This book opens with an interrogation of the representation of immigrants in Asian American
and, to a lesser extent, Asian Diaspora literatures, including works by such writers as Maxine …

The prime function incumbent on the socius has always been to codify the flows of desire, to
inscribe them, to record them, to see to it that no flow exists that is not properly dammed up …

The nature of modernization along China's Southeast Coast and the role of overseas
Chinese in that process is the subject of this dissertation. Beginning in the Ming dynasty, the …

IN Tan EARLY III began APRIL plying OF the 1997 waters a Chinese between oil Hainan
and gas Island exploration and the ship, Vietnamese the Kan Tan III, began plying the …

How to deal with China's hegemonic ascension is a matter of pressing policy concern and
growing academic interest. With the premise that managing China's growing power is a …

The notion of sovereignty in China carries a postcolonial legacy. Earlier Chinese leaders
adopted the notion of sovereignty to protect themselves from Western imperialist intrusion …

Is collective memory permanently defined or continually reinterpreted? I examine two
theoretical frameworks—historical continuity and constructionist theory—by a historical …

Although the East European communist parties failed to solve their deep-rooted economic
and political problems, the Chinese Communist Party was able to hold onto power and to …

Relative gains problem basically means unequal cooperative payoffs disproportionately
favoring partners. With the relative gains problem widely accepted as a serious impediment …

This study intends to offer a social, political, economic, and cultural analysis of Taiwan's
advertising industry through an examination of its history, current structure, and manifest and …