Olivia Khoo
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098794
- eISBN:
- 9789882207516
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098794.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as ...
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This book examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as films, popular fiction, food, and fashion cultures, the book challenges the dominant tendency in contemporary cultural politics to define Chinese femininity from a mainland perspective that furthermore equates it with notions of primitivism. Rather, it argues for a radical reconfiguration of the concept of exoticism as a frame for understanding these new representations. The study raises questions on the relationship between the Chinese diasporas and gender, and provides a critical intervention into the current visualizations of diasporic Chinese femininity. It contends that an analysis of such images can inform the reconfigured relations between China, the Chinese diasporas, Asia, and the West in the context of contemporary globalization, and in turn takes these new intersections to account for the complex nature of modern definitions of diasporic Chinese femininity.Less
This book examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as films, popular fiction, food, and fashion cultures, the book challenges the dominant tendency in contemporary cultural politics to define Chinese femininity from a mainland perspective that furthermore equates it with notions of primitivism. Rather, it argues for a radical reconfiguration of the concept of exoticism as a frame for understanding these new representations. The study raises questions on the relationship between the Chinese diasporas and gender, and provides a critical intervention into the current visualizations of diasporic Chinese femininity. It contends that an analysis of such images can inform the reconfigured relations between China, the Chinese diasporas, Asia, and the West in the context of contemporary globalization, and in turn takes these new intersections to account for the complex nature of modern definitions of diasporic Chinese femininity.
Mira T. Sundara Rajan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195390315
- eISBN:
- 9780190259747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195390315.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter examines the role of moral rights as art and artefacts from the world's museums increasingly find their way into virtual spaces. It discusses moral rights based on three issues. First, ...
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This chapter examines the role of moral rights as art and artefacts from the world's museums increasingly find their way into virtual spaces. It discusses moral rights based on three issues. First, it explores how existing moral rights laws affect the virtual transformation of art and artefacts. Second, it considers how moral rights in the visual arts should adapt to the needs of the virtual environment. Third, it describes how the treatment of moral rights in artworks relates to moral rights and cultural artefacts. Finally, it concludes that the ideas of attribution and integrity can make a contribution to the status of artworks and artefacts in the museums of the virtual world.Less
This chapter examines the role of moral rights as art and artefacts from the world's museums increasingly find their way into virtual spaces. It discusses moral rights based on three issues. First, it explores how existing moral rights laws affect the virtual transformation of art and artefacts. Second, it considers how moral rights in the visual arts should adapt to the needs of the virtual environment. Third, it describes how the treatment of moral rights in artworks relates to moral rights and cultural artefacts. Finally, it concludes that the ideas of attribution and integrity can make a contribution to the status of artworks and artefacts in the museums of the virtual world.
Joan E. Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199554485
- eISBN:
- 9780191745911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554485.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Biblical Studies
This final chapter sums up the argument of this book and considers the whole picture of the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls within the world of Second Temple Judaism, which is important as then the ...
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This final chapter sums up the argument of this book and considers the whole picture of the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls within the world of Second Temple Judaism, which is important as then the Scrolls can be properly situated as cultural artefacts within their own time. It is important, this conclusion states, to define the Essenes accurately because of the confusion as to whether the Scrolls can be attributed to them. The conclusion ends by stating that this book has been just the beginning of other lines of enquiry.Less
This final chapter sums up the argument of this book and considers the whole picture of the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls within the world of Second Temple Judaism, which is important as then the Scrolls can be properly situated as cultural artefacts within their own time. It is important, this conclusion states, to define the Essenes accurately because of the confusion as to whether the Scrolls can be attributed to them. The conclusion ends by stating that this book has been just the beginning of other lines of enquiry.
T. H. Barrett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266120
- eISBN:
- 9780191860010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266120.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The continuity of Chinese history, through the unfolding of the ‘dynastic cycle’ of its successive imperial regimes, has been taken as one of the great truisms of discourse on China. Yet assertions ...
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The continuity of Chinese history, through the unfolding of the ‘dynastic cycle’ of its successive imperial regimes, has been taken as one of the great truisms of discourse on China. Yet assertions of cultural continuity in China have emerged in recent research much more as tendentious fictions, cultural artefacts themselves designed to stitch together disparate elements over time—the daotong or ‘Transmission of the Way’ proposed by Neo-Confucians, is one good example. And looking at Chinese history as a sequence of political powers, the transmission of what was seen as a form of imperium, zhengtong, or ‘Correct Succession’, has also long been considered as technically problematic. The modern scholar Rao Zongyi has a well-researched monograph on these debates that deserves to be better known, especially as history as an element in Chinese identity is now coming to assume an increased contemporary importance.Less
The continuity of Chinese history, through the unfolding of the ‘dynastic cycle’ of its successive imperial regimes, has been taken as one of the great truisms of discourse on China. Yet assertions of cultural continuity in China have emerged in recent research much more as tendentious fictions, cultural artefacts themselves designed to stitch together disparate elements over time—the daotong or ‘Transmission of the Way’ proposed by Neo-Confucians, is one good example. And looking at Chinese history as a sequence of political powers, the transmission of what was seen as a form of imperium, zhengtong, or ‘Correct Succession’, has also long been considered as technically problematic. The modern scholar Rao Zongyi has a well-researched monograph on these debates that deserves to be better known, especially as history as an element in Chinese identity is now coming to assume an increased contemporary importance.
Malcolm Dick
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940643
- eISBN:
- 9781786945143
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940643.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
The chapter considers the ways in which Baskerville has been interpreted since the eighteenth century. Celebrated as a genius by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians of Birmingham, he was, ...
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The chapter considers the ways in which Baskerville has been interpreted since the eighteenth century. Celebrated as a genius by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians of Birmingham, he was, however, criticised by others for his allegedly lowly origins, lack of education and unconventional morality and beliefs. The revival of interest in the quality of his typeface design at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to biographies and bibliographical studies which added to our knowledge of his work as a ‘complete printer’. These were important studies, but they resulted in a narrowing of our appreciation of Baskerville. He became, almost entirely, the subject of students of printing and book design and was largely ignored by economic, social and cultural historians. Baskerville’s importance as an industrialist, contributor to the Enlightenment and the significance of his books as cultural artefacts provide new ways of seeing the man and his works.Less
The chapter considers the ways in which Baskerville has been interpreted since the eighteenth century. Celebrated as a genius by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians of Birmingham, he was, however, criticised by others for his allegedly lowly origins, lack of education and unconventional morality and beliefs. The revival of interest in the quality of his typeface design at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to biographies and bibliographical studies which added to our knowledge of his work as a ‘complete printer’. These were important studies, but they resulted in a narrowing of our appreciation of Baskerville. He became, almost entirely, the subject of students of printing and book design and was largely ignored by economic, social and cultural historians. Baskerville’s importance as an industrialist, contributor to the Enlightenment and the significance of his books as cultural artefacts provide new ways of seeing the man and his works.
