TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yiu Wai Chu
AU  - Eva Man Kit Wah
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-5766
SN  - 9783035100358
TI  - Contemporary Asian Modernities
T2  - Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0035-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051935
N2  - This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of «contemporary», «Asia» and «modernities» as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives.
KW  - Cultural Sociology, East Asia, Cultural Ethnology
LA  - English
ER  -