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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Kwok B.

Walls, Jan.

Hayward, David, 1959-

Series:

International comparative social studies ; v. 15.

International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural fusion.

Culture and globalization.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Under the simultaneous influences of globalization and localization, there has emerged a prevalent social formation based on a hybridized culture in which the cultural norms are many and various: boundary transcendence, alternative cultures, cultural hybridity, cultural creativity, connectivity, tolerance, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism. While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism, will be a viable option for constructing new or renewed global communities of migrants around the world. It is on these diasporic communities that the self-definition (the self-identity) and cultural expansion of all migrants depend, and it is with these tools that migrants are best equipped to navigate the raging torrents of globalization in the new millennium of a post-postmodern era. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. It is in this spirit that this book should be read. Contributors: Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, David Hayward, Michael E. DeGolyer, Lam Wai-man, Georgette Wang, Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu, Lu Fang, Nan M. Sussman, Rie Ito, Oscar Bulaong Jr., Brian Chan Hok-shing, Millie Creighton, Anthony Y.H. Fung, Ho Wai-chung, Chiou Syuan-Yuan, Chris Wood, Chung Ling, Steve Fore, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ashley Tellis, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Steven McClung

Contents:

Preliminary material / K. Chan , Walls and Hayward

Introduction: Globalization, localization and hybridization: Their impact on our lives / Chan Kwok-Bun

Chapter 1. Identity in the politics of transition: The case of Hong Kong, ‘Asia’s world city’ / Michael E. Degolyer

Chapter 2. Depoliticization, citizenship and the politics of community in Hong Kong / Lam Wai-Man

Chapter 3. Globalization and hybridization in cultural production: A tale of two films / Georgette Wang and Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh

Chapter 4. Globalization and identity formation: A cross-cultural reading of Amy Tan’s \'Sagwa, the chinese siamese cat\' / Lu Fang

Chapter 5. Identity shifts as a consequence of crossing cultures: Hong Kong chinese migrants return home / Nan M. Sussman

Chapter 6. Japan’s ‘Beckham fever’: Marketing and consuming a global sport celebrity / Rie Ito

Chapter 7. On the globalization of the self: Internet weblogs as an identity-forming activity / Oscar Bulaong Jr

Chapter 8. Hybrid language and hybrid identity? The case of cantonese-english code-switching in Hong Kong / Brian Chan Hok-Shing

Chapter 9. Changing heart (beats): From japanese identity and nostalgia to Taiko for citizens of the Earth / Millie Creighton

Chapter 10. Learning Hong Kong’s body: Beauties, beauty workers and their identities / Anthony Y.H. Fung

Chapter 11. The impact of localization and globalization on popular music in the context of social change in Taiwan / Ho Wai-Chung

Chapter 12. Building traditions for bridging differences: Islamic imaginary homelands of chinese-indonesian muslims in east Java / Chiou Syuan-Yuan

Chapter 13. Pi’s passport: Identity and the peculiar economics of popular culture / Chris Wood

Chapter 14. The pacific rim consciousness of american writers on the West Coast / Chung Ling

Chapter 15. Making Do And Making meaning: Cultural and technological hybridity in recent asian animation / Steve Fore

Chapter 16. ‘Globalizentity’: Assessing the effects of ‘global career’ on national identity in Japan / T.J.M. Holden

Chapter 17. Cyberpatriarchy: Chat rooms and the construction of ‘man to man’ relations in urban India / Ashley Tellis

Chapter 18. Diverging media convergence: Perceptual differences across cultures,genders and habits / Jeffrey Wilkinson and Steven Mcclung

Notes on contributors / K. Chan , Walls and Hayward

Index / K. Chan , Walls and Hayward.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92607-8

9786611926076

90-474-2783-1

OCLC:

646788918

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004151697.i-404 DOI