Identity in crossroad civilisations : : ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia / / edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles and Sam Wong.

Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to...

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Superior document:ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 8
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; List of Tables and Plates; 1. Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities; 2. Asia and the Global World: Identities, Values, Rights; 3. Creating 'Malaysians': A Case Study of an Urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; 4. Ethnic Mosaic and the Cultural Nationalism of Bhutan; 5. Religion and Cultural Nationalism: Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India; 6. Is Identity Clash Inevitable? Identity and Network Building amongst mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
  • 7. Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India8. Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space; 9. Occidentalism and Asian Middle-Class Identities: Notes on Birthday Cakes in an Indian Context; 10. Ode to 'Personal Challenge': Reconsidering Japanese Groupism and the Role of Beethoven's Ninth in Catering to Socio-Cultural Needs; 11. Performing Cosmopolitan Clash and Collage: Krishen Jit's Stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia
  • 12. Constructing Identity: Visual Expressions of Islam in the Predominantly Catholic Philippines13. Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: The Challenges of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security- and the Return of the Xenophobes; Contributors; References