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The Ripple Effect China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia [Audiobook]


Free Download Enze Han, David Lee Huynh (Narrator), "The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia"
English | ASIN: B0DB2ZD3QP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:20:00 | 174 MB
Many studies of China’s relations with and influence on Southeast Asia tend to focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional influence. Yet, scholars and pundits often fail to appreciate the complexity of the contemporary Chinese state and society, and just how fragmented, decentralized, and internationalized China is today.
In The Ripple Effect, Enze Han argues that a focus on the Chinese state alone is not sufficient for a comprehensive understanding of China’s influence in Southeast Asia. Instead, we must look beyond the Chinese state, to non-state actors from China, such as private businesses and Chinese migrants. These actors affect people’s perception of China in a variety of ways, and they often have wide-ranging as well as long-lasting effects on bilateral relations. Looking beyond the Chinese state’s intentional influence reveals many situations that result in unanticipated changes in Southeast Asia. Han proposes that to understand this increasingly globalized China, we need more conceptual flexibility regarding which Chinese actors are important to China’s relations, and how they wield this influence, whether intentional or not.
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Ripple The Big Effects of Small Behaviour Changes in Business [Audiobook]


Free Download Ripple: The Big Effects of Small Behaviour Changes in Business (Audiobook)
English | May 06, 2020 | ASIN: B087YTG43G | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 41m | 136 MB
Authors: Jez Groom, April Vellacott | Narrator: Ian Pringle
How do you get people who work in pig abattoirs to wash their hands? How does painting the walls of a canteen pink make construction workers behave more safely? And how can baby faces spray painted onto shop shutters reduce anti-social behaviour?
Ripple is about how small behaviour changes can have wide-reaching effects in the real world. By applying behavioural science in your working life, you can have positive ripple effects on the world around you.

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