Tours Philippines - Sights of Contestation: Localism, Globalism and Cultural Production in Asia and the Pacific
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Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9789622018693
ISBN: 9622018696
Label: The Chinese University Press
Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Date: 2002-02-06
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Studio: The Chinese University Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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The fourteen essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism. Various theories of globalization have been proposed since the 1970s to predict the trend of development toward homogenization and explain the tensions hitherto created. However diverse the theories may be, there is one fact that assumes the form of a challenge. As the world has become seemingly less and less divergent in its "shrinkage," the traditional categories of cultural division and opposition, such as the East versus the West, may no longer be adequate in analyzing the world we live in today. Paradoxically enough, this very shrinkage and restructuring of the world has the effect of focusing more sharply on questions of localism, identity and cultural roots. This is, in fact, a moment in history when the local and the global are co-implicated in complex and unanticipated ways. How do cultural workers, who are primarily writers, intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers and educators, in Asia and the Pacific respond to this challenging phenomenon? How do they conceptualize it? What are the prospects and problems they foresee with regard to their own societies and cultures? These are questions of utmost significance as one seeks to come to terms with East Asia and the emerging Pacific as a space of contestation and resistance in the global/local process of cultural production. The fourteen essays collected in this book certainly represent the views of some of the prominent scholars in theregion.
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Summary: Too general and vague
Comment: The authors and editors are perhaps being a little over-ambitious in compiling this book, for they've looked at a broad spectrum of things but are unable to focus their arguments more specifically. As a result, the contents of this book are often too general and vague. Too vague, in fact, for it to be of much use, other than stimulating the read onwards to further, and more useful, research.
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