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Heritage, Memory, and Punishment
Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to the evolving conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century, it illuminates how punishment has been considered a subject of modernization, while the contemporary use of prisons as heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to oppression and atrocity – thus constituting a heritage of shame a...
Sinophone Studies
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By placing Sinophone cultures at the crossroads of multiple empires, this anthology richly demonstrates the transformative power of multiculturalism and multilingualism, and by examining the place-based cultural and social practices of Sinitic-language communities in their historical contexts beyond "China proper," it effectively refutes the diasporic framework. It is an invaluable companion for courses in Asian, postcolonial, empire, and ethnic studies, as well as world and comparative literature.
Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences
Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences examines the benefits involved in designing and employing immersive technologies to reconstruct difficult pasts at heritage sites around the world. Presenting interdisciplinary case studies of heritage sites and museums from across a range of different contexts, the volume analyzes the ways in which various types of immersive technologies can help visitors to contextualize and negotiate difficult or sensitive heritage and traumatic pasts. Demonstrating that some of the most creative applications of immersive experiences appear in and at museums and heritage sites, the book showcases how immersive technologies offer the possibility of confronting a...
Knowledge Management in Organisations
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organisations, KMO 2023, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during July 24–27, 2023. The 32 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Knowledge Transfer & Sharing, Knowledge in Business & Organisation, Digital Transformation and Innovation, Data Analysis and Science, KM and Education, Knowledge Management Process and Model, Information & Knowledge Systems, IT &New Trends in KM, Healthcare.
J.J. Pan and Partners
Stressing total quality in all aspects of architectural practice, the J.J. Pan monograph features a rich collection of building types. According to Taiwanese architect, Joshua Jih Pan, such total quality includes at least design, service and delivery whi
Visuality and Identity
A vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies & transnational studies, this text argues that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism.
Vascular Biology, Haemostasis and Extracellular Nucleic Acids in Vascular Diseases and Immunity. A Tribute to Klaus T. Preissner
Topic Editor Prof. Ritva Tikkanen Receives Research Funding From Neurogene Inc. and GC Pharma for Studies Unrelated to the Subject. Topic Editor Prof. Carl Blobel is Co-Inventor on a Patent Describing a Method of Identifying Agents for Combination With Inhibitors of iRhoms. He and the Hospital for Special Surgery (New York, USA) are Investigating Suitable Approaches to Identify iRhom Inhibitors, and are Co-Founders of a Small Company Called SciRhom in Munich to Pursue These Efforts. Topic Editor Dr. Sylvia Fischer Declares no Competing Interests With Regards to the Research Topic Subject.
Mastery of Words and Swords
The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s, Jun Lei explores the fo...
A Modern Miscellany
In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.
Island on the Edge
This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. Gathering a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s, it aims to complement Feii Lu’s Taiwan Cinema: Politics, Economics, Aesthetics, translated by Chris Berry (Duke University Press and Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming). Taiwan and its internationally renowned cinema ar " on the edge" in more ways than one. For all of its history the island has been on the edge of larger geopolitical entities, subjected to invasions, migrations, incursions, and pressures. On the other hand, as one of the "Little Tiger" economies of Asia, it has been on the cutting edge of the Asian economic boom and of technological innovation; in recent years it has pioneered democratization of authoritarian regimes in East Asia.
