Modalities of Change

The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-10-01
Mått159 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9780857455680

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PrefaceJames Wilkerson and Robert ParkinIntroductionJames Wilkerson and Robert ParkinPart I: People’s Republic of ChinaChapter 1. The house, the state and change: the modernity of Sichuan Gyalrong TibetansTing-yu WangChapter 2. From kinship to state and back again: lineage and history in a Qiang villageLiu BiyunChapter 3. Embroidery speaks: what does Miao embroidery tell us?Ho ZhaohuaChapter 4. Tensions between romantic love and marriage: performing ‘Miao cultural individuality’ in an upland Miao love songChien Mei-lingChapter 5. Modalities of the one-child policy among urban migrants in ChinaChang Kuei-minChapter 6. The culture of World Cultural HeritageEveline BingamanPart II: Taiwan and VietnamChapter 7. ‘Amis hip hop’: the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in TaiwanFuturu C. L. TsaiChapter 8. Contesting memory: the shifting power of narration in contemporary Paiwan contextsLi-Ju HongChapter 9. Ethnicity as strategy: Taiwan state policies and the ThaoYayoi MitsudaChapter 10. On the ‘third morning’: the continuity of life from past to present among the Nung of northern VietnamN. Jenny HsuAfterword: Performance as a mechanism for social changeJames Wilkerson