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CREATIVE SPACES
SEEKING THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN CHINA |
| By: |
Denise Gimpel (Editor), Bent Nielsen (Editor), Paul Bailey (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
8776940985 |
| ISBN 13: |
9788776940980 |
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| Publisher: |
NIAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2012 |
| Series: |
NIAS Studies in Asian Topics 51 |
| Description: |
This volume explores new ways to understand the dynamics of change and mobility in ideas, people, organisations and cultural paradigms. Using case studies of change in China past and present, it offers global (and not just Chinese) insights and questions all-embracing theories of globalization. |
| Synopsis: |
China is in flux but - as argued by the contributors to this volume - change is neither new to China nor is it unique to that country; similar patterns are found in other times and in other places. Indeed, on the basis of concrete case studies (ranging from Confucius to the Vagina Monologues, from Protestant missionaries to the Chinese avant-garde) and drawing on theoretical insights from different disciplines, the contributors assert that change may be planned but the outcome can never be predicted with any confidence. Rather, there exist creative spaces within which people, ideas and systems interact with uncertain outcomes. As such, by identifying a more sophisticated approach to the complex issues of change, cultural encounters and so-called globalization, this volume not only offers new insights to scholars of other geo-cultural regions; it also throws light on the workings of our 'global' and 'transnational' lives today, in the past and in the future. |
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black & white illustrations, figures |
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Denmark |
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NIAS Press |
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