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EMI (English‐medium instruction) in Indonesian higher education
Abstract This article reports on the investigation of English‐medium instruction (EMI) in Indonesian higher education. Two separate but related studies were carried out. In Phase One, a mixed method approach using a questionnaire and interviews was used at a private university in Jakarta in order to gauge the responses of undergraduates studying a ...
Kingsley Bolton +3 more
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Ethnic politics and ambivalent imaginaries of the future at the Melaka Straits
This article examines the ambivalent relationship between members of the Portuguese‐Melakan Kristang minority and the state from the 1940s to the present day through the lens of ethnic politics. It reveals how ambivalent imaginaries of the future have shaped the politics of community members and what strategies they have used to assert their place ...
Monika Arnez
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Some notes for the current study of Papia Kristang, the Portuguese creole of Malacca
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK8_-lW658 Clip 1. Elderly fishermen talking in Papia Kristang and about Papia Kristang. [English] Papia Kristang or Portugues di Melaka is a Portuguese creole language originated in Malacca (Malaysia) and mainly ...
Marco Antonio Joven-Romero
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China in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Nautical Cartography
Sixteenth-century Portuguese nautical cartography offers a privileged entry point from which to reconstruct the complex process of Europe becoming familiar with China’s geography during the early modern period.
Oliveira, Francisco Roque de
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Revisiting the Dutch lexical contribution to Malacca Portuguese creole
The paper looks at the Dutch-derived loanwords attested in Malacca Portuguese Creole. The sources cover a period ranging from the last decades of the 19th century to the present day and it consists mainly of lexicographical works, but also includes folk songs, proverbs and religious texts The loanwords of Dutch origin identified are first listed, with ...
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This article examines the continuity and changes of the Timorese slave trade network from the traditional era to the late nineteenth-century Dutch colonial state. Archival records, newspapers, and other literature were used extensively to reconstruct the
Fanada Sholihah +2 more
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Demak Sultanate: The Fortress of Islamic Greatness in the Middle Ages Java Island
This article focused on the Demak Sultanate as a stronghold of Islamic greatness in Java island in the Middle Ages. The research used a qualitative method with historical approaches and policy theories.
Abdul Wahid Hasyim
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective
Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson +2 more
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Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations
Abstract This study examines how historical rail stations condition long‐run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1‐km cell level, we find that ...
Yit Wey Liew +2 more
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