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TV Dramas in Hong Kong
This book investigates the histories of television dramas, Hong Kong society, and their interrelationship. Rather than providing concrete interpretation of cultural content, this book adopts a novel methodology, laying out the motivations, means, and forces of production, distribution, and consumption of cultural creativity in Hong Kong. In so doing, the co-authors show how we might develop a new perspective on the unique history of Hong Kong and the special role its creative industries have played in it.
Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers
Examines the ways in of organising work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside a large Japanese company in Hong Kong, and its spiritual training, to reveal the socio-economic base of managerial control. A must for anthropologists and Japanologists.
Pop Music in Hong Kong
This book is a Foucaultian genealogical narrative of pop music in Hong Kong, dissecting the power structure of postwar Hong Kong and tracking how this structure shaped the emergence of world-famous Hong Kong Canto pop. The co-authors focus their discussion on the industry of pop music and how it functions in Hong Kong’s cultural spheres locally and internationally.
Order and Revolt
These original essays debate two ways of theorizing social life. One way is the integrative or holistic model of thought typified in the writings of Confucius. The other, the revolutionary tradition, is suspicious of holism and harmony as principles of social thought because harmony is seen as something that can genuinely occur only when a society has rectified deeply ingrained injustice. This volume evaluates the alternative priorities of order and revolt, harmony and spontaneity, in social life.
Tradition and Transformation in a Chinese Family Business
Family businesses have been an important part of the economy in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and in the Chinese diaspora, and, since the reforms, in mainland China itself. Some people have argued that the success of Chinese family businesses occurs because of the special characteristics and approach of such businesses. This book examines the nature of Chinese family business and the key issues involved by exploring in detail the case of a leading Hong Kong jewellery company which was established in the early 1960s and which has grown to become one of the biggest jewellery manufacturers, exporters, and retailers in post-war Hong Kong. The book considers the motivations of Chinese people to s...
Transnational Retailing in East Asia
This book explores how Yaohan, a Japanese supermarket chain, expanded into Hong Kong in the 1980s and mainland China in the 1990s, and how this expansion evolved from initial success to ultimate failure and the company�s bankruptcy. It outlines the development and structure of the original Japanese company, and considers why it moved into Hong Kong and China. It explores the changing nature of society, consumerism and shopping in East Asia and shows how the company�s expansion fitted in to this. It also discusses the company�s culture and management as it expanded. Overall, the book emphasises what this case study shows about cross-cultural interaction in East Asia, arguing that globalisation of products and consumer tastes is much more complex than simply homogenisation along Western lines, or local adaption as a reaction against Western products and tastes.
Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity
This volume of original essays critically examines the intriguing interplay among major actors and venues of creative practices in contemporary East Asian cities. Its chapters closely investigate manifestations of the political and aesthetic decisions made, or not made, in the construction and representation of creative cities. The contributors give Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Shanghai special consideration.
Japanese Consumer Creativity
This book explores how the process of adapting global products for local markets, a process in which consumers are increasingly involved, has become a rich source of product innovation. It examines a range of concepts, including product domestication and localisation, collaborative branding, product hybridisation, portrayals and perceptions of images of beauty, and the contrast between imagined and actual consumers. The book thereby provides rich insights on the interaction between business producers and individuals' differing cultures of consumption in evolving globalised and localised marketplaces.
Trading Cultures
All creative economies have two characteristic features: (1) culture and business are so intertwined that it is not possible to distinguish them; and (2) the traditional dividing and defining line between production, distribution, and consumption are blurred. Arguing that the creative industry should not be limited to specific industries, but should instead cover all creative business practices, the authors demonstrate how culture is being practiced in business and how the cultural reproduction process has become, at the same time, an economic process. This edited volume focuses on empirical examples and case studies to examine the form and content of the creative economies of East Asia.
Revisiting Colonial and Postcolonial
This collection of original essays interrogates the nature of intercultural and intra-cultural encounters through anthropological case studies of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The chapters show that parties involved in intercultural or intra-cultural encounters, each equipped with their own means and motivated by their own ends, reciprocally engage each other in a dynamic, emergent relationship. Through detailed empirical research, this volume seeks to advance the open question of how we may theorize the cultural interface.
