WPS 83 Medical Tourism in Malaysia: International Movement of Healthcare Consumers and the Commodification of Healthcare

In Southeast Asia, medical tourism has taken off in a big way since the 1997 Asian financial crisis.  Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, in particular, have developed deliberate marketing strategies to attract foreign patients.  This paper examines the development of medical tourism in Malaysia, with some references to its neighbouring competitors, Singapore and Thailand.  The analysis …

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WPS 81 From Transnationalism to Nativism: The Rise, Decline and Reinvention of a Regional Hokkien Entertainment Industry

This paper explores the ways in which the production of commercial Hokkien popular culture—including film, music and television—has been transformed over the course of the last half century from a transnational industry into something now associated almost exclusively with ‘nativist’ Taiwan. The paper thus draws on and contributes to wider debates about Diaspora, transnationalism and …

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ARI Annual Report 2006

DIRECTOR’S FORWARD Prof Anthony Reid The year 2006 witnessed the celebration of the fifth anniversary of ARI. The Institute was established in July 2001 as an expansion of the previous Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Its first year was relatively low key but important, as the …

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Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience, and Practice of Modern Asian Art

This book interrogates the relationship between different kinds of modern art and different kinds of cultural contexts in Asian and Pacific countries. The thirteen essays examines how the modern is formed by artists in relation to other traditions and practices (“Western” or “folk”), the audience and modern art institutions, and the burgeoning conceptions of the …

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Kuasa Leluhur: Nenek Moyang, Orang Suci dan Pahlawan di Indonesia Kontemporer

Nenek Moyang Orang-orang meninggal yang sudah mempunyai status sebagai nenek moyang bukanlah hanya suatu entitas yang melaluinya orang-orang hidup mengutamakan suatu hubungan dalam dunia supranatural. Karena tempat itu juga didiami oleh sejumlah bsar roh-roh dan dewa-dewi. Makhluk-makhluk supranatural ini mempunyai kekuatan khusus, fungsi khusus, dan hubungan dengan orang-orang yang masih hidup. Mereka dipuja demi menghindari …

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ACAU Review 2006: Public Waterfronts in the Asian Metropolis: Asian Coalition for Architecture and Urbanism 2006

Waterfronts are the founding source of urban development of major cities in our world. From its spectrum of roles as necessary working environments through economic, administrative and political, and to the recreational, civic and iconic, the changing priorities and competing physical demands on this most intriguing of urban geographic space is the subject of many …

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