Asia and China in the Global Era / edited by Adrian J. Bailey and Ricardo K. S. Mak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bailey, Adrian J., editor.

Mak, Ricardo K. S., editor.

Series:

Social and cultural changes in China ; v. 1.

Social and Cultural Changes in China [SCCC] , 2625-5987 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--China.

Globalization.

Globalization--Asia.

China--Foreign relations--Asia.

China.

Asia--Foreign relations--China.

Asia.

Asia--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Mouton ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Summary:

China's strong economic growth occurring alongside modernization across the great majority of Asian societies has created what many see as a transnational space through and by which not only economic, social and cultural resources, but also threats and crises flow over traditional political boundaries. The first section of the work lays out a clear conceptual framework. It draws on arguments about nation no longer being the only container of society, about trans-disciplinary thinking, and about knowledge being context-bound. It identifies and discusses distinctive features of China and Asia in the global era. These include population, urbanization and climate change; the continuing reach of Orientalist shadows; cultural politics of knowledge. It closes by arguing how global studies adds value to existing accounts. The second, and longer, section applies this framework through a series of original empirical case-studies in three areas: migration/poverty/gender; culture/education; well-being. Both the conceptual framework and case-studies are drawn from research presented at HKBU since 2011 under the auspices of the Global Social Sciences Conference Series and supplemented by additional papers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Chapter 1. China and the global era: From globalisation to everyday life

Chapter 2. Origin effects, spatial dynamics, and redistribution of foreign direct investment in Guangdong, China

Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform

Chapter 4. Neoliberalisation and community development: Comparing community development services in Hong Kong and Beijing

Chapter 5. A review of the effective features of Facebook in social media-based interventions to increase adolescents’ physical activity

Chapter 6. Gender and social capital: The case of a deprived urban community in Hong Kong

Chapter 7. Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses: A case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies

Chapter 8. Aurora College for Women in Shanghai, 1937–1951

Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan

Chapter 10. German Romantic ideals and the revival of traditional Chinese culture in early twentieth century China

Chapter 11. Urban resilience in China: Government action and community response

Index

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter viewed November 17, 2022).

ISBN:

9781501505591

1501505599

9781501505553

1501505556

OCLC:

1233041261