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The Shui people are an ethnic minority living in southern mountainous areas of Guizhou Province, China; they have retained many vernacular houses with a history of over a century.
Yizhi Zhou, Miao Wei
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This contribution questions landscape representations amongst the Shui who live in Guizhou province (south China). This ethnic group, which has a strong specific cultural component, has seen its daily landscapes transformed by the implementation of ...
Evelyne Gauche
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This contribution questions the build-up of touristic imaginaries, through the tourismification of a Shui village located in the mountainous Province of Guizhou (China).
Evelyne Gauché
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Ethnobotany of Camptotheca Decaisne: New Discoveries of Old Medicinal Uses [PDF]
Camptotheca trees had been used as fuelwood and an ornamental species in its native China. There were no reports on medicinal uses of Camptotheca in China and thus it was believed the trees had no medicinal before its antitumor activity discovered in ...
Li, Shiyou, Zhang, Wanli
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This contribution questions the build-up of touristic imaginaries, through the tourismification of a Shui village located in the mountainous Province of Guizhou (China).
Evelyne Gauché
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Developing a low cost repellent to reduce malaria in the Americas - Results of two field trials in Guatemala and Peru [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Malaria control in remote, forested areas of the Mekong region relies on personal protection from mosquito bites. Uptake of these methods may be limited by knowledge of the link between mosquitoes and malaria as well as social and economic ...
Darling, ST +3 more
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Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and river environments in Vietnam and Sydney [PDF]
Vietnamese Australians who arrived in Australia as refugees since the 1970s and later as migrants, have developed complex relationships of remembering, knowing and belonging to environments in Vietnam and Sydney.
Byrne, D, Cadzow, AJ, Goodall, H
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Chen Shui-bian: on independence [PDF]
Chen Shui-bian achieved an international reputation for his promotion of Taiwan independence. Whilst that reputation may have been well earned, the analyses on which this conclusion is based are frequently flawed in two ways.
Cabestan +22 more
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Interpreting Spirituality Through Symbols: A LinguisticReligious Study of the Chinese Community at the Tjong A Fie Mansion as a Space of Multicultural Faith [PDF]
This study will analyze the representation of spirituality and cultural resilience in the Chinese Indonesian people through the linguistic and architectural symbols found in the Tjong A Fie Mansion in Medan.
Vivi Adryani Nasution +3 more
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Ethnicity and the Performance of Identity [PDF]
This essay looks into the novels of two Indonesian women writers, Perempuan Kembang Jepun (Lan Fang 2009) and Dimsum terakhir (Clara Ng 2006), which depict the struggles of the major female characters in negotiating their ”hybrid” identities amidst the ...
Budiman, M. (Manneke)
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