Confucianism, socialism, and capitalism: A comparison of cultural ideologies and implied managerial philosophies and practices in the P. R. China

Reconciling Socialism and Confucianism?: Reviving Tradition in China

Jesús Ramos-Martín

In the last decade we have faced important changes in the framework of ideologies at the international level. On the one hand we have seen a consolidation of the awareness upon the environment. On the other hand, since the fall down of the Berlin wall, the world-wide discredit of socialism has grown up, it has bad press. In words of O’Connor (1998: 49) “during the past two or three decades, eco...

Asian Multinationals, Cultural Discontinuities and Employment Practices in Nigeria

Asian multinational companies (MNCs) have an emerging history of operations in Nigeria, presenting dilemmas in the development process. Specifically, MNCs have continued their cultural, economic and political hegemony in less developed countries (LDCs). This paper examines the prospects of transfer and crosstransfer of selected managerial philosophies and the enabled employment practices betwee...

Ideologies in the Imported English Textbooks: EFL learners and Teachers’ Awareness and Attitude*

imported instructional English textbooks in Iran and the learners’ attitudes towards English. Further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. To find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in Spectrum and True to Life English textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

The Disobedient Diaspora : Overseas Chinese Students in Mao ’ s China , 1958 - 66 不歸順的歸國流散者 : 僑生在毛澤東時代中國 ( 1958 - 66 )

Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng, entered the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revo...