Misunderstanding Asia
Title | Misunderstanding Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Rozman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137506725 |
In this volume, experts on East Asia focus on each of the past five decades to explain the weak predictive power of traditional IR theory as applied to the region and uncover the true forces driving change.
Misunderstanding Asia
Title | Misunderstanding Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Rozman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137506725 |
In this volume, experts on East Asia focus on each of the past five decades to explain the weak predictive power of traditional IR theory as applied to the region and uncover the true forces driving change.
Asian-American Understanding and Misunderstanding
Title | Asian-American Understanding and Misunderstanding PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Asia |
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Magnificent Delusions
Title | Magnificent Delusions PDF eBook |
Author | Husain Haqqani |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1610394518 |
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America—to Pakistani eyes—has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation. The countries are not merely at odds. Each believes it can play the other—with sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic, results. The conventional narrative about the war in Afghanistan, for instance, has revolved around the Soviet invasion in 1979. But President Jimmy Carter signed the first authorization to help the Pakistani-backed mujahedeen covertly on July 3—almost six months before the Soviets invaded. Americans were told, and like to believe, that what followed was Charlie Wilson's war of Afghani liberation, with which they remain embroiled to this day. It was not. It was General Zia-ul-Haq's vicious regional power play. Husain Haqqani has a unique insight into Pakistan, his homeland, and America, where he was ambassador and is now a professor at Boston University. His life has mapped the relationship of the two countries and he has found himself often close to the heart of it, sometimes in very confrontational circumstances, and this has allowed him to write the story of a misbegotten diplomatic love affair, here memorably laid bare.
Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca
Title | Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca PDF eBook |
Author | David Deterding |
Publisher | ISSN |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9783110286519 |
This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions. It is based on a corpus of conversations between English speakers from south and east Asia that helps us investigate what causes misunderstandings, particularly the pronunciation, grammar, word choice, and discourse. The book also considers how such misunderstandings may be signalled and repaired. Finally, it discusses the implications for teaching English around the world and offers guidance to teachers in enabling their students to become highly intelligible.
Misunderstanding Media
Title | Misunderstanding Media PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Winston |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1315512203 |
The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.
Reflections on "misunderstanding" China
Title | Reflections on "misunderstanding" China PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Suess Whiting |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | China |
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