Titled Foreign Things No Longer Foreign: How South Koreans Ate U.S. Food, my research investigates the ways in which surplus American food were familiarized in daily Korean life. When food such as wheat flour and powdered milk was largely alien to their diet before 1945, many Koreans encountered the new American food in free feeding stations, in school lunch programs, and as wages-in-kind by working in public construction programs, ran by varying actors such as the U.S. Operations Missions in Korea, South Korean central and provincial governments, and foreign voluntary agencies. By exploring different channels through which surplus American food was distributed, I argue that political factors were more crucial than economic and cultural aspects in making wheat flour and powdered milk popular in South Korea. The two main political factors were the changing purposes of U.S. foreign food assistance and the South Korean state’s use of the surplus food. The distribution channels of surplus American food tells us about a process of globalization that did not begin with market expansion, and also about the cultural and social transformations born out of these distributions. In addition to feeding the hungry, U.S. food programs funded the joint U.S.-South Korean military build-up against North Korea, and Food for Peace programs also helped building rural villages, reclaiming upland for farming, and establishing oyster and seaweed culture-fields in coastal areas. Instead of opting for development, requiring large capital investment, technological expertise, and machineries, these surplus food programs only used surplus American grains and unskilled Korean labor.

何潤鋒. / "2004年7月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004. / 參考文獻 (leaves 237-241). / 附中英文摘要. / "2004 nian 7 yue". / He Runfeng. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 237-241). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 硏究文獻回顧 --- p.14 / Chapter 第三章 --- 硏究問題與硏究方法 --- p.45 / Chapter 第一節 --- 硏究問題 --- p.45 / Chapter 第二節 --- 硏究方法 --- p.50 / Chapter 第四章 --- 硏究發現：足球全球化之前的香港球迷 --- p.57 / Chapter 第一節 --- 全球化之前的香港足球（1970-1989) --- p.59 / Chapter 第二節 --- 足球全球化之前本港球迷的消費考察 --- p.67 / Chapter 第三節 --- 足球全球化之前香港球迷之忠誠考察 --- p.88 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小節：球迷認同的本土化 --- p.106 / Chapter 第五章 --- 硏究發現：足球全球化之後的香港球迷 --- p.110 / Chapter 第一節 --- 香港的足球全球化 --- p.110 / Chapter 第二節 --- 足球全球化之後：本土認同主導之球迷 --- p.115 / Chapter 第三節 --- 足球全球化之後：雙向認同主導之球迷 --- p.133 / Chapter 第四節 --- 足球全球化之後：脫域認同主導之球迷 --- p.155 / Chapter 第四節小節： --- 球迷認同的脫域 --- p.173 / Chapter 第六章 --- 硏究解讀：足球全球化與球迷本土認同之弱化 --- p.177 / Chapter 第一節 --- 香港球迷之本土認同的變化 --- p.177 / Chapter 第二節 --- 足球全球化與本土認同的弱化 --- p.184 / Chapter 第三節 --- 本土認同的弱化：現代性的後果？ --- p.188 / Chapter 第七章 --- 討論與結論 --- p.197 / Chapter 第一節 --- 全球化之外的考察 --- p.197 / Chapter 第二節 --- 其他探討 --- p.205 / Chapter 第三節 --- 結論 --- p.230 / 附表 --- p.235 / 外文參考資料 --- p.237 / 中文參考資料 --- p.241

The goal of this diploma thesis is an analysis of the Czech automotive industry perspective which is influenced by trends of globalization. There are mentioned three viewpoints (economic, political and social) of the globalization trends in the first chapter. The indicators of global competition indices are also included here. The second chapter is focused on the Czech automotive industry itself. There are analysed the Czech automotive production, a condition of the car fleet and main export markets. The chapter number three is aimed at european (EU) viewpoint. The main terms are an automotive production, direct and indirect employment and comparison of car fleets among the EU member states. The fourth chapter is focused on a widest global viewpoint. There is an analysis of the world biggest automotive producers, main export and import markets and the car fleet in chosen world economies. The conlusion includes three schemes for the future development of the Czech automotive industry. The author tends to the middle one, which is characteristic by a moderate growth in the Czech automotive production. But this growth won't be enough to keep the present position in the world, because of the much bigger and booming developing countries especially in Asia. The main export markets of the Czech producers will be more presented by Asian fast growing economies (e.g. member states of BRIC). The Czech car fleet could a bit improve in next few years, that means a mild growing number of cars and a decrease in an average age of cars.

Guiada por uma extensa revisão bibliográfica e pelo método de múltiplos casos, esta pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e dedutiva, iniciada em 2009 e concluída em novembro de 2010, objetiva identificar o posicionamento estratégico das subsidiárias brasileiras da HP e da HTC, bem como a configuração da principal rede de negócios que cada uma das unidades integra. A situação-problema que motiva este estudo versa, especificamente, sobre a coerência entre os propósitos e características dos posicionamentos estratégicos de empresas e os propósitos e características das redes, quando as organizações, integradas àquelas, operacionalizam estratégias de negócios. Após a apresentação e debate de trabalhos no campo das estratégias genéricas, das redes de negócios, da implementação de estratégias e da internacionalização de negócios, decidiu-se que as propostas de Hax e Wilde II (1999; 2001) e Moller e Rajala (2007) guiariam as investigações de campo e a análise dos resultados no tocante ao posicionamento estratégico das empresas analisadas e à rede de negócios por elas integradas, respectivamente. No caso da subsidiária brasileira da HP, identificou-se que a empresa adota uma rede vertical de demanda e fornecimento para operacionalizar o posicionamento melhor produto, enquanto, no caso da HTC o que se constatou foi a opção estratégica de solução total para o cliente, sendo implementada em uma rede de renovação de negócios. Embora, com esses resultados, se tenha alcançado o objetivo da investigação, adicionalmente, verificaram-se indícios de coerência entre os propósitos e características de ambos os posicionamentos, uma vez confrontados aos propósitos e características das redes correspondentes. Sugere-se, portanto, a partir dos achados desta pesquisa, que novos estudos se concentrem na identificação de opções estratégicas de empresas e tipos de redes, a fim de que se possa concluir se a coerência entre as variáveis é necessária para o bom desempenho das empresas ou não. As hipóteses, a seguir, podem servir de inspiração para novas pesquisas: (1) redes do tipo vertical de demanda e fornecimento ou horizontal de mercado são mais adequadas à operacionalização do posicionamento estratégico melhor produto; (2) redes do tipo renovação de negócios ou solução para o cliente são mais adequadas à operacionalização do posicionamento estratégico solução total para o cliente; (3) redes do tipo aplicação ou padrão dominante ou inovação são mais adequadas à operacionalização do posicionamento estratégico aprisionamento no sistema; ou (4) empresas líderes de mercado que adotam um mesmo posicionamento estratégico, embora atuem em diferentes setores, integram o mesmo tipo de rede de negócios. / Guided by extended bibliographical research and multiple case study method, this qualitative, descriptive and deductive study, that began in 2009 and was finished in November 2010, aims at identifying the strategic positioning of HP and HTC subsidiaries in Brazil and the configuration of the main business network in which the mentioned business units act. The situation problem that motivates this research, deals specifically with the consistence between the purposes and characteristics of the strategic positioning of business units and the business networks purposes and characteristics when organizations implement business strategies through business networks. After the presentation and discussion of academic studies in the field of generic strategies, business networks, implementing strategies and business internationalization, the Hax and Wilde II (1999; 2001) and Moller and Rajala (2007) proposals were chosen to guide the field investigation and the analysis of the results regarding the strategic positioning of companies and the business networks built by them, respectively. In the HP Brazilian subsidiary case, it was identified that the company adopts a vertical demand-supply net to operate the best product positioning, whilst HTC opted for implementing the strategy of total customer solution in a business renewal net. Although the goal of this research was achieved, based on these results, there were additional evidences of consistency between the purposes and characteristics of both positions once confronted with the purposes and characteristics of the corresponding networks. It is suggested, therefore, from the findings of this research, that new studies should focus on the identification of company´s strategic options and types of networks integrated by them, in order to check if coherence between the two variables is necessary to make the firms achieve outstanding performance or not. The following hypothesis, then, can serve as inspiration for further researches: (1) vertical demand-supply nets or horizontal market nets are better suited to implement the best product strategic positioning; (2) renewal business nets or customer solution nets are better suited to implement the total customer solution strategic positioning; (3) application or dominant design or innovation nets are best suited to implement the system lock-in strategic positioning; or (4) market leading companies, which adopt the same strategic positioning, although acting in different industries, integrate the same type of business network.

Korea has become a strong influencer of global popular culture. With a handful of Korean celebrities entering mainstream U.S. pop music, Hallyu, the Korean Wave, has been growing tremendously in popularity. Following this global trend, American audiences are increasingly tuning into K-pop. The current study uses Q-sort methodology to investigate the motives, opinions, and attitudes of American fans of K-pop, specifically to find what drives people to seek music whose roots lie in an unfamiliar cultural landscape. Study results show that non-Korean K-pop fans in the United States fall into three distinct groups: the human lovers ("Honey honey, how you thrill me"), the product and production appreciators ("Music is my life"), and the social connectors ("With a little help from my friends"). Although the music appreciators and the socializers have been identified in previous K-pop research, the "Honey honey" group is a new category in K-pop culture research.

As China was recovering from disease, starvation, and death that resulted from the authoritarian policies of the Great Leap Forward, Chinese officials looked outwards to “heal” Africa. From 1963, a steady trickle of Chinese doctors and nurses arrived in Algeria, providing health care for rural and suburban communities, before expanding their care throughout the continent of Africa. This dissertation explores the experiences of the medical mission workers in Algeria during the first two decades of China’s medical aid program. It documents the rise of a globalizing China in the post-colonial world through the highly significant, yet heretofore overlooked, medical and humanitarian networks between Chinese provincial health institutions and Algerian medical facilities. It shows that the exchange of medical technology, drugs, and practices between China and Algeria crossed not only physical borders, but also boundaries between different systems of medicine and visions of development. Amidst the geopolitics of the Cold War, Chinese medical aid formed an alternative model of postcolonial international health care intervention in Third World countries. Central to this model was what I call “Chinese socialist medicine,” a body of hybrid medical knowledge and socialized health care delivery. Chinese socialist medicine not only challenged medical elitism by devising new, egalitarian approaches and ethical models, but also heavily relied on improvised medical technology and “scientized” acupuncture, which crossed epistemological boundaries between Western and Chinese medicines. Using a combination of Chinese, Arabic, and French textual and video sources, oral interviews, and clinical observations, this study analyzes the mobilization of human resources to Algeria, the application of mixed technologies of biomedicine and Chinese medicine, efforts to build medical supply infrastructure to manage local health problems, and China’s ambitions to transplant Chinese socialist healthcare ethics and ideals to Algerian communities. During this process, China’s socialist medicine emerged as a hybrid and flexible product of Maoist ideals for social welfare and internationalism. It constantly redrew its boundaries in Algeria by competing with medical missions from other socialist countries and recruiting local health actors to its enterprise. The dissertation argues that China’s medical aid in the form of socialist medicine was a channel for the projection of China’s soft power in global health governance. It demonstrates that medicine and internationalism were integral to China’s political history in the Mao period. Mao’s China was hardly “xenophobic” or inwardly focused, but rather tangibly connected with the rest of the world by flows of people, ideas, materials, and technologies. Socialist China during this era was in fact committed to building its global presence through networks of soft power, including humanitarian aid and medicine. Resting at the intersection of Cold War politics, the history of medicine, and global humanitarianism, the dissertation shows that China’s medical missions served as an ideological and methodological alternative in postcolonial health management within the global South.

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This project analyzes the Spanish dubbing of Glee for Latin American audiences in order to understand how identity—gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and (dis)ability—is shaped by the adaptation process. I make two primary interventions within the field of global television studies. First, I expand adaptation analysis by adding industrial norms and production processes to the traditional theorizations of technical and cultural aspects; secondly, I use this web of elements as an interpretive lens for analyzing television translations, thus providing a model for making sense of how the adaptation process affects the representation of race, sexuality, and other forms of identity. Glee is translated for all of Latin America by the Mexico City company New Art Dub, and so I spent three weeks there doing field work. In addition to interviewing Glee’s Spanish-language script writer, director, actors, engineers, and technicians, and observing their work at every stage, I reviewed dubbed scripts and conducted textual analysis of the dubbed episodes. As this project demonstrates, the translation process negotiates complex international forces along with numerous industrial, technical, and cultural constraints as it shapes representations of and discourses about sexual, gender, racial, and ethnic identities. This research demonstrates that between imperialism and indigenization is an entire adaptation industry which simultaneously exaggerates and downplays cross-cultural similarities and differences.

This study examined the role mass media play in animating the relationship between globalization and the nation-state. This study interrogated this relationship using a multi-method approach that analyzed news coverage, the general "media climate" in Oklahoma, and audience responses to the media climate regarding the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, a comprehensive immigration reform bill passed into law in 2007. The key goals of this study were to examine the ways in which news media in Oklahoma cover the issue of immigration, particularly as it relates to the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, in order to garner a deeper understanding of the ways in which the mass media participate in global processes while cementing the national imagined community. Moreover, by examining audience interpretations of news coverage from mainstream and diasporic news outlets regarding this legislation, this study provided insight into the ways messages about the immigrant family and its contingent gender roles circulate and incorporate into day-to-day culture and how, in turn, these cultural meanings are put into the service of the nation-state. This study used a multi-method approach comprising of a textual analysis of the bill itself and news coverage of the two largest English-language newspapers in the state. I also analyzed the text of a Spanish-language paper based in Tulsa and conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with various state legislators, journalists, community members, and staff members at and clients of the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City. In my analysis of the text of the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or, as it is commonly referred to, HB 1804, I argue that the bill established the ideological parameters of the immigration reform debate in the state. The text of the bill also reifies the nation-state, produces a subaltern immigrant community without recourse to the legal system, and provides a template of the ideal U.S. citizen through its representation of the deviant immigrant. My textual analysis of the two largest English-language newspapers in Oklahoma posits that these news discourses criminalize the immigrant, and gender, racialize, and class the immigrant worker, family unit, and its contingent members. As a result, the news coverage can be seen to highlight the ways in which 1804 is an attempt at resistance to global intrusions in Oklahoma and to offer assurance to the citizen community that cultural turmoil will be calmed. The figures of the bill's main author and the Catholic Church also symbolize the tension between the nation-state and the global in these news discourses. Finally, I argue that the Spanish-language media and the LCDA serve to unify the Latino community in Oklahoma in the context of immigration reform discourses, regardless of legal status, providing cultural sustenance and support when 1804 would deny this to the immigrant community.

This research seeks to explore the gendered nature of nationalisms and the ways that they can be challenged and perhaps transformed through the participation of women in sport at the national level. Nationalism is part of the public sphere, while women have historically been relegated to the private sphere. However, many scholars argue that women do in fact taken part in nation building primarily as biological reproducers of the nation. This has led scholars to conclude that nationalism is indeed gendered. Sport has traditionally been a masculine domain where conceptions of hegemonic masculinity as well as the nation are developed and reinforced. However within the last thirty years women's participation in sport, specifically at the national-elite level has risen dramatically. This research seeks to explore how women's increased participation in the nationalistic and masculine domain of sport will affect nationalism. To discover how the increase in women's participation in national sport may or may not be affecting nationalism, two exploratory case studies were conducted focusing on the media coverage of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games between 1972 and 2008. The cases used in the analysis were Canada and India. For each case, a large, English-language, national daily newspaper was selected as a data source and the articles covering women athletes during the Olympic Games were collected, subjected to a basic form of content analysis and then categorized into one of three categories. Individual women athletes featured in the articles were also analyzed as well. The findings of this study reveal that Indian and Canadian nationalism were affected by the increase in women's participation in sport. However, the study also demonstrates the ways in which media continues to feminize women athletes in order to make them socially acceptable. Despite this, the study reinforces the idea that sport remains a valuable space where women can challenge traditional gender ideals within a nationalisms.