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Preface and acknowledgement . . xiii
Personae . . xvi

PART I - Introduction

1 Suicide as a Chinese problem . . 3
1.1 Understanding suicide in China . . 3
1.2 Fieldwork and methodology . . 6
1.3 Theory, thesis and structure of this book . . 10

2 Two philosophies about suicide . . 15
2.1 Sociological and psychiatric studies of suicide . . 15  
2.2 The state of suicide . . 17
2.3 Ming and family life . . 22
2.4 Qi and "behaving as a person" . . 26

PART II - Domestic justice

3 Familial love . . 33
3.1 Conjugal love . . 33
3.2 Parental love . . 37
3.3 Filial piety . . 40
Discussion . . 44

4 Family politics . . 46
4.1 The margin of the family . . 46
4.2 A troubled family . . 53
4.3 A complex family . . 63
Discussion . . 69

5 Fortune . . 71
5.1 Long and short lives . . 71
5.2 Ghosts and human beings . . 76
5.3 Fortune and misfortune . . 82
Discussion . . 88

PART III - Human dignity

6 Suicide and madness . . 93
6.1 Excluded suicide . . 93
6.2 The abnormal . . 95
6.3 Non-persons . . 101
Discussion . . 105

7 Gambling for qi . . 107
7.1 Impulsivity . . 107
7.2 Long-term gamble . . 112
Discussion . . 118

8 Face . . 120
8.1 Spiritedness . . 122
8.2 Loss ofpersonhood . . 131
Discussion . . 139

9 Thinking through . . 140
9.1 Having tunnel vision . . 141
9.2 Heart and lungs . . 146
Discussion . . 153

PART IV - Conclusion: suicide as a public affair

10 Public justice . . 159
10.1 Interfamily conflicts . . 159
10.2 Clear heaven . . 165
70.3 Public injustice . . 171
Discussion . . 179

11 Making good luck . . 181
11.1 Psychiatry and suicide intervention . . 182
11.2 Suicide intervention oj'the rural women . . 184
11.3 Revolution . . 192
11.4 Good fortune . . 195

Notes . . 198
Bibliography . . 203
Index . . 212

Preface . . viii

1 Bridging the gap between scholarship and practice . . 1
2 Describing intelligence analysis . . 9
3 Improving the science of intelligence analysis . . 21
4 Improving the art of intelligence analysis . . 37
5 Improving intelligence analysis with analytic teams . . 53
6 Improving intelligence analysis through training and education . . 77
7 Using analogies to improve intelligence analysis . . 99
8 Improving intelligence analysis as a profession . . 127
9 The importance of scholarship to practice . . 147

Notes . . 151
Select bibliography . . 174
Index . . 178

Foreword . . ix
Preface . . xi
Acknowledgements . . xiii

Introduction . . 1
  Notes . . 12
Chapter One: Between Identity and Freedom: Mapping Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Lithuania . . 13
             Notes . . 35
Chapter Two: Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Polylogue of Civilisations . . 39
             Notes . . 71
Chapter Three: Liberal Nationalism and the Politics of Dissent . . 73
               Notes . . 118
Chapter Four: Ethical Universalism and the Discovery of the Other . . 121
              Notes . . 161

Bibliography . . 163
Index . . 173

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements . . vii
1 Introduction: Turning practice into theory . . 1
2 The peculiarities of oral history . . 18
3 Self . . 33
4 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity . . 54
5 Memory . . 78
6 Narrative . . 106
7 Performance . . 130
8 Power and empowerment . . 153

Glossary of terms and concepts . . 175
Notes . . 178
Guide to further reading . . 202
Index . . 209

List of illustrations . . x
Notes on contributors . . xi
Preface . . xiv
Acknowledgements . . xvi

1 Beyond de-Westernizing communication research: an introduction . . 1

PART A - Eurocentrism in communication research: the problem and its contributing factors . . 19

2 De-Westernizing communication: strategies for neutralizing cultural myths . . 1
3 Emerging global divides in media and communication theory: European universalism versus non-Western reactions . . 28
4 Globalizing media and communication studies: thoughts on the translocal and the modern . . 50
5 Orientalism, Occidentalism and communication research . . 58

PART B - The promises of focusing on the particular . . 77

6 "De-Westernizing" communication studies in Chinese societies? . . 79
7 To Westernize or not: that's NOT the question . . 93
8 Pitfalls of cross-cultural analysis: Chinese wenyi film and melodrama . . 99

PART C - From cultural specificity to cultural generality: the possibility of universal universality . . 117

9 The geography of theory and the place of knowledge: pivots, peripheries and waiting rooms . . 119
10 Journeys to the West: the making of Asian modernities . . 137
11 Moving beyond the dichotomy of communication studies: boundary wisdom as the key . . 157
12 Beyond ethnocentrism in communication theory: towards a culture-centric approach . . 172
13 Reconceptualizing de-Westernization: science of meaning as an alternative . . 189

PART D - Opportunities, limitations, and implications for future research . . 205

14 Whither Eurocentrism? Media, culture and nativism in our time . . 207
15 The production of Asian theories of communication: contexts and challenges . . 222
16 The definition and types of alternative discourses . . 238
17 After the fall of the Tower of Babel: culture-commensurability as a point of departure . . 254

Index . . 276

Series Editors' Foreword . . vii
Acknowledgments . . ix

Introduction . . 1
Chapter One: Constructing the Prophet of God: Confirmation and Initiation in the Mi'raj . . 17
Chapter Two: The Mi'raj and the Early Muslims' Communal and Confessional Identity . . 41
Chapter Three: Communal Reaction: Trials, Betrayal, and True Belief . . 75
Chapter Four: The Formation of Communal Morality: The Moral Concerns of the Medieval Elite . . 97
Epilogue . . 123

Notes . . 137
Bibliography . . 169
Index . . 177

Editor's preface . . VII-XII
Note on entries, cross-references and bibliographies . . XIII
List of contributors . . XIV-XIX
Timeline . . XX
Confucianism . . 1-12
A-N entries . . 13-464

Acknowledgements . . VI

1 Introduction . . 1
2 Learning history for understanding . . 14
3 History learning from the student perspective . . 30
4 Approaches to teaching history . . 50
5 Creating a context for learning . . 67
6 Strategies for active learning in the history classroom . . 87
7 Promoting independence in learning . . 110
8 Assessing for understanding . . 128
9 Developing understanding of teaching . . 149

References . . 172
Index . . 194