East-West Identities
Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
Edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, Simon Fraser University, and David Hayward, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
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Biographical note
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.
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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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
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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