Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Elaine Jeffreysexplores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of sex...
Gender and Work in Urban China
Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous...
Consuming China
Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption,...
Consumers and Individuals in China
Standing Out, Fitting In
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese urban society, this book applies critical discourse analysis to ethnographic data gathered in Anshan, a third-tier city and market in northeast China. The book confronts the – still widespread – notion that Chinese consumers are not "real"...
by Patricia Ebrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history...
by Ashok Kapur
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This book provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The author shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors (an approach that included nuclear self-restraint, the search for friendly relations...
Consumer-Citizens of China (Open Access)
The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art
Performing Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational...
A View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sense and Sadness
Syriac Chant in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala Jarjour puts forward the concept...
Creating Aztlán
Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In lowriding culture, the ride is many things—both physical and intellectual. Embraced by both Xicano and other Indigenous youth, lowriding takes something very ordinary—a car or bike—and transforms it and claims it.
Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world,...
Neutrality in Southeast Asia
Concepts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to...
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self.
Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating...