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Format: XXIII, 268 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-962-209-121-4 , 978-962-209-123-8 , 978-616-215-013-5 , 978-0-87727-607-4 , 978-0-87727-608-1

Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Kulturkontakt ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: xvi, 265 Seiten

ISBN: 9788776942885 , 8776942880

Series Statement: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics 73

Content: Although the rapid spread worldwide of the coronavirus in 2020 focused minds everywhere on the dangers of a global pandemic, other dangers facing the world have not diminished. Failure to resolve issues relating to the divided Korean peninsula is one of these. Great concern has long been expressed in several quarters about the behavior and ambitions of the reclusive North Korean regime. Often it is presented in Western media as an especially brutal dictatorship whose aggressive expansionist dreams pose a threat to world peace. Others question this one-dimensional picture and argue that a process of selective demonization is at work. 00In this thoughtful volume, 18 engaged scholars from Asia, the United States and Europe with first-hand knowledge about and experiences in Korea, North and South, share their insights and suggestions with concerned readers worldwide. They strive to get beyond the everyday rhetoric clouding the situation and address the demonization issue, exploring its different aspects from Western and Eastern perspectives. Their approach is to treat the Korean conflict as a multidimensional problem, with historical roots, cross-cultural and political-ideological perspectives, and not least with consequences far beyond the region where it takes place.0North Korea is not the only country in the cross-hairs of heavyweight media organizations. The intensifying great power struggle between China and the United States is being played out on television, online and in the print media of both countries and beyond. The volume thus concludes by drawing into its consideration this developing conflict in which the two Koreas play a minor, almost bystander role. As such, as well as providing engaged readers with a more nuanced treatment of the issues, this collection offers important insights to journalists, officials and decision-makers around the world

Language: English

Keywords: Nordkorea ; China ; Ost-West-Beziehungen ; Dämonisierung

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Format: XXII, 274 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-1-78348-013-5 , 978-1-78348-014-2

Content: "An interdisciplinary collection that seeks to explore Thai literature in the wider context of the global perspectives, themes and debates within the study of world literature"..

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783480159

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Thailändisch ; Literatur ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (293 p.)

ISBN: 988-220-749-9 , 1-282-75033-X , 9786612750335 , 988-220-547-X

Content: The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted and adapted aspects of Western culture and practice in an ongoing relationship that may be characterized as semicolonial. As they have done so, the notions of what constitutes ""Thainess"" have been inflected by Western influence in complex and ambi

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Contents; Foreword:The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Note on Transliteration and Referencing; Introduction: The Allure of Ambiguity: The "West" and the Making of Thai Identities; 1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand; 2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism; 3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South; 4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film; 5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur , 6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse"; 8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand; Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities; Notes; Bibliography; Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 962-209-123-7

Additional Edition: ISBN 962-209-121-0

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource : , 26 illustrations

ISBN: 9781501719219

Content: The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted and adapted aspects of Western culture and practice in an ongoing relationship that may be characterized as semicolonial. As they have done so, the notions of what constitutes "Thainess" have been inflected by Western influence in complex and ambiguous ways, producing nuanced, hybridized Thai identities.The Ambiguous Allure of the West brings together Thai and Western scholars of history, anthropology, film, and literary and cultural studies to analyze how the protean Thai self has been shaped by the traces of the colonial Western Other. Thus, the book draws the study of Siam/Thailand into the critical field of postcolonial theory, expanding the potential of Thai Studies to contribute to wider debates in the region and in the disciplines of cultural studies and critical theory. The chapters in this book present the first sustained dialogue between Thai cultural studies and postcolonial analysis.By clarifying the distinctive position of semicolonial societies such as Thailand in the Western-dominated world order, this book bridges and integrates studies of former colonies with studies of the Asian societies that retained their political independence while being economically and culturally subordinated to Euro-American power.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Foreword: The Names and Repetitions of Postcolonial History / , Acknowledgments -- , Contributors -- , Note on Transliteration and Referencing -- , Introduction. The Allure of Ambiguity: The "West" and the Making of Thai Identities / , 1. The Ambiguities of Semicolonial Power in Thailand / , 2. An Ambiguous Intimacy: Farang as Siamese Occidentalism / , 3. Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and the Malay Muslim South / , 4. Mind the Gap: (En)countering the West and the Making of Thai Identities on Film / , 5. Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur / , 6. Coming to Terms with the West: Intellectual Strategies of Bifurcation and Post-Westernism in Siam / , 7. Wathakam: The Thai Appropriation of Foucault's "Discourse" / , 8. The Conceptual Allure of the West: Dilemmas and Ambiguities of Crypto-Colonialism in Thailand / , Afterword: Postcolonial Theories and Thai Semicolonial Hybridities / , Notes -- , Bibliography , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501719219

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501719219

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501719219