This book presents a set of essays on the globalization and intra-urban dynamics of the Asian cities conducted by Taiwanese and French researchers. It covers four main themes: “culture-led regeneratio
In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engages with global politics, market forces, and film cultures, this edited volume places Chinese cinema against an array of contexts informing the contours of Chinese cinema today. The book also demonstrates that Chinese cinema in the global context is informed by the intersections and tensions found in Chinese and world politics, national and international co-productions, the local and global in representing Chineseness, and the lived experiences of social and political movements versus screened politics in Chinese film culture. This work is a pioneer investigation of the topic and will inspire future research by other scholars of film studies.
What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family.Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and unde
Carlos Torres 何以會成為當前全世界最受重視的教育學者之一，本書提供了相當詳實的解答。他建構了民主、公民職權與多元文化教育之間深刻的理論與實務對話，而本書對教育的影響將十分深遠。－－Michael W. Apple，美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校 Torres 這本書針對在全球化的教育政策與實踐脈絡下，民主、多元文化理論與公民職權的互動與對話。本書中，Torres 一方面對既有的文獻進行
當代社會學大師、倫敦政經學院前院長安東尼‧紀登斯爵士（Lord Anthony Giddens）於2002年4月14日抵台訪問，發表了兩場演講，「全球化的進程與後果」和「第三條路的全球辯論」，於17日結束訪問離台。在兩場演講之外還安排會見陳總統及李遠哲院長，在台灣的政壇和新聞界引起了不小的震撼及討論，被稱為「紀登斯旋風」。本書包括他訪台的演講以及本地報章雜誌對他的訪談。 一般公認紀登斯乃當代學
