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Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the ...

Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the ...

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Kuala Lumpur: Times Books International, 1989. _____. E-mail message to author, November 3, 2014. Liew, Ben. E-mail message to author, November 13, 2014. Liew, Kai Khiun, and Kelly Fu. “Conjuring the Tropical Spectres: Southeast  ...
Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health ...

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health ...

Liew Kai Khiun

With specific examples drawn from popular media, this volume examines the extent to which these developments have given the broader public both greater access to information and choices.
Singapore Cinema: New Perspectives

Singapore Cinema: New Perspectives

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In Chapters 6 and 7, Sophia Siddique Harvey as well as Liew Kai Khiun and his co-author Brenda Chan delve into the sonic-visual elements of Singaporeproduced independent and commercial films that are part of the republic's “sensuous ...
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, ...

Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, ...

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Stereoscopic Phantasmagoria and Holographic Immortalization in Transnational Chinese Pop Liew Kai Khiun In 1980, my dad bought a record of Teresa Teng's album “How Do You Say” and gave it to my mother as her birthday present.
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore

Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore

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Singapore: University Education Press, 1974. Liew Kai Khiun. 'Raised Voices and Dropped Tools: Labour Unrest at the Harbour and Naval Dockyard in Singapore (1952-72)'. Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, National University of ...
Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts

Television Histories in Asia: Issues and Contexts

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12 Cultural polysemy and vernacular cosmopolitanism in the theme songs of Hong Kong television dramas Liew Kai Khiun Introduction: torrential mixing of the tidal currents In 1980, Hong Kong's commercial Television Broadcast Limited ...
Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health ...

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health ...

Liew Kai Khiun

april 17, 2008. shalini umachandran, tnn: granny club tends to HiV orphans. [ online]available at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2957755. cms [ accessed: 5 september 2009]. April 20, 2008. Ajitha Karthikeyan, TNN: Minor girls ...
Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in ...

Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in ...

Martin Thomas

77480. Liew Kai Khiun, 'Labour Formation, Identity, and Resistance in HM Dockyard, Singapore (1921*1971)', International Review of Social History, 51 ( 2006), 418. Ibid., 42248, quote at 428. TNA, CO 273/597/6, Singapore dockyard police, ...
"Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity "

"Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity "

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Chapter 10 From Folk Devils to Folk Music: Tracing the Malay Heavy Metal Scene in Singapore Kelly Fu Su Yin and Liew Kai Khiun Introduction: Reflections of the Misunderstood Mat Rockers On 25 April 2002, Adi Yadoni's Reflections of the ...
The University socialist club and the contest for Malaya: ...

The University socialist club and the contest for Malaya: ...

Kah Seng Loh

Unpublished academic exercise. History Department, University of Singapore, 1973. Koh, Ernest Wee Song. “Singapore Memories: Remembering, and the Makers and Keepers of Singapore History”. In Loh Kah Seng and Liew Kai Khiun (eds.) ...
How We’d Look on Film

How We’d Look on Film

Kai Gorbahn

Kai Gorbahn. Henry and Cliff and I knew Jacob because of our school's Drama club. The four of us had been in ... “We always carry some in my trunk,” Nick said, wiping grass off the back of his jeans as he walked over to behind his car.
The Myth of Media Globalization

The Myth of Media Globalization

Kai Hafez

Kai Hafez. clearly that people in developing countries are more willing to learn about information and communication technology (ICT) than in industrialized countries, especially if it holds out the promise of social advancement. Their future ...
The Knowing Book

The Knowing Book

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Rebecca Kai Dotlich. As a child, ... picture books have won various honors, including the Golden Kite Honor Award. ShelivesnearIndianapolis, Indiana, and gives presentations and poetry workshops across the country. rebeccakaidotlich. com ...
Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of ...

Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of ...

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Helen Kazantzakis, Biography, 505; Eleni Kazantzaki, Asymvivastos, 591.The phrase in ancient Greek is slightly misquoted from Aristotle's Poetics, chapter 9: “ Did kai filosofoteron kai spoudaioteron poiisis istorias estin. I men gar poiisis ...
Freiheit, Gleichheit und Intoleranz: Der Islam in der ...

Freiheit, Gleichheit und Intoleranz: Der Islam in der ...

Kai Hafez

Kai Hafez nimmt die erste umfassende Bestandsaufnahme der Gleichstellung, Integration und Anerkennung des Islams in Deutschland und Europa vor.
Historische griechische Inschriften in Übersetzung: ...

Historische griechische Inschriften in Übersetzung: ...

Kai Brodersen

Kai Brodersen, Wolfgang Günther, Hatto Herbert Schmitt. and]eren gestatten nach | [meinen Möglichkeiten. Wenn aber einer etwas] Vertragswidriges [tut] ge|[ gen den Vertrag, werde ich helfen], so wie (dazu) auff| [ordern die rechtswidrig ...
Rationalising Constructive Trusts

Rationalising Constructive Trusts

Ying Khai Liew

Hohfeld, too, was of the view that, quite apart from a primary right/duty relationship, a new, secondary right/duty relation arises when a primary right is infringed: see discussion in Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson, 'Rights and Private Law' in ...
Sweet Dreams of the Wild: Poems for Bedtime

Sweet Dreams of the Wild: Poems for Bedtime

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Rhyming tale about animals and where they sleep.
Whenever I'm With You

Whenever I'm With You

Lydia Sharp

When they learn there's a blizzard on the way, Gabi's hurt at Kai's coldness swiftly turns to serious concern. He's alone out there. This is the boy who saved her from the dark. She can't lose him to it.
The Wallet of Kai Lung

The Wallet of Kai Lung

Ernest Bramah

Fans of fantasy fiction will fall for this collection of Asian-inspired tales set in ancient China.
What Is Square?

What Is Square?

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Introduces the concept of squares through rhyming text and photographs of square-shaped objects
What is a triangle?

What is a triangle?

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Through rhyming text and brilliant photographs, children learn what everyday things are shaped like a triangle.
Bye, Bye, Bali Kai

Bye, Bye, Bali Kai

Harriett Luger

As her once-comfortable world becomes more and more frightening, eleven-year-old Suzie is almost as worried about losing her best friend as she is about her family being evicted from their apartment.
What Is Science?

What Is Science?

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Introduces youngsters to the many things that encompass the study of science, such as stars, planets, rocks, and soil, using accessible text and bright illustrations.

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