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“doreen wu”

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  • Brand China in the Media

    Transformation of Identities

    Edited by Qing Cao, Doreen Wu, Keyan G. Tomaselli ...
    This book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’.With its growing economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes such as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    by Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

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  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Minority Education in China

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This edited volume brings together essays by leading experts exploring different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: among these are the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the role of inland boarding schools for minority students, and the mediation of religion and culture in ... Read more

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  • The Han

    China's Diverse Majority

    by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Semiperipheral Entanglements

    Edited by Stef Jansen, Čarna Brković, Vanja Čelebičić ...
    Series series Southeast European Studies
    Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality. Contributions based on long-term, in-depth research projects explore how people in different parts of BiH make and remake social relations and outline how their practices of sociality ... Read more

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  • Connecting Taiwan

    Participation – Integration – Impacts

    Edited by Carsten Storm ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    Taiwan has often been characterised as an isolated society in its search for sovereignty and security. Its contact with the world in an era of globalization and post-modernity, however, has increasingly led to Taiwanese actors successfully participating in many regional and global fields.In this book an international team of scholars presents cases studies and theoretical debates emphasising ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China

    Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi

    by Delia Lin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi – a term that denotes the idea of cultivating a ‘quality’ citizenship – is central to this programme of rejuvenation, and is enjoying a revival. This book therefore offers ... Read more

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  • The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

    Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

    by Hai Ren ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the development and the role of this new social group is crucial to understanding contemporary Chinese ... Read more

    $77.99 USD