Assembling Japan Modernity, Technology and Global Culture

• Other Authors: Kirsch, Griseldis (Editor), Martinez, Dolores P. (Editor), White, Merry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2015, c2016
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Subjects: japonská architektura; technologie; globální společnost; Japanese architecture; technology; global society; Japonsko; Japan; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783035307672
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (257 stran)

Assembling Japan focuses on Japan's modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation's full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be b...

Table of Contents:

• Contents: Griseldis Kirsch/Dolores P. Martinez: Japan as an Assemblage - Merry White: Cafe Society in Japan: Global Coffee and Urban Space - Christine R. Yano: «A Japanese in Every Jet»: Globalism and Gendered Service in the Jet Age - Joy Hendry: Rewrapping the Message: Museums, Healing and Communicative Power - Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne: Football in the Community: Global Culture, Local Needs and Diversity in Japan - Griseldis Kirsch: Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas - Bruce White: Japanese Reggae and the Def Tech Phenomenon: Global Paths to Intra-cultural Pluralism - Heung-wah Wong/Hoi-yan Yau: The More I Shop at Yaohan, the More I Become a Heung Gong Yahn (Hongkongese): Japan and the Formation of a Hong Kong Identity - Dolores P. Martinez: Global Technologies, Local Interventions: Or Musings on Japanese Film - Hirofumi Katsuno: Branding Humanoid Japan - Griseldis Kirsch/Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne/Merry White/Hirofumi Katsuno/Dolores P. Martinez: Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11.