Chapter 1. Of many Indias: alternative nationhoods in contemporary Indian poetry -- Chapter 2. Reviewing Nirmal Varma, Jaidev and the Indianness of Indian Literature -- Chapter 3. Indianness as a category in literary criticism on Nayī Kahānī -- Chapter 4. Imagining “Indianness” and modern Hindi drama -- Chapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my text -- Chapter 6. Kishorilal Gosva…
1. Competing religious worldviews of the post-renovation Vietnam -- 2. Modernity and religious reconfiguration: a Vietnamese perspective -- 3. Encountering the uninvited the state, the established religions and attempts to shape NRMS -- 4. Revitalising the legacy of a local sage: the school of teaching goodness -- 5. A “spiritual revolution” for national salvation: the way of the jade Buddh…
Women in Taiwanese Families— A Personal History -- Western Theories on Same-sex Intimacies -- Methodology -- Individual Sexual Stories -- Lesbian Daughters in Their Families -- Relationships over Time -- Egalitarian Lesbian Relationships? -- Conclusion.This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain wo…
Introduction: The East Asian Public Sphere -- The Sphere of Privilege: Confucian Culture and the Administration of Buddhism (and Religion) in China -- Conservative and Progressive Models for Buddhism under the Republic of China -- Islamic Charity in China: Its Organizations and Activities in a New Era -- “Knowing the [Confucian] Way” and the Political Sphere -- A Self-Made Outlier in the To…
Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Family-Work Nexus and Wellbeing in Asia: An Introduction -- Part II: Family Structure -- Chapter 2. Familial Exchange and Intergenerational Contact in East Asian Societies -- Chapter 3. A New Era in Living Arrangements: Determinants of Quality of Life among Chinese Older Adults -- Part III: Gender, Work and Culture -- Chapter 4. Multiple Dimensions of Gend…
Chapter 1. Brahmanical Divinities in Siam: From Ancient to Modern Era by Bhaswati Mukhopadhyay -- Chapter 2. Dvaravati Votive Tablets: Understanding Their Regional Variations and Indian Linkages by Suchandra Ghosh -- Chapter 3. Mandapas and Reclining Buddha of India and Thailand by Chotima Chaturawong -- Chapter 4. Refashioning Identity of Siamese Monarchs: The Hybridized Dress Styles of Siam a…
This book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters. Conceived during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated large portions of the north-eastern area of Japan, this volume addresses the links between Japanese civil society and the social media scene, using both traditional hypothesis t…
Introduction -- Hopeful Disappointment. Cultural Morphology and the Relation between China and Europe -- Self as Other. Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity -- The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation -- The attempt of the Xieyi (essentialist) Theatre 寫意話劇 in the history of the Chinese Spoken Theatre -- Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? L…
1. Introduction: Urban Utopias - Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka -- 2. The Impossibility of World Class Slum Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of ‘Two Indias’ -- 3. Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia -- 4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa -- 5. Vikasanam: Th…
1. Introduction -- 2. Doing Family: Exploring Everyday Lived Culture -- 3. Bilingualism: A Gift or a Burden -- 4. Food Choices in Mixed Families -- 5. Forming a Mixed Family Culture: In Search of Home and Friends -- 6. Conclusion.This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging f…