Tour Of Asia Research Articles

Biden’s Asia Tour Aims to Contain China

Biden’s Asia Tour Aims to Contain China

Grammatical Errors of Analysis in Writing E-Mail Committed by Reservation Staff at PT. Destination Asia Bali 2015/2016

This study aimed at (i) To analyze the compatibility of the emails written by the staffs of PT. Destination Asia Tour & Travel with the format of formal email, (2) to analyze the types of errors committed by the reservation staff at PT. Destination Asia Tour & Travel, (3) to find out the sources of errors committed by the reservation staff at PT. Destination Asia Tour & Travel. This study was designed as a descriptive qualitative study. The data were collected by using research instruments such as analytical error analysis rubric, interview and observation sheet. The collected data were analyzed descriptively. From the data analysis it was found that (i) most of the emails have been written formally, almost all of the staff violated the element of formal email regarding to the non-contraction use in the email; (ii) all of the staff committed 16 (19%) errors of omission, 12 (14%) errors of addition, 47 (55%) errors of malformation and 10 (12%) errors of disordering; and (iii) the errors made by the staffs are caused by some factors namely staff’s incomplete knowledge, absence of knowledge, forgetting, language interference, over generalization and false concept hypothesized. Based on the conclusion of this study, it was suggested to the travel agent to provide their staffs an intensive course especially to improve their competence in writing formal email.

Replacing injured horses, cross-dressing and dust: modernist circus technologies in Asia

Horse performers were replaced by machines demonstrating the wonders of electricity and cinema on the third circus tour of Asia by the well-known equestrian, Clarke family in 1915. Circus was part of the wider economic shift away from equine capital. The analysis considers leading horse acts in early modernist circus and their continuing popularity with the multi-racial Asian audiences, in relation to technological change and the socio-economic legacies of European colonial dominance in Asia. Four out of six horses died on the Clarke’s first tour of colonial Asia, an exceptionally high mortality rate and three died on the second tour, and this article argues that a high rate of horse injury and mortality complicates a claim that the shift to scientific display in the 1915 entertainment was simply reflecting progressive modernisation or the shortage of horses at the beginning of World War One. While the 2015 replacement of horses provides a literal demonstration of the scientific shift from horse power to electric power during the modernist (anthropocene) era, it additionally prefigures the displacement of the live animal with filmed imagery in entertainment. International ship travel continued to hold considerable physical risk for the horse performers, which meant it posed economic risks for the circus aesthetic.

Southeast Asian Media Coverage on Trump's Asia Tour

Southeast Asian Media Coverage on Trump's Asia Tour

Wilo customers meet Borussia Dortmund players on Asia tour

Wilo customers in Japan and China got to meet Borussia Dortmund players during the German football club's recent pre-season tour of Asia.

STRATEGI PEMASARAN PAKET WISATA MELALUI MEDIA ONLINE DI TRULY ASIA TOUR AND TRAVEL

The purpose of this research is to find out the marketing strategy of tour package at Truly Asia tour and travel through online system. SWOT analysis is the method for this research and implemented into SWOT matrix table to find out the right strategy for the tour package at Truly Asia tour and travel through online system. Now days Marketing strategy through online system very popular and the conclusion of this research is Truly Asia as a company need to improve their variant of tour package in order to make tourist more interest to visit the company website. Besides that, increase the cheap price must be accompanied by quality of products to suit with the target, providing accurate information on the website is rather tourist confidence crisis, as well as using the internet connection system that has good quality, in order to minimize system error.

The use of Radial Shockwave Therapy in conjunction with physical therapy for the treatment of chronic tendon injuries of the wrist and elbow in professional golfers

Background: To date we have seen an overuse of cortisone injections, NSAIDS, ice/heat combinations, homeopathic remedies, ointments, gels, heat, acupuncture, dry needling, etc. for chronic tendon injuries. Due to the repetitive nature of the golf swing, the large percentage of time spent practicing if this is your chosen career it is not surprising to find that 76% of professional golfers present with a chronic injury at some point, with the large majority being those of the upper limb. The aim of this study was to estimate changes in pain and function using a less invasive treatment such as Radial Shockwave Therapy, in conjunction with physical therapy.Methods: 25 professional male golfers that play on a professional circuit full time across, US PGA Tour, European tour, Japanese Tour, Australasian Tour and One Asia Tour. Treatment group was 20 = N being those that reported pain as being 7/10 or greater. They were given 3 consecutive sessions of Radial Shockwave Therapy using the same Swiss Dolorclast machine in a week.Results: In 80% of group, pain was less than 4/10 = M post treatment of the RSWT, after physical therapy to the wrist and hand pain had an M score of 2/10. This improved further after treatment of the shoulder, cervicals and thoracic spine on the affected side M score of 1/10. Treatment of the opposite hip and pelvis removed pain completely in 50% of the group. After 4 weeks M score of 4/10 for the group.Discussion: I think the results almost support the poor understanding that still occurs with the mechanics required of the golf swing. Why is there such a prevalence of upper limb injuries, why is there a significant improvement in pain after addressing other crucial body parts that remove stress from the upper limb. The RSWT is great to treat localized pain that limits movement and function but the real gains appear when you combine this with the treatment that removes the stress from the injured site. Obviously a small specific group, but 18 out of the 20 professionals managed to compete in those 4 weeks with minimal intervention which provides exciting prospects for the future of RSWT in a sports medicine field. Background: To date we have seen an overuse of cortisone injections, NSAIDS, ice/heat combinations, homeopathic remedies, ointments, gels, heat, acupuncture, dry needling, etc. for chronic tendon injuries. Due to the repetitive nature of the golf swing, the large percentage of time spent practicing if this is your chosen career it is not surprising to find that 76% of professional golfers present with a chronic injury at some point, with the large majority being those of the upper limb. The aim of this study was to estimate changes in pain and function using a less invasive treatment such as Radial Shockwave Therapy, in conjunction with physical therapy. Methods: 25 professional male golfers that play on a professional circuit full time across, US PGA Tour, European tour, Japanese Tour, Australasian Tour and One Asia Tour. Treatment group was 20 = N being those that reported pain as being 7/10 or greater. They were given 3 consecutive sessions of Radial Shockwave Therapy using the same Swiss Dolorclast machine in a week. Results: In 80% of group, pain was less than 4/10 = M post treatment of the RSWT, after physical therapy to the wrist and hand pain had an M score of 2/10. This improved further after treatment of the shoulder, cervicals and thoracic spine on the affected side M score of 1/10. Treatment of the opposite hip and pelvis removed pain completely in 50% of the group. After 4 weeks M score of 4/10 for the group. Discussion: I think the results almost support the poor understanding that still occurs with the mechanics required of the golf swing. Why is there such a prevalence of upper limb injuries, why is there a significant improvement in pain after addressing other crucial body parts that remove stress from the upper limb. The RSWT is great to treat localized pain that limits movement and function but the real gains appear when you combine this with the treatment that removes the stress from the injured site. Obviously a small specific group, but 18 out of the 20 professionals managed to compete in those 4 weeks with minimal intervention which provides exciting prospects for the future of RSWT in a sports medicine field.

Augmenting Japan’s Bodies and Futures: The Politics of Human-Technology Encounters in Japanese Idol Pop

Augmenting Japan’s Bodies and Futures: The Politics of Human-Technology Encounters in Japanese Idol Pop

Second rate Java Jaunters: soccer football, the imaginary grandstand, cultural diplomacy and Australia's Asian context

This paper seeks to fill one of the knowledge gaps in the history of Australian sport. Its focus is the motivations behind, and the experiences of, Australia's first dedicated national sporting team tour of Asia. Within the framework of Australia's Asian context, the paper tests one of the major theoretical approaches to Australian sports history, the notion of the ‘imaginary grandstand’. Further, it explores the tour as an exercise in cultural diplomacy and considers the Indonesian context to this tour.

The U.S.-Asia Relationship: Questions Going Forward

President Barack Obama’s ten-day tour of Asia’s four largest democracies in late 2010 showed a continued commitment to Asia, even if difficult politics at home might derail the practicalities of increased regional engagement. For Americans, Obama brought home deliverables on jobs in India and helped lay the groundwork for trade agreements with Korea. For some Asians, there is a feeling of relief that U.S.-Asia relations will continue smoothly. Yet while the trip was positive, there is no room for complacency. Even though the United States and Asia remain interdependent, significant obstacles to the development of the post–financial crisis relationship persist, in spite of leaders’ best intentions. The post-crisis, post-American world faces many uncertainties and needs. Although exact policies cannot be fixed too far ahead, it is nonetheless possible to outline key perspectives and principles to guide the United States and Asia on their paths forward. How Should the Global Financial Crisis Be Seen? The crisis is not simply a blip on the screen from which the world has now recovered. It has fundamentally challenged the global economic system, which was built on Anglo-American principles and with the United States and the West at its core. The crisis has also accelerated the pace of change and the shift of power between the United States and Asia, especially to China, revealing imbalances in the global and Asia-Pacific economies. It has thus begun to create a dangerous divide between the United States and Asia that must be bridged by finding a new balance in the U.S.-Asia relationship.

The Asian mystique: dragon ladies, geisha girls & our fantasies of the exotic Orient

Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite -- and because of -- centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These Oriental illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional Asia hands and scholars don't necessarily see. The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of 'yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practicioner of East-West relations.

Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan (review)

THE COMPAKATIST ofthe modemist texts and his ability to make clear where biblical references appear, how they function to create new meanings, and how their insights play upon and radically redefine biblical motifs and themes. It is also Alter's intention to show how the writer's assimilation and often radical appropriation of the Bible can inform our understanding ofthe range and nature ofmodernism as a movement. Of the three authors, it is Bialik who makes the most direct use of the Bible. The language, tone, and poetic structure are acutely biblical, yet his intention is radically anti-canonical. In essence, this biblical style is in service ofwholly different values—the heroic act becomes war against God. It is a kind ofNietzschean straggle against the Ultimate that the frozen dead ofthe desert symbolize and celebrate. Kafka blends biblical reference into a mélange ofnineteenth-century biblical conventions, all in the service ofthe grotesque. In Amerika, Alter discovers the banishment from Eden, the conflation of the Jacob and Joseph stories, the Exodus account, and more. But, these biblical narratives are all turned on their head, transformed for comic effect. In Kafka, the "stand-in" for Joseph is not able to escape the "Potiphar's wife" figure or any ofthe other lubricious women in the novel. He is continually overwhelmed by their aggressiveness. Similarly, Joseph's imprisonment in Egypt forms the backdrop for events that lead not to liberation and a brilliant ascent but to a recurring implacable fate that is unrelieved until the very end. Here the Bible becomes material for a nightmare. In Ulysses, Alter finds an affirmation by Joyce that Homer and the Bible provide the two great texts oforigin for Western culture. Joyce's use ofeach is, however , quite different. Homeric myth forms the substructure ofthe novel while biblical references usually come from the mouths ofthe characters. The fact that the references are misquoted or wrongly interpreted underscores the Bible's place in Joyce as part ofthe flotsam andjetsam ofmodem knowledge: familiar yet poorly understood—its potential value lost in a chaos ofideas and perceptions. All three authors discussed are shown to subvert the Bible. Alter illuminates how they all demonstrate the confusing and conflicting values that are the hallmark ofmodernism. None ofthe three authors rejects the Bible's truth claims; rather they show how the Bible's message becomes more an ironic commentary than a central meaning in the modem context. It is not that modem individuals reject the Bible. It is a question rather that, given their unique situations, they cannot make use of what the Bible can offer. Alter is very good at demonstrating that while the Bible is not rejected, it is relativized as embodying one truth among many. Dorothy FigueiraThe University ofGeorgia J. SCOTT MILLER. Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan. Hampshire/New York: Palgrave, 2001. ? + 180 pp. While political and institutional histories of late nineteenth-century Japan have proliferated in the English language, the popular narratives ofthat age have been given regrettably short shrift. Miller's book penetrates arcane literary idioms and stylized woodblock orthographies to present a refreshingly new perspective on the illustrated narratives ofthe early Meiji period. Miller makes a strong case that these works are hardly the mawkish rehashings ofmediocre antecedents, as prior scholars have claimed, but are richly infused with adaptive creativity. VcH. 27 (2003): 189 BOOK NOTES Miller first considers the problem of literary "translation" (hon 'yaku) versus "adaptation" (hon 'ari) in Japanese and Western contexts, recounting a variety of critical perspectives surrounding issues ofaccuracy and originality. While accuracy was a major consideration in the translation of European political and scientific texts, there was a long-held practice in Japan ofadapting Chinese fictional narratives to fit Japanese social contexts. Miller argues that adaptations ofWestern narratives continued in this vein, showcasing the creative literary talents oftheir Japanese authors far more than they illuminated the underpinnings ofWestern culture. The book then examines the adaptational qualities ofthree popular works by mainstream authors. A chapter on Kanagaki Robun's 1 879 heroic biography ofU. S. Grant, which Miller contrasts to John Russell Young's reportage and to Grant's diary, offers a glimpse ofvarious perspectives on Grant's tour ofAsia...

In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers (review)

BOOK NOTES Miller first considers the problem of literary "translation" (hon 'yaku) versus "adaptation" (hon 'ari) in Japanese and Western contexts, recounting a variety of critical perspectives surrounding issues ofaccuracy and originality. While accuracy was a major consideration in the translation of European political and scientific texts, there was a long-held practice in Japan ofadapting Chinese fictional narratives to fit Japanese social contexts. Miller argues that adaptations ofWestern narratives continued in this vein, showcasing the creative literary talents oftheir Japanese authors far more than they illuminated the underpinnings ofWestern culture. The book then examines the adaptational qualities ofthree popular works by mainstream authors. A chapter on Kanagaki Robun's 1 879 heroic biography ofU. S. Grant, which Miller contrasts to John Russell Young's reportage and to Grant's diary, offers a glimpse ofvarious perspectives on Grant's tour ofAsia in that year. Miller's English renderings of Robun's colorful prose leave no doubt as to why Robun was loved by his readers. Grant's lengthy visit offered a resplendent validation ofRobun's pride in Japan's growing national status, and Miller amply documents that Young and Grant also viewed Japan positively alongside other areas of Asia. One wishes, however, that Miller had provided a more critical historical framework for Grant's tour. Miller claims that Grant's opulent reception in Tokyo —decked as it was with enthusiastic crowds that had been primed by Robun's hagiography —must have been at least partly intended to dissuade "the West" from adding Japan to its long and sorry list ofcolonial possessions, and to reassure the Japanese public ofthe legitimacy ofits own new government. Was Robun merely an uncritical accomplice to this larger project, or should he be seen as an active opponent to the many voices ofpolitical unrest that were emerging in the late 1 870s? Chapters on the yose (oral uieater) performer San'yûtei Enchô and author/ scholar Tsubouchi Shôyô focus on the differing narrative treatments of financial scandals, mental illness, and poetic justice between Japan and the West. Both men found ways to make their Western sources relevant to their Japanese audiences, often at great expense to the source texts. Regarding Enchô's 1885 adaptation of Charles Reade's Hard Cash, Miller offers a helpful analysis ofyose performance, including the changing nature of its audience. In Tsubouchi Shôyô's case, Miller accomplishes a minor scholarly coup by identifying the source for the 1897 novel Futagokoro (it turns out to be from Edgar Fawcett's False Friends). Miller muses interestingly on the routes by which Enchô and Shôyô encountered their sources. Miller's assessment ofinnovation in these works is firmly based on accounts written by the authors themselves, prompting this reader to wonder at times which was more innovative and important, the adaptations themselves, or their authors' attempts to advertise them by invoking new critical frameworks? John MertzNorth Carolina State University ISABEL HOVTNG.In Praise ofNew Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001. 374 pp. Hoving focuses on the writing ofpost-colonial Anglophone African and Caribbean women in exile and aims to provide a useful tool for reading texts by migrant Caribbean writers, in light oftheir twofold cross-cultural discourse between dialogue with their readers on the one hand, and violence and resistance against their environment on the other. Today's plurality ofcritical theories (about the nature ofthe Vol. 27 (2003): 190 THE COMPARATIST speaking subject for example) further complicates and misguides the reading of Caribbean migrant women's writing. Discussing current developments in postmodernist and postcolonial approaches to black feminist writing, Hoving presents, as her main thesis, a cultural analysis inquiring into Caribbean women's multiple and hybrid identities and the consequent straggle in which they are engaged. It evaluates post-colonial theory and criticism, and along with recent critics, finds it to be in a current state ofcrisis (because ofits universalism and Eurocentrism). Hoving seems to suggest a return to the very source ofthe text in order to read these vibrant writers effectively. Using critical theory, culture, and history, her volume takesan interdisciplinaryapproach to the seriesoncultural memory in the present . It attempts to explain the literature ofCaribbean women in its...

A. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's South Asia Tour, 11-22 May 2001

A. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's South Asia Tour, 11-22 May 2001

AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARTHA GRAHAM'S MOVEMENT SYSTEM (1926–1991)

When Martha Graham was interviewed a few months before her ninetieth birthday she remarked, 'I don't think about what I have done; I only think of the things that I want to do, that I haven't done' (Graham in Tobias, 1984:67). During a career that spanned more than sixty years and in which she produced over a hundred and seventy dances, Graham established her company as America's flagship for modern dance, performing in prestigious venues including The Royal Opera House in 1976. It was the first modern dance company to appear at the Paris Opera in 1984 and in her ninety-sixth year, Graham undertook a tour ofAsia, where she had already achieved great popularity. Graham referred to herself as 'doom eager' or 'eager for destiny

Asian Nationalism—The Second Stage

IMPRESSIONS gained on a rapid tour of Asia are inevitably superficial; but it is a way of obtaining a conspectus, of seeing the region in breadth if not in depth. Ten years had elapsed since my last tour-which is an additional handicap. But the gap between visits has perhaps one advantage: by highlighting the changes that have taken place in the interval it may illumine the trend of developments. One of the most striking features of contemporary Asia, to my mind, is the transition that has occurred, in the past decade, from the first to the second stageof nationalism. It is a commonplace that, since the Second World War, the main driving force acting upon the countries of Southern Asia has been the explosive power of nationalism. Under its impact the Western empires have crumbled, and a whole batch of new states has arisen. These newcomers not only owe their creation to the nationalist movement, but also have received from it their initial impetus and direction. This is not to minimise the contribution of Communism. Obviously it has made its mark; but it has not been the main motive force, only an auxiliary motor. It has been successful only in alliance with nationalism, not in opposition to it. Even in the case of China, as the Russians would be the first to recognise, the triumph of Mao was a nationalist rather than a Communist victory. In the first stage, nationalism was simple and straightforward. There was one overriding aim-independence-to which everybody could subscribe. The enemy, too, was obvious and alien. Consequently, everybody knew what they were for and whom they were against. Slogans were easy to coin, and could serve instead of a policy because they did in fact express the essence of such common policy as there was. The rallying cry of Merdeka found a response in all the islands of Indonesia. On my first arrival in Asia I recall being confronted with the exhortation painted in large letters on the quayside: 'Quit India'-not a very cordial wel come, but it was short and to the point, and something on which nationalists of every hue (and eventually the British) could agree. Political activity is no less habit-forming than any other, and political attitudes held over any considerable length of time tend to produce a certain rigidity of posture. In the British dependencies, political agitation had a style all of its own. So successful was the propagation of the sporting instinct and notions of fair play that the contest between the