East-West Identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization (International Comparative Social Studies, 15)
Language: English
Published by Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
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vii, 404 pages : illustrations : 23 cm. Contents: Identity in the politics of transition : the case of Hong Kong, 'Asia's world city' / Michael E. DeGolyer -- Depoliticization, citizenship and the politics of community in Hong Kong / Lam Wai-man -- Globalization and hybridization in cultural production : a tale of two films / Georgette Wang and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- Globalization and identity formation : a cross-cultural reading of Amy Tan's "Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese cat" / Lu Fang -- Identify shifts as a consequence of crossing cultures : Hong Kong Chinese migrants return home / Nan M. Sussman -- Japan's 'Beckham fever' : marketing and consuming a global sport celebrity / Rie Ito -- On the globalization of the self : internet weblogs as an identity-forming activity / Oscar Bulaong Jr. -- Hybrid language and hybrid identity? The case of Cantonese-English code-switching in Hong Kong / Brian Chan Hok-shing -- Changing heart (beats) : from Japanese identity and nostalgia to Taiko for citizens of the Earth / Millie Creighton -- Learning Hong Kong's body : beauties, beauty workers and their identities / Anthony Y.H. Fung -- The impact of localization and globalization ion popular music in the context of social change in Taiwan / Ho Wai-chung -- Building traditions for bridging differences : Islamic imaginary homelands of Chinese-Indonesian Muslims in East Java / Chiou Syuan-yuan -- Pi's passport : identity and the peculiar economics of popular culture / Chris Wood -- The Pacific Rim consciousness of American writers on the West Coast / Chung Ling -- Making do and making meaning : cultural and technological hybridity in recent Asian animation / Steve Fore -- 'Globalizentity' : assessing the effects of 'global career' on national identity in Japan / T.J.M. Holden -- Cyberpatriarchy : chat rooms and the construction of 'man to man' relations in urban India / Ashley Tellis -- Diverging media convergence : perceptual differences across cultures, genders and habits / Jeffry Wilkinson and Steven McClung.…
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- East-West Identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization (International Comparative Social Studies, 15)
- Author
- edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls and David Hayward
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill
- Publication year
- 2007
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- New
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 9004151699
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- 9789004151697
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- Politics, Psychology
Contributors: Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, David Hayward, Michael E. DeGolyer, Lam Wai-man, Georgette Wang, Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu, Lu Fang, Nan M. Sussman, Rie Ito, Oscar Bulaong Jr., Brian Chan Hok-shing, Millie Creighton, Anthony Y.H. Fung, Ho Wai-chung, Chiou Syuan-Yuan, Chris Wood, Chung Ling, Steve Fore, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ashley Tellis, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Steven McClung
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About the Author
Jan W. Walls is Professor Emeritus in Humanities at Simon Fraser University. Prior to retirement in 2006, he taught Chinese language, literature, culture and cross-cultural communication for 36 years. He was founding Director of SFU’s Asia-Canada Program, and LEWI’s North America-China Research Program.
David Hayward is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is a David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) Fellow, and sits on the joint Board of LEWI and the Wing Lung Bank International Institute for Business Development.
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