Culture and Society in the Asia-Pacific / Edition 1

by Colin Mackerras, Richard Maidment

Overview

This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the end of the Twentieth Century.
It takes a close look at those areas which have affected the everyday life of the people most directly. These include:
* the family
* gender relations and the position of women
* religion
* the arts, with specific reference to film
* ethnic relations and population migration
* education, and the images of the Asia-Pacific.
The authors discuss real tensions between tradition and modernity in different nations of the Asia-Pacific, exploring the effects that economic growth has on powerful traditional cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415172776
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/1998
Series:	Open University Pacific Studies Course Series
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mackerras, Colin; Maidment, Richard

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 The old and the new 3 Population 4 Migration & the diaspora communities 5 Race, ethnicity and language 6 Religion 7 Education 8 Womens movements in the Pacific 9 Pacific Images 10 Pacific Cinemas 11 The culture of politics