Volume 13 - Issue 1 - 2018
The Figure of Socrates and its Significance for Liberal Education in Asia
John von HEYKING
University of Lethbridge, Canada
This essay contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the value of liberal education in East Asia, and how well Western models of liberal education fit with East Asian cultures. It addresses the inadequacy of the two main arguments presented in these debates: 1) utility, whether liberal education provides critical thinking skills to help East Asian countries “catch up” to the West and 2) whether Western liberal education carries with it individualism that is incompatible with East Asian culture.
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Impact and Integration ――Protestantism and Reconstruction of Wenzhou's Geographical Space
HONG Xia Bi Xiao-Chun
School of History, Nanjing University Wuxi Luoshe Senior High School
In the 1960s, after Wenzhou became a passive window of British trade with China, Western culture was like a hurricane that got involved in Wenzhou under the influence of religion, affecting its original social structure and cultural patterns. This kind of influence was deeply reflected by Wenzhou Protestantism's adaptation and shaping of the geographical space. ...
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How national identity explains the US and Chinese foreign policy in Asia-Pacific? (Post-Cold War to 21st Century)
Hualai FU
University of York, UK
In the post-cold war era, the US and China have shaped their identities by adopting different foreign policies in Asia-Pacific. This paper takes a constructivist view to analysis the change of their identities in relations to interactions with other countries in the region. The traditional basis of US foreign policy is the zero-sum logic inherited from the Cold War, by which it perceives any other rising superpower as a threat to its security. ...
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Book ReviewDWhat is “Africa”?
Ting WANG
Institute of West Asia and African Studies,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
John Parker and Richard Rathbone gave a brief introduction of the history of Africa in their short book African history, which can be divided into seven parts, namely, “the idea of Africa”, “Africans”, “Africa’s past”, “Africa in the world”, “colonialism in Africa”, “imagining the future of Africa” and “memory of the past of Africa”. In this article I will focus on “the idea of Africa”, especially illustrating the invention, physical reality and diversity of Africa. ....
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Air Services in Indonesia: India-China Dimension
Anil K KANUNGO, Abhishek JHA
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM),India
Global financial crisis and subsequent protectionist measures of US government motivated Indian government to look for opportunities towards ASEAN nations through ‘Look East Policy.’ While scouting for opportunities it was found that Indonesian air services market is buoyant and promising where Indonesia has recently liberalized its open sky policies for inviting domestic as well as foreign investment. Time is appropriate for Indian government to negotiate on how India can participate in Indonesian domestic market and provide air services to its consumers. The paper tries to analyze how Indian and Chinese private domestic airlines can enter into the markets of Indonesia and whether they would be able to provide such services.
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