British India in the Twentieth Century
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This 6 page paper focuses on land policy. While the twentieth century is the focus of this paper, the history leading up to it is a large part of the paper. Much that occurs in the nineteenth century provides support for the current situation in India. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA548BI.rtf

British Perspectives on Akbar’s Reign
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A six page paper which looks at the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar of India, and the way in which British perspectives on Akbar and his cultural innovations altered from the time of Elizabeth 1 through the era of colonialism and post-colonialism. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: JLakbar.wps

Brunei Darussalam and Cross-Cultural Issues in International Business
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This 7 page report discusses the sultanate of Brunei Darussalam located on the northern coast of Borneo. For the past century, the tiny nation was one of the wealthiest in the world but it has recently had to deal with numerous economic problems and is being forced to change many long-held habits and attitudes. In addition, since oil has evolved as the primary resource of the nation, the population of Brunei (approximately 330,000 people) has received the benefits of the “Shellfare State - free cradle to grave health care and education.” Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: BWbrunei.rtf

Buddhism
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5 pages in length. The writer provides a detailed description of Buddhism, as well as touches upon Confucianism, Taoism, Falun Gong and Shintoism. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: TLCBuddh.rtf

Buddhism and Women
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A 5 page discussion of the role of women in Buddhism. The author notes that women have historically been subjugated by the Buddhist religion but that this subjugation is related more to historical circumstance than to the teachings of Buddha himself. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPwmBudh.rtf

Buddhism in China
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This 7 page paper provides an overview of Buddhism in China. Various forms of Buddhism are explored. Types of Buddhism within China and other nations are compared and contrasted. Some history is provided as well as information regarding religious practices in communist China today. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: SA119Bud.doc

Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism
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A paper which looks at Buddhist doctrines and practices in the context of Confucianism and the Tao, and considers how these practices are manifested in daily life. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: JLtao.rtf

Building Intelligence and Language Ability in Chinese Language Learning
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This 30 page paper provides an overview of a sutdy of elementary students and the use of a viritual (computer-based) environment for Chinese language learning. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: MHChinLa.rtf

Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok
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This 11 page paper looks at the strategic position of this Thai private hospital. The writer considers the macro and micro factors impacting on the hospital with examples of that impact. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: TEbunhsp.rtf

Bunraku: Costumes and Wigs
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A 6 page paper which examines possible costumes and wigs for the Bunraku production of Love Suicides at Sonezaki involving the character of Tobukei. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAbunku.rtf

Burma (Myanmar): Culture, History and Traditions
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This is a 5 page paper discussing Burmese history, culture, and traditions. Burma (Myanmar) is a country rich in culture, religion, history and traditional festivals and beliefs. Over 89 percent of the population is Buddhist and this provides a great deal of traditional structure and family values to the way of life in the country. Most of the population belongs to the agricultural sector which further retains the traditional rituals of the small communities. The political situation in Burma however is turbulent as a militant government has controlled the country for several decades which has led to a great deal of rioting, controversy and violation of human rights. Because of the political situation and record in Myanmar, some countries have imposed trade sanctions against the country which impacts the economy considerably. Despite the poor conditions however, the cultural and religious basis of Burma and the Burmese remains intact and a significant and central aspect of lives of the people. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJBurma1.rtf

BUSINESS CLIMATE AND POLITICS IN CHINA
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This paper discusses a joint venture between a U.S. and Chinese firm -- and the political and business climate in China that might impact the firms' ability to do business. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MTchibus.rtf

Business Considerations When Expanding to China
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of items that a business would want to consider when expanding to China. The paper focuses on education and human capital. Suggestions are provided. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA142ch.rtf

Business Etiquette and Culture in Taiwan
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A 4 page paper discussing points of business etiquette in Taiwan. Learning a few words of Chinese can be beneficial in building relationships, but the Taiwanese expect foreigners to be "foreign." The paper discusses conduct, gift-giving, gender issues, perspective of time, proper use of business cards and other topics. Common sense and a basic knowledge of the culture are invaluable. PowerPoint presentation also available. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSbusEtiqTaiw.rtf

Business Practices In India
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This 10 page overview looks at the market in India particularly as it pertains to Americans who do business there. Topics include : customs, traditions, language, religion and superstitions and why it is important to understand the culture of a country in which one conducts business. Specific examples include Kentucky Fried Chicken's difficulties as well as McDonald's smoother entry. Bibliography lists12 sources.
Filename: Busindia.wps

Cambodian Women and the Khmer Rouge
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This 7 page report discusses the genocide that took place in Cambodia during the totalitarian regime of the Khmer Rouge in 1975-1979. Various empirical studies reported that Cambodian women experienced the most extensive trauma. These women were victims of physical violence, often of a sexual nature, perpetrated by their fellow citizens. They were exposed to multiple forms of emotional abuse, torture, and forced labor. Many witnessed the deaths or executions of their husbands, and most lost at least one, and often several, of their children. Extended kinship networks, so much a part of their cultural heritage and their everyday functioning, were destroyed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWcamref.wps

Canada: Little Tolerance For Hybridized Identity
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8 pages in length. Pearl Harbor created fear in the hearts of all North Americans; in order to quell that fear and maintain control over its political, social and economic concerns, Canada worked hard to harshly dissuade any hybrid Japanese residents from becoming spies. These tactics, considered to be over-reactive at best and downright inhumane at worst, included the complete and utter downgrade of a once-participatory and mainstreamed population by forcing Japanese Canadians to forfeit their property, and, after being deprive of liberty, the men "were impressed into forced labor and the women and children transported to ghost towns and abandoned mining camps in the interior of the country to fend for themselves" (Milton 8). The disturbing sting of this sudden intolerance for an individual's hybrid identity has lasted long after the initial reason for its original existence, rendering Canada yet another in a long list of countries where the melting pot of multiculturalism has become an unwelcome entity, an element of modernity painfully portrayed in Wayson Choy's "Jade Peony" and Joy Kogawa's "Obasan." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLChybrd.rtf

CAPITALISM WITHOUT DEMOCRACY – KELLEE TSAI
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This 3-page paper answers questions about Chinese enterpreneurs, based on Kellee Tsai's lectures. The discussion includes differences between Loyaly Accepting, Grudgingly Accepting and Assertive groups.
Filename: MTchinent.rtf

Carnatic Indian Music: Tradition and Evolution
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An 8 page exploration of this traditional form of Indian music. Emphasizes that while this musical style has been exposed to a number of cultural stressors, it has not only managed to survive but to encompass a number of other musical genres as well. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPindiaM.rtf

Carpini: The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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A commentary on Carpini's account of his experiences of Mongol society in the Middle Ages, with specific reference to cultural clashes and the difficulties of making objective analyses of other cultures. Bibliography lists 1 source
Filename: JLmongols.rtf

Case Study Analysis in Management (Mabuchi Motor Company)
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This 10 page paper evaluates a firm that is Japanese in origin but is located in China. The case study used is one submitted by a student. The case is evaluated in terms of resolving a problem that seems to pertain to country culture. Literature on management is reviewed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA502mgr.rtf

Case Study in Japanese and American Culture
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This 3 page paper examines Japanese business culture in a hypothetical situation where a CEO takes over an American company. What might happen as a result is discussed. No bibliography.
Filename: SA542Jap.rtf

Case Study: Culture And Work Ethic
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the conflict between a Japanese work program and the Western participants who refuse to abide by cultural norms. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TLC_JET.wps

Caste in India
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A 6 page paper which examines how caste functions in India. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAcaste1.rtf

Catholicism in Modern Day China
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This is a 6 page paper discussing the political and religious issues involved in Catholicism in modern day China. Although the Catholic religion has been a part of Chinese life for the past 400 years, the last 50 years has seen a political division in the Church because of the 1949 Communist victory. The Communist government created the “official” Catholic Church in China which essentially divided the Church into two groups: those who followed the Chinese official Catholic Church and those who followed the Vatican who had to go underground to practice their beliefs. Since that time, the Vatican, Beijing and the followers of the Catholic faith in China have undergone a tumultuous journey on the path to reconciliation and normalization. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TJCathC1.rtf

CAUSE AND EFFECT IN MONKEY BRIDGE/LAN CAO
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This 3 page paper discusses the cause/effect relationship between the protagonist, Mai, and her mother, in Lan Cao's book, The Monkey Bridge. Quotes included. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBcao.rtf

Challenges of Environmental Sustainability
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An 8 page paper discussing two environmental problems in China (the Three Gorges Dam and air pollution) and measures that the government has or may take to mitigate the environmental effects. In contrast is the experience of Singapore, which adopted stringent environmental regulations when its economic growth led to environmental degradation. Singapore was able to address growing environmental problems before they came to be ingrained in systems and operations, and after MNEs became dependent on Singapore's markets and workforce. Likely its small size also contributed to dedication to environmental sustainability, an advantage that China does not have. Bibliography lists 6 sources. PowerPoint presentation available.
Filename: KSenvSusDevel.rtf

Challenges to 20th Century Imperialism
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This 8 page paper discusses the processes that may come into play when a nation struggles to free itself from the grip of an imperial power.
Filename: HVImperl.rtf

Challenges to E commerce in Hong Kong
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This 59 page paper considers the challenges faced by e-commerce and internet trading to businesses in Hong Kong. E-commerce is now a popular way of trading. For a country such as Hong Kong where international trade is required to sustain the economy and services are the primary sector due to the lack of local natural resources, e-commerce must be considered as a way if increasing business for both small and large companies as well as the benefits that it can bring to the economy as a whole. All projections indicate that e-commerce levels will increase rapidly over the next few years. This is an opportunity many business in Hong Kong can take advantage of with the advantage of the support form their Chinese government but the benefits of an autonomous region within that country. However, to take advantage of the potential in e-commerce businesses and government needs to realise the advantages and challenges. The potential decease of barriers and lower overheads may be balanced by the potential increase in competition, problems such as disintermediation, security and the lack of existing business models to follow. The research outline, which follows a lengthy literature review, suggests some primary research looking at specific businesses, to develop a model which can then be followed by new entrants and help those who are already in the sector. This will increase value by enabling resources to be maximised, benefiting both businesses and their customers as well as the Hong Kong economy. The bibliography cites 34 sources.
Filename: TEhinkongec.rtf

Challenges to E Commerce in Hong Kong; A Research Proposal
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This 24 page paper consider the background of Hong Kong and the medium of internet retailing in order to outline a project proposal on the challenges of e-commerce in Hong Kong. The paper includes a comprehensive literature revues that looks at the macro environmental factors to both Hong Kong and the internet as well as aspects such as internet access and payment problems in a credit card averse society. The bibliography cites 13 sources
Filename: TEHKecom.wps

Change Through Reform or Revolution, Which is Preferable in Reference to China and Latin America
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A 5 page paper which examines which method of initiating change is preferable and more successful by specifically considering “The Dragon’s Village” by Yuan-tsung Chen, “I Rigoberta Menchu” by Rigoberta Menchu and “Conversations With Cuba” by C. Peter Ripley, as well as the films “Huozhe” (“To Live”), “Men With Guns” and “El Che.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TGrefrev.rtf

Changing Roles of Married Japanese Women
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This 6 page paper considers how the role of married Japanese women has changed over the last 50 years. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: HVJapaWm.rtf

Characteristics Of Private Housing Development Process And Social Housing Development Process: Singapore And The United States
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4 pages in length. The approach to housing is as different as the communities in which developments are constructed; that some global societies erect state-sponsored housing while others empower residents with a shared involvement of ownership speaks to just two of myriad methods by which communities worldwide attempt to address the ever-growing need for more housing. Examining Common Interest Development (CID) in the United States and Singapore's state-oriented public housing policy intervention illustrates just how diverse the approach to housing can be from country to country. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCHousingDv.rtf

Chen/The Dragon's Village
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A 5 page essay that analyzes Yuan-tsung Chen's autobiographical novel The Dragon's Village. The writer contrasts and compares the Communist revolution in China to the changes brought on by industrialization in capitalist countries. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khchen.rtf

CHI-KONG
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This 5 page paper discusses the discipline of Chi Kong and its relationship to the spiritual and physical being. It's ties to Taoism and a brief overview of the religion are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBchikng.rtf

Chikamatsu/His Plays & Cultural Ideals
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A 3 page essay that analyzes the sexual and religious ideas in the Japanese seventeenth century plays of Chikamatsu. Then, the writer compares these ideals to Hindu, Jewish, Roman Catholic and American perspectives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khchjppl.rtf

Child Labor in Asia
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A 10 page overview of child labor practices in Asia. Statistics reveal not only a heavy reliance on child labor, the highest in the world in fact in terms of the actual number of children employed, but also an encouragement of such factors by a western market for mass produced goods. Focusing primarily on China, the author examines the practice of child labor from the standpoint of human rights in general and how economic and historical factors have impacted these rights. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPchdLb2.rtf

Child Labor in India: Duties, Reasons, Impact, Conditions and Government Policy
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This is a 9 page paper discussing child labor in India. Child labor within India is said to include between 11 and 60 million children in underpaid, exploitive and hazardous conditions. While the majority of child laborers (78.67%) are involved in agricultural labor positions, most human rights organizations focus more so on the urban-based child laborers within the manufacturing sector as those children are more likely to be bonded. Mainly because of international pressure, the India government has imposed several child labor acts in which they tend to create the “world’s largest child labor elimination program”. However, since the Child Labor (Prohibition & Regulation) Act was legislated in 1986, little has been done to improve the child labor situation. In fact, because of the continued poverty rate at over 35% and the need for India to compete on international trade markets, the child labor industry has continued to flourish. Industries charged under child labor legislation pay minimal fines and many industries “hide” their laborers within small cottage communities which are not covered under the legislation. Within the last decade, various international organizations have reported on the appalling conditions of child labor within India but also report that the Indian government only reports 1981 census figures to keep the true numbers unknown which is why the estimates vary. Regardless of the reports however, the child labor and bonded industries continue within India in all industry sectors and will no doubt continue to remain despite international pressures because of ongoing poverty levels, tradition of the caste system and the country’s desire to remain competitive within the international market. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJInchl1.rtf

Child Welfare Concerns in China
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A 20 page discussion of China’s failure to comply with the requirements of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The author points out that while China has agreed to these requirements in theory, in practice she is far from complying. China’s birth control policies in particular serve to negatively impact her children’s most basic right to life in that they condone and sometimes even encourage such atrocious acts as infanticide and infant abandonment. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
Filename: PPchnChd.rtf

China (Country Culture)
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This 3 page paper examines China. Information on business protocols and the country's climate is included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA805Ch.rtf