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China with a Cut pays particular attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut nicked into the edge to render them unsellable, these illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence of the new music and youth culture. De Kloet’s impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into the socio-cultural and political transformations of a rising global power.
This book provides an overview of the demographic patterns of, and social issues related to cross-border marriages in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam in the past two decades with contributions from scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and social work. With its diversified methodologies and approaches, this volume will interest scholars and students of migration and gender studies. It also informs policy-makers and concerned civil society groups and practitioners.
The volume presents original theoretical analyses of the cultural and political dimensions of predictive and genetic testing by analysing the social, cultural, political and economic environment of choices that people have before and after they undergo a genetic or predictive test. These frameworks of choice also shed light on the different test options of people in developing countries and affluent welfare societies, explaining the so-called therapeutic gap occurring when no therapies are available after diagnosis.
Frameworks of Choice provides a sensitive understanding of the stakes in genetic testing of various socio-economic and political groups, including governments, ethnic groups, women, patient groups, insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry and scientists.
The six novels selected for study (Train to Pakistan, A Bend in the Ganges, Ice-Candy-Man, Clear Light of Day, Midnight’s Children, and The Shadow Lines) show that, essentially, three factors shape the contours and determine the thrust of the narratives – the time in which the novelists are writing; the value they attach to women as subjects of this traumatic history; and the way they perceive the concept of the nation.
“By a fresh reading of six novels that are representative of the various perspectives on the Partition of the subcontinent, and placing them in a larger historical and literary context, dr. Roy’s book fills an important lacuna in current criticism, and does it convincingly.”
— Peter Liebregts, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, Leiden
University
“In this thoughtful and thoroughly readable book, Rituparna Roy looks at fictional representations of the cataclysmic birth-pangs of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and indicates how literary envisionings mesh in with reportage, historiography, nationhood, femininity and personal identity.”
— Subir Dhar, Professor of English Literature, Rabindra Bharati University
(RBU), Kolkata
Alex McKay has a PhD in South Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University). A former research fellow at SOAS and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, he is an affiliated fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. His research centres the history and culture of Tibet and the Indian Himalayas, particularly during the British colonial period.
Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader
Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in their time and remain relevant and yet whose significance has been poorly understood
Japan, pushing the global system towards a critical point. Successful industrialization does not only bring power and welfare, but can also create the condition for confrontation and conflict on the global and local level. Specific case studies address major global political themes: nationalism, democratization and corruption, ethno-religious tensions, state and religion, geopolitics and regionalization.
China with a Cut pays particular attention to the dakou culture: so named after a cut nicked into the edge to render them unsellable, these illegally imported Western CDs still play most of the tracks. They also played a crucial role in the emergence of the new music and youth culture. De Kloet’s impressive study demonstrates how the young Chinese cope with the rapid economic and social changes in a period of intense globalisation, and offers a unique insight into the socio-cultural and political transformations of a rising global power.
This book provides an overview of the demographic patterns of, and social issues related to cross-border marriages in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam in the past two decades with contributions from scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and social work. With its diversified methodologies and approaches, this volume will interest scholars and students of migration and gender studies. It also informs policy-makers and concerned civil society groups and practitioners.
The volume presents original theoretical analyses of the cultural and political dimensions of predictive and genetic testing by analysing the social, cultural, political and economic environment of choices that people have before and after they undergo a genetic or predictive test. These frameworks of choice also shed light on the different test options of people in developing countries and affluent welfare societies, explaining the so-called therapeutic gap occurring when no therapies are available after diagnosis.
Frameworks of Choice provides a sensitive understanding of the stakes in genetic testing of various socio-economic and political groups, including governments, ethnic groups, women, patient groups, insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry and scientists.
The six novels selected for study (Train to Pakistan, A Bend in the Ganges, Ice-Candy-Man, Clear Light of Day, Midnight’s Children, and The Shadow Lines) show that, essentially, three factors shape the contours and determine the thrust of the narratives – the time in which the novelists are writing; the value they attach to women as subjects of this traumatic history; and the way they perceive the concept of the nation.
“By a fresh reading of six novels that are representative of the various perspectives on the Partition of the subcontinent, and placing them in a larger historical and literary context, dr. Roy’s book fills an important lacuna in current criticism, and does it convincingly.”
— Peter Liebregts, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, Leiden
University
“In this thoughtful and thoroughly readable book, Rituparna Roy looks at fictional representations of the cataclysmic birth-pangs of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and indicates how literary envisionings mesh in with reportage, historiography, nationhood, femininity and personal identity.”
— Subir Dhar, Professor of English Literature, Rabindra Bharati University
(RBU), Kolkata
Alex McKay has a PhD in South Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University). A former research fellow at SOAS and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, he is an affiliated fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. His research centres the history and culture of Tibet and the Indian Himalayas, particularly during the British colonial period.
Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader
Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in their time and remain relevant and yet whose significance has been poorly understood
Japan, pushing the global system towards a critical point. Successful industrialization does not only bring power and welfare, but can also create the condition for confrontation and conflict on the global and local level. Specific case studies address major global political themes: nationalism, democratization and corruption, ethno-religious tensions, state and religion, geopolitics and regionalization.
sector has been exploring world locations
with lower labour rates and less-regulatory
environments that would allow free movement
of capital. The petro-modernist cities of the
United Arab Emirates have emerged as key sites
in this search. Free zones for media production
in Dubai, Raz Al Khaimah, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah
compete with each other for domination in the
region. The global work forces in these creative
zones are drawn from all parts of the world
and work under precarious labour conditions.