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Westernization
About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.
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TL;DR: The authors describes Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great and raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.
Abstract: This text documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. The book describes Russian Westernization and raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the "right" Western economic model became more urgent: was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? Today, Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past.
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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: In this paper, Chan et al. argue that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism and argue that few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China, with a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization.
Abstract: Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism.
Collectively, these essays question the implications of specific phenomena, like literature, architecture, rock music, and film, in a postsocialist society. Some essays address China’s complicity in—as well as its resistance to—the culture of global capitalism. Others evaluate the impact of efforts to redefine national culture in terms of enhanced freedoms and expressions of the imagination in everyday life. Still others discuss the general relaxation of political society in post-Mao China, the emergence of the market and its consumer mass culture, and the fashion and discourse of nostalgia. The contributors make a clear case for both the historical uniqueness of Chinese postmodernism and the need to understand its specificity in order to fully grasp the condition of postmodernity worldwide. Although the focus is on mainland China, the volume also includes important observations on social and cultural realities in Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose postmodernity has so far been confined—in both Chinese and English-speaking worlds—to their economic and consumer activities instead of their political and cultural dynamism.
First published as a special issue of boundary 2 , Postmodernism and China includes seven new essays. By juxtaposing postmodernism with postsocialism and by analyzing China as a producer and not merely a consumer of the culture of the postmodern, it will contribute to critical discourses on globalism, modernity, and political economics, as well as to cultural and Asian studies.
Contributors . Evans Chan, Arif Dirlik, Dai Jinhua, Liu Kang, Anthony D. King, Jeroen de Kloet, Abidin Kusno, Wendy Larson, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, Wang Ning, Xiaobing Tang, Xiaoying Wang, Chen Xiaoming, Xiaobin Yang, Zhang Yiwu, Xudong Zhang
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01 Aug 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the authors ask if the nobility could lead the Westernization of Russia in early modern times, and their yardstick is Humanism and the Latin Classics, which dominated education in Europe, but with which Russia's government only flirted, and most in society rejected.
Abstract: This book asks if the nobility could lead the Westernization of Russia in early modern times. Its yardstick is Humanism and the Latin Classics, which dominated education in Europe, but with which Russia's government only flirted, and most in society rejected.
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08 Aug 2014
TL;DR: Fitzgerald as discussed by the authors discusses the relation between privatised religion and modern politics in the context of the Vietnam War and the Emergence of Highland Ethno-nationalism in the UK.
Abstract: Introduction Timothy Fitzgerald 1. Dialectics of Conversion: Las Casas and Maya Colonial and Post-colonial Congregacion Anna Blume, (SUNY College of Visual Arts) 2. The Higher Ground: The Secular Knowledge of Objects of Religious Devotion Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) 3. The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act in the Context of the Colonisation of the Indigenous People of Alaska James Cox, (University of Edinburgh) 4. State Shinto, Westernisation, and the Concept of Religion in Japan Jun'ichi Isomae, (Japan Women's College) 5. Religious and Secular in the Vietnam War and the Emergence of Highland Ethno-nationalism Tom Pearson, (Wabash Center for Learning) 6. Colonialism all the way down? Religion and the secular in early modern writing on south India Will Sweetman, (University of Otaga) 7. Politics as Performance in Colonial and Postcolonial India John Zavos, (University of Manchester) 8. Imperial Inventions of Religion in Colonial Southern Africa David Chidester, (University of Cape Town) 9. Religion in Islamic Thought and Practice Abdulkader Ismail Tayob (University of Cape Town) 10. Rudolf Otto, German Cultural Colonialism, and the 'Discovery' of the Holy Gregory Alles, (McDaniel College) 11. Encompassing Religion and privatised religions and the invention of modern politics Timothy Fitzgerald 12. Colonialism and the Myth of Religious Violence William T. Cavanaugh, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.)
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TL;DR: De Burgh et al. as discussed by the authors examined how Chinese journalists describe their work and concluded that, while many topics and techniques of investigative journalism are analogous with those of Anglophone countries, the Chinese journalists appear to be striving to realize roles traditional to Chinese culture rather than adopting foreign models.
Abstract: Over the last 10 years a genre of critical, abrasive journalism has emerged in China, particularly on television. Chinese journalists like to refer to it as 'investigative journalism' and, in doing so, they are consciously likening it to the Anglophone equivalent. This article examines how Chinese journalists describe their work. It also looks at the various possible explanations offered for the emergence and popularity of the genre: as an epiphenomenon of government reforms of the institutional and financing systems of the media; as a function of the irritation felt by professionals with past practices and the unsatisfied urge to participate of many Chinese citizens; because of the social roles ascribed to journalists both by themselves and by the citizenry; a response to new ideas from abroad, or 'westernization'. It is concluded that, while many topics and techniques of investigative journalism are analogous with those of Anglophone countries, the Chinese journalists appear to be striving to realize roles traditional to Chinese culture rather than adopting foreign models. The notion that the re-emergence of investigative journalism is an instance of 'westernization' is rejected.
(Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd from de Burgh, Hugo (2003) Kings without crowns? The re-emergence of investigative journalism in China. © 2003 SAGE Publications).
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