Understanding Sino-Japanese Relations: Proposing a Constructivist Approach in Chinese Studies

Irredentism, the Diaoyu Islands, and Sino-Japanese Relations

1 “ Sino - Japanese relations and Ballistic Missile Defence ”

Since December 1998, the Japanese government has formally committed itself to undertake cooperative technological research with the US into Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD). Japanese government policy-makers stress that the BMD project remains at present purely at the research stage, and that separate government decisions will be necessary before any progression towards the stages of development...

War and Peace in East Asia: Sino–Japanese Relations and National Stereotypes

Proposing an Ethnographic Approach to Teaching Business Chinese

Based on a discussion of current issues in teaching business Chinese, this article proposes an ethnographic approach for the teaching of business Chinese. Specifically, it highlights the imperative for the ethnographic approach and details the components of this approach. In the discussion, reference is made to the research findings in contrastive rhetoric, ethnographic research and genre analy...

Recognising Prior Learning: Understanding the Relations Among Experience, Learning and Recognition from a Constructivist Perspective