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Proposing a Common “Ideologyscape” of State and Company in Japan’s EFL Industry—A Research Note
Get PDFWading into Manasarovar Lake:Tibet as Balm for the West’s Self-Doubt
Get PDFThis article reviews four recently published or republished works that bear on changing Western perceptions of Tibet over the past two centuries. It acknowledges that Tom Neuhaus’ study provides the clearest framework for categorising, if not explaining, the shifting images produced both by those who travelled to the country and those who observed it from afar; and it accepts his contention that there was a significant change in European attitudes to Tibet
that owed much to the damage to the continent’s conception of itself and its
values wrought by the First World War. But the argument is made that other
events must be considered in any diagnosis of the growth of Western selfdisgust,
and that the problem also has an important American dimension. The
conclusion reached is that the West’s mythmaking with regard to Tibet is
certainly revealing, but that it is chiefly symptomatic of a crisis of selfconfidence
and identity that will not overcome by a search for esoteric wisdom
beyond its borders.
Paul G. Hackett. 2012. Theos Barnard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and
American Religious Life. New York, Columbia University Press. Pp. xxii,
494. ISBN 978 0 231 15886 2 (hardback).
Arthur Henry Savage Landor. 2011. In the Forbidden Land, Volumes I and II:
An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment,
Torture, and Ultimate Release. Oxford, Benediction Classics. Pp. 499.
No ISBN: reprint of original publication of 1898 (hardback).
Tom Neuhaus. 2012. Tibet in the Western Imagination. Basingstoke, England,
Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. ix, 264. ISBN 978 0 230 29970 2 (hardback).
Colin Thubron. 2012. To a Mountain in Tibet. New York, Harper Perennial.
Pp. 227. ISBN 978 0 06 176827 9 (paperback)
Destiny of Prometheus
Get PDFWhat humanity is facing now evokes us the story of Prometheus who brought the heavenly fire to mankind. Bound to the top of the mountain for his fault, he had to suffer every day his liver devoured by an eagle. This Greek metaphor came into reality by the Fukushima accident of3.11. In fact the fire burning in the nuclear plant is not natural but the one which has not been in the ecosystem of Nature.
The human civilization is on the turning point. Or we may say it arrived the point of return. Just after 3.11,the Japan Society for Global System and Ethics issued an urgent appeal as follows
Can Aid Buy Growth?:Empirical Evidences from Cambodia,Lao PDR and Vietnam
Get PDFODA is advocated to be one of the major financial sources to promote economic growth in most of the developing countries. Despite receiving significant amount of ODA funds, many recipients are still grappled with poor economic growth. Earlier studies on foreign aid effectiveness are rather inconclusive until today. For thist reason, the study aims to sketch a clearer picture of whether aid can buy growth in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam which are presently major ODA recipients in South East Asia region. By incorporating time series data of the three mentioned countries from 1993 to 2009 and application of ARDL approach, the results indicate that there is a negative long run relationship between foreign aid and growth in Cambodia and Vietnam, whereas foreign aid has no impact on growth in Lao PDR within the period of study. Hence, our empirical findings imply that aid recipient countries need to seek for other alternative ways to stimulate growth since foreign aid is not the panacea. In short, aid has failed to buy growt
