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Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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The impact of audio versus audiovisual stimuli with or without face masking on judgements about different varieties of Asian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
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Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Women's Menopausal Experience: Aligning Malaysia's Menopause Guidelines With Cultural, Religious, and Equity Realities (MARIE‐Malaysia WP2a)

Reproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract Objective Menopause, a universal yet diverse life stage, profoundly influences women's physical, emotional, and social well‐being. In Malaysia's multi‐ethnic context, experiences are shaped by cultural meanings, religious beliefs, healthcare structures, and socioeconomic factors.
Teck‐Hock Toh, Kim‐Yen Lee, Leong‐Hoe Ngu, Juhaida Jaafar, Nor Fareshah Mohd Nasir, Aini Hanan Azmi, Vaitheswariy Rao, Nurul Amalina Jaafar, Siti Nurul Aiman, George Uchenna Eleje, Jie Sun, Julie Taylor, Lucky Saraswat, Sharron Hinchliff, Kristina Potocnik, Kathryn Elliot, Carol Atkinson, Vikram Talaulikar, Nirmala Rathnayake, Tharanga Mudalige, Vindya Pathiraja, Jeevan Dhanarisi, Donatella Fontana, Lamya Al‐Kharusi, Nihal Al‐Riyami, Ieera Madan‐Aggarwal, Helen Felecity Kemp, Victoria Corkhill, Kingshuk Majumder, Ramiya Palanisamy, Muhammad Irfan, Rabia Kareem, Nick Panay, Jian Shi, Sohier Elneil, Peter Phiri, Gayathri Delanerolle, MARIE collaborative   +37 more
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 273-288, March 2026.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

Language Use, Proficiency and Attitudes in Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2015
This study builds on the detailed empirical research of the three investigators, who have been collaborating on researching the Hong Kong linguistic situation since the early 1980s.
Bacon-Shone, J, Bolton, KR, Luke, KK
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Ethnicity and public space in the city: Ethnic precincts in Sydney [PDF]

, 2009
Ethnic precincts are one example of the way that cultural diversity shapes public spaces in the postmodern metropolis. Ethnic precincts are essentially clusters of ethnic or immigrant entrepreneurs in areas that are designated as ethnic precincts by ...
Collins, J, Kunz, P
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Everyday geographies of uneven water infrastructures and practices in China

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2026.
This research unpacks the disparate distribution of centralised water supply at both household and community scales in Changsha and explores how alternative, heterogeneous water supply modalities contribute to filling everyday service gaps, but also produce and exacerbate additional layers of inequality.
Dongyang Mi, Alison L Browne, Deljana Iossifova, Saska Petrova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the Image of Yi di through the Interpretation of Spirit Possession and Otherness among Yunnanese Muslim Migrants in Myanmar [PDF]

, 2010
Session statement 2: We and the Other in Cultural Interfaces: Peranakan,Indigenous Taiwanese, and Yunnanese Muslim ...
Kimura Mizuka, 木村 自
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Life Spectacles: Media, Business Synergy, and Affective Work in Neoliberal China [PDF]

, 2009
The way in which Chinese media communicates the meanings of everyday life has been significantly reconfigured since the late 1970s. ‘Folk television’ or ‘life television’ has been developed as a popular television genre that focuses on ordinary people ...
Ren, Hai
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