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Author : Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110814682
Author : Wei-Bin Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812383518
This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). It is mainly concerned with the industrialization and modernization of Taiwan. To help readers understand the process of modernization, the book provides an introduction to the history of Taiwan and to Confucianism and its modern implications. As far as social and economic principles are concerned, Taiwan's modernization is, according to the author, characterized by Americanization and modernizing Confucian manifestations. The book demonstrates that Taiwan has actually provided an important case study not only for the capitalist spirit of overseas Chinese, but also for possible implications of Confucianism for modernization. The unique character of this book is that in explaining Taiwan's modernization, it deals not only with economic and social issues, but also examines the philosophical foundations, an endeavor which no other author has systematically made before.
Author : Keng Swee Goh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCSD:31822033466624
To many developing countries of the Third World, modernisation is essentially a vital strategy against centuries of poverty. For success to be achieved, the ethos of the traditional society and the old order must give way to new beliefs and values, which stress efficiency, law and order, merit through achievement, and a strong effective government able to put through difficult, unpopular, but necessary measures. This is the orientation and at the same time the unifying thread of the present collection of speeches by an economist who had borne prime responsibility for Singapore's economic policies through its evolution from colony to republic. Dr. Goh Keng Swee's speeches were made over the period 1959-71, a climacteric in the history of not only Singapore, but also the developing countries of Asia. Singapore's experience, despite its unique circumstances, may provide useful pointers to others. The title of this book notwithstanding, the speeches also deal with sociological, political, defence and other topics. Reflecting the prevalent issues then, these essays are an invaluable record not only of Singapore's progress towards a total, viable statehood, but also of the problems faced by developing countries in the 1960s. This re-issue is part of the Singapore Economics History Collection and features a new Foreword by Associate Professor Kwok Kian Woon of Nanyang Technological University.
Author : Wei-Bin Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015058076319
This book is a part of a broad study about Confucianism and its implications for modernisation of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). Singapore provides a typical example for understanding the Chinese 'Westernising' processes as well as for investigating possible implications of Confucianism for modernisation. It is argued that the difference in modernisation processes between the mainland China and overseas Chinese is much due to the differences in population size and geography. Since the Western powers had enforced China to open its doors to Western powers from the Opium War, many Chinese people left China for overseas. It is in foreign lands and in Taiwan that the Chinese have benefited from Western thought and institutions.
Author : Rappa Antonio Leopold
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813102453
The Enlightenment theorists involved in the public/private debate exposed the logical fallacies of theology and the philosophical weaknesses of metaphysics but left little room for understanding contemporary modes of consumption. What does it mean to be a consumer in the early 21st century? Do modern markets provide real choices for consumers in neoliberal capitalist democracies? Or are consumers ironically slaves to their own patterns of consumption? Rejecting Habermas' conceptualizations in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1991), Rappa offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf). He argues that late modernity — the ethos, experience, and consciousness of global and technological transformation today — is not about the fusion of “public and private” spaces. Rather, modernity and consumption involves the deep penetration of private space by public space to the extent that private space becomes dependent, conditional, and decrepit. The “Private” has become contingent on the “Public”. Decisions about what to consume no longer reflect the mindful choices of private, interest-seeking, and wealth-maximizing individuals but reveal a new kind of public control through foundational images of success, failure, horror, violence, and hope.
Author : A. Embong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403914286
Rich in detail and lucidly written, this is the first definitive study of the new middle class in Malaysia. Abdul Rahman Embong examines the emergence and role of the new Malay middle class, particularly with regard to democratization and evolution of civil society in Malaysia. As well as exploring variations within the class across the country, the author also draws comparisons with the Malay working class, and the middle classes of China, India and elsewhere in East Asia.
Author : Weiming Tu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674160878
Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.
Author : Shireen T. Hunter,Huma Malick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313040276
The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion, but factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world. The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion—Islam—but rather factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factors—some intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some external—that contribute to Islam's current predicament. Contrary to much prevailing thought and opinion, Islam is neither monolithic nor impervious to change. It is neither anti-democratic nor inherently anti-modernization. Islam itself, as this book shows, is not the root cause of the malaise of the Islamic world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004320239
The volume Religion, Place and Modernity explores the spatial articulation of religion and modernity in and through places in Southeast and East Asia. Based on ethnographic, historical and theoretical research, the authors aim at a deeper understanding of the articulation of a religious modernity.
Author : C.M. Turnbull
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971694302
When C.M. Turnbull's A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to the elections held in 1988. In this fully revised edition, rewritten to take into account recent scholarship on Singapore, the author has added a chapter on Goh Chok Tong's premiership (1990-2004) and the transition to a government headed by Lee Hsien Loong. The book now ends in 2005, when the Republic of Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary as an independent nation. Major changes occurred in the 1990s as the generation of leaders that oversaw the transition from a colony to independence stepped aside in favour of a younger generation of leaders. Their task was to shape a course that sustained the economic growth and social stability achieved by their predecessors, and they would be tested towards the end of the decade when Southeast Asia experienced a severe financial crisis. Many modern studies on Singapore focus on current affairs or very recent events and pay a great deal of attention to Singapore's successful transition from the developing to the developed world. However, younger historians are increasingly interested in other aspects of the country's past, particularly social and cultural issues. A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 provides a solid foundation and an overarching framework for this research, surveying Singapore's trajectory from a small British port to a major trading and financial hub within the British Empire and finally to the modern city state that Singapore became after gaining independence in 1965.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814479363
Author : Mun Cheong Yong
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : UCSD:31822033457359
Asian Traditions and Modernization studies various aspects of change in Singapore and explores the ways in which tradition has shaped and moderated the process of modernization. Employing a multi-faceted approach that covers history, religion, science, ethnic relations and language, the book looks in depth at a country which has witnessed rapid modernization and yet at the same time desires to preserve cultural values. Because tradition and modernization are relative and open-ended concepts, traditional values can be modern in their orientation and conversely, modern societies can be traditional in their practices. The focal concern of the book is how these terms can be best and fully understood. This reissue features a new preface by the author.
Author : Antonio L Rappa
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813140080
The Village and Its Discontents: Meaning and Criticism in Late Modernity is a hopeful collection of essays about villages in Southeast Asia and across the world. The "village" is an idea, a construct, and a way of organising society. Villages constitute the basic unit of analyses in the arts, humanities and the social sciences, and these issues are presented through the collection of essays featured in this book. The contributors hope to generate interest in studying villages, to understand the meanings that attach themselves to the concept of the village, and to gain greater insights into multidisciplinary knowledge and analyses in today's highly developed global society. Contents:AbstractPreface (Antonio L Rappa)Foreword (Tommy Koh)Village Structure and Social Organisation (Antonio L Rappa)The Village as a Domain in Language Policy (Lionel Wee)Kampong Lorong Buangkok: The Last Village in Singapore (Caitlin Pan) Politics and Social Transformation: The Ancient-Modern Village of Cambodia (Alvin Lim and Benny Widyono)An African Village in Perspective: Life on the Edge of the Boko Haram (Alvin Lim)Rice Rhapsody: Food and Sexuality in the Singapore Village (Regina Lee)The Urbanisation of Rural Villages in China (Guan Chong, Ding Ding, and Yu Yinghui)From Muban to Changwat and the Structure of Thai Politics (Antonio L Rappa)Pepatah Melayu and Adat Berkampung: Values, Rights and Responsibilities in a Kampong as Depicted in Malay Sayings (Lim Beng Soon)Contributors Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies.
Author : Kim Kyong-Dong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811036262
Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and identifying multiple waves of modernization, this book illustrates how principles originating in Chinese Confucianism have impacted the modernization of East Asia, especially in Korea. It also analyzes how such principles are exercised at personal, interpersonal and organizational levels. As modernization unfolds in East Asia, there is a rising interest in tradition of Confucianism and reconsider the relevance of Confucianism to global development. This book considers the actual historical significance of Confucianism in the modernization of the three nations in this region, China, Korea, and Japan through the nineteenth century and early twentieth century to the aftermath of the end of World War II. Examining the existing literature dealing with how Confucianism has been viewed in connection with modernization, it provides insight into western attitudes towards Confucianism and the changes in perceptions relative to Asia in the very process of modernization itself.
Author : Attar Chand
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 8170991404