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  • Globalisation, Commodification and Cultural Production in Africa

    Contemporary Theatre in Sierra Leone

    by Kathrin Schmidt ...
    Series series ENCATC Advances in Cultural Management and Policy
    This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study. The author provides coverage of, and insights into, such themes as cultural globalisation, commodification, the global creative economy, culture and development, international relations and contemporary cultural production in Sierra Leone within the context of local and global ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Worlding Cities

    Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

    Edited by Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong ...
    Series Book 42 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Governing Heritage Dissonance - Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies

    by Višnja Kisić ...
    The European Cultural Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of Governing Heritage Dissonance: Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies – a pioneering study by Višnja Kisić, winner of the 2013 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA).Drawing on illuminating case studies from South East Europe, Kisić connects heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of difference, ... Read more

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  • Passage to Promise Land

    Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada

    by Vivienne Poy ...
    Spanning more than six decades, Passage to Promise Land is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, Vivienne Poy captures the social, political, and ethnic tensions of the period.Although the narratives included here represent women of all ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • East Asia Modern

    Shaping the Contemporary City

    by Peter G. Rowe ...
    East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to this part of the globe.Peter G. Rowe’s East Asia Modern is a timely comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examining the processes by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Learning from Shenzhen

    China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

    Edited by Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, Jonathan Bach ...
    This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban China

    by Xuefei Ren ...
    Series series China Today
    Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Localized Bargaining

    The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program

    by Xiao Ma ...
    Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Museums as Agents for Social Change

    Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum

    by Njabulo Chipangura, Jesmael Mataga ...
    Series series Museums in Focus
    Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation.Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an examination ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $82.99 USD