... infrastructure to nurture Aborigine talent in Taiwan's film industry, however vulnerable the industry may be. Duke University Press 2009 In the Realm of the Indigenous: Local, National, and Global Articulations in Fishing Luck Anita Wen-Shin Chang When I first saw Fishing Luck...

...Jamie Morgan 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Words of Warning: Global Networks, Asian Local Resistance, and the Planetary Vulgate of Neoliberalism Jamie Morgan Globalization is the first and last word in the vocabulary of media pundits, cultural...

...Matthew Chew 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 The Dual Consequences of Cultural Localization: How Exposed Short Stockings Subvert and Sustain Global Cultural Hierarchy Matthew Chew The clothes worn by contemporary urban Chinese should not appear unfa...

...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...

... centers. With an analysis of the two local Sister Goddess troupes and their competing claims to authority and authenticity, interactions with the local government, manipulation of state policies, and engagement with the global world, it sheds light on how people incorporate merit, karma, profit, power...

... identity for urban youth, by mobilizing the generic convention of hip-hop in representing one's hood. In most studies of globalization and localization, the local appears to be interchangeable with the national. Yet this study presses the issue of localization further, examining local communities...

... feminist theory and identity. These include different translations and definitions of “gender,” diverging outlines of the history of Chinese feminism in a global context, various definitions of the “local,” differing visions of a regional “Asian” feminism, and more complex models that try to integrate...

... is that the colorful global nexus of moe consumption does guarantee smooth glocalization to the local nexus. The interview was a mess. Accusing Chrissie Sau-­Na Chau of being “brain- less” seems to have served no purpose, and the professor tarnished himself...

..., a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theorization of “exception,” as the related global and state interests converge not at areas of exception but at the heart of numerous local...

... a traditional “peoples and cultures” line of thinking. Through what can be called “geocultural publics,” the author recognizes Idol 's attempt to mobilize different levels of public culture in the service of global movement — national, local, popular, global, youth, media culture — as enacting forms of cultural...

...C. Julia Huang Is the concept of the NGO, or nongovernmental organization, a global catchall? This article tries to respond to the globalization of the concept of NGO by tracing the historical and local development of a Taiwanese grassroots Buddhist organization, the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji...

....”2 The global scope of artists’ collectives makes the study of collectivism an integral part of “world art history,” providing a critical perspective in under- standing the distinctive local developments of modernity and postmodernity...

... Frederick . 2008 . Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Wilson Ara . 2004 . The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City . Berkeley : University of California Press...

... to the globalizing trends and economic opportunities brought about by neoliberal policies, women are localized, their labor uti- lized, and their bodies deployed in ways that expand the family business empire and make it competitive...

... will explore the difference the Singapore situation makes to an understanding of the global circulation and local appropriation of forum theater. Specifically, I will criti- cally analyze the birth, death, and rebirth of forum theater as a situated...

... of neoliberal economic man and cultural governance, we intend to read the merchant stories as instances of “glocalization” of neoliberal economic man and demonstrate that the “translation” of the global logic of capitalism to suit local conditions is by no means a neat and tidy task. Our analysis proceeds...

... media coverage, and also in the particular local and transnational contexts of Shanghai, a rising global city with a large resident foreign population, including the largest Japanese population in any city in the world outside Japan. The interpretations of the protest thus developed across a series...

... of the local in the age of so-called globalization, and what implications this formation has for an understanding of the relationship between cinema and space in the context of Tamil films produced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This construct of the pettai is viewed through questions...

...Mary E. John Countries like India and China have become well known locally and internationally for their skewed girl-boy sex ratios, which have declined sharply in the very years marked by these countries' emergence as potential global economic giants. In India, these declines and the concomitant...

... to grasp the emergence of the world as a completely material dimension in which increasingly the most local of our experiences are themselves located. As a large part of the literature on globalization is coming to recognize, it is a world that is at the same time increasingly unified and increasingly...