In his paper, "Globalization, Ideology, and Narratives of the East Asian Financial Crisis," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee analyzes the narratives of the East Asian financial "crisis" in 1997-98, arguing that it took place in the course of restructuring the world economy so that the first world would keep its hegemonic power. The East Asian financial crisis spread rapidly to the rest of the globe and in th...

Through making references to some inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural studies of “Transcendence” as well the usage relevant terms in contemporary Confucianism Christianity, especially concepts “transcendence” “immanence” (which is translated sometimes nèi zài Chinese), this study attempts challenge prevalent stereotypes Christianity Confucianism. With special historical Christian-Confucian di...

Prior to Germany’s emergence as an imperial power in 1884, scholarly knowledge of the Orient was only deemed useful to a handful of academics, largely in part because oriental scholarship’s primary emphasis was the study of classical languages and ancient manuscripts. German colonialism, on the other hand, required the creation of a new body of oriental knowledge, one that was firmly rooted in ...

European perceptions of the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century have often been read through the prism of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748). His ‘moral geography’ depicted a despotic and decayed Islamic Ottoman polity in contrast to the dynamism displayed in European states. Montesquieu’s comparisons and contrasts between the Ottoman East and Europe appear to support Edwa...

: Travel writing becomes an object of scholarly scrutiny thanks to Edward Said’s Orientalism in which he contends that travel narratives are not the objective portraits Oriental peoples and loci, but collude with justify foster Western Empires. Nonetheless, scholars such as Behdad Blanton disagree view, asserting writers can transcend rigid norms Orientalism. Thus, by employing Behdad’s Blanton...

a meaningful nitary notion of Hinduism from the Indian phenomena, unless it is done by exclusion..." (Frits Staal [1989], Ritual Without Meaning, p. 397). Orientalism and the Modem Myth of "Hinduism" 165 The work of integrating a vast collection of myths, beliefs, rituals, and laws into a coherent religion, and of shaping an amorphous heritage into a rational faith known now as "Hinduism" were ...

one of the importants questions in the discourse of valery, french author of xxth century is the question of another who achieves in the knowledge. another is treated with a new way. indeed, another is defines in touch with the me of the author. that is the reflection of me and a dialectic becomes established between both: me and another. in his discourse, the enonciataire is in front of two in...

the depiction of iranian women at european 3 tv documentaries has been studied in this paper. so through an interpretative approach, the semiotic analysis has been applied to analyze the content of these documentaries. the selected documentaries to analyze are outstanding documentaries on iran. these three documentaries include:taboos, (2004), rageh inside iran (2007) and  prostitution behind t...