East-west identities globalization, localization, and hybridization / edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls and David Hayward.

Other author Chan, Kwok B.
Other author Walls, Jan, 1940-
Other author Hayward, David, 1959-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionvii, 404 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesInternational comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 15
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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