Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that claims regarding the classical roots of guanxi and related practices cannot be sustained and, further, that they are not required for the understanding or operation of Guanxi.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the foundation for BRI's talent development as a long-term and gradual process building on policies dating back to China's opening in 1978, and find that international talents and returned migrants perceive themselves as outsiders which hinders China's talent attraction policies and results in a circular movement of academic talents to and from China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a qualitative approach to examine the changes in teacher professional identity cognitively, socially, and emotionally after they had gone through the reform over a period of 3 years since 2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the experiences of women academics while combining the challenging job of online teaching and familial responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, and found that women remained overwhelmed by the workload; lacked support; and endured a tiring struggle to manage their official duties and family responsibilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that professional hierarchy; socioeconomic and sociocultural factors contribute to the privileged migrants' positionality as an insider or outsider in the host country.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored TCM as an important cultural power that connects Mainland Chinese and global Chinese communities and enables the formation of regional social and economic networks that assist in the development of trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural transformation in the postcolonial states with reference to Pakistan is discussed and the authors dissect the process of decay given the pretext of the colonial past and the institutional legacies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the modes of form-construction in the performative sphere of the Brokpa's cultural enactment, revealing the social roles that shape the positionalities of the audience and the performer.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review covers 46 research studies from 2007 to 2019, which examine the inflow of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong after the Vietnamese refugee influx in the early 2000s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief overview of the development of the Belt and Road Initiatives that comprises 6 BRI corridors and explore the reasons behind the launching and promoting of the BRI by the Mainland Chinese government.

TL;DR: The authors examined the daily lives of 35 American migrants in China focusing on 35 migrants' experiences of being stereotyped as the foreign Other during their daily interactions with Chinese locals as an illuminating case, revealing that the perceived stereotyping, triggered by their race and/or nationality, exposed them to admiration because of whiteness, Westernness, and Americanness desired in Chinese society, underestimation of Chinese cultural literacy due to foreignness-marked non-Chineseness, and dissociation via essentialization and stigmatization of foreigners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the normative views on democracy influence the analysis of Dutertismo and argue that a third perspective is necessary which considers the framework of mutual correction where democracy is seen as a postponed synthesis between the task of consensus building and the recognition of irreducible conflict.

TL;DR: Using a combination of theory and case study analysis, this paper showed that the "Comfort Women" Agreement, ratified on December 28, 2015 between South Korea and Japan, lacks procedural, retributive and restorative justice, with subsequent effects on the chances of reconciliation between the two countries and of restoring the honor and dignity of victims.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors found that living in a community with a high percentage of local residents significantly improves the local identity of rural migrants, and frequent social interaction with local residents mediates this relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed mainstream commercial Bollywood movies to understand: (i) how it depicts the caste system, (ii) What are the explicit or implicit indicators of castes in mainstream movies, and (iii) how they reinforce or validate existing caste stereotypes.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative analysis of the literature and lived experiences of war-affected institutionalized children of Pakistan is presented. The findings strengthen the argument for supporting familial attachment through community-based integrated interventions both during and after armed conflict for the orphaned children in alternative care.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impacts of participatory video used in digital training on the empowerment of sex-trafficking survivors in the Philippines and found that participatory videos served as a tool to support communication, as a mirror for reflexivity and voicing, and as a mediated space to connect and gain support.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how Mulan's cultural identity is hybridised when the folklore flows from China to America, becoming entangled within a conflict of Chinese-Western transcultural clashes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the ongoing shift in the meaning and importance of traditional Kalinga tattoos that is happening in Buscalan village in the Philippines, and describe a two-way process of disintegration and preservation of the aura of Busalacan tattoos: on the one hand, the tradition of tattooing headhunters has disappeared, but on the other hand the aura is preserved thanks to audiovisual means and sharing on social networking sites.

TL;DR: In this paper, women workers' experiences of gender discrimination at work in Vietnam and whether labor law might enable them to challenge discriminatory practices were explored and found that women would choose not to take any action or opt for a non-legal means to raise their voices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ interviews with four Thai immigrant entrepreneurs to illustrate the immense roles of Japanese citizen spouses in helping their businesses and argue that the assumption that immigrant entrepreneurs are "pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps" does not provide a broader view of the process to their success.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors extended the application of place attachment to the field of political and civic studies and found that place attachment is composed of both cognitive and affective dimensions, and that the mean score of self-identified "localists" and "Hong Kongers" on place attachment was significantly lower than that of "centrists" and those with no political orientation, as well as those who identified themselves as "Chinese Hong Kongers", respectively.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between a region's cultural inclusion and its residents' social trust and found that higher levels of cultural inclusion are positively correlated with happiness and optimistic social attitudes of residents and are negatively correlated with the probability of misperception and conflicts.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how amiable attitudes toward the United States as an ideal development model can be decreased by a predisposition toward accepting China as a favorable regional power, and found that a positive evaluation of China in terms of its democratization level and having good influence in one's own country negatively correlate with a liking of the USA.

TL;DR: The authors examined how the discourse on suzhi (human quality) has been imagined, reconstructed, and negotiated by short-term martial arts students and their parents in Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the bureaucratic systems in Myanmar have been weaponized to systematically suppress rights of the Rohingya and conclude that, the doctrine of sovereignty has largely remained the salvation harboring and facilitating the continuity of repressive regimes despite the existence of limited sovereignty.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored experiences and perspectives of women from poor rural areas of Pakistan regarding their choice to get higher education and pursue their individual identity, based on the narratives of three women from different villages of Sindh, the southern province of Pakistan.

TL;DR: Based on the examination of CIs' programmes run in Thailand, the authors found that CIs made extensive efforts in these respects and garnered the support of the Thai government, Thai royal family and local business.

TL;DR: In this article, a post-colonial political sociology of social movements is proposed to understand social movements in reference to the specificities of the non-western societies like India, and a critical scrutiny of the major trends appeared in the sub-field of social movement within the disciplinary domain of sociology in India since the 1980s.