The Merlion And Mt Fuji

Author : Tai Wei Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813145726

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The Merlion and Mt. Fuji by Tai Wei Lim Pdf

Anime, Manga, Sushi, Teriyaki, J-pop, Harajuku fashion ... these are just some of the cultural exports from Japan that the rest of the world have embraced and Singapore is one of Japan's biggest fans. Singaporeans have benefited not just by being a consumer of the many technological advances from Japan (Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Panasonic, and Sony to name a few) but also shared and learnt through economic, political, and intellectual exchanges over the past 50 years since the start of the bilateral ties between these two nations. In 1868, Japan was the first East Asian country that underwent rapid modernization and its development was shared with Singapore from the 1970s onwards as the Japanese growth model was selectively emulated by the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan). Currently, as the most advanced economies in Southeast and Northeast Asia respectively, Singapore and Japan will continue to be demonstrative case studies of economic development in the region. There are similarities too between these two countries: an aging population, changing geopolitical realities, mature economies, and environmental challenges. The Merlion and Mt. Fuji is not just a historical account of the bilateral cooperation but also includes honest narratives on what it is like being a Singaporean student on exchange in Japan, an anime and manga fan outside of Japan, and some omotenashi appreciation.

Author : Tai Wei Lim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9813145714

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The Merlion and Mt. Fuji by Tai Wei Lim Pdf

Author : Tai-Wei Lim
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Cultural relations
ISBN : 9813145706

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The Merlion & Mt. Fuji by Tai-Wei Lim Pdf

Anime, Manga, Sushi, Teriyaki, J-pop, Harajuku fashion ... these are just some of the cultural exports from Japan that the rest of the world have embraced and Singapore is one of Japan's biggest fans. Singaporeans have benefited not just by being a consumer of the many technological advances from Japan (Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Panasonic, and Sony to name a few) but also shared and learnt through economic, political, and intellectual exchanges over the past 50 years since the start of the bilateral ties between these two nations. In 1868, Japan was the first East Asian country that underwent rapid modernization and its development was shared with Singapore from the 1970s onwards as the Japanese growth model was selectively emulated by the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan). Currently, as the most advanced economies in Southeast and Northeast Asia respectively, Singapore and Japan will continue to be demonstrative case studies of economic development in the region. There are similarities too between these two countries: an aging population, changing geopolitical realities, mature economies, and environmental challenges. The Merlion and Mt. Fuji is not just a historical account of the bilateral cooperation but also includes honest narratives on what it is like being a Singaporean student on exchange in Japan, an anime and manga fan outside of Japan, and some omotenashi appreciation.

Author : Tai Wei Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811226205

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Women Hold Up Half The Sky: The Political-economic And Socioeconomic Narratives Of Women In China by Tai Wei Lim Pdf

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state with a one-party political system that is also an authoritarian strongman regime. Thus, policies (including those related to gender) from the center are promulgated centripetally to provinces, cities, towns, villages, and local areas effectively.In terms of policy-making, the Chinese government noted that they have strengthened the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) guide for women's work, enacted/upgraded rights protection law in the National People's Congress (NPC), actualized mechanisms for women's cause in the Chinese People's Political Conservative Conference (CPPCC), streamlined work systems for effective implementation of national gender equality policies, and augmented the Women's Federation as an intermediary between the Communist Party of China (CPC), the state, and all Chinese women.As productive forces, Chinese women in the socialist era were exemplary models of mothers and career women who treated family life and work as equally important priorities. They were upper middle class to high net worth individuals who showed their successes in juggling both as objects of moral suasion for other Chinese women in state-led publicity. Some of them were touted by the state as ideal modern Chinese women in state media, moral suasion campaigns, and/or propaganda.

Author : Tai Wei Lim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811386954

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The Indigenization and Hybridization of Food Cultures in Singapore by Tai Wei Lim Pdf

This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore. In a place of ubiquitous hawker centres and kopitiams (coffee shops), the potteries used to serve hawker foods have a strong presence in the culinary culture of Singaporeans. The book looks at the relationship between those utensils, the food/drinks that are served as well as the symbolic, historical, socio-cultural and socioeconomic implications of using different kinds of porcelain/pottery wares. It also examines the indigenization of foreign foods in Singapore, using two case studies of hipster food – Japanese and Korean. While authentic Japanese and Korean cuisines find resonance amongst the youths of East Asia, some of them have adapted hybrid local features in terms of sourcing for local ingredients due to costs and availability factors. The book considers how these foods are hybridized and indigenized to suit local tastes, fashion and trends, and offers a key read for East Asian specialists, anthropologists and sociologists interested in East Asian societies.

Author : Glenn Toh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031225369

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Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages by Glenn Toh Pdf

This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated. The author demonstrates that the negotiated educational pathways of these children have significant bearing on the ways in which individual identities of mixedness may be constructed or contested – where notions of mixedness are necessarily recognised for their inherent fluidity, contextuality and contingency. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of education, neoliberalism, globalization, multiculturalism, mobility and cross-border migration.

Author : Glenn Toh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030928322

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Cross-border Shadow Education and Critical Pedagogy by Glenn Toh Pdf

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity. The central theme of the book is a cross-border critical ethnographic study of the shadow education practices of an overseas Japanese business community in Singapore which ​d​​ra​w​s attention to the elaborate extent to which families are engaged in shadow or cram tutoring practices as part of their children’s education, supported by the strong presence of overseas branches of well-established corporate tutoring businesses headquartered in Japan. The author ultimately critiques a banking approach to education, particularly in terms of its oppressive and dehumanizing outcomes, sustained by the inner workings of neoliberal forces and mercantilist ideologies.

Author : Natalia Kryvinska,Michal Greguš,Solomiia Fedushko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031275067

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Developments in Information and Knowledge Management Systems for Business Applications by Natalia Kryvinska,Michal Greguš,Solomiia Fedushko Pdf

By highlighting ongoing progress in structural management, this book of our subseries encourages further research regarding the subject. Companies need sustainable solutions to the pressure to deal with high levels of risk and uncertainty. Many companies face this challenge and, therefore, must find new ways to deal with it. These solutions are often based on digital-influenced techniques. Previously understood knowledge, technologies, and data provide a huge assist with this goal.

Author : Budiyono; Muhajir Muslih; Isna Shobirin; Siti Ika Wahyu RN
Publisher : Penerbit Duta
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9786022956730

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Explore Your English Without Limits for Senior High School Students Year X by Budiyono; Muhajir Muslih; Isna Shobirin; Siti Ika Wahyu RN Pdf

Untuk versi cetak, silakan kunjungi: http://www.penerbitduta.com/read_resensi/2019/4/explore-bahasa-inggris-smama-kelas-x-wajib#.YXDh51VByUk Developed with scientific approach, EXPLORE YOUR ENGLISH WITHOUT LIMITS for Senior High School Students Year X will be favored by students. This book provides the following features. Lessons and activities in this book are arranged with 5M concept (Mengamati/Observing-Menanya/Questioning-Mencoba/Experimenting-Menalar/Associating-Mengomunikasi/Networking) which allow the students to be actively involved in learning activities. The group works and activities in this book will encourage two-way communication between students, students-teachers, students-parents and students-people around them. Accordingly, they will be able to raise concerns of their surroundings and apply their knowledge and skills in daily life (character building). This book helps students to be creative by allowing the students to explore knowledge without limits. Students will also be able to see and discover alternative solutions to solve various problems, so that they can be good problem solvers. Buku teks pelajaran ini telah dinyatakan layak berdasarkan Keputusan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia Nomor 93/P/2019 tentang “Penetapan Buku Teks Pendamping Pendidikan Dasar dan Menengah Kurikulum 2013 Kelas I, Kelas IV, Kelas VII, dan Kelas X”.

Author : Ian D. Copsey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326227975

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The Game Master by Ian D. Copsey Pdf

Tired of arguing over which of them was the best gamer, Josh and Alex stumbled upon a new video game shop, run by an enigmatic Japanese shopkeeper. He was to be their Game Master in this virtual reality video game that had no game controls. Little did they know it was a game that would change their lives, of their friends... and enemies... forever. "Oh! This game is no ordinary game," The Game Master explained, "It reads your thoughts, seeks out your weaknesses to provide you with challenges." ""It can read our minds?"" puzzled the boys. As they progressed through the game's levels they discovered more about those around them. Then, mysteriously, the Game of Life began to spread its influence beyond Josh and Alex's lives and to their friends. From switching roles with each other, campfire frolics and ghostly stories from their teachers, the Game Master's zany antics as he hosted a T.V. game show, "Hiro's Happy Heroes," released a string of rib tickling gags, teases and tantalising tattles.

Author : Charles Chao Rong Phua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000738582

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Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations by Charles Chao Rong Phua Pdf

The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as China" to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system, the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi’s The Art of War, and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code, beyond the standard clichés about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis’ perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston’s cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese, western-educated and politically neutral understanding of "China as China". An essential primer for academics, practitioners and students of international relations, diplomacy and Chinese culture.

Author : Ratih Hurriyati,Benny Tjahjono,Ade Gafar Abdullah,Sulastri,Lisnawati
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000328387

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Advances in Business, Management and Entrepreneurship by Ratih Hurriyati,Benny Tjahjono,Ade Gafar Abdullah,Sulastri,Lisnawati Pdf

The GCBME Book Series aims to promote the quality and methodical reach of the Global Conference on Business Management & Entrepreneurship, which is intended as a high-quality scientific contribution to the science of business management and entrepreneurship. The Contributions are expected to be the main reference articles on the topic of each book and have been subject to a strict peer review process conducted by experts in the fields. The conference provided opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and implementation of experiences, to establish business or research connections and to find Global Partners for future collaboration. The conference and resulting volume in the book series is expected to be held and appear annually. The year 2019 theme of book and conference is "Transforming Sustainable Business In The Era Of Society 5.0". The ultimate goal of GCBME is to provide a medium forum for educators, researchers, scholars, managers, graduate students and professional business persons from the diverse cultural backgrounds, to present and discuss their research, knowledge and innovation within the fields of business, management and entrepreneurship. The GCBME conferences cover major thematic groups, yet opens to other relevant topics: Organizational Behavior, Innovation, Marketing Management, Financial Management and Accounting, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Green Business.

Author : Yasuhiro Monden
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814374675

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Management of Service Businesses in Japan by Yasuhiro Monden Pdf

With the service industry taking up the largest portion of its GDP, Japan has much to share in the area of managing service industry. This book explores and elucidates the unique management styles in non-manufacturing industries or service industries in contemporary Japan, both practically and theoretically through case studies. These specially selected cases are the management of the world No.1 convenience store chain of Seven-Eleven, the sales finance business and auto sales business of Toyota, application of TPS (Toyota Production System) to life insurance company, performance evaluation of local government, BSC (balance scorecard) in local government hospitals, cost and pricing policy of telecommunication company, Japanese-style OC hospitalityOCO in the retail industry, service level agreement (SLA) in IT and shared service companies, and ICT (Information & Communication Technology) applied to BPN (Business Process Network) of service industry.The analyses presented in this book were carefully laid out in regard to the business in general. It will be useful for business practitioners in service industry and beneficial to the scholars, students or general readers interested in this area.

Author : Tai Wei Lim,Wen Xin Lim,Xiaojuan Ping,Hui-Yi Tseng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814678216

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Globalization, Consumption and Popular Culture in East Asia by Tai Wei Lim,Wen Xin Lim,Xiaojuan Ping,Hui-Yi Tseng Pdf

This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies, political science, international relations concepts and history, this book focuses on a few research objectives. In terms of methodology, it is an area studies approach based on interpretative work, observation studies, policy and textual analysis. First, it aims to examine the closely intertwined relationship between the three major stakeholders in the iron triangle of production companies, consumers and states (i.e., role of government in policy promotion). Second, it studies the interpenetration, adaptation, innovation and hybridization of exogenous Western culture with traditional popular cultures in (North) East Asia. Third, it studies the influence of popular cultures and how cultural products resonate with a regional audience through collective consumption, contents reflective of normative values, the emotive and cognitive appeal of familiar images and social learning as well as peer effect found in fan communities. It then examines how consumption contributes to soft cultural influence and how governments leverage on its comparative advantages and cultural assets for commercial success and in the process augment national (cultural) influence. These questions will be discussed and analyzed and contextualized through the case studies of J-pop (Japanese popular culture), K-pop (Korean popular culture or Hallyu) and Chinese popular culture (including Mando-pop and Taiwanese popular culture).

Author : Hans Hoefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 0245545026

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East Asia by Hans Hoefer Pdf