...This is the second volume of the Studying Multicultural Discourses series. Amongst other things, the book has pointed to the importance to studying culture as discourse and has drawn attention to the study especially of Eastern forms of communication through the particular case...

... through association with these characteristics. I will highlight crucial moments in the construction of cultural identities in a region loosely termed South China (Huanan), where different meanings of being Chinese are selectively pursued. Instead of presenting reified, objectively identifiable traits...

... with party and nation. The Chinese road to socialism, I thought, might become a model for agrarian societies undergoing the pains of modern development. Guangdong Huancheng Commune Huicheng Xinhui Cultural Revolution Liu Xinwu Spence Jonathan Weber Max Rural-urban divide China Hong Kong...

...How have city populations in Asia contributed to these transformations in recent decades? As illustrated in chapters in Worlding Cities (Roy and Ong 2011), they have experienced unprecedented volatility in life and work due to intense flows of capital, technology, migrant workers, cultural...

... contesting and violating Guangzhou China Architectural history Culture Social history eighteenth century Enclave the Thirteen Factories era So it was a most startling revelation to find myself in a very smart, purely foreign settlement, as entirely isolated from the native city as though they were...

...Since the lifting of martial law, museums have been established in Taiwan that draw attention to past human rights abuses under the Chiang regime and that promote human rights education. This chapter focusses on two such sites: the Ching-mei Human Rights Culture Park (景美人權文化園區) and the Green Island...

...The issue of the reality of the existence of “the Chinese learner” necessarily leads to the contemplation of “otherness,” the issue of the large culture versus the small culture. When Chinese students come to Scandinavia, they come to be the small segment in a large segment, even when the Danish...

...This chapter aims to discuss the existing relationship between culture and language and the inseparable connectedness of culture and language. It discusses the content of culture in teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language. The present chapter also tackles ways of classifying the Chinese...

...In 1964, the Tibet Military Area Political Department Cultural Work Troupe presented its new dance work, “Laundry Song,” at the PLA’s Third All-Military Arts Festival in Beijing. Although standard accounts interpret “Laundry Song” as a celebration of Han-Tibetan and soldier-civilian harmony...

... as pop culture responsive to the market. It considers the emergence of the youth market throughout the New Order and its maturation in the years after reformasi. By conceptualising the process of market engagement and commercialisation as going mainstream, this chapter argues for a new...

... of Indonesian cinema and the film industry as a complex network of interests and influence that cannot be reduced to the values of individual filmmakers. It shows how throughout the New Order the film industry came under state control before its decline in the 1990s and relegation to the cultural periphery...

...This chapter examines the development of rock ‘n’ roll music in China and its links with the emergent youth culture. It focuses on how young rebels use their own rock music as a means of reflecting their changing attitudes, behaviour, and “mood of living.” It examines Tian Zuangzhuang 's...

...This book discusses the discipline of Cultural Studies and its use to analyze the cultural industries in Northeast Asia. It opens with a section considering the discipline itself—perhaps even treating it as a kind of cultural industry in its own right. The book considers the challenges...

..., the moment when a distinctly modern visual culture, drawing self-consciously on Western sources, appears in China. It sees this latter art as modern in a way that is specific to the Chinese cultural context—it directly counters certain key qualities of the dominant inherited tradition, particularly through...

... and dramatists. Eastern Grove Donglin factional conflict gardens Hongguang Emperor Prince of Fu Fu wang period court publishing print culture Revival Society Restoration Society Fushe Tianqi Emperor period travel Wang Siren Wei Zhongxian Zhang Dai Zongzi authenticity Buddhism Gongan school hermits...

... Castells Manuel Gilroy Paul Karadžić Radovan Palumbo Liu David Yellow Peril discourse Žižek Slavoj Appadurai Arjun culture families globalization model minority Korean Americans California racism teenagers Fish Stanley Bauman Zygmunt Asian American Graphic novels Comic Artists Race Asia...

... Asian American Graphic novels Comic Artists Race Asia America Caricatures Manga Visual studies Pop Culture From the mid-1980s to the present, volumes such as Maus, Watchmen, Persepolis, and Fun Home have piqued the reading...

... migrants minority cosmopolitanism Rothberg Michael Ngai Mae M Alien Land Laws California consumer culture Connerton Paul Lukács Georg reification Berlant Lauren race riots Palumbo Liu David Asian American Graphic novels Comic Artists Race Asia America Caricatures Manga Visual studies...

...In chapter 8, Tim Gruenewald uses Yang’s earlier graphic narratives, such as American Born Chinese and Level Up, to explore the conflict among cultural inheritance, imagined racial categories, and identity formation. Using the casting controversy surrounding...

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