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On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

Ien Ang

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan.
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

Ien Ang

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan.
Desperately Seeking the Audience

Desperately Seeking the Audience

Ien Ang

Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it.
Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

Ien Ang

Ien Ang asks the question: what was it about "Dallas" that made it so entertaining and succesful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences

Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences

Ien Ang

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is ...
Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in ...

Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in ...

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Ang Lee: Interviews

Ang Lee: Interviews

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I WISH I WAS BY THAT DIM LAKE (SHORT) (1982) Director: Ang Lee Screenplay : Ang Lee 32 minutes PUSHING HANDS (1992) Director: Ang Lee Screenplay: Ang Lee, James Schamus Producers: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Sui Je Cheng,  ...
Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media, and ...

Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media, and ...

Ien Ang

Exploration of how Australia and Asia are interwined in everyday culture, and in the imagined worlds of Australians of all backgrounds.
Cultural Studies: Volume 3

Cultural Studies: Volume 3

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Volume 3 Ien Ang, David Morley. facile explanation. Rather as the experience of combat differs from the intelligibility of the markers on the maps at headquarters, so these shootings contrast with whatthe papers sawastheir model. 'He was just ...
Attraction of Strangers: Partnerships in Humanities Research

Attraction of Strangers: Partnerships in Humanities Research

Ien Ang

This report looks at how partnerships in Humanities research is working or not. It offers ideas and looks at how many institutions both here in Australia and overseas handles them.
The SBS Story: The Challenge of Diversity

The SBS Story: The Challenge of Diversity

Ien Ang

Its radio and television services broadcast in more languages than any other network in the world: it is the voice of multicultural Australia. The SBS Story investigates the impact of SBS as a force in Australian media, culture and society.
Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

Ien Ang

Dallas, one of the great internationally-screened soap operas, offers us first and foremost entertainment. But what is it about Dallas that makes that entertainment so successful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Portrait of the Ang Lee Film

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Portrait of the Ang Lee Film

Ang Lee

Illustrated with more than 80 full colour photographs, this lavish companion book includes the entire screenplay, essays and commentaries about the production by director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus, and contributions from cast ...
Ang Lee

Ang Lee

Cliff Mills

Article about the friendship of Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg and their feelings on Lee's defeating Spielberg at the 2013 Oscars. The NewYork Times: Ang Lee http://movies.nytimes.com/person/166472/AngLee Biography, filmography, ...
Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review

Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review

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Minsang umuwi siya buhat sa Maynila upang dalawin ang puntod ng kanyang mga magulang ay hindi makita ni Simon ang kanilang libingan sapagkat ang nasabing lugar ay tinabunan na upang gawing lagarian ng may- aring mga Borja .
Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China

Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China

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As the preceding discussion indicates, Ssu-ma Ch'ien provides ample material for a highly critical reading of the First Ch'in Emperor. ... Specifically, how does he control the records of the past and present, as sacred a SSU-MACH'IEN 45.
Customs Gazette

Customs Gazette

China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

Ch'ien Ting-shan .... P'an Ting-hsiin Chao Chin-lung Tsou Yao-t'ang Chang Shao -ch'uan. Hu ClIIA-NAT Chang Chao-tsung Yi Ch'in-hsun Huang Ting-chia... Ting Hao ling Fang Chi-ch'uan.... Hsii Hsiung-po Huang Kuo-yiin ... Wang Hung Liu ...
The Philosophy of Ang Lee

The Philosophy of Ang Lee

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The Philosophy of Ang Lee draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions to examine the director's works.
The Confucian Persuasion

The Confucian Persuasion

Arthur F. Wright

Edwin. Q. Pulleyblank. NEO-CONFUCIANISM. AND. NEO-LEGALISM. IN. T'ANG. INTELLECTUAL. LIFE,. 755—805. The Yiian-ho period (A.D. 806-20) is looked upon as the second flowering of the T'ang dynasty, a time of partial recovery after  ...
Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated ...

Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated ...

Peter N. Gregory

... figures during this period, see Timothy H. Barrett, LiAo: Buddhist, Taoist, or Neo -Confucian?; Jo-shui Chen, Liu Tsung-yuan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819; and Charles Hartman, Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity ...
Chinese secret societies in Malaya: a survey of the Triad ...

Chinese secret societies in Malaya: a survey of the Triad ...

Leon Comber

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Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819

Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819

Jo-Shui Chen

40 Philip Yampolsky, tr., Platform Sutra, p. 154, with a minor change. Three evil karmas referred to the karmas of deed, word, and thought. 41 For Pai-chang Huai -hai's view, see Tsu-t'ang chi (completed in 952; rpt. Taipei, 1972), p. 274.
English Cebuano Bible No8: Geneva 1560 - Cebuano Ang Biblia, ...

English Cebuano Bible No8: Geneva 1560 - Cebuano Ang Biblia, ...

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Si Jesus mitan-aw kaniya ug miingon: Ikaw mao si Simon, ang anak ni Juan; Paga-nganlan ikaw Cefas (nga kong hubaron, Pedro). John 1:40 gen Andrew, Simon Peters brother, was one of the two which had heard it of Iohn, and that followed ...
English Cebuano Bible No4: Darby 1890 - Cebuano Ang Biblia, ...

English Cebuano Bible No4: Darby 1890 - Cebuano Ang Biblia, ...

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They went therefore, and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. ceb Iyang gidala siya kang Jesus. Si Jesus mitan-aw kaniya ug miingon: Ikaw mao si Simon, ang anak ni Juan; Paga-nganlan ikaw ...
The Grand Scribe's Records: The basic annals of Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records: The basic annals of Han China

Qian Sima

Ssu-maCh'ien yuShih chi hsin-t'un H]JflJfi^J£J|ESfS1. ... Ch'e Hsing-chien ^-frl>S. "Ts'ung Ssu-ma Ch'ien Shih chi 'T'ai-shih-kung tzu-hsu' kan Han-tai shu-hsQ te t'i- chih" ^aJJRJS£fek££ftfleJW«K Chung-kuo wen-che yen-chiu chi-kan l7 ...
English Cebuano Bible No7: New Heart 2010 - Cebuano Ang ...

English Cebuano Bible No7: New Heart 2010 - Cebuano Ang ...

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Si Jesus mitan-aw kaniya ug miingon: Ikaw mao si Simon, ang anak ni Juan; Paga-nganlan ikaw Cefas (nga kong hubaron, Pedro). John 1:40 nhe One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. ceb ...
English-Cebuano Bible: King James 1611 - Cebuano Ang Biblia ...

English-Cebuano Bible: King James 1611 - Cebuano Ang Biblia ...

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Si Jesus mitan-aw kaniya ug miingon: Ikaw mao si Simon, ang anak ni Juan; Paga-nganlan ikaw Cefas (nga kong hubaron, Pedro). John 1:40 kjb One of the two which heard John [speak], and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
Faith & Philosophy of Jainism

Faith & Philosophy of Jainism

Arun Kumar Jain

Scriptures Divine Words, Namokar Mantra, Religious Scriptures, Agam Literature, Ang-agams, Ang-bahya-agams, Classification of Angbahya- agams, Digambar Jain Literature, Shatkhand-agam, Kashaypahud, Four Anuyogas, Details, Non-Religious ...

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