East-West Identities

Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15169-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chan, Kwok-bun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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. Another study of his examines the adaptation of mainland Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong. He is former Head and Chair Professor of Sociology, and former Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI), 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 worldwide. In 2006, Brill published his Conflict and Innovation: Joint Ventures in China, which analyzes cultural hybridization in China’s joint ventures.

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.