Writing British Asian cities

The British Asian Option

Following the economic rationale of [7] and [8] we present a new class of Asian options where the holder enjoys the early exercise feature of American options whereupon his payoff (deliverable immediately) is the ‘best prediction’ of the European payoff under the hypothesis that the true drift of the stock price equals a contract drift. Inherent in this is a protection feature which is key to t...

The Archaeology of South Asian Cities

Urbanism in the Indian subcontinent occurred in three distinct time periods in which cultural cohesion over large regions is archaeologically demonstrated through the architecture and artifacts of social, ritual, and economic activity. In the Indus (2500– 1900 B.C.) and Early Historic (3rd century B.C. to 4th century A.D.) periods, cities were not necessarily tied to political territories or gu...

Use of ‘Asian’ in British population Censuses

Continuing inconsistent use of the term ‘Asian’ and its appearance for the first time in the 2001 Census justifies an examination of its utility in population and health research. Given the potential for ‘Asian’ to describe either persons with origins in the Indian subcontinent or those originating from continental Asia, there is a strong argument in studies employing ethnicity as a measure of ...

Twinning and contact between British and Chinese cities

Head and Hand : Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing