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The unsustainable policy choice: China's dilemma of rapid population ageing

Anyone following trends in international business and economics is aware of the rise of China as an economic giant. As a part of its development strategy China, in the late 1970s, adopted a strict birthing policy to curb population growth. This has resulted in China having become an ageing society. In this thesis a case study of China's political economy was used to try and explain in what way

Mega-events and infrastructure improvements : The Case of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008

The aim of this thesis was to investigate the Olympic Games? influence on Beijing's infrastructure improvement. The research question is how the Olympic Games make the host city accomplish change. The thesis begins with an introduction of the Olympic Games and Beijing's development. The theory here was that a Mega-event is an opportunity for a host city to improve itself, and the improveme

EXPLANATIONS OF DECLINING FERTILITY IN JAPAN

This thesis provided new explanations of declining fertility in Japan since 1990s. It could be seen as an extension of previous researches in this field, since it took a look at males' changes of lifestyles since economic recession era concerning fertility issue which was ignored by previous researches in this field. In this research, I combined qualitative and quantitative analysis to picture

Representations - Practice - Spectatorship : A Study of Haptic Relations between Independent Cinema and Market-led Urbanization in contemporary China.

This text attempts to describe and analyze the haptic relations between non-official, i.e. independent, cinema and market-led urbanization in contemporary China. From the theoretical context of recent scholarship on Visual Culture and film history, it's argued that motion pictures and the Visual are in fact crucial to modernization. Using the theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau th

The 'Paradox' of Being Young in New Delhi : Urban Middle Class Youth Negotiations with Popular Indian Film

This thesis attempts to understand the ways in which popular film is integrated into the everyday lives of urban middle class youth in India. Approaching the study of film through an audience reception approach, I engaged in participant observation and interviews during a fieldwork period in New Delhi in order to better understand how a young audience might negotiate the fantasy of filmic images i

Performance Management A Case Study in YingChao Co. Ltd, Beijing China

In 21 century, with the trend of globalization, both large and small organizations are facing an environment characterized by extremely high level of competition. In order to be competitive, China's managers are endeavouring to try every effort to improve employees' performance within sound organizational culture, thus to improve organizations' competence. Yet as a matter of fact, sinc

Japanese Luxury Consumption : Enjoy the freedom but follow the rules

This study seeks to understand the underlying cultural and social concepts for the extensive luxury consumption in Japan. With Japan currently being the biggest market for prestige brands from the West, this study suggests a reinterpretation of existing "Western" consumer theories taking into account aspects of Confucian tradition and looks at how these cultural orientations shape the pr

THE DILEMMA OF JAPAN'S CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN CHINA : A CASE STUDY OF JAPANESE MANGA AND ANIME

Sino-Japanese relations during late Koizumi period has been widely considered having dropped to the lowest point since the two countries started normal diplomatic relationship in 1972. As a substitute strategy, cultural diplomacy thus became more important to smooth resentments and strengthen common interests on private citizen's level. This paper's purpose was to look at the outcome of Ja

Chinese Foreign Policy toward Mexico

Chinese Foreign Policy has gone through different phases since Mao came to power in 1949. The events in the international arena and the domestic situation in China determined its international behaviour. Even though China has claimed a moral sympathy with the Third World, the later hasn?t been a priority in Chinese foreign policy. With the economic reforms, China suffered a transformation in its f

Prospective Automotive Financing in China : Concepts and Problems

This Master thesis deals with prospective automotive financing in China. It is supposed to give a clear overview of the many confusing fragments existing on car finance in China in innumerable press articles and magazines. The paper thus answers who the competitors in the market are and what their aims are, how the actual market situation looks like, what the legal requirements are for automotive

Hur invandrarungdomar tillgodogör sig svensk musikundervisning utifrån musiklärares perspektiv

Music has a role to play in every country and every culture. Sweden today is a country whith many different cultures, religions and music genres. The purpose of this investigation is to study how immigrants youths profit from music education on the basis of music teachers' perspectives. Questions at issue are: are there immigrant children/ youths who can not take part in music education? Have

Terror- The Invisible and Ubiquitous Hydra- A Study on the Problematic Nature of the Bush Administration's "War on Terrorism"

Abstract: In this Master's thesis, the Bush administration's ?war on terrorism? is examined. Taking a discursive approach, the study seeks to explicate how the ?war on terror? has been linked to the concept of identity and ultimately to cast light on the problematic implications of the discourse. A fundamental aim in this regard has been to address a recent US intelligence report whose fi

Från misstro till möten - hinder och möjligheter i kommikationen mellan Lunds universitet och rikstäckande dagspress

Från misstro till möten. Hinder och möjligheter i kommunikationen mellan Lunds universitet och rikstäckande dagspress.Lunds universitet är Sveriges största universitet med ca 6 000 anställda och 40 000 studenter och bedriver utbildning på flera olika orter. Man kommunicerar med en rad olika målgrupper, varav en av de viktigaste externa målgrupperna är journalister inom radio, tv och dagspress. Sam

Vägar till Kvidinge- kreativ kommunikation inför Kvidinges 700-års jubileum

Hur påverkar en författare sin berättelse, hur viktig är berättarens människosyn? Vad är människans natur, vad är oföränderligt, vad är inlärt, och hur påverkar det berättaren och det som berättas? Dessa var några av de frågor som vi ställdes inför när vi åtog oss kommunikationsuppdraget att uppmärksamma Kvidinges 700-årsjubileum. Vi bestämde oss för att skapa ett häfte och en film. Frågan var: Hu

Dold mångfald i den öppna demokratin? Om diskriminering på grund av sexuell läggning bland förtroendevalda kommun- och landstingspolitiker

Groups that are often referred to as being dismissed in society in general is by some aspects also considered being so in political arenas. A recent compilation of existing research over structurally based objections of gaining power and positions within Swedish parliamentary politics highlight a lack of research considering whether sexual orientation could be such a discriminatory basis. Using a

Lycka: nyckeln till en önskvärd socialpolitik - en begreppsanalys

This essay deals with the same task that utilitarians have tried to solve for a long time, what is happiness? In the eighteenth-century utilitarians suggested that happiness should be the base for social political decisions. But the lack of definition disposed so that GDP became the measurement of happiness, which proved to be wrong when the unhappiness continued to increase. More than two hundred

Ainu-urbefolkning eller endast kultur?

The aim of this thesis has been to analyze and interpret several different discourses in Japan and from the findings see how the Ainu people and their existence in Japan have been defined in today's Japan and in who's interest it is to keep it this way. My findings was that the Japanese nation in all channels of society are reinforcing and perpetuating the belief that it constitutes an eth