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Ungrounded Empires

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596419X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Ungrounded Empires written by Aihwa Ong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.

On Not Speaking Chinese

Author : Ien Ang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512929
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book On Not Speaking Chinese written by Ien Ang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese". From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies.

Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era

Author : Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134390505
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era written by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeung examines 'overseas' Chinese capitalism in East and Southeast Asia in a time of accelerated globalization and the evolution of Chinese capitalism through the participation of political and business elites in the global economy.

Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies

Author : M. Jocelyn Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136123466
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies by : M. Jocelyn Armstrong

Download or read book Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies written by M. Jocelyn Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on the past and present contributions of the 25 million strong Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia to the development of contemporary society. Case studies feature organisational, community, religious, and other arenas of Chinese activity and identity definition, and the book analyses the interplay of local, regional, global and transnational networks and identities.

Postmodernity's Histories

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461722365
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity's Histories written by Arif Dirlik and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to the practice of historical research. Moving beyond mere critique, he synthesizes traditional historical methods with new approaches that emphasize historical memory, indigenous writing, place based history, and the dual processes of integration and fragmentation in a globalized world.

Youth Moves

Author : Nadine Dolby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135915199
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Youth Moves written by Nadine Dolby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere. Drawing together contributions from the work of both well known and emerging scholars, this collection highlights the practices of youth’s identities in the context of broadly defined educative sites, including schools, media and popular culture, community organisations, cyberspace, music, and urban landscapes.

New Directions in Social and Cultural History

Author : Sasha Handley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472580826
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Social and Cultural History written by Sasha Handley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field. The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography.

Ungrounded Empires

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780005915424
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Ungrounded Empires written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire and Local Worlds

Author : Mingming Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315429713
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Local Worlds written by Mingming Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th century that declined to a peripheral regional center by the end of the 19th century. But the historical trajectory understates the complex set of interrelationships between local structures and imperial agendas that played out over the course of centuries and dynasties. Using urban structure, documentary analysis, and archaeological artifacts, Wang shows how the study of Quangzhou represents a Chinese template for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models propounded by such theorists as Sahlins, Wolf, and Elias.

The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific

Author : Anthony Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351892991
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific written by Anthony Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century. The papers include discussions of what it meant to be Chinese, the position of the migrants vis-à-vis China itself, and their relations with indigenous peoples as well as the European powers that came to dominate the region. Together with the introduction, they constitute an important aid to understanding one of the most widespread diasporas of the modern world.

Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia

Author : Timothy P. Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135931224
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia written by Timothy P. Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text contains an examination of processes of cultural citizenship in peninsular Malaysia. In particular, it focuses upon the diverse residents of the southwestern state of Melaka and their negotiations of belonging and incorporation in Malaysian society. Following political independence and the formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1957 Malaysian citizenship was extended to most members of these diverse social identities. In this post-colonial context, Timothy P. Daniels examines how public celebrations and representations, religious festivals, and patterns of social relations are connected to processes of inclusion and exclusion.

Migration in the 21st Century

Author : Pauline Gardiner Barber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415892228
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Migration in the 21st Century written by Pauline Gardiner Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Migration in the 21st Century' focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international, and transnational variants, drawing on ethnographies from across the globe to show that our understanding of migration is advanced when ethnography is theoretically engaged with the social consequences of 21st century global capitalism.

China Urban

Author : Nancy N. Chen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381338
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book China Urban written by Nancy N. Chen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare. China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization. Contributors. Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang

The Chinese Exotic

Author : Olivia Khoo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098794
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Exotic written by Olivia Khoo and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great sensitivity and originality, Olivia Khoo shows us how to read popular films, female movie stars, quotidian cultural artifacts, novels, and other 'Chinese exotic'phenomena in contemporary global circulation."--Rey Chow, Brown UniversityOlivia Khoo is a lecturer in film studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Media and Cultural Transformation in China

Author : Haiqing Yu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134062273
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Media and Cultural Transformation in China written by Haiqing Yu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role played by the media in China’s ongoing cultural transformation. It demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity.

Asian Biotech

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822393204
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Asian Biotech written by Aihwa Ong and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by country, the contributors identify a significant trend toward state entrepreneurialism in biotechnology, and they highlight the ways that political thinking and ethical reasoning are converging around the biosciences. As ascendant nations in a region of postcolonial emergence, with an “uncanny surplus” in population and pandemics, Asian countries treat their populations as sources of opportunity and risk. Biotech enterprises are allied to efforts to overcome past humiliations and restore national identity and political ambition, and they are legitimized as solutions to national anxieties about food supplies, diseases, epidemics, and unknown biological crises in the future. Biotechnological responses to perceived risks stir deep feelings about shared fate, and they crystallize new ethical configurations, often re-inscribing traditional beliefs about ethnicity, nation, and race. As many of the essays in this collection illustrate, state involvement in biotech initiatives is driving the emergence of “biosovereignty,” an increasing pressure for state control over biological resources, commercial health products, corporate behavior, and genetic based-identities. Asian Biotech offers much-needed analysis of the interplay among biotechnologies, economic growth, biosecurity, and ethical practices in Asia. Contributors Vincanne Adams Nancy N. Chen Stefan Ecks Kathleen Erwin Phuoc V. Le Jennifer Liu Aihwa Ong Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner Kaushik Sunder Rajan Wen-Ching Sung Charis Thompson Ara Wilson

Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada

Author : Vic Satzewich
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840994
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada written by Vic Satzewich and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians, political scientists, geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, this collection examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant and ethnic communities in Canada. It looks at why members of these groups maintain ties with their homelands -- whether real or imagined -- and how those connections shape individual identities and community organizations. How does transnationalism establish or transform geographical, social, and ideological borders? Do homeland ties affect what it means to be "Canadian"? Do they reflect Canada's commitment to multiculturalism? Through analysis of the complex forces driving transnationalism, this comprehensive study focuses attention on an important, and arguably growing, dimension of Canadian social life. This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in issues of immigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity, and settlement.