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This book contains the text of the 29th Singapore Lecture delivered by the Honourable Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, on 12 August 2008.

Asian cooperation. --- Pacific Area cooperation. --- Asia --- Australia --- Foreign relations

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Coming out of an established international graduate student conference organized by the East-West Center, this book presents selected papers written by graduate students from different fields of study. After identifying historical or contemporary issues in each field, these papers propose a framework for resolving these issues, whether through global commitment, regional cooperation, national policy, or local knowledge and practice. The unifying thread of this book is sustaining resilience in...

Asia --- Pacific Area --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- E-books

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Commercial treaties --- Investments, Foreign --- Investments, Foreign --- Asia --- Pacific Area --- Foreign economic relations. --- Foreign economic relations.

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Transpacific Imaginations is a study of how American literature is enmeshed with the literatures of Asia. The book begins with Western encounters with the Pacific: Yunte Huang reads Moby Dick as a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams’s not talking about his travels in Japan and the Pacific basin in his autobiography, and compares Mark Twain to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian American encounters with the Pacific, concentrating on the "Angel Island" poems and on works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada. Huang’s argument that the Pacific forms American literature more than is generally acknowledged is a major contribution to our understanding of literary history. The book is in dialogue with cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples.

American literature --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors --- Asian influences. --- Pacific Area --- In literature.

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People across the Asia-Pacific region are becoming increasingly concerned about corruption, and governments are starting to react. Hauling the rich and powerful before the courts may grab the headlines, but the poor will benefit more from efforts to eliminate the corruption that plagues their everyday lives. Corruption has to be tacked from the top down and from the bottom up, with vigorous support from the media and organizations of civil society. An international response is needed to counter cross-border corruption in this increasingly globalized world as well

Corruption --- Corruption --- Judicial corruption --- Political corruption --- Police corruption --- Corruption. --- Judicial corruption. --- Police corruption. --- Political corruption. --- Asia. --- Pacific Area.