The book examines the evolution of China's global image since the 1978 Reform and Opening Up, utilizing a unique synthetic model for evaluating national perceptions. It combines historical analysis with quantitative data to explore the challenges and issues China faces in shaping its international reputation. Through this comprehensive approach, the author highlights the complexities of China's image transformation over the decades.
Focusing on Guangzhou, this book delves into the evolving dynamics of food and family within modern Chinese society. It offers an empirical case study that reveals how these relationships shape daily life amidst the backdrop of a burgeoning consumer culture. Through this lens, the author examines the cultural significance of food and its impact on familial bonds in a rapidly changing urban environment.
Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms, and Everyday Practices
Focusing on the lived experiences of Chinese urban residents, this book examines how digital platforms shape everyday consumption practices. It employs practice theories to analyze the interplay between local cultures and global digital technologies. Through the concept of "curation," it explores how individuals navigate their digital geographies in urban spaces, reflecting on their engagement with and resistance to digital cultures. The discussions cover various aspects of daily life, including dining, travel, and social media, highlighting the social and environmental implications of digitalization in contemporary consumer society.
Intergenerational Space offers insight into the transforming relationships between younger and older members of contemporary societies. The chapter selection brings together scholars from around the world in order to address pressing questions both about the nature of contemporary generational divisions as well as the complex ways in which members of different generations are (and can be) involved in each other's lives. These questions include: how do particular kinds of spaces and spatial arrangements (e.g. cities, neighbourhoods, institutions, leisure sites) facilitate and limit intergenerational contact and encounters? What processes and spaces influence the intergenerational negotiation and contestation of values, beliefs, and social memory, producing patterns of both continuity and change? And if generational separation and segregation are in fact significant social problems across a range of contexts--as a significant body of research and commentary attests--how can this be ameliorated? The chapters in this collection make original contributions to these debates drawing on original research from Belgium, China, Finland, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, Tanzania, Uganda, the United States and the United Kingdom. .
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