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Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism
Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.
Topography of Politics in Rural China
Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book. State-of-the-art techniques and perspectives are combined to take the reader into Xiaocun, a small village on the east bank of the Dianchi Lake in Kunming City. In 2003, the author published the book Crime and Punishment: The Story of Xiaocun (1931–1997), which dealt with disputes, mediation and punishment in the village following the legal anthropology tradition. At that time, neither the villagers nor the author foresaw the vast changes that were to appear a few years later. Their main economic activity then was growing vegetables and flowers; urbanisation was tsunami-like in its speed and im...
The Haunting Fetus
The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and...
Sudden deafness
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a multifactorial emergency disease. Its clinical manifestations include hearing loss, ear fullness, tinnitus, and vertigo symptoms. While the exact aetiology of SSNHL is still unknown, the pathogenesis can be ascribed to various factors, such as infection, head trauma, immune diseases, certain drugs such as anti-cancer and some antibiological, blood circulation problems and/or haemorrhage in the inner ear, neurological disorders (multiple sclerosis) and Meniere’s disease. The risk factors associated with SSNHL include psychological factors and unhealthy living habits, such as anxiety, depression, smoking, drinking and obesity leading to inner ear arteriosclerosis and microthrombus formation, which in turn affects the inner ear blood supply and thus cause SSNHL.
Design for Partnerships for Change
Architecture has played a very important role in colonization of the society and the earth, and today we have the urgent task to crack the theory and practice of this same Architecture. We can achieve this only by working collectively towards reframing concepts that has been at the centre of a dominant universalist western knowledge creation. Rethinking and reframing the ideals of community, participation, commons, agency, design, and land, this book puts forward a collective effort to shift the centre of architectural thinking and practice, and create as many ways possible to understand our role as architects today. We acknowledge unrecognized practices by bringing back everyday-life experi...
Endocrine Complications of COVID-19: Short and Long
Although COVID-19 no longer dominates the news, numerous unanswered questions persist. In the midst of the pandemic there were many publications that with hindsight were subject to several confounders. For instance, there were multiple reports suggesting that COVID was responsible for the development of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. However, a significant portion of these reports were affected by ascertainment bias during that period. It is accepted that a substantial number of undiagnosed diabetes cases exist within the population. The heightened focus and testing of individuals revealed numerous new cases, but these could have merely been pre-existing, undetected conditions and potentia...
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