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This study reviews the experiences of workforce development organizations in Singapore and Penang, Malaysia. On the basis of the similarities in population and workforce size, the study argues that lessons can be learned from the two places which can be applied to U.S. regions. …

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the current status of piano instruction in Penang, Malaysia and to explore the influence of a uniquely British tradition of music exams in a pluralistic and postcolonial Malaysian society. Private piano education in Malaysia is …

Based on over two years of field research, this is an ethnographic analysis of the social production of space in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, a culturally diverse urban milieu of originally immigrant communities. Taking a temporal, political-economic approach, it examines how …

This thesis explores the afterlives of the Chinese revolutionary icon Sun Yat-sen and their relevant contexts, arguing that these contexts have given rise to different images of the same figure. It serves as a gallery in which these different images are put into conversation wit…