Europe and the Asia-Pacific : culture, identity and representations of region / / edited by Stephanie Lawson

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/2405
• Soggetto topico: East and West
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Relations Asia; Asia Relations Europe
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LawsonStephanie
• Note generali: First published in 2003 by RoutledgeCurzon.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Culture, identity and representations of region; 2 Europe in Asia's imaginary: disciplinary knowledges and the (mis)representation of cultures; 3 Representing 'old countries': the strategic representation of culture as heritage in the Asia-Europe Summit Meetings; 4 Making uncommon cause: forging identities on the margins of ASEM; 5 Problems of symmetry and summitry in the EU-Australian relationship; 6 Europe in the Asia-Pacific: the Russian Far East faces its future ; 7 Northern Territories or Southern Kuriles: a question of identity?8 Security communities in East Asia and Europe: Germany, Japan and the politics of alliance; 9 An in/alienable narrative? Property rights in China and the West; 10 Translation, nationhood and cultural manipulation: the case of China; 11 Constructing 'Japan in Asia'; 12 Yokomitsu Riichi and the longing for home in the Japanese imagination of France; 13 Collecting East Asia in nineteenth-century Britain; 14 The enduring power of stereotypes: images of Islam in Western writings ; 15 The politics of cultural identity: critical perspectives from Southeast Asia and the South PacificIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: The many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific are highlighted in this book. This work surveys a variety of issues relating to culture, identity and representation from an interdisciplinary perspective, with contributions from sociology, economics, history, politics, international relations, security studies, museum studies, translation studies and literary and cultural studies. Each brings a different perspective to bear on questions of culture and identity in the contemporary period, and how these relate to the politics of re
• Titolo autorizzato: Europe and the Asia-Pacific
• ISBN: 1-315-01610-9; 1-136-49732-3; 1-136-49725-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453204103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II