Linking Global and Local Networks of Credit and Remittances: Ma Tsui Chiu’s Financial Operations in Hong Kong, 1900s–1950s

Author(s):  
Pui-Tak Lee
Author(s):  
Peichi Chung

This chapter focuses on the emerging media regionalization that takes place in Asia in 2000s. Japan and Hong Kong used to be the dominant cultural exporters commercializing their national media products to the nearby Asian markets. The recent market success of Korean wave and the gradual opening of Chinese market bring media regionalization to a different level. The chapter selects three cases to present the detailed image of cultural standardization in Asia’s media regionalization. The first centers on the circulation of media text in television drama, emphasizing on Korean wave and the particular TV series, Boys Over Flowers. The second case discusses Taiwanese popular music and its influence on Mandopop in the Chinese communities. The last case studies the regionalization of online game from China. This case examines the localization of Chinese online game, Westward Journey Online II. Chinese online games initially begin with the imitation of Korean game but later form their national branding based upon a mixture of global and local cultural elements that speak to the largest group of online game consumers in the pan-Asian market.


Ecumene ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pluciennik ◽  
Q. Drew

2021 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 105167
Author(s):  
Xinyu Dou ◽  
Zhu Deng ◽  
Taochun Sun ◽  
Piyu Ke ◽  
Biqing Zhu ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 102442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linchuan Yang ◽  
Jixiang Liu ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Yibin Ao ◽  
Yuanyuan Guo ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-304
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Donoghue ◽  
Lesley Vidovich

The focus is on universities around the world strengthening their competitive positioning in a global knowledge era through curriculum policy transformations. It highlights the need to study how ideological shifts and policy flows as well as networks between global and local levels are producing ‘radical’ change in curriculum policies in certain research-intensive universities. The article sets out a research approach for such study in relation to the Asia-Pacific Region. Pursuing such a research approach should make a significant contribution to the field of globalization and higher education.


2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis L. F. Lee

This article examines the role of the news media in the production of media sports spectacle through representation of soccer fandom and articulation of the meanings of sports events. The article analyzes the visits of two European soccer teams (Liverpool FC and Real Madrid) to Hong Kong in the summer of 2003. Newspaper discourses are found to generate a picture of generalized fandom and normalized fanaticism towards these events. At the same time, the media articulated the meanings of the events within the context of both global and local processes. The overall result is that public discourse embraced the commercialization of sports, and the media helped to transform the preseason “friendlies” into hugely successful spectacles. These results are understood within the theoretical framework of the society of the spectacle proffered by Debord (1995), though the analysis also points to the limitations of Debord’s framework.


Ecumene ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-104
Author(s):  
Mark Pluciennik ◽  
Quentin Drew

We examine the ways in which the variety of voices and multiple networks that constitute field work are reduced in its representation, particularly within the discipline of archaeology. The interrelatedness of structures, constraints and opportunities which constitute the conditions and outcomes of fieldwork raises issues beyond notions of intertextuality and the ethics of representation. The specificity and contingency of ‘the field’ is demonstrated through a case study set partly in southern Albania. Contrasts are drawn between ethnographic and archaeological experiences and understandings, and the ways in which the metaphor of ‘tourism’ can be understood as relating to both. These issues of the reduction and representation of richness and diversity are also pursued through amalgamation and experimentation in the relationship between form and content, including montage, both visual and textual. In part, a traditional written style of intellectual argument, albeit employing genres ranging from diary and commentary to footnotes, is used. We also integrate less formal text highlighting the different modes and contexts of production of archaeological knowledges, including this paper, along with the use of multiple narratives and interwoven and layered images.


2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
M. H. Gokhale

AbstractData on sunspot groups have been quite useful for obtaining clues to several processes on global and local scales within the sun which lead to emergence of toroidal magnetic flux above the sun’s surface. I present here a report on such studies carried out at Indian Institute of Astrophysics during the last decade or so.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (11-s4) ◽  
pp. S289-S293 ◽  
Author(s):  
SSY WONG ◽  
WC YAM ◽  
PHM LEUNG ◽  
PCY WOO ◽  
KY YUEN

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