Modalities of Change : : The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia / / ed. by Robert Parkin, James Wilkerson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bingaman, Eveline,; Biyun, Liu,; Hong, Li-Ju,; Hsu, N. Jenny,; Kuei-min, Chang,; Mei-ling, Chien,; Mitsuda, Yayoi,; Parkin, Robert,; Ting-yu, Wang,; Tsai, Futuru C.L.,; Wilkerson, James,; Zhaohua, Ho,
• HerausgeberIn: Parkin, Robert,; Wilkerson, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures, Tables and Diagrams --; Preface --; Introduction. Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia --; People’s Republic of China --; Chapter 1 The House, the State and Change: The Modernity of Sichuan RGyalrong Tibetans --; Chapter 2 From Kinship to State and Back Again: Lineage and History in a Qiang Village --; Chapter 3 Embroidery Speaks: What Does Miao Embroidery Tell Us? --; Chapter 4 Tensions between Romantic Love and Marriage: Performing ‘Miao Cultural Individuality’ in an Upland Miao Love-Song --; Chapter 5 Modalities of the One-Child Policy among Urban Migrants in China --; Chapter 6 The ‘Culture’ of World Cultural Heritage --; Taiwan and Vietnam --; Chapter 7 ‘Amis Hip-Hop’: The Bodily Expressions of Contemporary Young Amis in Taiwan --; Chapter 8 Contesting Memory: The Shifting Power of Narration in Contemporary Paiwan Contexts --; Chapter 9 Ethnicity as Strategy: Taiwan State Policies and the Thao --; Chapter 10 On the ‘Third Morning’: The Continuity of Life from Past to Present among the Nung of Northern Vietnam --; Afterword: Performance as a Mechanism for Social Change --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857455710; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857455710
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Robert Parkin, James Wilkerson.

While in some cases modernity may dominate 'traditional' forms of expression, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can modify 'tradition' while still keeping it within its own bounds. Maintaining a strong and distinct cultural identity with the help of modernity helps representatives of that identity cope with the modern world more generally. By contrast, assimilation to a dominant culture marked as modern is clearly associated with not only the loss of a distinct identity, but also its specific forms of cultural expression. This book explores the consequences of the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam. The contributors examine how traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways, in the interests of their own further cultural developments, and to what extent this approach is likely to help a tradition survive.