la complessità centroasiatica si ritrovò nel mezzo di una più ampia competizione all’interno della comunità musulmana stessa. Le élites musulmane, ancorate ad un tradizionalismo religioso oramai sclerotizzato, non accennarono a confrontarsi nemmeno con i gruppi innovatori locali. Nell'ultima parte si presenta il giadidismo: un movimento intellettuale di rinnovamento socio-culturale. Il fondatore Ismail Gasprinskij e i sostenitori del movimento, pur rimanendo saldamente fedeli alla tradizione musulmana, riconobbero i benefici della dominazione russa. I giadidisti proposero come punto di partenza per il rinnovamento della società musulmana la modernizzazione delle scuole coraniche.

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Masilamani, Loganathan 1965. "Regionalism in Southeast Asia : the evolution of the association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)." Monash University, Dept. of Politics, 1998. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8668.

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Martin, Daniel. "Asia extreme : the marketing and critical reception of cult Asian Cinema in the UK." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520428.

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This thesis is concerned with the growing Western market for Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong cult film. There is an increasing appetite among audiences and academics for Japanese horror, violent Korean cinema, and postcolonial Hong Kong crime films. However, while the vast majority of academic research on the subject of contemporary Asian cinema is concerned with textual analysis and appreciation of the films, this thesis examines the marketing of these films to determine how and why they have become so visible, and discusses their critical reception in order to explore the changing cultural status of these films among the British critical community. This research covers a five-year period, and is focused on the activities of the distribution company Metro-Tartan and their incredibly influential "Asia Extreme" brand. Through a series of case studies of individual film releases and other exhibition events, this thesis will unpack the strategies of cult Asian film promotion and consumption in the context of theories of horror cinema, reception studies, and Orientalism.

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Catsis, Nicolaos Dimitrios. "Examining the Impact of Colonial Administrations on Post-Independence State Behavior in Southeast Asia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/257213.

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Political Science
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This project is concerned with examining the impact of colonial administrations on post-independence state behavior in Southeast Asia. Despite a similar historical context, the region exhibits broad variation in terms of policy preferences after independence. Past literature has focused, largely, upon pre-colonial or independence era factors. This project, however, proposes that state behavior is heavily determined by a combination of three colonial variables: indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. It also constructs a four-category typology for the purposes of ordering the broad variation we see across post-colonial Southeast Asia. Utilizing heavy archival research and historical analysis, I examine three case studies in the region, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, that share a common colonial heritage yet exhibit markedly different post-independence preferences. Vietnam's colonial legacy is characterized by high indigenous elite mobility, medium colonial income diversity, and medium-high levels of institutional-infrastructure. This creates a state where the local elites are capable and socially mobile, but lack the fully developed skill sets, institutions and infrastructure we see in a Developmental state such as South Korea or Taiwan. As a result, Vietnam is a Power-Projection state, where elites pursue security oriented projects as a means of compensating for inequalities between their own social mobility and acquired skills, institutions and infrastructure. In Cambodia, indigenous elite mobility and colonial income diversity are both low, creating an entrenched, less experienced elite. Medium levels of institutional-infrastructure enables the elite to extract wealth for class benefit. As a result, the state becomes an instrument for elite enrichment and is thus classified as Self-Enrichment state. Laos' colonial history is characterized by low levels of indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. Laos' elite are deeply entrenched, like their counterparts in Cambodia. However, unlike Cambodia, Laos lacks sufficient institutional-infrastructure levels to make wealth extraction worthwhile for an elite class. Laos' inability to execute an internal policy course, or even enrich narrow social class, categorize it as a Null state. The theory and typology presented in this project have broad applications to Southeast Asia and the post-colonial world more generally. It suggests that the colonial period, counter to more recent literature, has a much greater impact on states after independence. As most of the world is a post-colonial state, understanding the mechanisms for preferences in these states is very important.
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Chyšková, Kateřina. "Ekonomický rozvoj jihoasijských zemí." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359620.

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Aim of this thesis is to empirically verify the validity of Rostows Stages of economic growth model and Solow-Swan model of economic growth realized by using statistical data South Asian countries reported. Theoretical part is devoted to characteristics of the growth models, explaining the assumptions theories work with and defining their origins and possible limitations. Practical part is focused on the analysis of statistical outputs newly industrialized Asian countries (Asian Tigers). The choice of selected data for analysis is justified. The data are further evaluated against expectations out of the Rostows and Solows theory of economic growth. The appropriateness of the growth models with regard to the territories is also evaluated.

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Tiffin, Sarah Perry. "Power, progress and the course of Empire : British ruin sentiment in Southeast Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18733.pdf.

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Giles, Nathaniel W. "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: The Failure of Japan's "Monroe Doctrine" for Asia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/295.

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By 1942, the Japanese occupied nearly all of East and Southeast Asia and their influence even spread as far as British controlled India. This occupation, known as The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, was an ideological unity of Asia under the facade of mutual benefit and welfare of Japan and the other nations within the Sphere. However, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere failed because of the inability of the Japanese to form this mutual benefit between the nations within the Sphere. This work evaluates the events that led to The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, life within the Sphere, and the reasons for its failure.

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Ahmad, Dzulkarnain. "ASEAN+3 : the institutionalization of Asian values." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FAhmad.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Robert M. McNab, Gaye Christoffersen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-78). Also available online.

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Yang, Nan. "Explaining welfare development in East Asia by using set-theoretic methods : East Asia in transition." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15607/.

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After Gøsta Esping-Andersen published his classic thesis The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, comparative welfare research entered a flourishing period. Compared to this, the comparative study of East Asian welfare systems has remained relatively underdeveloped. Particularly, during and after the Asian financial crisis in 1997, East Asia’s economic and social structures came under strain, and their social progress faced many challenges, which sparked new debates regarding the crisis and its social consequences. The classic Productivist Welfare Capitalism (PWC) thesis faced a fundamental challenge as part of these debates. Drawing on the PWC thesis, this thesis theoretically and empirically explored the welfare developments and reforms of East Asian states in this context. The analysis of welfare systems focuses on the debates of the distinction between ‘productive’ and ‘protective’ dimensions of welfare. As such, six key policy fields, education, health-care services, family policy, old-age pensions, housing and the protective labour market policy, of six states, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, over the past two decades are explored by set-theoretic methods. First, employing fuzzy-set ideal type analysis (fsITA) it is argued that it is inappropriate to talk about a single, homogeneous welfare model in East Asia. East Asian states have distinctive patterns of welfare development often combining ‘productive’ and ‘protective’ welfare policies. What is more, after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, social protection became a more important aspect of welfare systems across East Asian states. Second, the reasons for the diverse developmental trajectories are examined by employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Here, the findings suggest that in contrast to the PWC thesis, economic growth was not a necessary condition for welfare development in East Asia. Instead, it is argued that welfare development can occur under both weak and strong socio-economic conditions in combination with demographic conditions and the level of globalisation. This thesis thus advances current debates in the literature on East Asian welfare models and development and sets the stage for future research.

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Tittawella, Suranjika Erangani. "Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2586.

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ABSTRACT This doctoral thesis in law seeks to understand, and begin to remedy, the immense and avoidable poverty that disenfranchises at least 30 percent of the world's most populous region. Defining South Asia as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the study analyses the multidimensional nature, historical origins and modern dynamics of both this material poverty and poverties of human rights, democracy and development. Both critical analysis and creative response are framed within legal history, human rights jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, comparative law and public international law, but the author draws extensively on political economy and history, and partially on philosophy, and cultural studies. Chapter 1 traces the Western evolution of the universal human rights regime, first globalized in 1948 by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also traces South Asian sociopolitical and religious articulations of human dignity and limitations on legitimate power through the ages. Mostly contrary to culturally relativist claims, South Asia's human rights needs are found to be well served by a genuinely universalist regime including justiciable economic, social and cultural rights as inseparable from civil and political. Chapters 2 and 3 survey the historical globalizations that have impacted on South Asia. Although globalization is shown to be a neutral phenomenon, the author identifies the insidious contemporary propagation of a particular neo-liberal ideology as being globalization's inevitable and optimal form. The study analyses this propagation by the International Financial Institutions the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, acting through Structural Adjustment Policies and only partially corrective Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. Neo-liberalism supposedly unshackles benign market forces from distorting governmental rules to create spontaneous growth that trickles down to the poor; in fact it employs its own rules to privilege the already wealthy, especially Western capital and transnational corporations (TNCs). The thesis urges South Asia to govern globalization pro-actively, seeking the virtuous circle of human rights, plural democracy and equitable development. Positive signs have already included national membership in, and constitutional enshrinement of, universal human rights norms, and certain efforts of civil society and non-governmental organizations, fostered at times by activist judiciaries. Chapter 4 nevertheless catalogues overriding failures to internalize plural democracy and the rule of law, leaving rights nominal and democratic structures hollow. Governments have been obsequious to neo-liberal hegemony, insouciant to their underclasses and exploitative of religious schisms in appeal to tyrannous majoritarianism. The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation is shown as an inadequate response to the region's multidimensional poverties. Adapting instead the best practices of the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, the African Union, and the British Commonwealth from Chapter 5, Chapter 6 details a South Asian Union for Human Rights Development and Democracy to replace SAARC. This new regional response complements global human rights norms and offers South Asia solidarity in confronting neo-liberalism, and holding TNCs, IFIs and especially their own governments accountable to the rule of law, equitable development, deep democracy, wide human rights, and larger freedom in peace and security.

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White, Peg. "Crossing the East West devide : new perspectives on East-West interaction /." View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030908.104240/index.html.

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Thesis (Ed.D) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1999.
"Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Education 1999, School of Lifelong Learning and Educational Change, University of Western Sydney Nepean" Includes bibliographical references.

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Radin, Adam J. "The security implications of water prospects for instability or cooperation in South and Central Asia /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FRadin.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010.
Thesis Advisor(s): Clunan, Anne L. ; Chatterjee, Anshu N. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 21, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Security, South Asia, Central Asia, Environmental Conflict, Indus Water Treaty. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-62). Also available in print.

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Martin, Casey. "The creation of a pacifist narrative in Saotome Katsumoto's Senso to Seishun." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539361.

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This thesis examines Japanese writer Saotome Katsumoto and his efforts to create a pacifist message in his 1991 film Senso to Seishun (War and Youth). The story presents multigenerational viewpoints on the Pacific War, and is significant for being the first film to depict the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 9–10, 1945. I discuss how Saotome's use of fiction, metaphor, and autobiographical techniques assist the film in creating a pacifist narrative. The film's pacifist message continues to hold relevance today, as nationalist and conservative groups push strongly for revisions to Article 9 of the Japanese Peace Constitution in order to remilitarize the nation.

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Dovale, Madeline J. "Postwar japan's hybrid modernity of in-betweenness| Historical, literary, and social perspectives." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527481.

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This thesis explores Japanese society through the lens of cultural hybridity and liminality to understand the shift towards nonconformity and hyper-individualism among post-postwar Japanese. This shift reflects an important point in Japan's transculturation process whereby post-postwar Japanese have developed a cultural hybridity of inbetweenness (liminality) juxtaposing their native Japaneseness (wakon) against their adopted Westernness (y okon). This wakon-yokon hybrid construct is posing a challenge to Japan's longstanding hybrid modernity philosophy of wakon-y osai (Japanese spirit- Western things), which perpetuated the pre-modern core values and collectivist ethics of Japaneseness for nearly 150 years below its façade of Western modernity. The dilemma inherent in Japan's wakon-y okon in-betweenness is foreshadowed in the pioneering works of Abe Kob o and Murakami Haruki, who both illuminated the conflicting juxtaposition of the core values and ethics of Japaneseness (wakon) and seken-Other (the jury-surrounding- the-Self) against the pursuit of the individualist ethics of Westernness (y okon) and Selfhood ( shutaisei) within their imaginaries.

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Witjaksono, Sigit. "Japan’s Role in Responding to the Crisis in Southeast Asia and the East Asian Regionalism." Graduate School of International Development. Nagoya University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/6242.

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Lai, Yi-Hsuan. "Articulating East Asia : inter-Asian packaging of Taiwanese idol drama in the twenty-first century." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/articulating-east-asia(0dd4ab4c-aba6-490c-8014-597c33b9685b).html.

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This thesis explores the inter-Asian operations of Taiwanese “idol drama” – star-centred TV drama set in the twenty-first-century Taiwan, targeting female audiences. It examines how the industry has developed international, multilateral co-operation relationships after the neo-liberal deregulation in its domestic market. Theoretically, it accounts for the cultural politics (of regional and Taiwanese representation) in the production aspect by examining different regional production strategies in the industry. I propose to view idol drama as a medium subject to three dominant, pedagogical and oppressive value systems (post-colonial nationalist, patriarchal, and capitalist/commercial) in Taiwan and other East Asian countries. The scattered dominant value systems, which resemble, yet contradict each other in different aspects, form the context where idol drama operates. To analyse these operations and their imaginations, I modify Stuart Hall’s concept of (mediated) articulation into the Taiwanese context. I contextualise idol drama from the perspective of Taiwan’s political economy and its TV market, especially political democratisation, yet with polemic contestation of Sino-centrism and Taiwan-centrism, media deregulation within a fragmented domestic market in a time of globalisation. Regionalised viewing of TV drama in East Asian markets will also be assessed. The initial section looks into how different Taiwanese idol drama producers “package” different East Asian elements to appeal to both domestic and international markets. The second part analyses four inter-Asian packaging strategies in terms of their struggles for legitimacy and contestations surrounding the productions. The last part examines the mediated articulations of Taiwanese subjectivity with the patriarchal nationalist forces of its stronger neighbours in East Asia. Different articulations about Taiwanese identity, with social and gender values in the forefront and national relations in the background, have been mediated in this inter-Asian packaging to form a multi-faceted system of images that together represent the Taiwanese economic and cultural relations with other East Asian countries.

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Tong, Chi-hung Philip, and 湯志雄. "International trade in Asia Pacific: a study of trade liberalization and regionalism : an East Asia prospective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31267683.

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