Overview

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 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.

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Author:   Kwok-bun Chan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.814kg
ISBN:  

9789004151697

ISBN 10:   9004151699
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   02 November 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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 Yeh Yueh-yu Chapter 4 Globalization and Identity Formation: A Cross-Cultural Reading of 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 Difference: 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 Index

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Chan Kwok-bun received his Ph.D. in sociology from York University, Canada, in 1978. He is married with two children. He is currently doing a study of returnees from the west now living and working in Hong Kong. He is Head and Chair Professor of Sociology, and Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2005 Routledge published his two new books: Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business, and Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism. Both books examine the identities and ethnicities of Chinese migrants and immigrants. Jan W. Walls is Professor Emeritus in Humanities at Simon Fraser University. Prior to retirement in 2006, he taught Chinese language, literature, culture and cross-cultural communication for 36 years. He was founding Director of SFU's Asia-Canada Program, and LEWI's North America-China Research Program. David Hayward is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is a David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) Fellow, and sits on the joint Board of LEWI and the Wing Lung Bank International Institute for Business Development.

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