2007-06-01,Fran Blumberg,When East Meets West: Media Research and Practice in US and China,Hardback,9781847182012,34.99,"The impetus for this book was a series of guest lectures for the “Issues in Applied Cognition” Institute sponsored by Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education May 26-27, 2005 and convened at Fordham University in New York City and May 30-June 7, 2005 at The Beijing Center for Language and Culture in Beijing. The book that has since emerged is designed to serve as a reference that brings together theoretical perspectives, research findings, and cultural practice in the examination of media from a primarily Sino-American vantage point, as commented upon by Chinese, U.S., and U.K. researchers and practitioners. The need for such a reference is prompted by China’s status as a nascent superpower and the ramifications of that emerging status for collaborative ventures and exchange of information with the U.S. Clearly, one flourishing context in which this “sharing” will occur is media.
  The goal of this volume is to provide the basis for consideration of the theoretical and practical issues that both China and the United States media will encounter as they move toward greater economic and political interdependence. This discussion is approached through the lens of media practice, research, and education and includes the voices of  media market researchers, journalists and editors, developers of children’s educational programs, and academicians. Collectively, the chapters offer a select set of snapshots of how media in China and the U.S. look at one point in time.
This moment is one that includes China preparing for the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the U.S. grappling with its involvement in an unpopular war.
However, these images may capture what has been referred to in photojournalism as a “decisive moment” in the fledgling media interdependency between the U.S. and China.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-11-01,Zhang Pinggong,Culture and Ideology at an Invented Place,Hardback,9781847183330,39.99,"Being a special kind of landscape, the theme park has become one of major subjects in interdisciplinary studies and received increasing scholarly attention in the past few decades. Perspectives have varied from American approaches which treat the theme park as the production base of the American Dream to various interpretation of the tourist space in semiotic, structural and post-modernistic approaches. Other studies of the theme park have been conducted in a practical way with a focus in economic development and urban designing for the local and peripheral surroundings. The body of research is enormous and has proved to be very beneficial in understanding the theme park as a multiple space in the ever-changing context.

Overseas Chinese Town theme park (OCT) is one of the most popular tourist sights in China, a cultural space which epitomizes the country’s cultural business and Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, an emerging metropolis. As the ultimate icon of Chinese and global cultural representation, the theme park has attracted visitors the world over. This book presents for the first time an analysis of narratives which surround the park.

The research of OCT is to shed a cultural, political and ideological light on the “modern pleasure space” constructed and consumed in contemporary China. In view of the overwhelming quantity of theme park study in the USA and Europe, a shift of orientation in the study of theme parks in China becomes significant as the emerging theme parks in the country are described as “springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain”. As an important study of an important contemporary phenomenon, it illustrates in considerable detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development and will be of interest to a range of readers in fields such as cultural studies, tourism, sociology and human geography. 

“Non-Western theme parks have attracted very little attention from social scientists, even though they can be considered important sites for the examination of the influence and limits of globalization. With this important study of the OCT theme park, Zhang provides us with a detailed examination of the extent to which the Western model of the theme park is replicated in the Chinese context. In this way, he provides crucial insights that will be of great interest to students of globalization.”
—Professor Alan Bryman, University of Leicester

“The work provides a very readable, critical review of the recent development of theme parks in China, in particular the Overseas Chinese Town Theme Park at Shenzen. The work is well-grounded in a critical understanding of the role of theme parks as cultural “texts”… As an important study of an important contemporary phenomenon, it illustrates in considerable detail the distinctive nature of OCT park and will be of interest to a range of readers in fields such as cultural studies, tourism, sociology and human geography.” 
—Professor Stephen Williams, Staffordshire University


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-04-01,Graeme Johanson Russell Smyth and Rebecca French,Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato,Hardback,978-1-4438-0356-4,44.99,"Never before has research into the benefits and drawbacks of the Chinese migration to Prato in Tuscany been presented so comprehensively in English. The recent influx of Chinese to the longstanding textile manufacturing and wholesale businesses in Prato has stirred strong emotions in the host culture and among the new arrivals alike. The breadth of the coverage of this publication is demonstrated by the full range of perspectives focused on the economic and social dilemmas being experienced. A wide range of points of view are elucidated -- the concerns of the local commune, the factory labourers, the traders, economists, Italian nationalists, Italian bureaucrats, Chinese provincial government, demographers, urban planners, academics, community developers, industry analysts, cultural observers, labour market analysts, media commentators, social planners, students, and social geographers.




","""Outside Italy, the presence of a sizeable Chinese population in the Tuscan town of Prato is known only to a handful of researchers. This book, the result of a conference organised by Monash University's Prato Centre, is the first English language volume devoted to this intriguing phenomenon.""

Pal Nyiri, Free University, Amsterdam; The China Journal; No. 65 (2011)
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-06-01,"Artur K. Wardega, S.J.","Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture",Hardback,978-1-4438-0571-1,34.99,"A value system in constant change; a longing for stability amid uncertainties about the future; a new consciousness about the unlimited challenges and aspirations in modern life: these are themes in modern Chinese literature that attract the attention of overseas readers as well as its domestic audience. They also provide Chinese and foreign literary researchers with complex questions about human life and achievements that search beyond national identities for global interaction and exchange. This volume presents ten outstanding essays by Chinese and European scholars who have undertaken such exchange for the purpose of examining the individual and society in modern Chinese literature.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-07-01,"Tao Dongfeng, Yang Xiaobin, Rosemary Roberts and Yang Ling",Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-0974-0,44.99,"This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications. 


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Mary Farquhar,21st Century China: Views from Australia,Hardback,978-1-4438-1259-7,39.99,"Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd famously said that China issues are part of 21st century Australia’s ‘very life-blood’. This brings short-term challenges to the Australia-China relationship, from Chinese investments in our resources to visits to Australia by expatriate regional political and religious leaders, labelled ‘splittists’ or ‘terrorists’ by the Chinese government. Our long-term relationship includes robust scholarship on China as an emerging superpower. In this book, leading Australian academics comment on the arts, law, politics and society in China today. The book opens with Geremie Barmé’s essay on re-orienting Beijing city for the Olympics and closes with restaurateur Kylie Kwong’s reminiscences—and recipes—from a Chinese childhood in Sydney’s suburbs. Readers will disover a rich engagement with China in the twelve chapters of this volume, ranging from Confucianism to ‘green’ Australian-Chinese cuisine.
","“Beginning with Geremie Barmé’s bravura essay on the remaking of the city of Beijing, this collection gives us a degustation of the range and distinction of Australian Sinology today and the quality of scholarship that has produced some of the finest work in the world of China studies in the past decade and more. Three of the contributors have won the Levenson Prize for books of scholarship on China (there have been five Australian winners in the last ten years), and across all contributions there is unusual revelation, commonly from extended primary research inside China, often in great depth - in villages and towns and cities, and even, in Michael Dutton’s case, in police stations!

These views from Australia capture something of the stretching and straining in politics and society that is China as it stirs and becomes an international giant - what’s happening in the family, in social relations, in the justice system, in culture, in taste and design, in the politics of China’s massive development, in the contest of identity. Serious issues all, there is much to enjoy in the excellence of the scholarship and the writing. And the coda (recipes and all) from Chinese Australian restaurateur and TV gastronomist Kylie Kwong - which reminds that China’s stirring also engages the millions of Chinese beyond the borders of the PRC, in different and, for many, challenging forms. 

Editor Mary Farquhar is too wise in the ways of interpreting China to impose a forced synthesis, and gives the reader one society and fourteen views—surely the most satisfying way of looking into China and making some sense of it all.”
—Stephen Fitzgerald

“The book’s strength is its diversity and the accessibility of the language and arguments presented within it. It contains studies of specific yet widespread phenomena in Chinese society and thus presents a general overview of such phenomena without losing sight of the details which give them life.”
—Tom Cliff, The Australian National University, The China Journal 2011 No. 65
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Amy Tak-yee Lai ,"Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin: Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong",Hardback,978-1-4438-1313-6,39.99,"This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam. It discusses how the withdrawal of colonial power and the implementation of nation-building policies impact race/ethnicity, class and language in these former British colonies. The last chapters take a special look at postcolonialism and gender politics, and explore how Chinese women, at home or abroad, defy the Orientalist gaze and the native patriarchy.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-09-01,Ying Wang,Bronze Age China: Style and Material,Hardback,978-1-4438-2282-4,39.99,"“Style” in Chinese art and archaeology encompass complex meanings that beyond studies of decorative motifs, design and traditional sense on artistic style. This anthology considers function, behavior, manufacture, usage, design, material and context are expanded definition of “style”. Examine style in a larger context assists in investigating the aspects of life-style, gender, social structure, labor division, and craft specialization in a society, explains the social strata, rituals, and technical traditions. Scholars of this volume come from varied backgrounds, intends to achieve an understanding of the concept of material and style of Bronze Age while current excavated data are updated everyday in this particular field. 


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Marinus van den Berg and Daming Xu,Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe,Hardback,978-1-4438-2380-7,44.99,"This book documents the changing language situation in urban centres in China, gauging the impact of industrialization and the consequent population movement on forms of language communication. Research reports detailing aspects of the new and emerging language situation demonstrate the interplay of the Chinese standard language, Putonghua, and various Chinese dialects. Urban areas covered are Baotou (Inner Mongolia), Jintan (Jiangsu), Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hainan island. The Chinese transition to an industrial society is contrasted with post-industrialized societies in Europe. The latter are represented by studies of the Dutch and German language situation. The empirical studies are preceded by an overview of China’s language planning efforts, an analysis of the position of the Chinese language in the World Language System, a comparison of Chinese and European urban environments, an introduction of the Chinese Dialect Preservation Project, and an experimental study of the mutual intelligibility between Chinese dialects. The contributions are all original and they address current issues in the Chinese language situation, exemplifying innovative applications and development of sociolinguistic theories. The book therefore is a must-read for linguists, sociolinguistics, Chinese language students and China experts.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,Martin Wolff,"Of the Students, By the Students, and For the Students: Time for Another Revolution",Hardback,978-1-4438-2565-8,54.99,"Annually, China produces more than 5 million college graduates who have been compelled to study English as a foreign language for 10 to 17 years but graduate functionally illiterate, unable to produce comprehensible oral or written English.

English is taught as a subject required to pass tests and not as a communicative language.
 
The problems are identified, confirmed by post-graduate students and solutions are presented. The development and success of a remedial program designed for the collegiate level, Holistic English, is well documented by the students at top tier and second tier universities, as well as 3rd tier and vocational colleges in seven Provinces of China.
 
This is a compelling story of a 30 year old failed program that reminds us of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-02-01,Cal Clark ,"The Changing Dynamics of the Relations among China, Taiwan, and the United States",Hardback,978-1-4438-2681-5,39.99,"Ever since Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang evacuated to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, China and Taiwan have been divided by a fundamental and irreconcilable sovereignty dispute over Taiwan’s international status. In addition, the United States has played a central role in the rivalry between Beijing and Taipei. Despite the immutable nature of this sovereignty dispute between China and Taiwan, the triangular relations among Beijing, Taipei, and Washington have changed quite considerably over time. Over the last three decades, for example, relations in the Taiwan Strait were fairly tranquil during the 1980s and early 1990s, became much tenser from 1995 to 2008, and then reverted to amicable relations among China, Taiwan, and the United States after the election of a new Taiwanese President in 2008.

This book seeks to understand and analyze the relations among China, Taiwan, and the United States in the early twenty-first century. In particular, it explores what causes change in the relations among Beijing, Taipei, and Washington and how stable the new era is likely to be. Consequently, special emphasis is placed on the factors promoting change or stability in the interactions among these three countries and upon the policy choices facing their governments. The major topics include the dynamics of the “strategic triangle” that defines cross-Strait relations (Chapters 2 to 4 and 8), the domestic politics and policies of Taiwan and China (Chapters 3 to 8), and the growing economic integration across the Taiwan Strait (Chapters 9 to 12). Overall, the future of this trilateral relationship appears to be fairly open-ended. Despite the current rapprochement, the ultimate goals of China and Taiwan remain incompatible; cross-Strait relations remain a viciously polarizing issue in Taiwan’s domestic politics; and there is profound scholarly disagreement over the broader implications of the growing economic ties across the Strait.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-03-01,Jana S. Rošker and Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik,"The Yields of Transition: Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China",Hardback,978-1-4438-2714-0,44.99,"The present volume is dedicated to the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD), which is generally regarded as one of the most fascinating phases in Chinese history. The collection opens new theoretical and methodological pathways in sinological studies, bringing to the forefront a new idea of intercultural encounters based upon a culture of recognition.

It highlights the significance of transition in the making of Chinese culture and history, revises prevailing historical approaches in the study and research of China and develops and enhances existing theories or methodologies in this specific area of research. The wide diversity of contributions to the present volume reflects the multifaceted potential for creativity and renewal of this period.

The focus is upon the interaction of ideas, researches and perspectives concerning a broad scope of relevant and significant issues in contemporary sinology. In order to understand this diversity, a wide range of cultural, theoretical and historical aspects are considered. The book reveals a new image of the period, thereby undermining the absolute authority and putative objectivity of common historical sources and interpretations. It shows that this was a period rich with political, economic, cultural and theoretical achievements that would prove decisive for the future development of Chinese culture and society.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Amy Tak-yee Lai ,"Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin: Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong",Paperback,978-1-4438-2848-2,24.99,"This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam. It discusses how the withdrawal of colonial power and the implementation of nation-building policies impact race/ethnicity, class and language in these former British colonies. The last chapters take a special look at postcolonialism and gender politics, and explore how Chinese women, at home or abroad, defy the Orientalist gaze and the native patriarchy.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Huajing Zhao,Gender Construction and Negotiation in the Chinese EFL Classroom,Hardback,978-1-4438-2905-2,39.99,"This book is developed from an ethnographic case study which investigated Chinese adolescents’ construction of their gender identity and the way it is negotiated in the course of learning English as a foreign language (EFL) from a sociolinguistic, sociocultural and sociopsychological point of view. It documented the unseen connections between the micro-level of the students’ face-to-face verbal interactions and the macro-level of the role of learning EFL that can play in students’ construction and negotiation of their gender identity.

The book aims to help both teachers and students to develop a more comprehensive view of English learning as a means to social and educational development. On the whole, the study showed that second language learning pedagogy which integrates CLT can be used as an important tool to open up opportunities for the improvement of gender awareness in cultures where gender and sex are not linguistically differentiated. It demonstrated that the EFL class can be used as a means of opening up a space where adolescents can become aware of gender and play around with this awareness. It can be educationally valuable with regard to making students and teachers think about a number of social and intercultural issues alongside cross-linguistic issues. The fieldwork of the research showed that interventions directed at attracting students’ attention to gender roles and the way they behaved in interactions in English highlight an educational function of the place of EFL in the curriculum which is so far unrecognised in China.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-07-01,Dániel Z. Kádár,Xue-guanhua 學官話: A Ryūkyūan Source of Language Education,Hardback,978-1-4438-2950-2,34.99,"The Sino-Japonic manuscript Xue-guanhua/Gaku-kanwa 學官話 (Learning Mandarin Chinese), compiled for students from the Ryūkyū Kingdom, is a noteworthy historical Chinese educational source. It represents historical cross-cultural interactions between Okinawan residents in China and the locals in a wide variety of speech situations, and as such it is one of the few historical cross-cultural sources available on Chinese communication and social behaviour. Along with revealing norms of historical Chinese communication, Xue-guanhua provides a vivid description of Chinese social and cultural customs.

The present volume, which provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation of Xue-guanhua, is relevant not only to researchers but also to readers with interest in Chinese and Okinawan language and culture.
","“The present book serves as a sourcebook of Chinese historical pragmatics, for language use before modernization, a guide on Chinese etiquette, morale and mores, a testimony to international contact in pre-modernity, and, due to English translation, as an excellent Chinese as a Foreign Language textbook for speakers of English. More than anything else, however, the Ryūkyūan–Chinese relationship comes alive in this book . . . I must confess to envying Dániel Kádár for the excellent philological work he has done with this translation and publication.”
—Patrick Heinrich, Dokkyo University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Xiaoming Sheng,Learning with Mothers: A Study of Home Schooling in China,Hardback,978-1-4438-3158-1,34.99,"The literature in relation to home schooling grounded in empirical research and focusing on gender role and the impacts of social class has been neglected and unexplored. Home schooling is at an initial period, for the public, researchers, media and educational authorities in China it is mysterious and even abnormal or odd. This book seeks to bring a rich body of qualitative data to provide in-depth information in relation to the demographic characteristics of home schooling parents, the motivations for home schooling in China, the process of practicing it and its relevant academic and social outcomes. 

Learning with Mothers examines the social difference in terms of social class in the process of home schooling and also takes account of gender difference in terms of parental involvement, aiming to answer the questions about home schooling, such as:

	Who are practicing home schooling for their children?
	Why do parents choose to home school their children?
	How are parents involved in their home schooling?
	What is accomplished in doing so?

This book is the first book in relation to home schooling in China. This book will be essential reading for researchers, postgraduate students and Chinese parents with in-depth information in relation to summary of updated literature on home schooling in China.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,Niu Qiang and Martin Wolff,The Lowdown on China’s Higher Education,Hardback,978-1-4438-3199-4,44.99,"“Obviously, you are not chanting the exultations of China which many of my country people are used to listening to.” A Chinese scholar recognizes that this book is not a further attempt to curry favor with China by tickling its leaders’ ears. This book examines what is right and the truth about what is wrong with English language education in Chinese colleges and universities. As our Chinese colleague further states, “Most Chinese are learning English like one learning swimming ashore.”

We have been writing about these shortcomings for ten years. It arises because administrators posted to their positions due to party affiliation and good standing, are basically ignorant of administration and educational matters. “The VIPs of EEC believe that they know, while they don’t, what are under their supervision; the professionals of EEC believe that what they are doing academically is helpful while it’s not. The two types are making the common non-professional people believe that they are knowingly reliable while they are not. . . . The educated, as well as the illiterate, do not know what to do and what not to do, what is correct and what is wrong, what is worthy and what is not, etc. The weakness, from the historical perspective, is also a consequence of modern Chinese history whose knowledge most Chinese people are poor at but reluctant to admit.”

This book could not be published within China due to its truthfulness.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-10-01,"Yun Xiao, Liang Tao and Hooi Ling Soh",Current Issues in Chinese Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3207-6,64.99,"Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world and one of the very few contemporary languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium. Compared with Western languages, Chinese has a typology with distinguished features in sound system, syntax, and discourse that have a strong impact on Chinese linguistics studies and language learning. Drawing on theoretical models from formal and functional linguistics, discourse analysis, computer-assisted corpus studies, language socialization, and second language acquisition, this volume presents new advances and addresses a broad range of current issues in the study of Chinese linguistics with research studies that originated from the proceedings of the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-21).

As globalization presses on, more and more people are interested in Chinese – its history, structure, research, and new developments. This volume aims to be instrumental. Written in a coherent and structured style, each section is concentrated on a particular linguistic area, and each chapter is self-contained with a clear focus and theoretical framework. It will be valuable to linguists, educators, administrators, specialists, teachers and students of Chinese as a native, second, heritage, or foreign language.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,"Priscilla Roberts, Mei Renyi, and Yan Xunhua",China Views Nine-Eleven: Essays in Transnational American Studies,Hardback,978-1-4438-3444-5,54.99,"The events of September 11, 2001, had reverberations which were felt across the world, not just in the United States. In their aftermath the United States refocused its foreign policies, a process that had a major impact upon the Asia Pacific region, especially China. In this cross-disciplinary collection of essays, almost two dozen scholars, the majority of them from China, range across a wide spectrum of issues to address just how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. Different authors discuss non-Americans’ images of the United States, the nation’s international position and policies, the mindset and influence of neo-conservatives, American internal politics, debates over immigration, the cultural repercussions of Nine-Eleven for television, literature, drama, art, and music, and the implications of efforts to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001.

Uniting all these essays is the effort to view the events of September 11, 2001, not in isolation but in a much broader context, a framework encompassing the entire sweep of US involvement in the world since the seventeenth century, and the country’s political, intellectual, cultural, and literary history and traditions. The dialogue among them produces a complicated and fruitful dialectical network of cross-fertilization across different areas, a stimulating and intricate cat’s cradle from which the enterprising reader may draw new and profitable intellectual discoveries.


","“This book is important, and attention to 9/11 outside the US is healthier than attention to it inside the US. That most of the contributors are Chinese is really fine.”
—Prof. Lynn T. White III, Princeton University

“This book is substantial and eloquent . . . a carefully compiled and vividly argued discussion of the impact of 9/11 on the US as seen primarily by scholars whose professional lives are lived elsewhere. Such a volume gives all who read it a unique depth of engagement and non-US angle of vision to set the momentous events of 9/11 in a wider context. It is a great example of how a truly transnational ‘American Studies’ scholarly community can enlarge our understandings and provide trenchant critiques to help us grasp the impact of the United States in so many parts of the world.”
—Jane Desmond, University of Illinois-Champaign

“This is truly a timely and important study on the profound impact of 9/11 upon Chinese perceptions of and attitudes toward America. These essays have tackled the disquieting issues surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attack and US war on terror from both Chinese and interdisciplinary perspectives. Authored predominantly by Chinese scholars of American Studies, they particularly flesh out the scholarly and, to some extent, public discourses in China on the implications as well as ramifications of a new era of world politics since 9/11. This is yet another remarkable volume of Chinese scholarship on contemporary US-China relations edited by Priscilla Roberts.”
—Shu Guang Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology, Professor and Vice Rector for Academic Affairs; author of Economic Cold War: America’s Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-01-01,Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.,The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay: An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada’s First Presbyterian Missionary to Northern Taiwan (1872 – 1901),Hardback,978-1-4438-3454-4,34.99,"George Leslie Mackay (1844–1901), the famous Canadian Presbyterian missionary who came to northern Formosa (Taiwan) in 1872 and preached specifically with aborigines in mind, is the subject of an interdisciplinary study by seven independent scholars interested in the nineteenth-century imperial project and Christian mission to China. Importantly, Mackay’s mission defies such binary opposites as East and West: the missionary a conduit of an earlier Scottish-Canadian spirituality adapted to Taiwan that allowed converts to appropriate the Presbyterian faith on their own terms; the mission field in which he operated  a “biculture” of foreign initiative and aboriginal agency working hand in hand. Mackay’s ordination of aboriginal ministers, giving us the Northern Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan (PCT), was a bold departure from the imperial, Anglo-Canadian, Presbyterian norm. So, too, his marriage to a Taiwanese slave-girl, Chhang-mia, and the arranged interracial marriages that he performed between select Chinese ministers and female Taiwanese graduates (which included his two daughters). Mackay’s missionary writing and famous autobiography From Far Formosa—a fine specimen of the nineteenth-century heroic memoir genre—is notable for its defense of both gender and racial equality, and despite its unmistakable patriarchal leanings. Mackay’s repudiation of Darwinism and belief in an early type of creation science therein also locates the so-called “Barbarian Bible Man” opposite such virulent, racist theorizing as Social Darwinism and Eugenics. He was a dentist not an abortionist. A relative unknown to most Western scholars of religion, Mackay is Taiwan’s most famous native son, represented on the national stage in 2008 as a sky god and Taiwanese animistic deity of supernatural power and political influence par excellent. Although a product of the colonial times in which he lived, post-colonial scholars who ignore Mackay, his life and legacy, clearly do so at some peril.



","“The first book of its kind on the fascinating and pivotal Victorian figure of George Leslie Mackay, this volume contains a rich interdisciplinary conversation on the history, context, and legacy of Mackay and his mission. The contributors root Mackay within complex transnational networks of ideas, people, organizations, and cultures. Scholars of multiple disciplines will find this book helpful to contextualize and understand the life and lifework of George Leslie Mackay.”
—Benjamin E. Zeller, American Religion, Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina, USA

“Clyde Forsberg has expertly edited this collection of essays from a range of able scholars from different disciplines. Collectively they provide a valuable insight into Mackay’s life, background, and legacy, and the Taiwanese cultural background in which he worked. . . . The essays are scholarly, yet readable, and deserve to be read by all who have an interest in Christian mission or Taiwanese history and culture.”
—Dr. G. D. Chryssides, Contemporary Religion, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, UK

“George Leslie MacKay may have been the most important little-known Canadian in Chinese history. This volume ensures that he will no longer be overlooked. It reveals how much this pioneering Presbyterian missionary from Ontario contributed to the transformation and modernization of Taiwan. Thanks to this collection of scholarly articles, MacKay will finally get the attention he deserves.”
—Don Baker, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

“A fresh introduction to one of Canada’s truly exemplary 19th century pioneer missionaries, the eight original essays in this volume are each worth the price of the book.” 
—Jonathan J. Bonk, International Association for Mission Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

“A real treasure of scholarship about a man whose life and career are crucial in order to understand not only Christian missions to China but also Christian efforts to overcome racism and discrimination.”
—Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), Torino, Italy

“Clearly, with this book, Clyde Forsberg renders a dynamic contribution to a new generation of scholarship and creates a study that raises meaningful questions furthering international awareness of the history of Christianity in Taiwan.”
—Ann Heylen, International Taiwan Studies and Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University

“These essays boldly advance the study of Mackay and clearly show why he is such a central figure in recent Taiwanese history. They fill in a too-often ignored gap in the history of Christianity in East Asia. These essays address a significant range of issues concerning the history of religion, transnationalism, missiology and biography. I predict the book will also guide many in setting out the agenda for future studies of religion in Taiwan given the vast range of new questions these works propose about the relationship of cultures in a colonialist milieu.”
—Chris Hartney, East Asian Studies, University of Sidney, Australia

“This is a fascinating collection of essays about a fascinating Presbyterian in the classic tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish missionaries, albeit that it was from Canada that George Leslie Mackay set sail in 1872 for Taiwan, or Formosa as it was then known. Referred to as the Black Bearded Barbarian, Mackay was a true polymath, embodying a vast array of skills and talents, not least being his ability to master Chinese within five months. With his Bible in one hand and a pair of forceps for extracting teeth in the other, Mackay was intent not merely on saving the natives’ souls, but also on promoting their health and education, peppering the island with churches, hospitals, schools and colleges that, frequently bearing his name, flourish to this day. Approaching the life and times of this remarkable and influential man from a number of perspectives and disciplines, Clyde Forsberg has edited a book that will be enjoyed by students of history, missiology, theology, religious studies and, indeed, by members of the general public. And Mackay certainly deserves to be remembered – not least for his wonderfully life-affirming motto: “Rather burn out than rust out”.”
—Professor Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Religion, London School of Economics


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2012-02-01,Pak-sang Lai and Michael Byram,Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship: Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong,Hardback,978-1-4438-3531-2,39.99,"Despite or perhaps because of globalisation and internationalisation in the contemporary world, the role of education has become more significant in nation formation. However, whereas in the past its function was to create homogeneity and assimilation, today it must deal with diversity and plurality. The modernist premise of “one nation one state” is being questioned and re-constituted with the notion of the plural national-state.

This book explores school processes in Hong Kong under these new conditions. The focus is on investigating how the concept of a national identity of the “one country two systems” policy is developing, and is thus a study of that diversity which all education systems now have to address. The policy aims at facilitating national re-integration and consolidation in the face of an insistence on local citizens’ universal civic rights and the values of liberty, equality, democracy and autonomy.

The analysis shows citizenship education in the Hong Kong school system is more a locally-oriented cultural and political process than a transmission of a national ideology. Students learn their values, attitudes and perspectives by engaging and interacting with people within and beyond the school community. They acquire a liberal and democratic national identity which is distinct from that of pan-Chinese state-nationalism in mainland China.

The book is thus both a case study of Hong Kong and an analysis of change in the relationship of education, citizenship and national identity in the contemporary world.
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2012-02-01,"Tao Tao Liu, Laurence K. P. Wong and Chan Sin-wai","Style, Wit and Word-Play: Essays in Translation Studies in Memory of David Hawkes",Hardback,978-1-4438-3571-8,44.99,"This book is dedicated to the memory of David Hawkes (1923-2009). We remember him as a pre-eminent translator and interpreter of Chinese literature into English, his most famous work being the translation of the classic 18th century Chinese novel, the Hongloumeng or The Story of the Stone. The first part of the book consists of studies on him and his works, the second part on the art of translation into English from Chinese literature; all the articles are penned by scholars in the field from Britain, America, Australia and Hong Kong.

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2012-03-01,"Chris Perryer, Victor Egan and Brian Sheehan","Advances in Business in Asia: The Opportunities, Threats, and Future Trends of Businesses in China, India and the ASEAN Countries",Hardback,978-1-4438-3606-7,34.99,"Advances in Business in Asia examines current trends and issues facing organisations operating in a global business milieu. The book comes at a pivotal time when many businesses are emerging from the 2008 Gobal Financial Crisis, and are seeking a way forward in dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by global capitalism in general, and China, India, and the ASEAN region specifically.

The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at AFBE conferences. All contributions were double-blind peer reviewed prior to acceptance, and represent the contributions of eminent academics in their particular field of expertise.

The Asian Forum on Business Education (AFBE) is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to provide a forum of scholarly exchange in the areas of business, economics and management, with a particular focus on the Asia region.
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2012-03-01,Martin Wolff,China: Current Thinking of Tomorrow’s Leaders,Hardback,978-1-4438-3575-6,44.99,"China’s annual 5+ million university graduates are the elite of Chinese society. They are the future leaders, be they community, economic, industrial, political, religious, or social; they are the privileged class who have been educated for future leadership roles. Common Chinese people look up to them and follow them because they are the anointed.

A look into their psyche now may be a window into the future of China. What they think and feel as students will undoubtedly carry over into and shape their adult attitudes and thoughts.

Post-graduate students at a 1st tier comprehensive university in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and a 2nd tier science and technology university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province were given various topics of current importance and afforded an opportunity to express their thoughts on the issues presented. Participation was voluntary.

Herein, we present the issues and a random selection of the students’ responses. All of the students’ responses can be viewed at http://chinaholisticenglish.org.
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2012-04-01,Martin Wolff and Tian Qiang,English in China Today at the Harbin Institute of Technology: Volume I,Hardback,978-1-4438-3716-3,44.99,"This is the inaugural edition of English in China Today at the Harbin Institute of Technology, one of China’s Ivy League Universities.

China currently has more than 2,400 public, private and joint venture colleges and universities and almost every one publishes a journal in Chinese. No Chinese college or university will accept or publish anything in any language other than Chinese.

The instant journal, now a book series, is a first of its kind, limited to scholars from one Chinese Ivy League University and provides a platform for Chinese scholars to share their ideas with the global community, in the common lingua franca, English. This is the first Chinese university journal published abroad, about English, in English.

English in China Today at the Harbin Institute of Technology provides accessible cutting-edge reports on most aspects of the language, including style, usage, dictionaries, literary language, Plain English, the Internet, English language teaching in China both as EFL and ESL, CALL, literature, culture, cross-culture communications, and translation. Its intended readership includes linguists, journalists, broadcasters, writers, publishers, teachers, advanced students of the language, university administrators and others with a professional or personal interest in communication. This journal and book series is unique in its opening up of China’s scholarly works to the English speaking world.
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2012-05-01,Lili Hernández  ,"China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life",Hardback,978-1-4438-3780-4,34.99,"The meeting point between China and the West is a striking subject in a wide range of disciplines. This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in aspects of culture, arts, politics and everyday life. Within a complex web of actors, dimensions, technologies, spaces and social structures cultural encounters are nevertheless problematic. China and the West come together within the stream of a global world. The essays in this anthology analyse new and emerging dynamics that challenge authoritative views imposed on the other, while deconstructing traditional responses to otherness too. Bringing these essays together responds to a commitment to a critical assessment of the various shapes that such convergence takes within globalisation. 

China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life will appeal to scholars and practitioners in communications, the visual arts, cultural studies, sociology, media studies, anthropology, literature and politics. The non-academic reader interested in the vibrant and emerging interface between China and the West may find this enlightening too. 

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2012-05-01,"Artur K. Wardega, SJ, and António Vasconcelos de Saldanha","In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, SJ (1645–1708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China",Hardback,978-1-4438-3755-2,54.99,"The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645–1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662–1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic mission in China, Sino-Russian diplomacy, the history of Western science and music in China, intercultural history, and history of art.
While the names of such missionaries as Matteo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest are well known, Pereira has been relatively neglected, and this volume seeks to redress that imbalance. Pereira was important as a musician and diplomat and was closer to the Kangxi emperor than any other Westerner, something that enabled him to exert considerable influence for the protection of the Chinese Christians and also to further the interests of Portugal in China. However, towards the end of his life he saw his efforts undermined by the damaging consequences of the papal legation to China led by Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon.



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