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雅絲敏•阿莫（Yasmin Ahmad），是馬來西亞已故的電影及廣告女導演。其電影最大特色是反映出馬來西亞族群與文化多元性，賦予了馬來西亞電影真正的意義，除了受國內各族群觀眾的喜愛，也在許多國際影展上獲得殊榮。 雅絲敏的電影中有許多的情節，是在指涉馬來西亞社會中特定的情境與文化現象，有其獨特意義，極具研究價值。因此，本論文將以作者論態度和文本分析法探究雅絲敏的六部作品，包括《愛到眼茫茫》、《我愛單眼皮》、《花開總有時》、《木星的初戀》、《愛從心開始》和《戀戀茉莉香》，主要在於了解雅絲敏在電影中對於馬來西亞族群關係的再現。文獻方面，將對作者論、文本分析法以及族群相關概念及理論進行梳理與探討。另外，也將整理出雅絲敏六部作品的共通性，以確認雅絲敏的電影風格以及她在馬來西亞電影發展脈絡中所作出的貢獻與代表意義。 / The late Yasmin Ahmad is one of the most outstanding film directors from Malaysia. Yasmin’ films always depict the multiethnic and multicultural society of Malaysia, which not only attracted audiences from different ethnic within the country but also won many awards in the international film festival. It is important to think and understand the messages Yasmin trying to convey through her films. Therefore by using the auteur theory and textual analysis, this research will study the representation of ethnic relationship in all her six films, Rabun(2003), Sepet(2004), Gubra(2006), Mukhsin(2007), Muallaf(2008) and Talentime(2009). In order to provide background knowledge regarding the circumstances of Malaysia multiethnic society, this research also involves the theory of pluralism, ethnic identity, ethnic boundary, and stereotypes as part of the literature review. And also, this research will analyses mise-en-scène that was used to appear in Yasmin’ films to prove that Yasmin is truly a film auteur. Lastly, this research will conclude the unique film style which solely belongs to Yasmin and her contribution towards Malaysia film industry.

旅居者在進入新文化社會時，往往面臨著跨文化適應的議題。而社群媒體的出現與滲透，也改變著旅居者流動於原文化與主文化之間的樣貌。本研究透過深度訪談探究背負著特殊脈絡的馬來西亞僑生，在進入台灣社會過程中所歷經的文化衝擊與跨文化適應歷程，並以新傳播科技臉書社群平台的角度切入，分析線上管道對馬來西亞僑生的疑慮消除及雙邊文化連結的影響，試圖描繪出臉書在旅台馬來西亞僑生跨文化適應經驗中所扮演的功能與角色。 研究發現，多數馬來西亞僑生在來台前透過人際與媒體管道的接觸而對台灣有著美好的印象，因此進入台灣社會即面臨著種種的文化衝擊，其中包含：生活、語言溝通、學業、人際關係、意識型態與價值觀等五個方面的適應問題。其跨文化適應歷程呈現壓力－調適－成長的螺旋上升模式。在旅居新文化社會台灣的初期，由於擁有較劇烈的衝擊，因此會在臉書採取主動、被動與互動的疑慮消除策略兼用的方式適應台灣，有助於初期龐大壓力的調解；而隨著時間的積累，雖然他們仍會面臨新議題事件的碰撞，但由於日常人際網絡日趨穩固以及跨文化經驗的提升，因此轉向被動策略的臉書使用。 整體來說，臉書為馬來西亞僑生在台灣的跨文化生活所提供的助益包括：資訊獲取與整合、情感支持、維繫關係與發展關係。在旅居初期如同橋樑一般，提供馬來西亞僑生在台灣社會中凝聚與跨越雙邊文化網絡的管道，讓流動於不同脈絡的他們，可以同時發揮不同連結人際網絡的潛力，將衝突化為成長的奠基，從而達到更好的跨文化適應階段，並在成長過後，更加自如地運用臉書作為生活的調味料，點綴其旅居生涯，成為更深層的跨文化能動者。 / Sojourners often come across the issue of cultural adaptation when they step into a new social environment. However, the presence of social media and its penetration change the way sojourners shift between host and ethnic culture. This study is about the cultural adaptation of Overseas Malaysian Chinese students in Taiwan’s social environment, through the social media platform, Facebook. This research analyzes in which way Facebook affects uncertainty reduction and bilateral culture context of the students, therefore demonstrating the functions and the role of Facebook in the cross-cultural adaptation of Overseas Malaysian Chinese students in Taiwan. The study is done through in-depth interviews with the students. This research shows that before most Overseas Malaysian Chinese students arrive, they have a remarkable impression of Taiwan. All these made up through social and media exposure of the country. It is also the reason they encounter culture shock upon their arrival, adaptation problems include living, communication, academic, social relationships, personal ideology and values. The stress – adaptation – growth model shows a rising spiral pattern during the period of adaptation. Due to severe culture shock during the early stage of the sojourners’ arrival, they tend to actively, passively and interactively utilize uncertainty reduction strategies to adapt Taiwan, it is effective to accommodate the high level of stress faced by them. In time, although they would still bump into new issues, they could passively make use of Facebook because they have stronger social networks and more cross-cultural experiences. To conclude, the benefits of Facebook toward Overseas Malaysian Chinese students in Taiwan include, gathering and compiling information, emotional support, sustaining and developing relationships. In the early stage, Facebook acts as a connecting bridge, providing a channel that bonds and breaches bilateral culture contexts, at the same time unleashing the potential their social relations among different ties. Eventually this will improve the cross-cultural adaptation process as conflicts are transformed into a foundation for growth. Subsequently after the growth, they are more casually utilizing Facebook being a condiment in their lives, to enhance the living in the country, as well as being an experienced cross-cultural agent.

本論文中國與馬來西亞合作的雙向園區作為例，為全球首創雙向合作的工業園區，探究中國與馬來西亞藉由兩國雙園產業配置的政治運作邏輯。本文發現中馬兩國雙園中設置不只是雙邊國家利益的展現，更是雙邊在地利益團體的結合，因此以「複合互賴理論」作為分析方法，觀察中國和馬來西亞如何透過產業園區的設置，把雙邊國家利益轉化成雙邊國家政策，並結合在地利益團體的目標，最後消弭中馬兩國雙邊矛盾，實行中馬兩國的國家合作計畫。最後，雙園的合作不在只是雙邊經濟的交涉，更是雙邊國家外交戰略的實行，變相成為在地利益團的建立、強化，甚至到雙邊國家關係的聯繫。 / In this paper argues that the China-Malaysia Twin Industrial Parks as an example, is first two-way cooperation of the industrial park in the world. It explore that China and Malaysia's the political operation logic through the each industry park. This thesis finds that the China-Malaysia Twin Industrial Parks are not only the show of bilateral national interests, but also the combination of bilateral interest groups, this research conducts classification analysis called Complex Interdependence Theory.This approace is used to observe how China and Malaysia through the industrial park set up the interests of bilateral countries into bilateral policy, combined with the interests of the interests of groups, and finally eliminate the bilateral contradictions between China and Malaysia, the implementation of the two countries of the national deevelopment program. The last part is the conclusion of the thesis not only for the bilateral economic relations, but also for the implementation of bilateral countries diplomatic strategy.

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<p>This dissertation investigates the traumatic legacies of colonialism, imperialism and authoritarianism in Southeast Asia, the diasporic conditions of Southeast Asian refugees in North America after 1975, and the relationship among literature, ethics, and reconciliation more broadly. Focusing primarily on contemporary novels that intervene in the cultural memory of the Cambodian genocide, the War in Viet Nam, and the World War II Japanese Occupation of Malaysia, my dissertation conceptualizes an intimate politics of reconciliation that routes the study of justice foremost through questions of affect, epistemology and ethics. An intimate politics of reconciliation, I argue, encapsulates a constellation of intimate memorial acts—ritual, testimony, collaboration, gifting, and narrative reconstruction—that operate within and against macro-political and juridical modalities of justice. My research highlights productive scenes of convergence between discourses of post-genocide reconciliation and alternative spiritual cosmologies, between refugee collaborative writing and theories of gifting, and between theories of forgetting and social and psychic reparation. In arguing that Southeast Asian diasporic genealogies paradoxically foreground the necessity of both remembering and forgetting in the collective work of reconciliation, this dissertation engages with and challenges two key theoretical paradigms in Asian American Studies—a politics of social justice premised upon a discourse of “subjectlessness” and a psychoanalytic paradigm of productive melancholia theory.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This comparative study assessed the usefulness of the convergence thesis as a tool for understanding developments in leisure, recreation and sport in New Zealand and Malaysia. The study examined the interrelationship between 'global' and 'local' or 'contingent' factors and their impact upon leisure behaviour, leisure policy and leisure structures. 'Local' factors included institutional arrangements (notably political ones) and national cultural practices. A social history of New Zealand and Malaysia with particular reference to leisure, sport and recreation and national cultural practices was provided as a context for discussion of these issues. The study utilised a mixture of archival and library research and semi-structured interview, and was guided by an explicit comparative framework, concentrating on the development of leisure, sport and recreation in the two countries between 1970 and 2002. Interviews with 'key players' in both countries captured valuable data in the form of 'insiders' views' on leisure behaviour, policy and structure. These data were analysed with the relevance of the convergence thesis in mind. This study shows that contemporary leisure behaviour in New Zealand and Malaysia is shaped by the media and is highly commercialised, placing a high value on entertainment, and involves increasingly passive forms of participation. Informal sport and individualised recreational activities are replacing organised team-based sports in popularity. Leisure behaviour trends have led governments in both countries to encourage greater participation in sport and physical activity and to encourage private sector ventures into leisure-related products, services and infra-structures in the form of private-public partnerships. In terms of leisure policy, developments in leisure, recreation and, noticeably, sport, in Malaysia and New Zealand have been shaped by the wider agendas of the governing political parties. This is particularly noticeable at central government level. Individual political leaders in both countries have been influential in setting leisure-related policy. They had the vision to see that sport in particular might serve wider, national interests and that investments in sport could help raise the profiles of their countries in international markets and among trading organisations and the regulatory bodies that oversee trading practices. Malaysian and New Zealand governments seek to make leisure, sport and recreation policy supportive of other priorities. In Malaysia, the government legitimises its control over the policies which affect people's lives by appeals to Islamic principles and the need to put collective needs of nation building ahead of individual concerns for freedom. In terms of institutional, political, arrangements, this impacts at both central and local government levels in Malaysia. New Zealand, following a pluralist, Westminster, tradition of political representation, experiences regular changes in political management at central government level and a system of local government whereby local autonomy is jealously protected. Malaysia has resisted 'the global', by virtue of the nation-building policies of the Barisan Nasional, which has been in power since 1957. New Zealand's 'resistance' stems in part at least from the autonomy which local government enjoys. These experiences demonstrate that resistance to 'global' change can take varied forms at the 'local', contingent, level (Thorns, 1992). Differences in leisure structures reflect, once again, different agendas stemming from different political arrangements. The Malaysian government's approach is multi-Ministry, and micro-managed. In New Zealand, a 'hands off' approach via a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation (‘Quango'), became the favoured means of structuring central government leisure provision in the 1980s and 1990s. This was with a view to encouraging stability and consistency in leisure policy and provision in a pluralistic political system. Overall, and 'cautiously', this study provided support for the convergence thesis as a way to explain development in leisure, recreation and sport in New Zealand and Malaysia over the past 32 years. Although institutional arrangements and national cultural practices have provided some resistance to convergence processes, changing consumer sentiments may weaken such resistance in future.