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  • LIFE AFTER DEATH TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN, AND CHINA
    GORDON MATHEWS / YANG YANG / MIU YING KWONG
    This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China. By collecting and examining hundreds of interviews with people from all walks of life in these three societies, the book presents and compares personally held beliefs, experiences, and interactions with the concept of life after death. Three major aspects covered by the book Inclu...

    $979.00

  • JAPAN'S CHANGING GENERATIONS
    GORDON MATHEWS
    This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties an...

    $1,099.00

  • GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW
    MATHEWS, GORDON / RIBEIRO, GUSTAVO LINS / VEGA, CARLOS ALBA
    This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed in detail by a team of international scholars. Topics covered include the ‘New Silk R...

    $1,179.00

  • HONG KONG, CHINA
    GORDON MATHEWS / ERIC MA / TAI-LOK LUI
    The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong Kong. Written by three academic specialists on Hong Kong cultural identity, social history...

    $1,179.00

  • GLOBAL CULTURE/INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY
    GORDON MATHEWS
    Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity? Global Cu...

    $1,039.00