Category: ACAH2018
Re-Centering Domestic Dominance: Women Fighters in China Across Generations
Under conventional patriarchy, women and children within the domestic setting are seemingly protected from various external threats. Meanwhile, the hegemony …
21st-Century Dystopia and Utopia and a Re-Centering of Humanism
Classic dystopia (Swift, Wells) identifies the plagues of society. However, even in 21st-century works that partly do so, committed purposes …
Imprisoned Souls in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the theme of imprisonment, both physical and spiritual, in two …
The South Asian Wanderer: A Literary Evolution of the Orient
Recent times have witnessed the reemergence of the popular notion of the oriental, though now dyed in a singular Arabesque …
Modern Theocracy? When an Incumbent Village Head Becomes New Boss of the Village Land Deity temple: Observation from Residents
Land Deity (aka. ‘Tudigong’ in Mandarin Chinese), according to Chinese folklore belief, is a spiritual chief of executive at the …
A Theatre Creative Research “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a theatre creative research which has been inspired by William Shakespeare’s play script and the …
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: The Irrigation Canal Bridge of Meinong, Taiwan
A bridge, by definition, is a conduit from one side to the other. The sides could be a place, a …
“We Ought to Take…Our Bearings:” The Topographies of Georges Perec
Contemporary French writer Georges Perec compiled “Species of Spaces” in the study of his flat at 18, Rue de l’Assomption, …
Theme of Alienation in Modern Literature: The Advent of Existentialism, With Life as Seen Through Indian English Fiction Writers
Edmund Fuller remarks that in our age “man suffers not only from war, persecution, famine and ruin, but from inner …
When a Woman Walks the Streets: The Female Challenge to Public Space in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi's novel Woman at Point Zero examines a character named Firdaus, a peasant girl who tries to negotiate …
The Microcosm Within the Macrocosm: How the Literature of a Small Diaspora Fits Within the Context of Global Literature
The twentieth century was a century of global powers: the Soviet Union, the United States. Now China is on the …
The Relations and Exchanges Between the Chinese Communist Party and Japanese Leftists in the Early Phase of the Cultural Revolution
After the war, there were no formal diplomatic relations between China and Japan, but economic and other exchanges still continued …
Recentering the Self and Nation Through Memory – Mixing History, Romance and Memoirs in the Autobiographical Writings of Han Suyin
Han Suyin had once described herself as “a fragmentation of the total self” where “each piece recreating from its own …
Communication and Perception of Visual Language in Comic Books, Khai Hua Roh : Smile of the King and Maha Sanook : When the Prince became King
HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away on October 13th 2016. The comic books Khai Hua Roh and Maha Sanook, published …
Consumer Purchase Behaviors in Relation to Distinct Cultural Factors and Product Enhancement Type
In world market competition, modern enterprises must cater for Eastern and Western consumers with distinct cultures. Cultural factors influence customers’ …
Space and Narrative in Cinematic Arts
This study aims to examine space as key component in storytelling by drawing on theories of psychoanalysis, narrative, and formalism. …
3, 2, 1, Infinity! A Decentered Poiesis of Haiku, Code, and Photography
“3, 2, 1, Infinity!” is an art piece that brings together three genres of media and arts: (1) a “Japanese” …
Product Types and Consumers’ Culture: An Empirical Examination in Taiwan
Firms must understand consumer culture to design and develop products that meet consumer expectations. When provided with various innovative consumer …
Marguerite Yourcenar: Japan, and the Cult of the Aging Body
Marguerite Yourcenar’s reputation was built on philologically founded novels on heroes of the Western thought, such as the emperor Hadrian …
Community Murals Serve As a Meeting Zone of Art Tourism in Hong Kong
As a teaching muralist for almost two decades, Prof. Kong Ho explores his community mural experience in Hong Kong in …
The Illusions of Love in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness
As the first African American woman to win an Obie Award, Alice Childress (1916~1994) is an important playwright in the …
Authentication, Attribution and the Art Market: Understanding Issues of Attribution in Contemporary Indonesia
The widespread circulation of paintings lacking a secure provenance within the Indonesian art market is an increasingly prevalent issue that …
Design of Guiding Lines for a Tactile Map for a Campus in Taiwan
This pilot study aimed at the evaluation of three different designs of guiding lines, ruler-lines, dot-lines, and tangent-lines, for a …
The Adaptation of French Lettrism to Cinematic and Media Art in Chinese Context
This paper explores several cinematic and media art works from the late 70s to early 21 century which tried to …
Creative Advertising – Narrative in Marketing Communications
In the 21st century, amidst China’s rapid economic development in a new era of digital information; “advertising” should not be …
Transcendentalism Aspects in the Poem The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Genetic Structuralism Analysis)
The aim of this research is to analyze the collective world view in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem The Rhodora. The …
Products Using the Design Model of Synchronic Contrast Emotion
The moment when consumers are using the product, it usually generates multiple and complicated emotions. If it is contract emotion …
Binary Opposition, Binary Pair, and the Aftermath
This paper uncovers the presence of gender system exerted in Indonesian folk dance: Reog Ponorogo. Based on historical notes, it …
A Study of Historical Overview and the Current Situation of Thailand Film Tourism
This research aims to investigate the historical overview and current situation of Thailand film tourism, based on research on texts …
Suicide, Alienation, and Sexuality as Radical Actions in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: A Study of Slavoj Zizek’s Subjectivity
As one of the most outstanding Japanese authors, Haruki Murakami always comes up with unique ideas of surrealistic story. Yet, …
Un-Abject the Local Genius: A Philosophical Research on Local Art Sustainability in Indonesian Contemporary Era
This study is focused on how local genius sustain their particularity in the dynamic wave of contemporary art. I will …
Aesthetics Problems of Jakarta: Relation Between Yogyakarta’s Theatre Performers and Jakarta’s Audience
This paper discusses the differences in aesthetic perspectives that arise due to the differences in language in art performance. The …
The Body of Women As Property in “Uang Panai” Movie
Every place, especially in Indonesia, have their own ritual in order to propose the marriage to the woman. As one …
Philosophy and Several Kinds of Tumpeng
Tumpeng is a cone-shaped rice dish with meat and vegetable side dishes surrounding it. It is a kind of traditional …
Locating and Relocating Cultural Engagements in a Transnational Age
How do the visual phenomena of Japan live in transnational communities today? How can they embrace international tropes, while retaining …
Typical Writing Styles Among Genders: A Corpus Study in Asian L2 Learners’ Academic Writing
Scholars have been attempting to distinguish the writing characteristics between male and female since the last several decades. Although it …
Mind-Recentering in Globalization Context: Mindful Zen Tray Garden Workshop Through Performing Artistic Perspective
Amid our contemporary materialistic context of globalization, the complexity at our subconscious level has also increased. We have found ourselves …
Infix -Um- of Ciacia Language
Ciacia language is a language spoken by about 79.000 speakers in some small islands in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This language …
A Semiotic Analysis of Solo Basahan as a Traditional Javanese Clothes
In this century, the globalization is the common phenomena that can open the chance to influence the tradition and culture …
The Socio-Economic Status of Dock Workers at Malabon City, Philippines
The objective of this study was to determine the dock workers’ social status, their problems encountered, difficulties in workplace, working …
The Analysis of Centralized Layout on Traditional Batik Tulis Workshop in Central Java
Batik is a color crossing technique, using canting and hot wax originating from Indonesia and defined by Unesco became an …
Communication Accommodation of Indonesian Teachers in Using Language as an Intercultural Adaptation at a Korean International School in Jakarta, Indonesia
Intercultural communication can occur in many contexts, one of them is in the educational context. There is a Korean international …
The Language Variation of Pendalungan Jember
This research examines the language variation of Pendalungan Jember through describing the structure of language and regional accent which show …
The Recentering of the Geo-Political Misplaced Asian Identity in a Post-Colonial South Africa Through the Discourse of Inherited Photographs Pre-1994
The following paper is an analysis of the various Asian communities that had settled in South Africa following the Colonial …
Gender-Biased Words Marked by Indonesian Suffixes Wan, Wati, and Man: A Socio-Morphological Study
Bahasa Indonesia is not included into sexist language, such as English, German, French, or Arabic. Some words, however, are viewed …
Spelling Variations of Standard Arabic Loanwords in Indonesian and Malay
Arabic is one of the most influential languages on the development of Indonesian and Malay. However, the Arabic language has …
Poetry in Geometry
Today some contemporary artists are trying to bring back the ancient images, because they feel that they were much closer …
Perceived Risk and Trust Influence the Privacy Abuse Concern and Enjoyment on Social Network Sites for Shopping Decisions
The development of digital media and technology has a significant influence on daily life. Since the global increase in the …