M. G. Vassanji has written six novels tracing the migration of South Asians to East Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and their further exodus to North America from the 1960s onwards. South Asians in East Africa are known in popular discourse simply as the "Asians" or "Wahindis". Vassanji chronicles their unique (hi)stories as a migrant community against the Black versus White colonial logic prevalent in African studies. Through his fiction, he argues Asians of East Africa (Asian Africans) are neither Blacks nor Whites but a third entity between the two. They are the Other cultural factor in East Africa's multiracial equation. This new book examines strategies of narration and discourse used in Vassanji's fiction to express the...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-2547-4
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Korean American theologian, Jung Young Lee constructed a theology based on an East Asian worldview represented by the Book of Changes. His theology is deconstructive in his critique on the foundation of Western theologies, revisionist by proposing a paradigm-shift for doing theology, and autobiographical in his theological method. These features show postmodernity which embraces and goes toward otherness. He counters the Western theological focus on impassibility, immutability, and centerality by giving priority to suffering, change, and marginality. Lee's theology is his spiritual journey to rediscover the harmony and depth of Asian culture and spirituality and intellectual quest to reformulate Christian thinking in the context of...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-7132-0
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Faustino Taderera, the most towering figure, the most published, polished and celebrated International Purchasing/Supply Chain, Marketing and International Business academic, icon and guru in Africa, wrote this book, International Purchasing Strategy, as an advanced course at undergraduate and postgraduate level and covers topics like:- purchasing plans; supplier appraisal and evaluation; measuring supplier performance; supplier relationships; low cost centres; the Asian Tigers; trading blocks; vision, mission, objectives, strategies; tendering; TQM; ethics; corporate governance; social responsibility and the sensitive political angle of business and society. The book builds on foundation courses to assist decision makers make Value For...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-6484-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in Wade Park, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000 works of art from around the world. The Cleveland Museum of Art has remained historically true to the vision of its founders, being the only major American museum keeping general admission free to the public. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1325-8079-5
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