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East-West Identities : Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization /

While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. This book covers this topi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chan, Kwok B., Walls, Jan, 1940-, Hayward, David, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:International comparative social studies ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.