Cultures Merging

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people’s ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today’s queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilit

Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans’ diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this

Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades – the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and waterways, the rural and urban dwellings, the working and living habits, and the outstanding symbols and totems. Like a traveller pausing before stunning scenery – the Mongolian grasslands, the yellow-earth plateaus, the Yellow River’s mighty gorges – he reflects on the intangible cultures that have made the Han, the Hui, the Mongolian and the Uyghur peoples who they are, and contemplates on their language usages, socio-political dilemmas, philosophical traditions, beliefs and biases and their religious aspirations. These essays show how deeply Zhang Chengzhi understands modern China’s painful evolution through war and revolution and how deeply he is attached to his Hui–Muslim roots. They also

This book is a useful reference that introduces the social inclusion tools and standards, as well as elaborates the applications in and outside Asia. It enables readers to see how people in different cultures interpret the concept of social inclusion and how social inclusion is experienced among different disadvantaged groups in society.

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 un

This edited volume seeks to highlight the development of play therapy in various countries and cities in Asia. The editors discuss how mostly Western play therapy approaches are adapted for use in Asian countries. Having existed for years in the West, play therapy is still in its early stage of development in most Asian countries including Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. This is the first play therapy book written by experts from specific Asian cultures for practitioners and students who are working in the mental health field for Asian groups. Each chapter first describes play therapy development in that particular culture and then uses a case study to illustrate how play therapy can be adapted to suit specific cultural beliefs and environments in order to connect parents with their children or to address clients’ needs. This text will be welcomed by professors, clinicians, and parents of all cultures East and West.

Collected and Curated introduces Chinese art and material culture through the items from the permanent collection of The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong. As the oldest continuously operating museum in Hong Kong, UMAG serves as a significant venue for contemporary art exhibitions, and excels at collecting, documenting and teaching about local and regional artists and art forms, while fostering ongoing and new relationships. Regarded as an essential teaching resource, UMAG has expanded its collection and programming through generous donations from patrons and artists, along with support from the University of Hong Kong and the HKU Museum Society. Since 1953, curators and educators have leveraged this assistance to expand, display and teach with a collection that highlights artefacts ranging from Neolithic cultures (ca. 6500 BCE–ca. 1900 BCE) to the early kingdoms and dynasties of imperial China (ca. 1500 BCE–1911). UMAG has also gained a reputation f

Can we ever go home again? This question lies at the heart of Homecomings by Wong Yoon Wah, a veteran Singaporean poet and a prominent voice in global Chinese literature. In these poems, Wong delves into his country’s precolonial and colonial history, the natural heritage of the rainforest, his memories of his kampung hometown, his heartbreak at the closure of Nanyang University, and the global traumas of European colonisation and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. He expresses the loneliness and dislocation of the Chinese diaspora, as well as the sorrow of his generation as so many of their cultural touchstones are destroyed in the name of progress. At the same time, he embraces a planetary mode of thinking, sensing rapport with fellow humans from distant cultures and geographies, identifying even with the plants and animals that compose our ecosystem. Filled with nostalgia, bitter irony and strange beauty, Homecomings is a love letter to the past, revisiting its glories, making peace w

Sinoglossia places the terms of embodiment, mediality, and translation at the center of analytical inquiry into Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Converging in the rubric of Sinoglossia, the chapters in this volume introduce a theory defined by cultural formations not overdetermined by Sinitic linguistic ties. The concept of Sinoglossia combines a heteroglossic and a heterotopian approach to the critical study of mediated discourses of China and Chineseness. From the history of physical examinations and queer subalternity to the cinematic inscription of Chineseness-as-landscape, and from Sinopop to the translational writings of Eileen Chang and Syaman Rapongan, this book argues for a flexible conceptualization of cultural objects, conditions, and contexts that draws attention to an array of polyphonic, multi-discursive, and multilingual articulations. In this new horizon of understanding, place or topos necessarily constitutes the possibility of friction and source of innovation.

南台灣必遊景點 Nine Things One Must Experience in Southern Taiwan 藉由夜生活、藝術文創、客家文化、靜心之旅、海洋之美、原民文化、古蹟及生態之旅與台灣茶飲等九大主題，暢遊南台灣必遊景點。 The nine main things one must experience in southern Taiwan are: nightlife activities, art, Hakka culture, places suitable for tranquility and meditation, beautiful ocean views, aboriginal cultures, historic sites, ecological tours, and Taiwanese tea culture. 實用句型及詞彙 Useful Sentence Patterns and Vocabulary 依各單元主題，整理出最精華的句型及詞彙，讓學習者運用基本句型，替換詞彙，旅遊時能馬上派上用場。 Each unit deals with the most essential sentence patterns and vocabulary, so the reader can master basic sentence patterns and vocabulary substitution drills. These grammar exercises can be used immediately when traveling. 文化導覽深度遊 In-depth Guided Cultural Tours 針對各單元內容，延伸相關文化知識，滿足學習者需求，深度了解當地風土民情。 Each unit provides knowledge relevant to the needs of travelers, promoting a deeper understanding of local customs and cultures. 文化體驗動手做 Hands-on Cultural Experiences 透過實際活動操作，讓您更深入體驗當地的人文精神。例如 : 泡茶、書法體驗、彩繪紙傘、手作琉璃串珠、彩繪紙傘

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.

Initially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other’s cultural creations, these zones of con

Initially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other’s cultural creations, these zones of con

The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong is a handy reference for both amateurs and professional botanists in Asia who wish to enter the field of modern orchidology. Orchid appreciation is an art deeply rooted in Asian cultures. But in 1977, when this book was first published, orchidology as a science was new to people there. The technical vocabulary was unfamiliar and the subject matter difficult to understand. Therefore, this volume was intended as a general, easy-to-use reference book, with illustrations of the basic structure of orchids and their habit and habitat clearly described in Chapter I. The book may also be used as a self-help guide for naturalists and gardeners in Hong Kong who wish to identify an orchid new to them. In Chapter II, keys, descriptions, and illustrations are given to allow the reader to look up and gain information about individual orchid species. Chapter III provides an analysis of the composition and an interpretation of the phytogeographic significance of

In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to the Western trading community in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, a

In The Making of Macau’s Fusion Cuisine: From Family Table to World Stage, Annabel Jackson argues that Macanese cuisine cannot be seen as a unique product of Portuguese colonialism in southern China. Instead, it needs to be understood in the context of Portugal’s culinary footprint in Asia and beyond. She contends that the culinary cultures of other Portuguese colonies in Asia and Africa also influenced the cuisine in Macau. Macanese cuisine plays a role in evoking a sense of Macanese identity within Macau as well as in the Macanese diaspora. As the Macanese have increasingly defined themselves as an ethnically and culturally distinct group, their cuisine has growingly been seen as a critical identifier of cohesion and difference. The book shows how Macanese cuisine is moving from being an everyday production of food in a domestic setting to something more symbolic and ceremonial. It also argues that the practice of recipe sharing, historically controversial among the Macanese, is now

本书重点关注了清末民初中国的阅读文化（reading cultures）建构及与之相关的“接受政治”（reception politics）问题，以及来自欧美与日本的新知识在中国如何再生产的问题，如启蒙、新的性道德与生育理念，一些与西方现代性密切联系的关键概念像黑格尔、古滕堡、世界语等，是如何被“舍旧谋新”的大众传媒与知识精英在引介中具体化、在地化乃至符号化的，又是如何被清末民初的读者阅读和使用的，这些读者又如何对此加以接受转化，最终又产生了何种派生意义与社会效果。

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love. 名人推薦 ‘This book, Lynn Pan’s best to date, adds a wonderful new an

烏茲別克共和國（O'zbekiston Respublikasi，1991年－），簡稱烏茲別克，位於中亞內陸，是古絲路上的重鎮。歷史記載著亞歷山大大帝、突厥人、阿拉伯人、蒙古人等均在此曾經建立王國，也因此帶來了不同的宗教與文化。至今留下多處遺址，成為現今被聯合國指定為世界遺產，包括歷代留存的古遺址、絲路驛站、清真寺建築、聚落建築群、氣象天文台等。目前共有四處世界遺產。本書以這四處遺產做介紹，包括：布哈拉歷史中心(Historic Centre of Bukhara)、夏喀里希亞布茲歷史中心(Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz)、西瓦內城(Itchan Kala)、撒馬爾罕-文化交會的十字路口(Samarkand - Crossroads of Cultures)。

What difference does a region make? Are the new regional cultures of Northeast Asia the product of individuals fighting to overcome national trade barriers, or are they driven by governments promoting national interests in new ways? Are they the result of economic pursuits alone, or do cultural and political forces play a role? Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia takes a Cultural Studies approach to the cultural industries in Northeast Asia. The volume opens with an innovative section considering the discipline itself as a kind of cultural industry, highlighting the challenges and possibilities that arise from the context of Northeast Asia. Other essays on specific cultural industries and their products range in coverage from labor in the Korean animation industry to anti-Korean manga in Japan, the emergence of an East Asian brandscape, Chinese consumption of Japanese animation, the Asian regional strategy of the Pusan International Film Festival, and more.

Without any doubt, youth are the future of the world. For any nation which hopes to thrive and develop, it is necessary to commit significant resources in facilitating youth development. This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Youth Empowerment over the last four years. It explores the relationship between youth volunteerism and empowerment which is considered as an inherent cornerstone in the social and psychological growth for youth. Written by a team of experts on issues about youth, the book presents the various theories, models, paradigms and concepts related to youth empowerment and volunteerism. With selected examples in countries around the world, it also reveals to us how different cultures infuse their own history, language, mores, laws, policies, demographics, and socio-political infrastructures in facilitating youth empowerment and volunteerism. Youth hold the key to the world of the future, and empowering youth is actually a human

中級英文閱讀課程教材。 Sindbad the Sailor一書作者杜撰了許多驚心動魄的航海故事，主角Sindbad是冒險犯難精神人物的代表。故事起源於一位名叫Hindbad的搬運工，來到Sindbad家門外哀嘆自己的命運，Sindbad反而邀請他進入毫宅，訴說他年輕時的冒險故事…… 一次漂流到無人島上，島上有著凶猛的大鵬鳥，Sindbad趁機將自己綁在大鵬鳥的腳上離開小島，卻在溪谷間遇到一群巨大的蟒蛇；第三次碰到獨眼巨怪，將Sindbad的同伴一個一個吃掉，為了替同伴報仇，設計用燒紅的鐵叉刺中獨眼巨怪；一次來到騎馬不裝馬鞍的國家，Sindbad將馬鞍介紹給國王，贏得國王的賞賜並將一位美麗的女人嫁給他，然而一旦女人死了，Sindbad必需陪葬，他將如何躲過這不成文的習俗呢？還有一次因船難淪為奴?，Sindbad受命獵殺大象，幸運的他居然被大象帶往象塚…… 書中一篇篇精采的冒險故事，你將會發現智勇雙全的Sindbad如何脫困並帶回金銀財寶，就讓Sindbad the Sailor帶領大家一起展開海上冒險之旅吧！ To read these stories is to embark on great adventures through exotic cultures where you will meet with terrifying shipwrecks, deserted islands, strange cultures and monsters. These tales of Sinbad the Sailor have all the suspense of Greek mythology combined with the miraculous escape and happy endings of western fairy tales. Sindbad is the rind of story teller who leaves a life-long impression of wonder on the minds of young readers.

本書特色 本書旨在從實務觀點解析AP中文教學，立意在提供一個將5C自然融入的教學系統，經由內容選材以及策略與活動設計，在一個教學單元中完成三種「溝通」模式的演練，並達成「比較、社區、文化、貫連」等四個內容學習目標，而完成一個以教學單元為架構的AP中文學習循環。 本書特色在於書中所提供的AP中文教學策略與單元教學模式；從教學設計入手，針對AP中文5C和3 modes的教學提供六個實用的教學策略，以及一個整合六個策略的單元教學模式。整體的教學構想在於經由以三種溝通模式練習為架構的教學（Communication），使學生的中文學習能融入社區現學現用（Communities），能經由語言文化的比較而真正理解語言的精髓（Comparisons），能以中文為學習工具而貫連不同學科的中文應用（Connections），能經由理解文化所產生的時空背景脈絡而學習對不同文化的尊重與包容，進而開展兼容並蓄的世界文化觀（Cultures）。 本書的教學設計精神在於「以比較、社區、文化、貫連為『內容』目標，以三種模式的訓練為『溝通』目標，以華語文教學『策略』中能讓學生有意義的使用語言、能引起學生認真投入學習者作為『結合』內容目標與溝通目標的教學設計架構，以養成學生的實用溝通能力」。除了詳述AP中文的基本理念以及從實務觀點提出AP中文5C教學策略之外，本書並以教學活動範例說明設計重點，以完整教學實例詳細說明單元教學模式實施方式，以學習理論融入教學設計而使學習更豐富而深入，希望能提供華語文教師以及師資培育階段的未來教師們，在面對AP中文的教學挑戰時，能有一套淺顯易懂而又可以即時應用的教學策略與活動模式作為參考，而逐步建立自己的AP中文5C教學思維與實務經驗。

The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

A renowned biomedical engineering expert, H K Chang is also a champion of cross-cultural exchanges that enhance understanding and build links among nations and countries. Having studied the social and cultural developments of China and other countries for the past forty years, he narrates in twenty-one articles here his thoughts about world civilizations, culture and life, society, education as well as science and technology, and invites readers to join him on his intellectual and sentimental journey.

還在埋頭苦做考題？ 想學好英語，多元練習更重要！ 一本幫你快速提升英聽成績的必備寶典！ 掌握英聽技巧＋多做練習題組 英聽測驗拿高分一點也不難 本書適用程度： 全民英檢初級至中級、New TOEIC新多益350-550分、CEFR A2-B1等級 明明學了這麼久的英文 卻還是處在「聽不懂、不敢說」的狀態嗎？ 從小習慣字正腔圓的中文發音，面對外國人開口時機關槍似的速度，伴隨著連音、省略音、輕重音、還有各種腔調、口音，唸了十幾年英語卻只能支吾傻笑。這些單字明明我都會，為什麼對方講出來就是聽不懂！？ 事實上，只要理解英語發音的規則並勤加練習，聽懂老外用自然的語速說話並不是難事，不論是想聽懂英語歌曲、看懂英語電影或歐美影集，或更進一步的想要在GEPT全民英檢、New TOEIC、TOEFL iBT、IELTS等英聽考試中取得高分，英聽都不再是阻撓你的那堵高牆。 英語聽力扎實訓練，滿足各種考試需求！ 本書題材均選自實用的日常生活情境，如Budgeting and Money Management（擬定預算與理財）、Exploring Nature（探索大自然）、Art and Music（藝術與音樂）、Cultures of the World （世界文化與節慶）等，內容豐富多元，有助於提升讀者學習興趣。 全書共有30篇實景影片，附上扎實的聽力技巧說明，讓讀者藉由掌握發音規則，聽辨令人困擾的連音、省略音、重讀與弱化、腔調與口音等。課後可透過編輯精心設計的練習題型，仿照新多益聽力題型設計單元複習，即時驗收學習成效，增進英聽理解能力，是一本幫助讀者快速提升聽力測驗分數的必備寶典！ 3招帶你戰勝英語聽力測驗 情境對話：含10大單元，30篇情境會話 ，學習效果更加倍！ 聽力技巧：學會掌握常見的英語發音技巧並分辨美式及英式發音差異！ 實戰測驗：以新多益聽力測驗四大題型作單元複習，驗收學習成效最即時！ 內容包括形容詞、名詞所構成的子句種類與功用，以及較為抽象的代名詞種類與用法。這些都是利用一些句法將想表達的句子能放入更多、更長的資訊，讓句子變得靈活多變，也使表達的文句能更自然。 隨時聆聽朗讀MP3，英語學習輕鬆帶著走！ 本書附有MP3音檔，這些音檔都是由專業的外籍老師所錄製，可以聽到最道地的英語發音，讓你隨時隨地都訓練英語聽力！