Tag: Asia

April 25, 2024

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

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Free Download Li Guo, "Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900"
English | ISBN: 9463729550 | 2022 | 326 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the Sinographic sphere, and on the other, practices of translational multilingualism (competence in multiple spoken languages to produce a fully localized target text). Translations from plain Chinese are shown to carve out new ecologies of translations that not only enrich our understanding of early modern translation practices across the Sinographic sphere, but also demonstrate that the transregional uses of a non-alphabetic graphic technology call for different models of translation theory.

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April 25, 2024

Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa Comparing Uneven Pathways

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Free Download Tom Gerald Daly, "Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa: Comparing Uneven Pathways"
English | ISBN: 0192899341 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 32 MB
What factors drive constitutional change and sustain positive transformation? How are democratic values recognised, restored, and preserved through constitutional change? Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa is a well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience.

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April 25, 2024

Buddhism in Central Asia Impacts of Non-buddhist Influences, Doctrines

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Free Download Lewis Doney, "Buddhism in Central Asia: Impacts of Non-buddhist Influences, Doctrines "
English | ISBN: 9004520031 | 2024 | 512 pages | PDF | 26 MB
The BuddhistRoad project has been creating a new framework to understand the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer across premodern Eastern Central Asia. This framework includes a new focus on the complex interactions between Buddhism and non-Buddhist traditions and a deepening of the traditional focus on Buddhist doctrines between the 6th and 14th centuries, as Buddhism continued to spread along an ancient, local political-economic-cultural system of exchange, often referred to as the Silk Roads. This volume brings together world renowned experts to discuss these issues including Buddhism and Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Manichaeism, local indigenous traditions, Tantra etc.

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April 25, 2024

AIDS in Asia

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Free Download Yichen Lu, Max Essex, "AIDS in Asia"
English | 2004 | pages: 586 | ISBN: 1441934529, 0306484838 | PDF | 15,4 mb
Asia has become the new battle ground for the war against HIV/AIDS. The magnitude of the potential public health problems caused by AIDS in this populous continent may become a catastrophic disaster. A 10% rate of prevalence of HIV-1 in India and China alone would mean more than 200 million people are infected with HIV.

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January 30, 2024

Streaming and Screen Culture in Asia-Pacific

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Free Download Louisa Mitchell, "Streaming and Screen Culture in Asia-Pacific"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031093739, 3031093763 | PDF | pages: 334 | 6.1 mb
This book is an interdisciplinary collection exploring the impact of emergent technologies on the production, distribution and reception of media content in the Asia-Pacific region. Exploring case studies from China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand and Australia, as well as American co-productions, this collection takes a Cultural Studies approach to the constantly evolving ways of accessing and interacting with visual content. The study of the social and technological impact of online on-demand services is a burgeoning field of investigation, dating back to the early-2010s. This project will be a valuable update to existing conversations, and a cornerstone for future discussions about topics such as online technologies, popular culture, soft power, and social media.

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