Through an examination and analysis of references to the Ryukyuan polities as contained in the Ming shi-lu (Ming reign annals), this study explores the emergence of a unified Ryukyu state by the 1430s, and its relationship with the Ming empire and Southeast Asian trade ports. It also assesses the importance of the formal Ming tribute …
WPS 93 Ryukyu in the Ming Reign Annals 1380s-1580s Read More »
This paper aims to provide insight into the way in which the education and skill level of migrants affects the remittance habits, purpose, and the use of the remitted money in the country of origin, in the context of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrants in Germany. The information about the remittance patterns of the immigrants …
Research on the migration-development nexus has experienced an excessive domination by economic explanations during the last several decades. Econometric analysis has been such a dominant factor in the debate that the very language of analysis tends to marginalize social developmental outcomes of migration. There is also a clear lack of longitudinal research. The paper attempts …
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Special Issue: Skilled Diasporas in Asian Development Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics …
Transition theory literature has been preoccupied with either identifying why democracy has not arrived or with how it can be consolidated where it has emerged. Most recently, arising out of the interest in consolidation, attention has turned to scrutinizing institutions for their democratic quality or lack thereof, not least within so-called hybrid regimes. However, such …
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Director in Action examines Johnnie To’s career, whose art-house action hits include A Hero Never Dies, The Longest Nite, Running out of Time, The Mission, PTU, Breaking News, Election, and Election 2. The author discusses the symbiotic relationship between director and genre, why To is regarded as an auteur, and the influence he has on …
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Economic Geography is a comprehensive introduction to this growing field, providing students with a vibrant and distinctive geographical insight into the economy. Contrasts a distinctively geographical approach with popular conceptions and assumptions in economics and management studies Debates a wide range of topics including economic discourses, uneven development, commodity chains, technology and agglomeration, the commodification of …
BY THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the ‘mystic synthesis’. This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity as Muslims, they carried out he basic ritual obligations of the faith, but …
Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions, c. 1830-1930 Read More »
Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the …
