Review of Leo Tak-hung Chan (2020). Western Theory in East Asian Contexts. Translation and Transtextual Rewriting. Bloomsbury Academic, xi + 226 pp.

The endowment effect describes people’s tendency to ask for more money when selling objects than they are willing to pay when buying these objects. Previous research found that Asian participants showed smaller endowment effects than Western participants. These results were explained by culture-specific self-beliefs being transferred onto the endowed object. Yet, Asian self-concepts are not onl...

This study investigated tadpole self-drawings from 183 three- to six-year-old children living in seven cultural groups, representing three ecosocial contexts. Based on assumed general production principles, the influence of cultural norms and values upon specific characteristics of the tadpole drawings was examined. The results demonstrated that children from all cultural groups realized the bo...

The medical services market is rapidly expanding around the world, following the experience of the industrialized Western economies. Cultural differences make existing assumptions about health care quality risky to export, leading to an increasing interest in understanding patient satisfaction with care within non-Western contexts. Within the Greater China region, both Western and traditional C...

In Western literature, there is evidence that museum explainers offer significant potential for enhancing visitors' learning through influencing their knowledge, content, action, behaviour and attitudes. However, little research has focused on the role of explainers in other cultural contexts. This study explored interactions between visitors and museum explainers within the setting of Thailand...

This paper explores the emerging scholarship investigating relationship between religion(s) and populism. It systematically reviews various aspects of phenomenon going beyond Western world discusses how religion populism interact in contexts around globe. looks at Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity different regions cultural contexts, they merge with surface as bases populist appe...