Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial co-ordinates of north and south, east and west. Without rejecting the Anglo-American practices of cultural studies, the contributors present critical cultural studies as an internationalist and decolonized project. Trajectories links critical...
Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada an...
A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipline. It employs concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading and covers a range of cultural texts. The authors tackle areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora. The book should help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.
A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipl...
A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipline. It employs concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading and covers a range of cultural texts. The authors tackle areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora. The book should help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.
A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipl...
The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular and metropolitan. The school numbers many of India's political, social and intellectual elite among its former students; its code of conduct for the modern Indian citizen has been extremely influential. In this detailed study, Sanjay Srivastava digs deep to find the roots of the ideological construction of post-coloniality in India. The Doon School is the site of his analysis but his work ranges far beyond the School itself. He uses historical...
The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular...
The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular and metropolitan. The school numbers many of India's political, social and intellectual elite among its former students; its code of conduct for the modern Indian citizen has been extremely influential. In this detailed study, Sanjay Srivastava digs deep to find the roots of the ideological construction of post-coloniality in India. The Doon School is the site of his analysis but his work ranges far beyond the school itself. He uses historical...
The Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys in India, inculcates in its students the notion that to be post-colonial is to be rational, secular...
Unitl the mid-1980s, when it became clear that Hong Kong would return to China, people from Hong Kong tended to identify themselves as something other than mainland Chinese. Now that Hong Kong is again a part of China, the local population have had to come to terms with their previously suppressed Chinese identity. This book is concerned with how the identity categories of people from Hong Kong and mainlanders have changed in the 1990s. The analysis focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically looks at the relationship...
Unitl the mid-1980s, when it became clear that Hong Kong would return to China, people from Hong Kong tended to identify themselves as something other...
